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- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 16 hours ago:
Depends on if Fairphone wants to take security ‘seriously’ by Graphene OS opinion.
I don’t know the details of these specific folks, but sometimes a security team can be wholly unreasonable and advocate for breaking useful capabilities. E.g. there are some security folks that would say the entire possibility of unlocked bootloader is an unforgiveable security no-no. They can even argue with each other, I know a security team that says password managers are a no-no and humans should remember every credential that they would have otherwise put in a password manager, while most security folks would agree a password manager is totally worth it for using randomized passwords.
So I tend to reserve judgement on disagreements between a ‘security authority’ until I hear nuance of specifics on both sides. I could easily believe GrapheneOS wants some things that are fundamentally at odds with what Fairphone wants rather than just Fairphone being sloppy about it or something.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 16 hours ago:
Actually LG made the Nexus 5, Moto did the Nexus 6, developed while Google owned Motorola and released a few weeks after Lenovo bought them.
Depending on your definition of ‘small’, your only hope might be if they did Razr and you used it folded up. That’s credibly small, though I don’t know if Graphene would be game for bothering to do that sort of multiple display work.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 16 hours ago:
Lenovo/Moto is weird about that… The android phones and android tablets have next to nothing to do with each other.
I do have a couple of their tablets and like them well enough, but you might as well consider them an entirely different vendor versus the Moto phone part of the business.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 day ago:
Possible, but just not worth it. In their case it was barely underwater in some shallows. Go full Rapture without ADAM and it’s just untenable.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 day ago:
If it’s close enough for respectable latency, it’s close enough to experience drag. Given the maddeningly high power/cooling and resultant large surface area, then that satellite will have a tendency to incur re-entry.
So either close enough for “ok” latency but will burn up relatively soon or high enough to keep an orbit longer but terrible latency.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 day ago:
To put into perspective, each satellite that could only accommodate, at most, 2-3 servers would have a power and cooling burden greater than the entire international space station. For each 2-3 server unit, you have an ISS-magnitude power and cooling challenge. They would be looking to have hundreds of thousands of ISS-scale satellites in orbit…
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 day ago:
Yes, ISS radiates heat to space. The total ISS power burden and by extension heat dissipation need is less than a lot of these GPU racks. They need big radiators just for that. Imagine ISS sized radiators per rack of equipment, how for apart the equipment would have to be, how much more mass cost for launch that is, etc etc…
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 day ago:
Oh great, AI generated CSAM from space…
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 day ago:
To add to your point about logistical nightmare, Microsoft tried an underwater datacenter. Even right there, just a little bit underwater was absolutely not worth it.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 day ago:
I love how his rationale is that manufacturers of natural gas generator parts are backordered o 2030, so instead of… I don’t know, spinning up more natural gas hardware or terrestial power generation, the easiest solution is to go from 11 attempts/0 successful launches of a space platform to tens of thousands of launches a year carrying unprecedented mass of bullshit into orbit…
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 day ago:
Ridiculous, you can’t have cloud computing in space, there’s no atmosphere!
- Comment on many have been saying this 1 day ago:
They probably think they do: not enough racism
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 1 day ago:
The users aren’t the customers. The customers are the users’ bosses.
- Comment on bold words 2 days ago:
Instructions unclear, sold it when it doubled.
- Comment on AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data 2 days ago:
Why not, if copilot writes the code and tests, then the tests can be passed so much more easily!
- Comment on AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data 2 days ago:
Recently someone lamented that just asking for an alarm to be set cost them tons of money and didn’t even work right…
It was foolish enough to let LLM go to town on automation, but for open ended scenarios, I at least got the logic even if it was stupidly optimistic.
But implementing an alarm? These people don’t even have rationality to their enthusiasm…
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 3 days ago:
Do they mean 20% of all Americans, car purchasers, or new car purchasers?
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 3 days ago:
What’s crazy is that a mini van is so nice but so many people will go “eww” and demand a ln SUV.
