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gray_-_wolf··on Apple Silicon MacBook batteries can't be replaced under warranty by third party
Sure, as long as the employer does not give me the choice limited to win or mac. Which they often do.
gray_-_wolf··on Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)
Not a huge fan of C-x o. Always remap it to M-o. Dunno, maybe my workflow is just bad, but I switch windows a lot.
gray_-_wolf··on Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email
Not sure about globally, but on most mailing lists I read they are used quite often.
gray_-_wolf··on Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
With a prompt, asking for confirmation if I recall correctly...
gray_-_wolf··on Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director
> It’s not like giving them the source code would increase risk significantly

I like free software a lot, and do not know much about weapon development, but would not the software reveal a lot about capabilities of the weapon platform? The argument to keep the software private might not be motivated just by attempt to hide security holes, but also by desire to hide what the weapon can do, what are the operational limits, etc.

gray_-_wolf··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Yes, but it is often a sad reality of trying to run projects mainly written for glibc on musl. Not many people write portable C these days.
gray_-_wolf··on Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
Well for example golang builds offline just fine, which seems similar in scope? Runtime-based language targeting multiple architectures and operating systems.
gray_-_wolf··on A proposal to add signals to JavaScript
Maybe a stupid question, but isn't the memory released anyway when I close the tab? So why do memory leaks matter?
gray_-_wolf··on Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
Thanks for the information. It seems to contain only versions 8 and 9, so I guess what I said was valid only for the previous ones.

The repository looks promising, however the build.sh trying to reach to the internet during the build is disappointing. I would expect that to not help with having reproducible results. I need to look into how distributions approach this.

gray_-_wolf··on New Intermediate Certificates
> Please don't pin roots

So what would be the recommended way to protect against government MitM by using some obscure CA?

gray_-_wolf··on I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehut
I mostly read GNU mailing lists, and there mbox is offered https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/ . Linux seems to offer a git repositories with the messages, which is bit annoying, but script-able.

Well, it is not perfect, much still, the hassle is one-time, so meh.

gray_-_wolf··on I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehut
Right, how dare he, complaining about a paid service.
gray_-_wolf··on I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehut
Lot of mailing lists offer the option to download mbox with old messages. So you can just download those for months/years when you were not subscribed.
gray_-_wolf··on GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE
Because the pixel I got suffered from connectivity loss (even on official ROM, not a GrapheneOS problem) and I needed a reliable phone for holding on-calls. :/ It is a shame, I really liked the system.
gray_-_wolf··on GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE
As a former user: 1. Installation is easy, assuming your phone is supported, you can even install it via Chrome-based browser with regular USB cable. 2. Great for daily use, no crashes. Bank app might or might not work, depends on the bank.
gray_-_wolf··on European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU
I mean https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/ is a thing. Never tried it though.
gray_-_wolf··on Ask HN: Did you turn off Google activity tracking?
Yes, except youtube history. Not sure the turning off actually does anything.
gray_-_wolf··on S3 is files, but not a filesystem
Current limit is 5TB. The 5GB is for a single upload, you can hover do multipart upload to get up to the maximum size of 5TB.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/

gray_-_wolf··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
Tax evasion. Bribes (sorry, I meant lobbying). In case of self-driving cars, literally running over people.
gray_-_wolf··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
You still need a developer account and application to be signed by apple in order to be able to side load it. Whether that requirement is legal remains to be seen.
gray_-_wolf··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
Or, you know, they could just comply with our laws...
gray_-_wolf··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
People can and do go to the prison in many instances when companies are just fined for similar offense.
gray_-_wolf··on Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine?
Could you build an uber radar for detecting the planet, possibly working together with the radiotelescopes we already have? Given the article, it should be ~150 light hours from sun, which round trip time wise sounds doable.
gray_-_wolf··on TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America
> As a very reliable partner, Japan works fine for this purpose.

It is pretty close to China, so in case of a war, it is not exactly great location (from US point of view).

gray_-_wolf··on Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
The motorola android I have has phone recording in the stock phonecall app, so I just use that.
gray_-_wolf··on Context Control in Go
I always thought that context should just be a goroutine local thing always available, automatically inherited when `go` is executed (obviously with the option to set an explicit one).
gray_-_wolf··on 'Mr Bean' actor Rowan Atkinson blamed for slumping electric car sale in the UK
That seems like fairly sober look at the issue. Interesting read.
gray_-_wolf··on MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
> In EU

Definitely not everywhere in the EU. My Yaris has flat mirrors.

gray_-_wolf··on IPTV Anti-Piracy Threats May Increase Male Motivation to Pirate by 30%
(For me) mpv is faster. I had videos that vlc could not play without stutter (on my CPU) but mpv had no issues. Just layman's observation.
gray_-_wolf··on IPTV Anti-Piracy Threats May Increase Male Motivation to Pirate by 30%
> Price/GB is probably the most important metric to consider,

Sooner or later you will start hitting the physical space limit of the computer case. So if one wants to stick to "single PC" setup, it might be worth just picking the largest disks available, event if slightly more expensive per GB.

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