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Regulation to require jailbreaking any device that reaches EOL or support would be welcome.
My iPhone 6 held up fine for 6 years and was still getting security updates last fall.
Unfortunately, it seems that modern "dumb" (or feature) phones now are being required (or only) to support LTE and their stand-by battery life has declined quite dramatically. Many now seem to advertise battery life of quite a bit less than a week.

It's unclear to me why LTE appears to consume much more power to "do nothing." But I recall easily getting a week or so of actual battery life being completely normal a decade ago.
I don't know what you mean by "control-obsessed", and I'm not a zero-summer generally, but zero-summability is relevant to what's going on with Gemini. A person who spends 250 man-hours working on Gemini is not going to get that back. Likewise, a project that would have benefited from that person's enthusiasm had Gemini not existed is not going to.

> If whatever you want to happen is threatened by Gemini

I don't think you're conceptualizing the criticism correctly. This is not "B is better than A". This is a case where B never comes along because A exists. The person who would otherwise catalyze B's existence and success doesn't, because they think that A is sufficient and/or anyone they might talk to about B would just respond, "I dunno; isn't that what A is for?" You can see this with Mozilla, for example. (As a former Mozillian, that's what I had in mind at the time I wrote the linked blog post.) I have become especially sensitive to this after my experience between 2006–2013 and seeing the contrast of that time period vs Mozilla's role over the last 10 years—which is basically a black hole that keeps people from effectively organizing anything that resembles the early days of Firefox development. I recognized something similar after moving to Austin in 2014 and signing up for lots of volunteer events that were by-and-large just organized to be ways for affluent young professionals to feel like they're doing good by burning their attention surpluses, whether or not any of those events were actually a worthwhile use of those resources. See also:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3p3CYauiX8oLjmwRF/purchase-f...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10029811

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7302645

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...

> If you want to wait until everyone else stops trying new ideas

That's the opposite of my position—which is that Gemini is sucking the air out of the room.
I heard your type of argument about the US mass spying before Snowden, and surprise, we were not conspirationists after all.

So call that educated magical speculation.
Thanks! I didn't know about the coc extension, I'll give that a try.
That X-37 photo in the wiki article had me go down the "payload fairing" rabbit hole. Still don't quite know what the "bubble wrap" is on the inside. I assume it is part insulation to protect from extreme heat and part, well, bubble wrap.

According to wikipedia those things cost around $6 million to manufacture and spacex was the first to ever bother retrieving them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload_fairing
Is the Pixel 3 outside the standard window for EOL, or is a 3-year lifecycle par for the course?
Do you want Terminators? This is how you get Terminators.

But in all seriousness, this seems the most logical next step. AIs are getting so complicated that you need an AI to understand it. We just need to make sure they don't get so black box that we trust the outputs blindly.
The update period on iphones is mind boggling good if you are coming from Chinese android phones for example. I've seen android phones ship a version behind and never get an update.

Apple were releasing updates to the 6s in 2021 still. That's a 7 year old device. Security updates only pretty much - but still its crazy. My wife will not upgrade her old phone as a result (I get one every year through work and just sell my old one).
Congrats! You now have a data leak to report to the GDPR authority of your state, in addition to the unsolicited marketing.
How Much Does a Movie License Cost for an Airline?
Why animal owners in Hong Kong are hiring private planes for their pets
> It seems fairly reductive to dismiss the legitimate advantages of increased productivity.

Certainly there are some, but I think we passed the point of diminishing returns long long ago and we're now well into the territory of regression. I would argue that we are actually experiencing negative productivity increases from a lot of the abstractions we employ, because we've built up giant abstraction stacks where each new abstraction has new leaks to deal with and everything is much more complicated than it needs to be because of it.
It’s not “fair play” to equate your assumptions and personal conspiracies to thousands of documented cases of state sponsored IP theft.
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It's bizarre that a company like Google doesn't realize that supporting older devices actually helps them in the long term. Apple has the most dedicated customer base in the world who will gladly upgrade all their devices every year or two, yet even 6-8 year old iPhones and iPads regularly get software updates. This increases the value of Apple devices across the board and sustains a very large resale marketplace. This means more people are coming into the Apple ecosystem at the low end and eventually working their way up.

If I know that my $900 purchase is going to be worthless in 2-3 years, why will I even bother?
any economist will say those are valuable things. a market is a market. I am the market, you are the market, I say it is recognized as having meaning to me, as well as recognizing the monetary sense, and that's all that's necessary. It fits my risk profile to take the risk of ongoing possession using a blockchain medium, and it fits my risk profile on a case by case basis to spend money on one whether there is an assurance of a future buyer or not.

