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ibeffon GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources

That's not helpful without context and substance.

ibeffon How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

> China will have the robot-operated factories, not the US. What do you anticipate the US will do to obtain goods from those Chinese factories?

Why not let the market take care of it? It's cheaper to buy things from China then make them yourself. When that changes, production will naturally move to the next best place. I don't see the issue.

ibeffon Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software

No reasonable person interprets the original comment as someone not knowing about the existence of a LAN, hence snark.

ibeffon Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software

> I'm kinda surprised you've managed to be on HN for 5 years and never come across the concept of a "LAN" or "VPN" before

Unnecessary snark.

ibeffon Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market

the berlin hackerspace scene would not allow police at their events

ibeffon GrapheneOS blocked exploitation of 3 Android zero-days used by Cellebrite

Do you have a source that iOS Lockdown Mode protects against Cellebrite? Because Cellebrite boasts they can extract data from latest iOS versions and does not even mention Lockdown Mode as an obstacle in their documentation: https://stacker.news/items/617666

Meanwhile, Cellebrite is unabe to extract data from newer Pixel phones with GrapheneOS: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14344-cellebrite-premium-ju...

ibeffon Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)

I can't tell if you're intentionally misrepresenting what I said. I said we can tell with certainty "how likely or unlikely" something is, i.e. we can precisely calculate the probability.

ibeffon Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)

Right but we have the tools to rule that out. That's what the field of statistics deals with. It tells you with mathematical certainty how likely or unlikely the correlation you're observing is to be random.

ibeffon Perplexity Deep Research

That's what I did. It came up with smart-sounding but infeasible recommendations because it took all sources it found online at face value without considering who authored them for what reason. And it lacked a massive amount of background knowledge to evaluate the claims made in the sources. It took outlandish, utopian demands by some activists in my field and sold them to me as things that might plausibly be implemented in the near future.

Real research needs several more levels of depth of contextual knowledge than the model is currently doing for any prompt. There is so much background information that people working in my field know. The model would have to first spend a ton of time taking in everything there is to know about the field and several related fields and then correlate the sources it found for the specific prompt with all of that.

At the current stage, this is not deep research but research that is remarkably shallow.

ibeffon Perplexity Deep Research

I'm getting about 1 minute responses, did you turn on the Deep Research option below the prompt?

ibeffon Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review

That's what the author deals with in the first part of the article on observational studies. Randomized studies don't have that problem.

ibeffon I've acquired a new superpower

There's dozens of us!

ibeffon Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers

If you believe that Microsoft is stealing Recall data behind its users' backs do you also believe Microsoft is stealing any or all of the files stored on Windows devices belonging to billions of personal and business users? If Microsoft isn't doing that could it be because that would be suicidal from a business perspective?

ibeffon European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware

Let's hope the photosensor processing software on the receiving end doesn't have any bugs that could be exploited.

ibeffon Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?

It's not a diagram or mock-up, it's a direct representation of the real thing for computer simulations, similar to CAD. The dimensions and shape of the components are accurate. And the author is calling it a logo because the picture is used to represent and advertise the software.

ibeffon Can solar costs keep shrinking?

I wish JUST ONE PERSON in the comments would read the gosh darn article.

ibeffon Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

"Let me throw shade on this open source project that does incredibly ambitious thing X and that tons of people are devoting lots of time to, by suggesting they should instead do this other esoteric thing Y that 99% of users don't care about but that I, the entitled power user, think they should be doing instead."

ibeffon Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks

lol

ibeffon C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading

The structure and tone of this text reeks of LLM.

ibeffon Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy

Banks don't care if it's "cheaper than" some other form of power generation, they care that profitability is safe over a very long time span. If power prices crash 5 or 10 years from now because of renewables overcapacity (which is already happening regionally on sunny days with solar), profitability is gone.

ibeffon Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

This has the same CPU and twice the RAM and storage for $220:

https://www.amazon.com/CUBOT-Tablet-10-4-inch-Android13-Tabl...

So that's a $500 premium for the new display and less RAM and storage.