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digitalPhonix··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
> then it pushes a validation request to my phone and with FaceID I'm in.

That’s exactly what I don’t want though. I don’t want to be tied to a bank app that requires a non-rooted device/whatever other checks it does.

digitalPhonix··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
Chase allows both SMS and their app to be the 2nd factor; I dislike both of those options and would much rather TOTP
digitalPhonix··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
Which banks do you use? I’m looking to switch away from Chase (which does this).

It’s a surprisingly hard thing to search for online…

digitalPhonix··on Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds
> But it did look like an F-14

It absolutely did not. The RCS of an F-14 v/s an Airbus A300 is an order of magnitude different (probably 2 or 3 orders).

> There really was an F-14, just on the ground at an Iranian airbase

There was, but that’s a red herring for the root cause. Each ship’s radar independently and correctly identified and tracked the Airbus separate from the Mode 2 targets, but when communicating the track information between ships, the tracks were mixed up.

Source: The US Navy’s own account: https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/about-us/l...

> There was a combat camera team aboard the Vincennes, and the footage depicts considerable confusion and even ill-discipline amongst the crew (cheering, shouting, football game atmosphere) that contributed to one of the most tragic events in U.S. Navy history

digitalPhonix··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
Mercedes Drive Pilot (“SAE Level 3”) is certified on some very specific stretches of insterstate in California to not require the driver to be responsible.

https://www.mbusa.com/en/owners/manuals/drive-pilot

Requirements:

- Stop and go traffic (or less than 40mph?)

- On some specific sections of highway

- Driver doesn’t need to monitor but must be ready to take over with 15(?) seconds of the system requesting

> Mercedes-Benz is assuming liability for any crashes or incidents that occur while the autonomous system is active

digitalPhonix··on Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee
> When I was testing vehicles in 2019 I found that a bunch of them had lane keeping but they kind of "bounced" between the lines

That’s lane keep/lane assist; not lane centering. It’s supposed to bounce between the edges of the lane. (I guess, not supposed to, but that’s what it does as opposed to actually tracking some position in the lane).

The auto industry as a whole did a massive disservice not clearly differentiating “lane keep”/“lane assist” v/s “lane centering”. They are hugely different and trying to use lane keep to stay centered is really dangerous.

Same model car with different trim levels/packages would have lane keep or lane centering making it really confusing to consumers what they had and what safe usage would be.

digitalPhonix··on Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee
> It's... a car. You already pay a monthly fee

Eh? Insurance? Registration? Not a fee but ok, ongoing cost. That doesn’t justify more ongoing costs.

> FSD is in fact market leading.

The article and the discussion is about autopilot, not FSD.

digitalPhonix··on Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays
Mastodon really needs a better way to share/publish long form essays (or anything not tweet sized)
digitalPhonix··on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
> proposed above as a solution to public IPv4 address exhaustion.

It was not proposed as a solution (although, it would work). I'm pointing out that in networking many names are conflated/used generally against their specific definition. NAT/Firewall; Router/Access Point/Gateway; etc.

digitalPhonix··on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
It’s still conflating things. You can have a stateless NAT: device x.x.x.y will get outbound source ports rewritten to (orignal port) << 8 + y.

This is a (dumb) NAT but has no state so it cannot possibly implement a default deny or any firewall adjacent features.

digitalPhonix··on American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis
Is it?

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c0015.html

2025 deficit is not much smaller 2024 (looks within the normal year to year variance) and 2025’s deficit is still larger than 2023 and 2021.

Definitely not collapsing.

digitalPhonix··on GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '
What do you think it does better than 10?

There are plenty of things that Windows 11 does well, but for me they’re all things that 10 also did well.

Most of the things that annoy me in 11 however were not also in 10.

digitalPhonix··on It's a Weird Time to Be a Democrat in Silicon Valley
> The parade of prominent tech billionaires leaving California ahead of that date has been a sort of Rorschach test, with some delighting at the idea of them fleeing while others wonder what’s being lost in Silicon Valley

Have any companies announced leaving (or intent to)? Or is it just individuals with the implication that future things they start/fund won’t be in California (being the loss that the article’s referring to)?

digitalPhonix··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
> pejudice: an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge

(Or some such variation of “making an opinion before having information”)

It might be unfair but port11 made the opinion of not wanting to work with people after observing their behaviours so it is not prejudice.

digitalPhonix··on Google broke my heart
> The DMV is not a private company with enormous amounts of fraud/scam.

