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uuddlrlr··on Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system
iOS does this on-device, you can access the SQLite database containing the metadata using libimobiledevice's ifuse(1).

https://libimobiledevice.org/

uuddlrlr··on Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator
TempleOS comes to mind.
uuddlrlr··on 'I Lost Everything': How Squid Game Token Collapsed
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.
uuddlrlr··on Apple: Ten Years Forward
Do you have an Android phone? The bluetooth stack on Android is a an atrocity.
uuddlrlr··on Facebook Renames to Meta
Thanks for clarifying! The constitution is pretty far from fiduciary duty legally, so I apologize for not interpreting it more charitably.

(In general the maximize profit meme does need to die tho)

uuddlrlr··on Facebook Renames to Meta
NFTs let you own autographs of digital assets.

Which is cool. If it weren't for the energy use.

uuddlrlr··on Facebook Renames to Meta
>I don't think Facebook is constitutionally able to give up ad revenue gains

This "fiduciary duty" meme really needs to die.

Seriously the idea of fiduciary duty [to maximixe profit] is dystopian, corporations don't fuck us over because they have to they do it because they can.

Edit: clarify

uuddlrlr··on Expectations for generics in Go 1.18
Colloquially in the north "native" is ubiquitous.
uuddlrlr··on Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
It doesn't have Fantasque Sans Mono, unfortunately.
uuddlrlr··on Photoshop will get a ‘prepare as NFT’ option soon
Critics of NFTs incessantly conflate them with copyright and DRM, but it's a strawman argument.

Buyers are aware that it doesn't grant them any actual rights beyond "I can transfer this NFT".

I'm against NFTs for their environmental impact, I'm fine with their vanity.

uuddlrlr··on SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies
I worded it poorly (and it wasn't really anything worth saying in the context of COVID), but:

A population with 5% naturally-induced/80% vaccine-induced immunity might see more spread of a new variant than a population with 25%/60%, however the total outcomes would still be better in the first population; so "less protected" was definitely the wrong thing to say.

Naturally-induced immunity for COVID is stronger because it targets more than just the spike protein, and it presumably[0] grants better mucosal immunity than our current vaccines induce, but of course the risk/cost of natural infection is very high.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8358136/

uuddlrlr··on SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies
I guess there might be a point where strictly vaccinated populations are less protected than populations with more natural antibodies.

Where I live is >80% double dosed, however there are far less than 5% that have been naturally infected.

uuddlrlr··on Geothermal's path to relevance: cheap drilling
There's a 52-home community in Alberta that provides ~all of their winter heating by storing heat in the ground throughout the summer:

https://www.dlsc.ca/borehole.htm

It gets up to nearly 80C, but took a few years of operation to get there.

The website covers it really well and I'd recommend checking it out.

uuddlrlr··on Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip
It's a temporary infertility, at least.
uuddlrlr··on Car accidents cause death, injury and trauma. Why do we shrug them off?
In my Canadian city all traffic related deaths are heavily covered, fwiw
uuddlrlr··on Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility
Any rust project like this inevitably gets sardonic replies about rewrite-in-rust fanaticism.

I agree they shouldn't have to justify themselves, but it is handy to preempt that.

uuddlrlr··on The brain processes speech in parallel with other sounds
I learned in a documentary that pople who play some video games can immediately recognize 5-7. They tested with a handful of grapes.

I can reliably recognize up to 6 in most cases.

uuddlrlr··on 20 years of the iPod
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
uuddlrlr··on We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft
I've spliced chunks together using sh, dd, and xxd before to resurrect my gf-at-the-time's wolf.

I've also been meaning to play psuedo-multiplayer with my friends by us each claiming a region in a seed. Each region being 32x32 chunks and saved to a separate file (.mca), you can just drop their latest region into your world folder to see what they've been up to, or play on LAN and send it back after.

uuddlrlr··on How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem
This kind of story feels rare for IT, thanks.
uuddlrlr··on Ask HN: I'm making like 0 friends at college, how to fix it?
It's really picked up steam in the past year
uuddlrlr··on Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address
The notches are cute, I still want an OG iPhone X for kicks. FWIW it's also standard 16:10 when the notch is blacked out, which they can do nicely thanks to the MiniLED.
uuddlrlr··on Long-term NAEP scores for 13-year-olds drop for first time since testing began
Being able to easily calculate e.g. $/100g to a rough degree without reaching for your pocket is super handy.

I think we could gain from emphasizing math with orders of magnitude, and knowing 1/n's would be super handy too.

uuddlrlr··on Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
Sounds like something a shell script could fix.
uuddlrlr··on Intel Shows Off Multi-Chiplet Sapphire Rapids CPU with HBM
Everyman luxury brands are possible. I'd argue Starbucks is one.

Cost-of-ownership for Apple products is usually pretty great anyway; often they're the $500 vs $50 boots.

uuddlrlr··on Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
Nit: the M1 Max has 400GB/s (3.2Tbps) bandwidth.
uuddlrlr··on Polishing Cloth
Apple themselves don't use DRM much, and their systems generally aren't closed, just opaque.
uuddlrlr··on Polishing Cloth
Darn, the 5s got an iOS 12 patch along with the 6 just a few weeks ago, but it doesn't look like it included compatibility.
uuddlrlr··on Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes
Replace www.reddit.com with old.reddit.com or i.reddit.com.

Not sure if it works with NSFW, but they've recently taken to app-blocking everything and it fixes at least that.

uuddlrlr··on Git Command Explorer
Terminals generally have decent mouse support don't they? Maybe we ought to trick out a man reader.
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