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umbra07··on Thousands of People break through border separating Morocco from Spain's Ceuta
The above user's comment never claimed that Ceuta was always a part of Spain...?
umbra07··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
I've never had this issue. And I use Koreader - which has much larger touch zones than the normal Kindle software.

Are you normally reading in a moving vehicle or something?

umbra07··on Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Angels#Team_accidents_and...

20 pilot deaths since 1946 (80 years ago), but only 2 pilot deaths since 2000 (25 years ago).

I wouldn't really call that "stomach-churning losses"?

umbra07··on Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors
Why are you jumping from "anti-abortion" to "Christian"?
umbra07··on UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations
Is at least part of this comment LLM-generated?

...

Just curious, not intending this as an attack on your project.

umbra07··on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
The most likely contenders are OnePlus, Motorola, and HMD.

> "It is a big enough OEM that there is good chance you may have owned a device from them in the past."

I think this takes Nothing out of contention.

umbra07··on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
Thanks! I had no idea that this existed. Unfortunately, the specs aren't great, especially when compared to Jolla's offering. Oh well.

I'm quite enthusiastic about Graphene's OEM partnership,though.

umbra07··on Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)
It's still awful. The only devices I own that would give me a reliable time, would then be my phone, laptop, desktop, and maybe my TV. My microwave, oven, thermostat, alarm clock, car, watch, grandfather clock, etc would all be wrong.

You would wreak unmeasurable havoc across the target country.

umbra07··on Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Wallet Awakens, Moves $16.5M in BTC After 14 Years
I'm confused. This has a very simple, and likely explanation. Someone found their old password written down (or found an old hard drive). This is one of the most obvious and clear-cut applications of Occam's Razor - why jump to "state-actors"?
umbra07··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Without web searching, Gemini 2.5 Pro is very convinced that the case is real.
umbra07··on Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant
> then get it ranked and filtered on the user's device based on the user's preferences and viewing history

I think I'm missing something here. Why would people not just choose to remain in their echo chambers?

umbra07··on User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality
I would phrase that differently, it sounds like you're suggesting that some states have actually banned Bluesky by name.
umbra07··on Google Pixel 10 series review
I went from an A52 5G to a S25+ (3 years between the two models). The S25 is infinitely nicer to use. The screen is usable in direct sunlight. OneUI is noticeably smoother. The camera is way better (like, way, way better, in both good and poor lighting conditions). Background apps don't close as frequently. Heavy social media apps perform more smoothly.
umbra07··on SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI
UMG (music label) has been watermarking their music for many years now, and I'm unaware of any tool to remove their watermarks.
umbra07··on ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies
Industries cannot be "laissez-faire". Economies, or systems of governance, can be laissez-faire.

> Governments around the world have let these industries do whatever they want with almost zero oversight and almost zero repercussions for anything. For decades. These companies and industries do whatever they want. Its only in the last few years that a couple of governments have finally start push back a teeny tiny bit.

Are you claiming that the tech industry wasn't bound by intellectual property laws until recently?

umbra07··on ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies
Bailing out large corporations and heavy regulations are not laissez-faire capitalism. We haven't had laissez-faire capitalism for at least a quarter decade (I don't know enough about late 20th-century economics to hold an opinion there).
umbra07··on Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
"with full features"
umbra07··on Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification
at the mercy of Google, yes.
umbra07··on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
I assumed the same thing, until I tested my hypothesis. KDE Plasma 6 uses less power on idle than just `Hyprland` (tiling WM) without anything like a notification daemon, idler, status bar, etc.
umbra07··on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed
Okay that's not what ordinary people like GP's dad are envisioning. Normal people are envisioning either: "wow I can buy a Tesla and it can drive me around!!" or a macroview "wow in the future Elon Musk is going to make self-driving cars so good that nobody will have to drive!".

We are discussing "normal people thoughts", not market sentiment.

umbra07··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
"lot of them being deported from the U.S. for defending Palestinians."

Can you cite me a source for this? Specifically to show that there are a "lot" of them being deported, and that the cause is definitely "for defending Palestinians" and nothing else?

umbra07··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
No, sorry. By and large, when people criticize RMS for his behavior, they aren't saying "RMS being deeply associated with Open Source makes it harder for me to convince my boss to get the company to switch to X FOSS software or donate to Y project". The Open Source side of things is way bigger than RMS now. He's inconsequential to their world.

No, just about everyone critiquing RMS's behavior is saying that it negatively affects his own movement. That it makes it more difficult to advocate for Free Software, that it diminishes the FSF.

> Well, it is absolutely true, for their cause, not his.

You have it backwards. Open Source is so much bigger than Free Software, that it's not even funny. The Open Source people are not scared of RMS affecting a movement widely accepted in almost every major tech company.

umbra07··on Framework Laptop 16
You feel offended?
umbra07··on Framework Laptop 16
My understanding was that there's not really anything you can do with the NPU yet?
umbra07··on Framework Laptop 16
That's close to double the repair cost. No warranty, since Aliexpress. Probably no options for non-US English keyboard replacements. And I would be very surprised if that keyboard replacement was still available for purchase on Aliexpress in 5 years.
umbra07··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
That's the sort of statement that remains extremely rude even if you try and prefix it with "I don't mean to be rude".
umbra07··on Omarchy Is Out
Nix is not competition. Nix is not attracting thousands and thousands of new, young Linux users and potential future contributors like Arch+Hyprland are.
umbra07··on Omarchy Is Out
Yes. Hyprland has burnt bridges with many of the classic/pre-existing Linux dev communities. Amongst other things, the main developer was banned from freedesktop.

But they have a very, very large user base, which means lots of contributors - especially young, first-time-FOSS/Linux contributors. In a way, Hyprland has partially done what Linus was hoping to do by adding Rust to the kernel (attract the next-generation of young developers). And they have an active BDFL - no "led by committee" issues.

umbra07··on Omarchy Is Out
That's... surprising. GNOME and Nix has very contrasting philosophies.

Anyways, Hyprland is primarily driven by the Arch side of things, considering that:

* there are way more Arch users than Nix users

* Arch is much more trendy amongst non-developer/Linux users.

* Arch is easier to setup and use - less friction

* Arch is more popular in the unixporn reddit/YouTube world, which is where Hyprland gained much of its popularity

* the Hyprland developer uses Arch, and has recently started selling customized dot files, advertised as "supported on Arch- based and Fedora distributions."

Nix users are simply not a driving force in the Linux userland world.

umbra07··on Omarchy Is Out
What was the hyprland-specific issue?
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