Every "issue" you have with an artist or issuer making money simply says it is a functioning market. Which is the only standard of markets possible. I don't push potential external behaviors of the participants onto the concept of whether there are transactions happen ("curing cancer or scamming people" as if mutually exclusive), it is completely boolean to me:

if(isTransaction() == true) isMarket(true);

the consumers should check if it fits their risk profile.
The point is, you can't evaluate whether a reason is good or bad (or more likely, out of date) until you know what it was.
20 years is very extreme. It's not realistic for anyone to support 20 year old hardware.
Whether you agree to buy or sell at a certain price is entirely dependent on whether such price is higher or lower than the value of the trade, in your own subjective assessment.

There are other meanings of the word "value" in business transactions, but that is probably the most common and fundamental one.
I guess I'm at the point where I just don't care to futz with the device much anymore and try to limit my use of the phone. In the early days you'd load custom ROMs and tweak things and that was a lot of fun. Nowadays I just want something that is secure and works. Nexus and Pixel devices have always been very good at that for me. But now that I don't care so much about that it means the focus is on device lifetime, security and long-term cost. Apple wins those.

But also so many of the people around me use iOS devices now that I end up having to learn how to use them anyway. Yikes I sound like an Apple shill... but the opposite is true. lol
Another commenter noted on one of my posts that the art world has been corrupt for a long time.

Tom Wolfe, in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painted_Word

talks about how New York Times Hilton Kramer worked to convince conservative and boring rich collectors who really rather buy Norman Rockwell paintings that it was OK to buy modern art.

NFTs are dangerous precisely because they reveal fundamental problems in human nature that have been repeated over and over again and will be later again. The NFT is shocking because it happened so fast, because the amounts of money grew so large, and it did it all without a mediating "art world."
it's called recuperation. these are different sets of people.

"defund" is the progressive recuperation of abolition, and "nobody actually means defund" is the liberal recuperation of that.

the process is playing out again with anti-work.

it's hard for the radical origins to refuse the attention and alliance, even if it undercuts and defuses them in the end. at least the overton window moves a bit.
Maybe you could implement a provably-fair system similar to bitZino?

It just uses SHA256, you share the hash and at any later time prove fairness by letting the user rehash the secret themselves to compare against the original.

Provably Fair Shuffling Through Cryptography

https://archive.is/qwImN
Is it? Unless I'm reading the following wrong:

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-...
Yeah I had this feeling as well. I've also gotten a #1 ranking on HN, and held the top 5 most of the day. Friends were messaging me about it, and it did result in decent traffic but hardly MILLIONS.
And I thought dolphins in Red Alert 2 were a joke...
Thanks for contributing first-hand experience. Your story highlights how dysfunctional historical hardware dev practices are for the connected age. Forking for each product absolutely does not scale in an era of continual updates, and manufacturers that don't figure this out are not gonna make it. People don't forget having to discard working hardware because of some stupid software EOL.

The memory limits of old devices is a real problem, and I don't know the solution besides doing the hard work to fight the the bloat, and produce a modular solution. Apple pretends to support the Apple Watch 3, but you can not upgrade the os without a hard-reset every time because the local flash can't hold the update and user config at the same time. But I can't help wonder if they _really_ need multiple GB for the core OS in a watch.
He didn't mention debt. I kinda wanted to be vague, since I'm just recapitulating a breakfast conversation I had nine months ago, and don't know a ton of details. I believe that he had to continue paying U.S. taxes in addition to the higher German taxes.
Moving manufacturing back to our home countries (assuming a mostly Western audience here) is important not just for economic reasons but also for health, safety, and security. Trying to do so might get you called a racist, but it might depend on what political party is giving it a shot. This is an old problem and too little is being done about it.
Thanks for prompting me take another look at ZMK. I remember concluding that power consumption would have been an issue, but either things have improved or I just reached the wrong conclusion last time I looked.

https://zmk.dev/power-profiler/
Absolutely. Both your statements.
Shouldn't this be a part of a healthy functioning economy?

Shouldn't labor be free to move where demand is? Demand represented by fairer compensation.

I have a hard time believing these people are permanently quitting work. Rather think of it from the point of a business trying to attract new customers.

I can see the inflation affecting me in my purchases and it's not breaking me. Restaurants are charging more and it's making me re-evaluate how important dining out is if it means trapping people in a low wage job they hate.

Do I really wish for someone not to move up the ladder into a better position just so I can choose from some 50 restaurants in my area? Would my life still not support the indulgence of being able to eat out with say 25 restaurants instead of 50? And with a heftier bill but less frequently going out to eat?

