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someguydaveon Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

This might be true but also ipadOS is a buggy mess and fails to even be a good walled garden

someguydaveon eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

I cited 47 usc 302 in the grandparent, to which you responded “no” ( i was in error about it coming from 1934, which I acknowledged in a child comment)

The 2021 and 2019 laws are relevant because the FCC said they expanded the FCC “authorization power” in 47 usc 302a to include covered entities and national security threats, not just regulation over electromagnetic compatibility issues

someguydaveon eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/302a

(b) Restrictions

No person shall manufacture, import, sell, offer for sale, or ship devices or home electronic equipment and systems, or use devices, which fail to comply with regulations promulgated pursuant to this section.

someguydaveon Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't

“We don’t know what dark matter is or how to directly measure it but this distant galaxy has none”

Ok then

someguydaveon Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

Why doesn’t Apple allow you to use native screen sharing to control other Macs on the iPad??? it is enraging

someguydaveon Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

Yeah, I’ve had a similar experience. Even the features of iPadOS that work are buggy. iPadOS is a nerfed buggy mess compared to macOS

someguydaveon eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

yeah the 2019 act begin this odyssey, and the authority to regulate electronics imports is 47 USC 302 when Congress gave up their power to write down specific laws about electronics to appointed bureaucrats at the FCC back in 1934.

someguydaveon I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

maybe he isn't malicious but he also doesn't seem to have a great deal of respect for the ownership and privacy of his customer's computers

someguydaveon I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

because why should my electric light scheduler be in the business of inspecting my passwords and furthermore involving third parties in inspecting my passwords?

someguydaveon eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

the FCC excludes regulating equipment that doesn't have a a clock above 9kHz but ebay doesn't know what that means

someguydaveon eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

unfortunately the US decided a century ago that electronics should be regulated federally

someguydaveon eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (47 USC 154 1601 ff) is one place, among others, that Congress gave the FCC the authority to make rules about importing and selling electronics

someguydaveon I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

interesting that the crux of the Nix dispute was about how he wanted to self-modify the HA after install, and the crux of the current dispute is how HA should be able to scan your secrets and upload truncated hashes

It's not a good look taken together

someguydaveon AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10

Ok good luck with taking that attitude to the marketplace

someguydaveon The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)

yeah by "illegal" i mean "there are many laws restricting who you are allowed to employ and with whom you are allowed to share nonpublic information"

someguydaveon Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague

Not only that but we have direct evidence from Fauci’s diary that his main concern was “modifying the narrative”

someguydaveon Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

I think it harms the ego of the government workers to think they are effectively of lower status than a random citizen who can ask for them to account for themselves

someguydaveon Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

I had the same experience. Museums really want to keep the pictures locked up. Profit and ego

someguydaveon The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)

This is because it is essentially illegal to work on proprietary VHF/UHF passive radar (you need a government license to talk about your work with foriegners) in the US due to itar laws

someguydaveon California is chasing wealth that has feet

Total Boomer Luxury Communism

someguydaveon RSA-896

kinda bearish for the data center rollouts if the spare compute can be used to solve math puzzles instead of training LLMs

someguydaveon There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

You can farm without knowing how crops work and drive without knowing how engines work

someguydaveon Killing with a car costs $1.6M, California requires drivers to carry $30K

If people can’t afford to pay for an accident then they should not be driving

someguydaveon Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?

Vagrancy is a crime in many places.

Vagrants and transients are often dangerous and mentally ill.

It is reasonable to use state violence to suppress crimes.

Using a metaphor about the control of dangerous animals being similar to the control of dangerous people is not extreme.

someguydaveon Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?

Why is this extreme?

someguydaveon A Beginner's Deep Dive Guide to Entra Passkeys

okay but on apple devices (for instance) I believe the private keys are stored in the icloud keychain, otherwise there would be no passkey portability between your apple devices