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2rsf··on Ask HN: How to Harden Your Phone?
Who and what are you trying to protect from? ICE/NSA will hack your phone, and all you can do as an amateur is to make their life harder (and raise their suspicion even more)
2rsf··on Ask HN: Do custom ROMs exist for electric cars, for example Teslas?
Not ROMs but OrBit is a "OrBit is PC software for diagnostics, configuration, and software flashing for newer Volvo and Polestar vehicles".

American Polestars can, for example, enable their adaptive headlights using OrBit.

https://spaycetech.com/

2rsf··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
I mentioned that in another thread, but banks have a legal obligation to to assess and mitigate risks in the service they give to you- you, personally, might be tech savvy enough to understand what you are doing but most people are not and the bank is held accountable when something bad happens.

This is why they limit service to certain devices or OS versions, even when it comes at the expense of convenience.

2rsf··on Apple revokes EU distribution rights for an app on the Alt Store
I suppose the regulation will not mention "rooted devices" but will talk about the bank's obligation for risks and mitigations
2rsf··on Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?
Me too, including integration with GitHub Copilot
2rsf··on Ask HN: Is it possible to do great things in STEM in a not so great country?
In the Nordics and the Netherlands language will not be a barrier for immigration, everybody speaks English at work and mostly outside of work.
2rsf··on Burner Phone 101
Isn't buying a SIM traceable by itself? if for example the shop has CCTV recordings or the email where you got the eSIM
2rsf··on Everything is correlated (2014–23)
Actually tylervigen's first web.archive capture is from May 9th 2014, but you are right I used the wrong word
2rsf··on Everything is correlated (2014–23)
Did they quote https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations ?
2rsf··on Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
It could be invisible if you send it from within the operator's network after breaking (physically) into it, and then deleting your tracks
2rsf··on Ask HN: Prevent Secrets from Committing to Repos
perplexity offered me those:

https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets

https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/prevent-secret-leaks-in-repo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/1h1r0ep/best_practices...

In addition GitGuardian cost something around $220/year per developer which is not too bad

2rsf··on Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in FSD tests
> "requires a fully attentive driver and will display a series of escalating warnings requiring driver response."

I understand the reasoning behind it, but watching the video () of the test shows that the car did not warn the driver, and even if it did it was speeding too much leaving almost no time for a driver to respond

Disclaimer- I have never used FSD before

() https://dawnproject.com/the-dawn-project-and-tesla-takedowns...

2rsf··on List of Countries Without a Value-Added Tax
> It's one of those core innovations like double-entry bookkeeping making things more fair.

How is Double-entry bookkeeping making things more fair or not? it's just a better technical solution to a problem accountants faced

2rsf··on Researchers recreate ancient Egyptian blues
Blue (or light blue) is also being researched as it is mentioned in the bible and important for Judaism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekhelet
2rsf··on Ask HN: What's the best decision you made early in your career
My best decision was not making any hard decision, it did took me through some unexpected twists and turns but overall I think I ended up in a rather good place
2rsf··on Show HN: Podman Desktop a 100% free OSS alternative to Docker Desktop
Since you compare it to Docker Desktop, is there a more comprehensive comparison? Except for the obvious support, what else do you miss or gain compared to the paid Docker Desktop?
2rsf··on Ask HN: How much credit can you take for code you wrote with an LLM?
You don't give enough information here to properly answer, but generally speaking you take the credit the same way that you take responsibility for it.
2rsf··on Ask HN: Pros and cons of offering a self-hosted version of your SaaS?
Answering from a customer point of view- sensitive, regulated or simply old fashioned industries will want to avoid using SaaS for sensitive material like credentials. I think that the main challenge I faced, again as a customer, is support and maintenance- your software will run on an endless variety of platforms using different versions of it by people with varying competence levels and you'll need to support all of them
2rsf··on Ask HN: How do you use AI for development in high security environments?
Repeating what others have written based on my experience at the bank i work for- business offering will not use or save you data, and for more sensitive material we simply host it on prem
2rsf··on Ask HN: Does the languages we speak affect the way we think?
I am tempted to say yes, but how do we separate culture from language?
2rsf··on Xray: A full-behavior-chain anti-malware system built in Go by a student
Please, please please choose a different name than xray. There are too many tools named xray, and it creates confusion
2rsf··on Possibly a Serious Possibility
> she thought my sister had maybe a one-third chance of dying on the table and that was enough for me

But what was the alternative? I understand that you didn't get an answer, but the alternative of not operating could have been worst

2rsf··on Ask HN: What's a good system to remember to wear my reading glasses at my desk?
With low glasses correction you won't notice a big difference, but you will get more fatigued
2rsf··on Payment processors shouldn't be able to charge through an expired card
You can have a dedicated account for your card, in theory you can create an account per valid card and cancel it afterwards or at least nullify it
2rsf··on Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again?
Come up with a better system and you will be rich. "Better" should be scalable, measurable, objective etc.
2rsf··on Cars and Key Fobs: Attacks on Car Remotes
Which makes you dependent on a third party, that doesn't necessarily have the motive to keep it updated. Having a mobile as a secondary key is a better idea, my Polestar 2 has keys, but also an app that can use Face ID (or the equivalent Android security measure) to drive the car. Once the app is set up you don't need to carry the physical keys.
2rsf··on Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs (2021)
This is as easy to break and and susceptible to theft as keyless, so what's the benefit?
2rsf··on Cars and Key Fobs: Attacks on Car Remotes
Battery life maybe? AFAIK most of the remotes works one way only, they don't have a receiver and very low processing power.
2rsf··on Ask HN: How much do you care about CVE in your team?
It's mandatory as part of the SDLC and support by appropriate tooling, unfixed higher level vulnerabilities are periodically tracked by middle-upper management
2rsf··on Ask HN: Why don't hiring managers provide feedback?
At the risk of repeating others- - liability - a one liner is not a good feedback, proper feedback requires a lot of resources (time mainly but not only) - we reject multiple candidates per position, getting back to each consumes a lot of time - most of the times the "you are not a good match" is the right feedback, there is nothing to improve and I am not going to educate people about career improvements
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