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hosteur··on Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case
So basically fraud? I’m sure the responsible people are getting fired and fined/jailed.
hosteur··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
PWM?
hosteur··on Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
Indeed. My comment was meant as a guess on what they put in their watermark.
hosteur··on Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
EICAR?
hosteur··on How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?
Is it really unintelligible?

IANAL but my experience is that they are quite good at drafting various simple legal docs.

hosteur··on Bot traffic from Yandex
That’s a weird thing to be proud of
hosteur··on Spending on AI is becoming almost impossible for businesses to budget
What wins did you actually achieve this way? Could you share an example of such a long running prompt that struck gold?
hosteur··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Both are problems.
hosteur··on I said no and Apple said yes
IF this is true apple has done a horrible job at explaining what this is.
hosteur··on What Sun got wrong
> so they quickly add "that was for my assistant" to give way for pushing the number higher

I don’t understand what this means? I understand that they bumped the price. But I du not understand what is meant by it being for the assistant? Care to explain?

hosteur··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
Access to read sensitive files and access to internet could easily lead to data exposures on the internet, no? Without any terminal or shell access.
hosteur··on Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
You seem to be missing the point that’s being made here. Of course apple will word this very carefully. This does not matter in how people will interpret it. They will interpret it as certified real.
hosteur··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
Apple should not be allowed to have a monopoly on iCloud. They ought to be forced to have an open spec such that competitors could offer alternative cloud storage services.
hosteur··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
This! So many times have I hit one of the keys in the row above space. I think this might actually be caused by them resizing the hitbox because I am not that fat-fingered.
hosteur··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
> How can this be stopped, from a technical perspective?

It can't. Not realistically.

It can be stopped by legislation. But that would require politicians who have our interests as a priority rather than the various industries. So not going to happen anytime soon.

hosteur··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
I thought OpenAI famously used Azure due to their partnership with Microsoft?
hosteur··on Just bury your trash: What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
OT: I really like the aesthetics of this site.
hosteur··on Matrox: Graphics for Professionals
SAS Institute is another. 50 years this year. And the founder still owns it fully.
hosteur··on Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
How much RAM? And what do you use it for if I might ask?
hosteur··on Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
Why did it take so long?
hosteur··on Ask HN: Is this normal HN ranking?
Huh? Why?
hosteur··on What Even Are Microservices?
Remote log to syslog-ng?
hosteur··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Indeed. And a rare one at that.
hosteur··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
> There's just no trust in a country that is digitally totalitarian and hostile towards its own people.

Are you referring to USA, China or EU here?

hosteur··on Should a smartwatch track the user's emotions?
Hard no!
hosteur··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
In lots of modern office buildings you can’t.
hosteur··on A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
What do you find tricky?

Of course these decisions make sense for the business making them. That does not make it less unethical nor does it change the fact that what these decisions are doing is in fact making products/services worse and in turn making the world a worse place.

hosteur··on TinyRetroPad – Notepad.exe in pure asm – 2686 bytes
Dave Plummer's post on X: https://x.com/davepl1968/status/2071697469122257110

Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG91c7xsNMc&feature=youtu.be

hosteur··on Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
> Speeding things up is one of the ways to deal with it.

Making it a well-paid, high status job is another way to deal with it.

Not easy. Not cheap. Involves fixing quite a few incentive structures as well and weeding out corruption... Yeah, I guess you're right, speeding things up a bit at the cost of everyone's privacy and liberties is going to be what they go for.

hosteur··on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach
I am not sure what you are saying, really.

It is a tool that does one thing really well.

It is trivial to sync the password db. You can use whatever you prefer.

> "I have a working, synced password manager across my devices with good security practices."

Well, using Lastpass or any other third party to store your passwords was never good security practice.

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