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OJFordon GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

Is the Motorola partnership that they're ensuring support in the phone, and helping the port with docs/support perhaps, or is it even actually shipping with GrapheneOS?

OJFordon Monzo Stand-In

I've never talked to someone for it, and I would've first done it in something like 2008. (It's 'always' been done by SMS, well before 'apps' that might let you (and I don't recall it on websites).)

OJFordon 507 Mechanical Movements

Passim: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=507movements.com

OJFordon How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

Sorry, I was referring to your first paragraph, about someone new coming along and caring about metrics retroactively not previously cared about.

My point being that by proposing the solution 'so we should care about them, in case that happens' you effectively are (or are equivalent to) that person, you're making it happen sooner (and for sure).

OJFordon The August 17 outage

No doubt. ...You can have non-zero revenue and still be loss-making though.

OJFordon US debt tops $40T as Treasury doubles bond buybacks to calm markets

Read it not as 'may not be', but 'nothing shall be done that should give cause to'.

OJFordon The August 17 outage

> I suspect that Microsoft would even prefer to have Github operate at a loss,

I assumed it does, do you know that it doesn't?

OJFordon The city of Cupertino is 70.9% Asian. A new TV show set there ignores this

> Expecting media to keep up with the exact demographics of the USA when the rate of change is so drastic, is a pretty high bar.

They don't have to 'keep up with' it all the time though, is 'do your research' and 'maybe visit the place' for the show you're writing about 'a pretty high bar'?

(I'm not even sure I agree it's important to reflect, or at least not that it's always necessarily required, but I certainly don't think it being difficult is the reason not to, because I don't see how it is.)

OJFordon Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

It's not a moat, or much of a barrier because you can literally just rename it, but it is 'good' marketing/branding. People talking about CLAUDE.md is much better for Anthropic than people talking about AGENTS.md.

OJFordon fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.

Didn't Anthropic stop allowing it, can only use the subscriptions with first-party tools?

OJFordon Japan's Gen X workers are struggling

Also an aging population problem I believe though right? So if nothing else changed, today might not be the 'worst' it could get, with lower GDP and increased health and social care costs.

OJFordon Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

I can't see them doing anything that stops homebrew working.

OJFordon How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Probably, but to the extent that was at all a problem to begin with, multiply it by another 0.0001 or whatever for the threat of the screenshot being taken mid switch away!

OJFordon St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/...

Event 58408, 'manual reactor trip'.

OJFordon Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf]

R&D productivity. Pretty sure they claim more for e.g. Claude Code.

OJFordon Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

Because the PM technically isn't anything but the leader the majority party has chosen for itself, they don't even have to be an MP.

This is muddied a bit in modern times with press and overseas engagements and higher salaries for PMs than MPs.

OJFordon Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf

I'm also in the UK, and yes, around 4 whole where no one of them cut up would fit in the tin.

(49p is a cheap tin though, and I'm not sure Aldi has a fish counter? Observation conducted at Waitrose with £1 tins and 3 by weight for 80p.)

OJFordon Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf

Tinned sardines are convenient for toast, but if you want to cook with them it's crazy how much more you get your money from the fish counter.

OJFordon London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

> You describe mobile handheld scanners

Aka 'my phone', but yes. It's the same self-checkout machine (just only need to pay if you already scanned). Widespread in the UK at least.

OJFordon London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

I scan and bag while I shop, so self-checkout is just paying. It's barely a shift of work from cashier to me, because I have to pick things up and place them in my bag/basket/trolley anyway, scanning them as I do is barely an increase in work.

OJFordon Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

Do you mean Atish Joygobin, for the background music?

OJFordon My server is a phone now

I doubt it was OP's goal. Commenter I responded to on the other hand said that the original was more 'attention grabbing' than my clarifying amendment, and that's what I said ought not be the goal.

OJFordon My server is a phone now

The goal as a blog author should not be to grab attention and mislead readers into starting your article only to realise it's not what they expected and were interested in.

OJFordon My server is a phone now

I actually think it's just a poor title, "my server runs on a phone now" would be better.

As it is, I expected the server to now have a modem, to be operating as a phone.

OJFordon Fastmail offers EU data region

But whose cloud infrastructure do they use? (I don't know, but it might likely be AWS, GCP, or Azure.)

OJFordon Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day

I'd have expected an email too, but surely 'preorder accepted' acknowledges the payment?

OJFordon 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

I didn't say anything about USB? If you're referring to upthread wanting RAM to be standardised like USB (not standardised on something like USB), I took that to mean backwards compatible slots. (And maybe handicapped forwards compatibility, though why would you.) M.2/PCIe is this way.

OJFordon The Golden Age of British Ice Cream

Sure, but it's not the only reason to use them, you can improve mouth feel and prevent melting even if the fat content's higher.

I'm struggling to prove a point because Waitrose doesn't seem to have any as high as 18% (the highest at 15-16% being own label & YeoValley, notably both using egg) – the more expensive brands like are lower fat and do have LBG/guar.

Also bear in mind low-fat can be a goal itself, or vegan compatibility.

OJFordon 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

Yeah but DDR3 was faster then and still is now - I can't imagine my M4 Mac having a slightly older version RAM would meaningfully affect me, but another 24GB of it (or whatever I have) would certainly be an improvement.

CPUs have L1, L2, L3+ caches too after all.

OJFordon Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

It's not wrong for all food, surface temperature measurement has its place, you just have to understand it is surface measurement.