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It's actually two templates that are being copied by different states: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rmhxk1/i_pulled_the...

I would love to see devices with a non-destroyed (corners cut off, random hole for the front camera) screen.

I read somewhere that even for the "Copilot" things that supposedly run locally, windows needs to send a request to microsoft to confirm if your input is allowed by their rules.

> Turns out careless, unethical vibecoders aren't very competent.

Well they are scraping web pages from a git forge, where they could just, you know, clone the repo(s) instead.

Note that the 64-bit version is not open source.

KolibriOS (https://kolibrios.org/en) is an active fork of the open source 32-bit version.

Authoritarian governments (that is, what unfortunately all governments want to be) also love this, since if a few big companies control all computing, they can regulate them to control the public.

Fortunately, there are many computers already in the public's hands (which they can use to perform any computation without government restrictions and without paying/sending data to a company); but more and more people are switching to mobile platforms (and kids start out on these platforms) that I'm worried about the future.

ISPs are the worst.

Currently I use Telekom's 5G for my home internet connection in Hungary as Telekom is the only company who has a cable in my street, but they refused to sell me wired internet due to the hole they use to take their underground cable up to the houses being already over capacity (it turns out this "hole" serves like the entire street with cables being run across everyone's attic...).

I previously used yettel/telenor's 4G (basically as fast as Telekom's 5G because their 5G is a scam, although Yettel's 5G is even more scammy, it is slower than their 4G) but they broke their routers, I had comical packet loss and they refused to fix it (technically, when you pay for a cellular connection, the required uptime in the contract is zero). They also started CGNAT-ing in order to supposedly "improve security" (wtf..) just before I switched (this now means that their "internet-focused" plans have just CGNAT-ed IPv4, while their "non-internet focused" cellular plans have CGNAT-ed IPv4 AND IPv6 (makes sense).

In any case, I now use Telekom's 5G with CGNAT-ed IPv4, just a single /64 IPv6 and forced separation (it is illegal to have a stable internet connection, they disconnect you just before reaching 24h of uptime).

I think you (or the site decided to) ran it through the html5 validator?

Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems to be an issue report claiming to be a PR? Where's the patch?

Edit: there's actually a PR, but this is one of those repos where for some reason, they require every PR to have an associated issue. And in this case, they aren't even linked...

When you use Whatsapp, you're trusting a single entity to handle your messages (plus your ISP I guess). When you use RCS, your messages go through your mobile operator, google, and perhaps someone else in an overly complicated way that is also built upon SMS (a non-internet thing) for more confusion.

This is definitely a thing (though sometimes comes with a fee): https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles/texting-on-a-cruise-7-...

The fact the even simple encryption with walkie-talkies is basically illegal might be problem (though I have no idea how/if that applies to at-sea ships).

It seems so, stealing copyrighted content is only illegal if you do it to read it or allow others to read it. Stealing it to create slop is legal.

(The difference, is that the first use allows ordinary poeple to get smarter, while the second use allows rich people to get (seemingly) richer, a much more important thing)

> are they just freeloading on the "pi" suffix to confuse people?

Yes, but that is normal I guess:

- https://banana-pi.org/

- http://www.orangepi.org/index.html

- https://radxa.com/products/rockpi

I like the android way of security, where "rooting" your device to install updates is insecure, but using a horrifyingly out-of-date android (because your manufacturer, the only one who can update your device, didn't bother) is secure.

In Hungary, where the central bank created the same rule about not allowing banking apps on "unoffical" devices, they do, but you need either the app or SMS for 2FA. Apparently they consider SMS secure...

That link is to a page in that thread, but I guess it's supposed to be to this specific post: https://xdaforums.com/t/discussion-the-root-and-mod-hiding-f...

It has been renamed for a while now.

In this modern world, companies no longer need brands that consumers know, since they aren't selling products. Instead they're trying to sell the company by showing that they're a leader in so-called "AI".

Unforunately they're "downscaling" their operations in Europe, so I guess they're having trouble competing with other phones: https://www.gsmarena.com/is_sony_pulling_its_smartphone_busi...

Most phones that cost less than ~300 USD still have a headphone jack and microSD slot.

I've never understood spending more than that on a phone anyway, you can't exactly use all that processing power on a phone operating system. Unfortunately some of the bad features from expensive phones have been moving down to the cheaper ones, like the destroyed screen that's missing its corners and has a hole for the camera in it for some reason.

You don't even need to do a certain aesthetic to make your website fast. Just send your entire content in the HTML, instead of needing extra HTTP requests for JS and then more HTML before having all the stuff for your first render.

Why does a site even need a light/dark toggle, when you can just use prefers-color-scheme in CSS, and the user can select that in their browser settings?

(Also, technically, alternative stylesheets can be defined in HTML, except every browser except Firefox removed it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...)

One should avoid "smart" "app"-controlled products (especially when the functionality, network printing, already exists)

Also I think it's illegal to make a working printer.

I got stuck in an infinite loop.

Try opening HN -> it's down, better check HN to see everyone talking about a major website being down -> Try opening HN -> loop

I've reproduced issues with Unifont's glyphs being invisible in firefox and chrome (at different times, on what seems like certain versions), with much confusion. There are a few issues on the nixpkgs issue tracker about this, including one about Noto Color Emoji doing the same thing.

I love fonts...

> YouTubed simply deactivated their social features? No comments

Youtube already decides to mark some videos as "for kids" which disables a quite a few features such as comments (I guess that makes sense), the ability to add the video to a playlist (what???), notifications (why???)

> I wonder if allowing browsing without an account is compliant with the letter or the spirit of the law

Haven't read the law, but I don't think they considered this, since the most popular social media sites make it very hard or impossible to browse without an account. I guess with adult content bans they do consider this, since people don't tend to make an account there.

And a very similar fun fact: You can't browse facebook marketplace if you're logged into an under 18 account, but can without an account (at least here in Hungary).

Somehow, things are going to work better when you're not logged in...

That was also the title of the HN post, before it was changed.

My favourite thing about the "Copilot" branding is that Microsoft had to rename their existing Xbox feature named "Copilot": https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-profile/accessib...

Obviously so no one confuses their slop generator (which they want everyone to know about) with a (probably, I don't have an Xbox) useful feature.

I was thinking the same thing about people seemingly not knowing about Publisher.

And I always found those memes about photos moving around your text annoying, because that it literally what you want when making a document (you know, what Word is designed for) (but you can just change the behaviour if you want a different layout anyway).