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throwawaymobule··on Tim Cook to step down from Apple
If anything, it's less cooked this way.
throwawaymobule··on At long last, InfoWars is ours
neongrizzly.com (Erik of internet comment etiquette's webstore) has had a gay frog shirt for years, if you're interested.

Having an official infowars one without giving Jones any money might be more appealing though.

throwawaymobule··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Siri was already an iphone/android app before Apple bought it, to be fair.
throwawaymobule··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Some manufacturers in the industry are already standardising on one or two designs since a few years ago.
throwawaymobule··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Out of the 27 EU countries, there are only apple stores in 8 of them.
throwawaymobule··on Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)
It's based on whatever population you're testing, IIRC.
throwawaymobule··on Why is IPv6 so complicated?
I think most of the web wasn't encrypted by default until letsencrypt came on the scene just over a decade ago. (I remember a few "free cert" offerings that were entirely manual, and cost you $200 if you wanted to revoke a cert)

It's firmly the default now, and very odd if a site doesn't default to https.

throwawaymobule··on YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes
I wish they'd show up like regular videos in the subscription feed, like they used to a few years ago.

Currently, I have to guess who uploaded a short to decide if I want to watch it.

throwawaymobule··on Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)
Isn't it always 100, by definition?
throwawaymobule··on Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts
If it's in the Antarctic, it may be covered by treaty, and not legal to own.
throwawaymobule··on X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"
Back when they still had staffed support, and were called twitter, I'd have to spend a week or more back and forth with them when I inevitably hit the demand for a phone number. Most of the time the account got unlocked.

This was usually a few weeks/months after they were in the news for selling people's phone numbers.

throwawaymobule··on Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small
Those are set by the site requesting the login though.

I believe what they are referring to is custom permissions set by the person logging in, regardless of what the app itself requested.

e.g. login, disable all writes, all attempted repo writes using that oauth token fail.

throwawaymobule··on Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small
Bluesky DMs aren't end to end encrypted. Where are you getting that impression from?
throwawaymobule··on NASA targets Artemis II crewed moon mission for April 1 launch
Scott Manley does a roundup video every two or so weeks called 'deep space updates' that I suggest watching.

The start is all rocket launches, which gives a good idea of how much is happening.

throwawaymobule··on Lost Doctor Who episodes found
It's strange for formerly lost media to get a whole news story about it. This should, but still strange.

Hope more are found sooner than another 13 years from now.

throwawaymobule··on TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool
Hold down a key (alt, I think) to prevent clicks.
throwawaymobule··on TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool
Waypipe looks interesting.

The main advantage of x forwarding for me was when I'd randomly need it and had nothing set up ahead of time. Hopefully it starts getting installed in distros by default eventually.

throwawaymobule··on FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone
I think touching it to read a fingerprint doesn't count as pressing the button, which requires pressure.
throwawaymobule··on Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes
They're on the die. efuses existed on the ps3 and 360 too. The 360 used them to prevent downgrades, but the ps3 used all of theirs to store bluray drive keys.
throwawaymobule··on Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes
They already removed it from slim models when they launched.

Only the original ones ever supported the feature.

throwawaymobule··on Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes
Geohot isn't allowed to own any sony products as part of a legal settlement with them.
throwawaymobule··on If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app
IIRC, apple has a patent from years ago for keeping a camera module in a semi-active mode when the phone isn't entirely idle to make starting it faster.
throwawaymobule··on Contact the ISS
Does not registering for selective service impact your ability to get a ham licence? I know it impacts some things.
throwawaymobule··on Huge Binaries
I assume so, there were rarely any other files on the disc in this case.

It varied between games, one of the battlefields (3 or bad company 2) was what I was thinking of. It generally improved with later releases.

The 4GB file size was significant, since it meant I couldn't run them from a backup on a fat32 usb drive. There are workarounds for many games nowadays.

throwawaymobule··on [dead]
Currently requires a login, did that change since you posted it? Credit limits too.

I was attempting to generate an image of an OSHA violation and got an error.

throwawaymobule··on Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio
It'd be nice to see the 'terahertz gap' closed finally.

Not for a practical reason, but it's been on my mind since I randomly found a wikipedia article about it.

throwawaymobule··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
That was after they had new releases for a while.
throwawaymobule··on Huge Binaries
Do you have some special setup?

Chromium is in the hundred and something MB range on mine last I looked. Might expand to more on install.

throwawaymobule··on Huge Binaries
A few ps3 games I've seen had 4GB or more binaries.

This was a problem because code signing meant it needed to be completely replaced by updates.

throwawaymobule··on CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
Each standardised on a different gallon. Prior to that, gallons depended on that you were measuring.

One, a beer gallon, the other a wine gallon. The US still also has 'dry gallons' for things like pints of blueberries.

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