So even if you need a big vehicle, a minivan is expensive, but not so much as the three row SUVs people will demand (and the SUV will get worse mileage).
I will grant that if you need to tow a lot, then an SUV becomes the viable option for decent size and towing capacity, but most folks don’t do that.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 3 days ago:
Less that Japanese like to have luxury brands, more that the market here seems to demand it.
Cadillac is fancy Chevy. Audi is fancy VW, Genesis is fancy Hyundai, etc.
At least at one point I think Lexus wasn’t a thing in Japan, they just were Toyota models.
Pickup trucks seem to buck the trend, your fancy ass 100k truck needs to still be a “good ol F150”.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 5 days ago:
Eh, I’m not really interested in disc based copies, really the disc is there for ripping and then stored, jellyfin to stream it to watch as I please. Once ripped then I can handle the resultant file nice and easy.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 5 days ago:
plastic crowns, I’ll settle for nothing short of genuine gold and gems, thank you very much.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 5 days ago:
Pro tip to BK: I probably wouldn’t even notice the lack of ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. I would, however, be significantly happier if you stopped making them say “You Rule”. Seems like they have to say it as both greeting and a “your order is finished”. It’s just unpleasantly cringey.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 5 days ago:
It’s a bit trickier last time I did it to be confident I can rip a Blu-Ray.
I actually don’t want to juggle discs to watch stuff, I like the general concept of streaming, but I don’t like paying eternally for it, for shows to jump between providers and for my access to cut out part way through and/or even if I have the new service, my progress being forgotten so I have to try to look for where I left off.
So I want to rip content. DVDs are always dead simple. As I rip blu-rays, MakeMKV is kind of a hassle, it wants to expire itself all the time, and like right this second the place to update from seems down. Maybe someone will comment with some easy way to rip blu ray that internet search doesn’t make obvious.
If folks sway me, might go buy a 4k friendly Blu Ray drive and hop to it.
- Comment on AI contributes to inflating global debt, already approaching $346 trillion or 310% of GDP 1 week ago:
Sure about houses, but retirements are balances built upon the expectation that debt continues to grow and remains serviceable. If the debt is a problem, retirement accounts go poof
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 1 week ago:
The thing is in such a case secureboot doesn’t help and is unnecessary. Secureboot only does anything for the concept of “trusted suppliers”.
If the system has available signing keys for itself, well, hypothetical malware could sign itself using those same keys The OS security mechanisms are the only things protecting that, and in which case the signature validation is redundant.
You can have trusted boot, e.g. LUKS volume sealed to TPM PCRs, but secureboot just doesnt make sense as a mechanism for a user to only trust themselves.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 1 week ago:
Nvidia can’t meaningfully sign their Linux drivers. A distribution can, in theory, include Nvidia drivers in their build and sign it, but the logistics of out of tree drivers is just impossible.
Redhat toys with the concept of a whitelisted ABI for some limited range of kernels, but I’ve never seen a driver actually roll with that.
Basically Linux would need to embrace some form of ABI, and there’s been zero interest in doing so.
- Comment on 💀🌈🙏🌈💀 1 week ago:
Personally, there is not one person in the gender I’m not attracted to that even vaguely seems interesting that way.
Might as well be thinking of grasshoppers or something.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 2 weeks ago:
Instead of new SSNs, how about we maybe the number less risky in general?
It should never have served as a “secret”. Authenticating someone needs more than some account number. SSN should be more of a “username”, not a password.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 2 weeks ago:
Look at the feature list bragged about. It’s really simple stuff. I can absolutely believe they vibe coded that stuff.
The “hardest” one was to feed listener history to an LLM and have it generate a playlist based on the titles. That’s such an absurdly trivial thing to do.
It’s not rocket science. It’s a trivial streaming music player.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 2 weeks ago:
And even if you babysit it and carefully tell it all the mistakes, it will learn nothing and suggest the same stupid mistakes next tim. I did actually know a human just like AI and he kept his job for years before quitting to grift another company because management refused to believe he sucked. So I’m not optimistic about AI screwing up discouraging business leaders.