So it sounds like their policy of having a high bar for proving identity but still publicising what is required to meet that bar works for preventing fraud?

If anything, your argument is an indictment against Google.

digitalPhonix··on Logitech Options+ not working on macOS due to expired cert
> Will the app version change after the fix?

> No. The version number will remain the same

Huh? Why not bump the app version and make troubleshooting easier?

digitalPhonix··on Google broke my heart
That’s like saying the DMV won’t tell you how to prove your identity because if they did people would use that info to get fake driving licences
digitalPhonix··on Google broke my heart
> Anything that the author said in his emails could have just as easily been said by someone else who was trying to take down the content illegitimately

Ok, but then Google needs to say what would convince them that the author is who they say they are. The author asked multiple times how they prove they’re the real author and Google’s replies never even acknowledge the question.

digitalPhonix··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
> Asking where in the documentation is something is always tricky, specially because it usually means "I didn't read the documentation clearly". Also...

It’s not asking for documentation, it’s quite literally asking how to do something. There are links to documentation to prove that I read all the documentation I could (to preemptively ward off the question getting closed).

Yes, I deleted it because I solved the question myself, no need for it to exist as a closed question. How can I “Edit the question so it can be answered with facts and citations. You can edit the question or post a new one.”? The answer is quite literally facts (the message format) and citations which is what I was hoping to get from someone else answering.

I undeleted it so I could give this example.

> So, yeah, obviously you will be able to show that as example because you didn't give anyone the opportunity to look at it again.

What would looking at it again do? I had no idea it was being voted to close in the first place; I have no way to request a review; and the instructions for what to do to “fix” the questions make absolutely no sense so there’s nothing to change before it gets “looked at again”.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

digitalPhonix··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79530539/how-is-an-ssh-c...

Question: How is an SSH certificate added using the SSH agent protocol?

> Closed. This question is seeking recommendations for software libraries, tutorials, tools, books, or other off-site resources

digitalPhonix··on China drafts strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence
They might be the strictest but they still feel like they’re band-aids.

Why not explicitly make the service provider explicitly responsible for what the chatbot writes (as if it were a human employee)? That way the company’s incentive is to build meaningful guardrails instead of checking whatever boxes the bureaucrats come up with.

digitalPhonix··on Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
What’s wrong with provisioning the esim in advance then? Android and iOS both support loading many (8?) esims and swapping the active one(s)
digitalPhonix··on Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
It’s not just config though (unless you consider logic to be config). When you’re roaming, the sim applet has to generate a path back to its home network based on request/responses with the networks it can see and their partners (and their partners’ partners etc.)

It’s effectively multi-hop peer discovery and I don’t think you can encode the general case logic for it as just config.

Edit: as a (rather niche) example, FirstNet sims run a different applet to AT&T sims despite nominal running on the same network because they have special logic to use more networks if they are in an emergency area.

digitalPhonix··on Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
You can get the app and provision the esim in your home country, or use airport wifi?
digitalPhonix··on Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
It’s more complicated because it has to include logic about which network to connect to and how to tunnel back to the original provider (or partner) while roaming.

So it’s more like: which network to connect to, keys, fallback network selection logic and tunnel logic to get authorisation on a non-home network

digitalPhonix··on Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
> I think you're doing a disservice to newcomers by creating a new method of autocompletion

Or a feature to lock users into their tools?

digitalPhonix··on Microsoft to replace all C/C++ code with Rust
> Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’

A guiding metric on lines of code. How could this possibly go wrong?

digitalPhonix··on Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
There’s no info on what the AI does? Or where the AI runs? Or anything really?

Is it just Mozilla testing the waters with the announcement?

digitalPhonix··on How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
Yeah!

> "I scraped every single restaurant in Greater London"

How hard is that now? I assumed that Google is very protective of that data

digitalPhonix··on How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
> No one (yes, yes, I'm sure like 3 people) want a list of all results, unordered or ordered by something useless like name

That's not what the author was suggesting (or indeed, what they built). They were trying to untangle the positive feedback bias showing up first in the rankings gives.

I think there's probably a lot more to untangle, but as a first pass it's super cool!

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