pedroaraujo

It might be worth to switch to GrapheneOS if you have Pixel phones: https://grapheneos.org/

It is a more serious project than LineageOS in the sense that they take security very seriously and they take their development more professionally too. There are no disadvantages to using GrapheneOS compared to LineageOS.

You can see a comparison here: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Not to mention that they keep investing in things that people don't necessarily care about (like the crypto currency embedded in the app).

It is kind of beyond me why people would submit to monthly donations to a company which only care about its own interests.

I don't understand these kind of posts. Can't people just use a regular smartphone phone and _not_ install Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.?

There was a point in time (10 to 15 years ago) in which HN was actually a good forum to check out, you could learn a lot from the discussions here.

But then it grew massively. Nowadays, it is no better than classic Facebook comments or r/technology on Reddit.

I don't know why people just keep comparing the core protocol to the client. They can both be developed independently, in fact, you don't even need to use the official client, there are many open source alternatives.

If you think something is broken, you are free to contribute to a patch, the project is open source.

At this point, we are talking about a really high education of a certain language on a thread about a tool to help people going from zero to say basic sentences on another language.

They are two different things. I mean, I am sure that there are academics with superior knowledge than me on my own native language.

A 16 month course of 6 to 7 hours per day with a lot of exercise and you didn't learn the language at all?

I don't think Duolingo is a good solution but in your case you had all the opportunity to become fully fluent with that kind of regime, it starts to be your fault.

Absolutely, there has been a dramatic shift in the type of people who visit HN in the past years.

I used to think that Reddit was bad in this regard but to be honest it mostly affects the big subreddits, the niche and small ones still have a high quality community. HN became pretty much like the biggest subs on Reddit.

I know this is completely unrelated to the discussion but why is this not a blog post on their actual blog (https://en.cdprojektred.com/news/) instead of a print screen of a bunch of text?

But this doesn't grant remote access to your system, and it's not like Microsoft will start shipping replacements of core packages over this repo.

This feels like a huge overreaction.

"(...) every time an install of Raspberry Pi OS is updated it will ping a Microsoft server. Microsoft will know you're using Raspberry Pi OS/likely Raspberry Pi owner and your IP address."

How is this is an issue? It doesn't require any login and this is exactly what happens with every APT mirror.

I imagine that Raspberry Pi OS is an distro meant for people who simply want things to work out of the box, I can see why the Raspberry foundation would want to add repos for easy installation of the VSCode.

If you want tight control of what happens in your system, you are free to install any other distro you want.

The upvoted answer didn't really answer the OP.

I get that level 3 means that the device is able to detect physical tampering. But why would I need this if anyone can just plug the USB stick into any PC?

The amount of FUD that goes on HN related to hardware never ceases to amaze me.

Sometimes I find myself double checking if I am really on HN and not on Facebook.

This is slightly disappointing, I was expecting it to be some kind of case for the the Compute Module (or at least for the RPi4. I don't know if it's unrealistic, but it would be nice to have some sort of upgrade or repair possibilities.

Not to mention it is terrible for searching.

Honestly, I wouldn't trust the numbers reported by the Portugal, in particular the reported number of daily COVID-19 deaths, I feel the numbers are being misreported.

I have been closely following the progress of the situation in the country and the leadership is very messy and very clueless about the entire situation, both from the government and from the portuguese health agency in particular.

DDG results are okay until you need to look up something non computer science related, like results for your local country.

Let me just leave this here before the headline-readers start to scrutinize a "phantom decision".

- https://newsnowfinland.fi/politics/how-finlands-fake-four-da...

I know that people will frown at this for being Chinese but I really recommend Seafile:

- https://www.seafile.com/en/home/

It's pretty much an open-source version of Dropbox. It works incredibly well, you can host it yourself and does what you expect you to do.

I have the same problem, DDG seems to be sufficient but only for a niche of search results: mostly related to technology or technical searches or searches related to the US/websites in English.

As soon as you try to search something non technical or something local (non-US) the quality of search results drops significantly.

> This stated intention and rpi.org's actions are simply not isomorphic. If they want to make Raspberry Pi more open, firstly, why do they publish only abridged (read: fake) schematics?

Why do people tend to dismiss the openness of the RasperryPi with completely unrelated things? This is the classic case of Whataboutism[0].

Just because you can't replicate the entire product in your garage, it doesn't mean that it isn't quite open already.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Seafile is a wonderful Dropbox replacement:

- https://www.seafile.com/en/home/

Open-source and all. :)

The Tesla batteries installed in South Australia are not used for keeping the city running just with solar, they are there to optimize the load and routing of energy through the entire region, to avoid outages when during sudden spikes of electricity usage.

It's kind of ridiculous that Google is very active in shutting down legitimate apps like KDE Connect but paid clones of open source apps, or apps that promise to upgrade Android the version [1], are still happily up for download.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/b1ske7/stupid_apps...

Why are people so attached to XMPP?

There was no entity preventing XMPP from thriving, if the community really wanted XMPP, we would have had XMPP everywhere.

But honestly, as someone who ran and tried to use XMPP for many years, the entire protocol was an unmaintained divided mess. And the XEPs didn't help, they felt like hacky workarounds to keep an old protocol up-to-date with the modern needs.

Matrix feels very consistent, specially in the client side. I have all the modern features one could have wanted (E2E encryption, video and audio calls, file sharing, proper synchronization across multiple devices, etc) working out-of-the-box across all my devices. This was almost impossible to achieve with the XMPP clients existent nowadays.

But hosting full games is a different story than hosting apps. Not to mention that Steam offers more features, such as cloud saves and an entire social network.

> There are significant costs associated with the app store, no? Part of the reason users gravitate towards the iPhone is because you can download high quality apps without malware, viruses, etc.

That should be covered by the one time fee that developers pay to Apple in order to publish apps into the App Store. I am not sure if a simple binary needs a 30% cut of the entire Spotify profit to keep up with the costs of hosting an app there.

> Why? They've made the hardware. Why should they have to let Spotify run on it in the exact way Spotify wants? (You can Airplay Spotify to Homepod.)

Because Apple is using a completely different market, which they have a strong presence on, to increase the value of Apple Music and consequently devaluing any other competing music streaming services.

A 30% cut is something that Spotify needs to pay to Apple for every user that subscribes to Spotify through Apple devices. This cost doesn't doesn't exist for PC users, for example.

They probably could live with it but I can understand why it feels like an artificial cost that Apple came up with. It would be an understandable cost if they were selling the Spotify App through the App Store and using the actual store infrastructure for supporting Spotify... but they are not.

The app is nothing more than a portal to the entire Spotify infrastructure, it doesn't weight anything to Apple.

And then we have the subject of the direct competition, Apple Music doesn't need to have their profits cut in 30% because they are owned by Apple itself.

And it's even worse if they are using Siri, Homepad and Apple Watch to make Apple Music more appealing in comparison to Spotify.

Well, Skype works quite well nowadays, it's one of the most reliable voice services I use and the best part, it doesn't need a binary, it works out-of-the-box through the webpage.

1. Verilog requires semicolons almost everywhere. Can you point to a specific example?

2. Are we talking about Verilog or SystemVerilog? Verilog is not suitable for functional verification, people usually use SystemVerilog and methodologies like UVM for verification.

3. It's hard to tell what your college did exactly but it sounds like he over-engineer something himself.

You are talking about the advantages of Chisel for functional verification, not for hardware design, which was exactly the point I was trying to make.