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BHSPitMonkey··on Home Screen Advantage
The official F-Droid client has auto updates, too, for what it's worth.
BHSPitMonkey··on Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform
I think single-window mode came as part of version 2.8, just shy of 12 years ago.
BHSPitMonkey··on Facial recognition error message on vending machine sparks concern at university
The next model will just have the camera behind some part of the LCD.
BHSPitMonkey··on Video Game Module for Flipper Zero
Better to link the blog post instead of the store listing:

https://blog.flipper.net/introducing-video-game-module-power...

BHSPitMonkey··on LED Matrix Earrings
Fortunately for the OP, that part's really easy; Simply wait for the tech news outlets to pick up this story, then sit back and wait for them to start showing up on Temu.
BHSPitMonkey··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Signal has documentation on how to reproduce their Play Store builds and compare them with what you've installed locally:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

BHSPitMonkey··on Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck
> I don't find that acceptable in any way

Well obviously even Waymo agrees, given that they're recalling vehicles to mitigate the issue.

BHSPitMonkey··on The seventh most popular easily understood unsolved problem on MathOverflow
> That upper bound has since been lowered in 1999 to 1.38922 * 10^316 here: ... > > but I have no idea if it's possible to actually write down all the digits of the current best upper bound.

I'm probably missing something that should be obvious, but why wouldn't it be possible to write down 317 digits?

BHSPitMonkey··on US Government makes $42M bet on open cell networks: Open RAN dream stays alive
You're preaching to the choir, but I'm saying this is not the default tendency and it requires active effort to create that kind of ecosystem.
BHSPitMonkey··on US Government makes $42M bet on open cell networks: Open RAN dream stays alive
But no matter how good or bad a particular browser is, you still have less work to do if you only care about users on a single browser (compared to that browser _and_ other browsers). Even if the other N-1 browsers have no quirks relative to the first one, that's still more testing to do and support to give. It's objectively easier to target fewer platforms, which is why you see the laziest web developers put up warnings (or even block requests) for clients with the "wrong" User-Agent strings.
BHSPitMonkey··on End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
I've only ever used it on mobile, so no. For me the reason was sharing TOTP between phones in case my primary gets lost or damaged.
BHSPitMonkey··on US Government makes $42M bet on open cell networks: Open RAN dream stays alive
I don't understand the /s tag here. Both statements are categorically true; These facts just have consequences we don't like, and somehow must go out of our way to counteract if we care about our ideals.
BHSPitMonkey··on Broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago
`git bisect` is one of those things I wish I'd internalized sooner in my career. It can be so incredibly powerful, especially when you just hand it a shell script (`git bisect run`) and let it rip without having to guide it by hand.
BHSPitMonkey··on The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (1978) [pdf]
The point was to instill fear in any would-be dissidents; This effect might have cancelled out any increase in determination the attack might have spurred.
BHSPitMonkey··on Notes on my Remarkable tablet
You can self-host rmfakecloud, an open-source reimplementation of the reMarkable cloud. You just ssh into the device and use a DNS trick to swap it out.
BHSPitMonkey··on Notes on my Remarkable tablet
If you have somewhere you can run a Docker container, just spin up an rmfakecloud server and ditch the company's network altogether. Works really well.
BHSPitMonkey··on Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say
The question isn't about the cyclist asserting a right to privacy, it's about whether it's a decent thing for Waymo to do regardless. There are more downsides than upsides (to the company) if they did do a public release of footage.
BHSPitMonkey··on The Ladybird browser project
It's at least a form of _casual_ zealotry. "You may have different ethical standards" is clearly the author's passive-aggressive way of saying "your ethics might not be as righteous as mine", as opposed to "reasonable minds may disagree".
BHSPitMonkey··on The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
> For example, in the U.S., clean air and water have improved dramatically over the past 50 years.

In large part through exporting our staggering manufacturing demands to poorer parts of the globe such that the localized effects of pollution happen there instead.

BHSPitMonkey··on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
Rehabilitate our prisoners? And dry up the supply of cheap labor for the corporate interests? Come now.
BHSPitMonkey··on Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord
> I also heard a version of the story that they didn't settle at all, because John Cage's publishers couldn't prove which minute out of the 4'33" was copied.

This seems wrong on its face; If I steal the chorus out of a song where it's repeated multiple times and release it as my own, the artist might not be able to prove which instance of the chorus I used.

BHSPitMonkey··on LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices
Recently I was helping someone in my life who'd gone through a stroke (not too old or tech-unsavvy) to learn a password manager and go through various websites' password reset flows. It really forced me to confront the reality of what you described, i.e. that computing really has become an inscrutable, confusing mess where nothing makes sense and we've just come to accept it.

It used to feel like being "tech savvy" meant thinking logically as the system designers would have, but now I think it just means being conditioned through years of abuse into knowing the unwritten rules of how to skillfully outmaneuver bullshit interfaces and dark patterns.

BHSPitMonkey··on CERN aims to build €20B collider
This is the wrong place to make an unhelpful comment like this one; Consider reading the HN guidelines on comment quality again, and then maybe share the part of GP's comment you think needs clarifying.
BHSPitMonkey··on Relativistic Spaceship
And how many in that group are actually fit to spend many years living that lifestyle without losing their mind and getting into deadly fights with one another?

And who's covering the great expense of building these generational colony ships and training their only inhabitants, only to have them zip away never to be heard from again? (With no benefit other than believing there's a slight chance we've succeeded in making our species multi-plantary)?

BHSPitMonkey··on Relativistic Spaceship
Sure, if your probability distribution looks at every point in the universe equally. But we're talking about introducing error in a situation where you're _trying_ to drop yourself right next to a planet, so the areas nearest to your target have a much greater probability.
BHSPitMonkey··on The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances
This is assuming the EPA still exists in a year, which I'm giving 50/50 odds.
BHSPitMonkey··on I hacked a train toilet
I really doubt this was made because a programmer asked for it. It's likely way cheaper to manufacturer than the part it replaces.
BHSPitMonkey··on Solid-state EV batteries now face "production hell"
Do those comparisons take into account their respective engine technologies and how much useful work they are able to extract from each fuel in practice?
BHSPitMonkey··on Portable EPUBs
Isn't that solved in PDF/A, which the GP was implying could also be done for EPUB?
BHSPitMonkey··on What's that touchscreen in my room?
You can go far using only Zigbee or Z-Wave devices with a Home Assistant server, and then nothing (but the server) has to be networked.

As for switches vs. bulbs, at this point I can't go back to the life I led before picking up a bunch of Hue White Ambiance bulbs and having HA automatically adjust the color temperature throughout the day.

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