I think America is finally exercising some of the benefits of capitalism for the lower class and not just for the elite.
I get the feeling they got their publicity but unfortunately at the expense of your time. Thanks for the detailed work you do in supporting the community and addressing these allegations in such a detailed way.
To be fair, part of it is due to supporting the SoC, and that means dealing with Qualcomm. Samsung has the advantage of being able to develop their own SoC's and so can support them for far longer with updates and such
European Union countries*

For basic things like vacations, parental leaves, access to basic healthcare, &c.

I've seen skidrow in LA and some parts of SF and NY, this is third world country tier, it looked like war times refugees camps
I really hope there would be some regulations enforcing a decade of software support, not just for the operating system but also to provide drivers for hardware. After that, having to continue providing support or provide the source code with a permissive license and documentation.
I'm surprised no mentioned what an absolute shitshow Android 12 is. Getting "stuck" on Android 11 is a blessing. I regret updgrading from my Pixel 5 to the 6.
I believe that a bad actor within google could do those things.
How the world's deepest shipwreck was found
I'm not sure what IC means. Integration Consultant? Industrial Control?
Yeah - and it's worth noting that you still get updates for your browser and messaging apps (because the android version isn't too old). Just don't install risky apps. If you're a minimalist, you're fine with a phone that stopped getting base system updates in the last year or two. I still use a Galaxy S8 that got its last security update 10 months ago.

If there's a vulnerability like stagefright in the base system that could make many up-to-date apps vulnerable, you'll hear about it on the news.
The Netherlands may want to have a word with you :)

And honestly it is fairly common to find peanut butter in supermarket in most of Western Europe (at least), may not be good but it exists.
Thanks for this! Congrats on owning two homes outright, that’s a remarkable accomplishment.
Since wasm supports threads, I wonder if you can speed up these operations further more by using multiple threads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9c0UeYhFc

> America says we love a chorus

> But don't get complicated and bore us

> Though meaning might be missin'

> We need to know the words after just one listen so...

> (Repeat stuff, repeat stuff, repeat stuff)
> Approximately 159 million economic impact payments, totaling more than $376 billion, have gone out to eligible recipients in the last month — and the majority of that money continues to be spent on groceries, rent and other monthly bills, according to a new survey released Wednesday. [1]

The vast majority of the stimulus money was spent on bills, not frivolity.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/how-are-stimu...
> The other half, of course, is people that choose to continue holding BTC would have wildly fluctuating purchasing power ether way.

yeah we covered this. buy puts to stay delta neutral. its not that hard.
That's funny about the tap water. Remember my first visit to France as a kid (~late 70s) and the whole family wondering at the stuff floating in Paris tap water. We did not touch it, and drank bottled water. Btw, this was in a very nice rented flat near Etoile on Ave. Victor Hugo.
5 years minimum - 7 years would be competitive with apple.

The thing is - apple has the history / reputation here. Google has promised updates forever with various initiatives, rarely delivers.

Apple doesn't actually promise much here that I know of, but seems to deliver and deliver.
Your touching on a much more complicated subject about reporting.

If someone one owns a billion dollars of stock foobar, and foobar grows 10x, then that person is now worth 10B and "made" 9B. However they have not sold anything so while they can be reported as making 9B, they are none of it was directly cash and not taxed; at least not yet.

However, while Bezos "only" has a salary/bonus of 1.5 million a year, it is very common for executives to have total comp packages in the 10s to hundreds of millions a year. These can easily be converted into hourly rate equivalents because there is only so many hours you can work a year.
I'm trying to understand how they read out that BCROS memory. From the picture, it appears to be a single layer of copper on a mylar sheet. How did they get the bits out?
Check out Tempelhofer feld, not exactly beautiful but utterly unique.
Salesforce CEO Is Latest Exposed for Hypocritical Stance on Taxes
Any data on that?
During the 50's and 60's many nuclear bombs were tested in the atmosphere. I don't know the exact total megatonnage but I do know that the largest test, the "Tsar Bomba" alone was 50 MT. So the total megatonnage of all atmospheric nuclear tests very likely exceeds 137 MT by quite a good margin, and, whether for better or worse, the world is still here.
Reminds me of this old movie about George C. Scott getting duped into training a dolphen to KILL! ... The President!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Dolphin
I’d say it’s mostly pretty vanilla cookie-cutter conspiracy nonsense, which is rarely true.

Unless you’d like to take the time to specify the truths you’ve been saying and that everyone else has been ignoring?
You could use filler text like lorem ipsum to keep a natural appearance without exposing any information. Of course that is a bit more work than just dropping a blur effect on an existing document and exporting it as PDF.
a cl***ic blunder of filters
The entire mobile ecosystem is an insecure exploitative dumpster fire. People are way too willing to trust it, because companies spend billions of dollars on advertising to push it. But ultimately you should do the least amount of computing possible with it, and favor traditional user-representing PC operating systems that have been developed over decades.

