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arsome··on Audiobooks on Spotify
Sure, but I'd rather pay a 2% PayPal tax for that ability than a 30% Apple tax.
arsome··on Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS
But GPS is already so widely deployed and you can't really compete with free.
arsome··on Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS
I mean I think both directions here make sense: SpaceX doesn't want to invest engineering effort on this when they're not even profitable and there's no profitability to be seen from navigation, while researchers can do a little reverse engineering and make something workable without the need for that engineering investment.
arsome··on Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
We've had NFC, banking, etc on rooted phones and even on windows desktops loaded with malware for decades now. Clearly there's a tradeoff that can be made here and the banks still find it worthwhile to offer the extra features and save money on staff even if it occasionally causes fraud.
arsome··on OpenBSD 7.2
I think he meant the website, not the OS.
arsome··on IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
Did they ever fix the debugger situation in Binja? Looks like it's still in beta.

I really hated using Ghidra and Binja compared to IDA as I'm a bit reliant on dynamic RE for some purposes, while IDA is able to bridge the gap between static and dynamic without the need to break out x64dbg or similar.

arsome··on IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
They do have a free version of IDA, the problem is most people who use it want the decompiler these days and that costs big.

Looks like they've actually added the "cloud-based x64 decompiler" to the free offering now, so maybe if you're not working with 32-bit code and not working with anything too sensitive that could be of use.

arsome··on IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
Their debugger used to be pretty buggy, just after the 5.0 or 5.1 release I'd crash it on a regular basis. More recent versions have improved this though and they offer some really slick features in the debugger than other tools can't even do.
arsome··on IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
Interesting, I found Ghidras decompiler much less capable than IDA's. It generated incorrect or partial output far too often and the code generated was always extremely verbose, much less concise than IDA's, though this was shortly after the public release of Ghidra, things may have changed since.
arsome··on Californians may tax the rich more to subsidise electric cars
> why in the hell did we decide that your home, work, grocery store and gym should all be in segregated parts of town where the only way to get from one place to another is an expensive hunk of metal.

Because we decided to prioritize things like peace and quiet, distance from people and outdoor spaces for play, cooking and recreation above not leaving a tiny bubble for your whole life.

Living in tiny condos sucks and isn't for everyone, this is the tradeoff we've chosen.

That said, I'd much rather have my kids walk to school in a suburb than a dense urban area.

arsome··on Californians may tax the rich more to subsidise electric cars
It's a matter of preferences, I for one far prefer living as distant from people as possible, "stroads" as you call them are often the most convenient places to shop for anyone who doesn't wish to live in an urban center.
arsome··on Never trust a system that seems to be working
He doesn't even have a whole "getting cancelled" section on his Wikipedia page yet, can't be that bad.
arsome··on Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” Nature
Ah yes, truly an easy sell. Let's try telling that to the developing nations who's people are just getting access to clean water, electricity, refrigeration and transportation first.
arsome··on Post-pandemic, the battle between Uber and Lyft is looking more one-sided
Do you use a VOIP number by any chance?
arsome··on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
If it were just an increased risk of charge backs, surely they could just charge them higher fees and make it work out. Or tell them they have to eat all the chargebacks.
arsome··on Tillitis Key – Mullvad spin-off inspired by measured boot and DICE
No one wants to built it themselves until people actually want it, if your device is popular then your device is $2 on AliExpress/eBay and you have no part in that, look at Arduino for a good example.
arsome··on Software Engineering Code (of Ethics)
Seems trivial to argue that free social networks and even certain military actions are in the public interest. But that's the problem with something like this, it's just vague non-sense.
arsome··on Reddit's favorite products in one place
Not to mention Google results are so bad now that you'll frequently find the same sponsored blog spam review sites showing up, or worse, ones that just list top bought products from Amazon with affiliate links. 4-7 reviews sites will just get you more of the same unless you're looking for things like Consumer Reports, rtings, etc...
arsome··on mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting CAPTCHA system
The problem is that mCaptcha allows you to deny access to older, slower devices, but does nothing to deny access to bots. Which can likely run optimized implementations of the PoW which run hundreds of times faster than the web based version.
arsome··on Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
To be fair, Microsoft doesn't rely on the registry for complex configurations either, even IIS uses .config files.
arsome··on Fake Dog for Home Security
Unless you have a dog that's trained to attack, generally they're pretty docile with just a treat or two, might be good enough to stop opportunistic crimes though.
arsome··on RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative
Actually, yes, that's exactly what RustDesk does. Run the exe, get an ID and password, bypass all NATs, just like TeamViewer. After TeamViewer decided I was a commercial user for some unknown reason and started blocking my sessions, I've used it with less technical friends and family several times without any significant issues.

To compete in this space is its main purpose and I'd say it does a pretty good job.

arsome··on “No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels
The S for Selective actually means it only works on serotonin, compared with say, an SNRI, which works on both serotonin and norepinephrine. Impacting the overall values is in fact pretty much the only thing it does.
arsome··on Rocky Linux 9.0
The commercial support being offered is from 3rd parties, not from Rocky Linux itself.
arsome··on We can't check the app permissions on Google Play anymore
Google "solved" this by making storage access between apps no longer a thing:

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/11/privacy/stor...

3rd parties solved this with optional Storage Isolation:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=moe.shizuku.re...

arsome··on Amazon is intimidating and harassing organizing workers in Montreal
This. After my experiences at a union shop, I would never vote to unionize, seems to serve only to keep useless people around with management having to play hot potato with them as they're too hard to get rid of. Oh and as a bonus you get to pay for wasting half your day on useless people.
arsome··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
You already have to do it with cars, only a matter of time before these sorts of solutions start creeping in to other products.
arsome··on Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
They somehow managed to make the video player worse recently by removing quality selection and having only "auto" that drops down to 1 FPS 240p on a gigabit pipe with no issues anywhere else. Pretty impressive.
arsome··on Musikcube, a cross-platform, terminal-based library, player and server
It's an old school playlist management feature from the Amarok Era, it's for when you're thinking "this is the last song I'm listening to, but I do want to finish it". Once that song gets hit in your playlist, it'll automatically stop playback at the end of it.

And by playlist I more mean active queue. Making it sound complex but it's a very intuitive UI if you try it out.

The whole design of Amarok/Clementine is so far ahead of modern players like Spotify, just being able to browse songs off your play list while keeping your playlist visible would be nice, but stuff like "queue as next" vs "queue as last" is awesome. These days Electron UIs confuse me so much I'm not sure what I can even drag and drop.

arsome··on Map of Reddit
Why does rule 34 and most of the furry porn not fall onto porn island?
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