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simon1573··on Jailbreaking Used Teslas
I don't agree with the analogy. Tesla manufacturers the whole package and you buy the car as a package. You don't buy the metal from your local car dealer and the software as a separate thing from Tesla.

A more fitting analogy would be Apple charging you to upgrade your BIOS.

simon1573··on HomePod Mini
Please note that is is a blog post and not an "actual" Forbes article.
simon1573··on Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says
Sand is starting to get scarce. https://www.businessinsider.com/global-sand-shortage-could-c...
simon1573··on Split Keyboard for Professionals
I was under the impression that UHK uses a common "phone cable", at least common here in the north?
simon1573··on I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm
They are handled equally. Both prompts whenever they want to access your photos.
simon1573··on Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list
What do you consider very important titles?
simon1573··on EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation
Worth noting that Forbes.com/sites/ are basically blog posts and not the same as de-facto Forbes.com
simon1573··on Ask HN: Technical Programming/Science Podcasts?
Go Time is a great podcast if you are in to Golang
simon1573··on Self-Hosted Homelab Website
Could you expand on this? My SO is about to kick out my home lab due to noise, so lowering the fans RPM would be amazing!
simon1573··on Show HN: Jumpfiles – get more done with fewer keystrokes
I have been using this since last it featured at the frontpage. It's great for jumping to different projects etc.
simon1573··on Show HN: I parsed the entire en.wikipedia for events, time and location
Open Sourcing it would move the judgement of what is interesting or not from you alone to the whole community.
simon1573··on Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
Keybase.io has support for git repos. Highly recommended!
simon1573··on $50 Odroid-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic S905X3 SoC with 4GB RAM
How well would this hold up as an HTPC? Any reasons to avoid it?
simon1573··on Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
Sweden too, but government "only" pays 60% IIRC. Employer pays the rest but there has also been some ease on how much tax an employer has to pay for each employee.
simon1573··on Show HN: A tool that finds high quality freelance gigs, using robots and humans
Same in Firefox: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.leads.breef.io/. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).
simon1573··on Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams
I'm doing that :) https://imgur.com/a/fige6hf
simon1573··on Ask HN: Have you been laid off?
I lost my contractor assignment this morning. It seems like companies here in Sweden are preparing for tougher times ahead.
simon1573··on DefaultApp
Does something similar exist for, lets say, iOS or Android? A good foundation to build upon.
simon1573··on Ask HN: What do you automate in your life and work?
> Download and parse Ngnix web-logs every day, extract notable events

Would you mind expanding on this? Sounds interesting

simon1573··on Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
This. I got my Sony license for $50.
simon1573··on Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
Is Pandoras Star worth the effort?
simon1573··on Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
One could speculate in whether that is a conscious decision, since it would weaken the illusion that only Windows gets malware.
simon1573··on Show HN: All Clear Weather – creating new live weather datasets with ML
Looking forward to a global release! Best of lucks :-)
simon1573··on Show HN: Available two-letter domains
Nice. Would it be possible to add the ability to sort by price?
simon1573··on Show HN: Flash – Speed Reading Web App Made with React/Next.js
What license is the code released under?
simon1573··on My favorite apps on F-Droid
I've gone over to SoundWaves, which is also on F-Droid.
simon1573··on IPVanish “No-Logging” VPN Led Homeland Security to Comcast User
But Mullvad is not an ISP.
simon1573··on Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app
How does this compare to Franz? https://github.com/meetfranz/franz
simon1573··on It looks like rclone has been banned on Amazon Cloud Drive
rclone is the sole reason for why went with ACD. Let's hope it's just a hick up. Could it be related to the "I can see other people's files"-issue?
simon1573··on Ask HN: What is your company's policy regarding side-projects?
I work at as an IT consultant (developer) and the general policy seems to be that everything that you develop using their hardware belongs to the company. There are no explicit rules regarding side-projects on your own time and hardware though.
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