> Installing security updates is the one basic thing everyone needs to do for their own digital security

This is only true to the extent that you trust a device. My phone is way down on my trust DAG. When I setup services for it to access (eg rsync or CalDAV), I basically consider it an attacker. It is a herolte that stopped receiving microG/Lineage updates, but continues working alright for my purposes. Would it bother me if a drive by attacker got ad hoc access to my occasional usage? Of course. But they're nowhere near positioned to exploit my information as much as the Advanced Persistent Threats that the phone shipped with would have!

Furthermore most exploits are going to require interaction, so if you aren't browsing websites on the phone then staying patched matters even less. Of course you have to avoid giving in to the massive temptation of the surveillance industry pushing you to do all these things in your phone. They do this precisely because it is one of the least secure environments and thus they can better exploit you - you're not particularly thinking about opsec when you're relaxing on the couch.

But alas the upgrade treadmill still marches on and it looks like I will have to upgrade that phone if I keep wanting native voice, due to the looming AT&T 4G deprecation. Although I'm tempted to just keep on using it with VOIP-over-data because the less money going to that fetid ecosystem the better.
Wasn't Project Treble supposed to reduce Google's dependency on Qualcomm updating their drivers?

https://www.xda-developers.com/list-android-devices-project-...
The nice thing about unraid is the array needs to only spin up the disks that are being accessed AND the parity disks (only while writing). I run two parity disks so that I could lose two disks in total before the array fails. While running a parity check all drives get spun up and the total noise level is arround 35db but this totally depends on the drives you are using. For me it's mostly Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC530 shucked from WD Elements because of cost savings.
DO IPhones automatically trust things plugged into them? My Android mobiles and tablets always ask me before allowing anything other than charging.
Related:

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/42813
There's really no telling how good Ariane was here though, without a lot more information. Maybe if it was perfect it could have "tripled" the lifetime.

Using your driving analogy, this is like you getting 80mpg on a car that needs to hit 40mpg or heads will roll. Maybe everyone driving it would get 80mpg. Maybe someone driving extremely precisely would get 120mpg.

There's not enough information here to say how well Ariane did other than public comments from the engineers which were vague but positive.
It doesn't explain why every new editor without telemetry data prioritize a minimap tho, surely it can't be that popular since there are plenty of established UI patterns more suited to the individual use cases you've described.

I mean, I can see why it got popular when Sublime introduced it. It was a time when most webdevs were editing in massive HTML templates, SASS/CSS and ES5, where the traditional outline view would return too much noise or missing important targets. But we've quickly moved past that era, it doesn't seem to make sense anymore for new players to prioritize it now.
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This website is named Hacker News, yet there is an abundance of content that is neither for nor about hackers, nor news.
Guys, we're all frequent readers of HN here and it's pretty clear Google is not a company that we can trust. Data privacy, product stoppage, advertisement collusion, their search engine becoming an ad engine, obsolescence, monopoly, we're talking about a company that collects huge fines every 6 months. There is nothing good in Google World, so please, let's all change the world together and stop using the services of inhuman companies.
I did a lot of metal detecting in Central Europe and amount of lead found on farmlands was shocking. Some places I could gather over a kilo from a single are. Not sure how much this kind of debris contributes to lead poisoning but I don't think it's easily cleanable.
For most devices, supporting a device indefinitely is just a matter of letting the user flash their own firmware or replace the existing one using an SD card.

Using your devices for a long time is not possible not due to the difficulty of the community maintaining the software, but because the original company put user-hostile signature checks on the firmware.
Note - AMEX does verify cardholder name. In my original comment I am referring only to VISA/MC. They do not verify cardholder name. They do, however, verify other things related to address, etc.
Anecdotal - myself and most of my peers (software, EE) have moved onto new jobs during the pandemic for gargantuan raises. I don't know anyone in a white collar field who quit and is just chilling now. Old friends who work retail also quit for other retail jobs with slightly better pay, more hours, etc. It brings me joy to see the average person finally realizing their worth and leveraging a little bit of personal risk for better compensation.
I wouldn't call it fiction , it depends on which lens you see it from.

For a team without the education /experience background in a developing economies or more traditional smb/micro saas product they are privileged.

However no matter how much resources/help stripe got taking on PayPal still means underdog.

Taking on trillion dollar companies like Amazon, Apple Google , MS or even Facebook, with enormous platforms and userbases even with couple of billions in the bank still feels like underdog.

Tesla was and still is some extent an underdog in the automotive industry. The amount of money and support they could leverage from "paypal mafia" and other VCs while enormous doesn't make it an equal fight when taking on Volkswagen, toyata or GM.

They are more likely to see from who is bigger than them rather than who is less privileged.