sschueller

I can confirm the pigtails issue. They are a huge pain to strip for whatever reason. Even cheap ones from AliExpress work better.

They offer to provide you with personalized service and you block them? What do you do when you walk into a high end watch or clothing store?

FS provides account managers and they are very useful if you are working on a project as they can guide you and help you.

Same if you are coding, ask "Is it possible" not "How do I" as the second one will more quickly result in hallucinations when you are asking it for something that isn't possible.

Yes and that is a very bad thing for the rest of the world. Time for non-us companies especially ones not doing business in the US to migrate away.

Back 15-20 years ago we had many phones with keyboards. They had a purpose but Apple's profits made everyone envious and they started to copy what the leader was doing even thought for some users a keyboard make much more sense.

What make sense for all users would be a swap-able battery. Water-tightness is no longer and excuse with new phones likes foldables that aren't. Fun fact, Apple dumped the swap-able battery before the iPhone was waterproof.

The machine would need to reproduce the smell just like it reproduces what it sees on a screen. What the sensor "sees" isn't what our eye sees either.

I find it interesting that we seem to have mastered what the human eye can do and even go beyond it with like infrared but somehow we still can't build a chip that can "taste" or "smell".

Tesla is the one that started this and cost who knows how many lives. They are the ones who thought it would be great to re-invent the wheel and then when the moron execs at the other companies saw the hype they had to copy it.

Everyone was making fun of me in the 2000s for using a dark terminal and IDE...

> patent/license

Which are enforced by international agreements. At some point those don't matter anymore either and is also the point of the article.

Also Zeiss a Germany company is the only one that can make the optics required.

Trump just kidnapped a foreign leader which violates international AND US law. He is also threatening to do the same in Cuba, Mexico and Columbia as well as just taking Greenland.

At what point is it then necessary? The whole talk is about getting away from this.

ASML could also "brick" their machines running in the US.

That is no way the same thing, to reduce Ozempic side effects you need to eat healthier and exercise...

The most absurd thing I have read regarding this topic is people asking for advice on life style changes they can do in order to reduce the Ozempic side effects...

First of all you need to provide some proof because being against a genocide is not antisemitic. Hating Israel is not antisemitic even if Bibi wants you to believe that.

Second of all, what happened to free speech? In fact I can list several actual antisemites currently operating freely in the US political discourse who are gathering larger and larger audiences. Why aren't they being sanctioned?

Yes it does. But my device, my choice. If I put my cash the under my mattress instead of a safe that is my dumb decision.

That's Google's SafeNet. HSBC picked a level that causes this. Google manages the blacklist of apps.

We are rapidly losing our freedoms to the will of these companies. If they decide they don't want to they can even if the law doesn't forbid it.

People in Switzerland and the EU are being de-banked by local banks because of US pressure allowing them to force any bank that wants to use USD. The US has started to sanction people for free speech resulting in de-banking.

Swiss law requires one bank (Postfinance) to offer banking irregardless but if you are sanctioned you can't use the wire system, no other currencies, no credit cards and you cant use Twint either so it's in effect useless. You can't pay for your health insurance or rent.

Kind of proof that privatizing public infrastructure does not work without very tight regulations.

The profits and benefits in infrastructure go towards a state and are long term. A private company cannot increase their stock price on a 100 year goal and a countries GDP growth.

Pozidriv is also often misidentified as Philips when it is far superior if one uses the correct matching driver.

> It's the same reason you don't want Chinese equipment in your telecommunications infrastructure.

Hopefully now "Europe" will think before fire selling all of its hardware manufacturing companies to foreign firms.

Tell me you are a monopoly without telling me you are a monopoly.

How much longer until something is finally done? Do laws no longer apply in the US?

Ma Bell never got this far but I guess being a state owned entity was the actual problem not the consumers getting screwed.

It came out of a project that I did [1] from which I wanted to see what it takes to turn that into an actual product[2]. Hardware is a while other game than software especially in low quantity as you still need to deal with things like CE.

[1] https://sschueller.github.io/posts/vbz-fahrgastinformation/

[2] https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-...

I made a public transportation departure board (for Switzerland) for your home or business.

https://stationdisplay.com/

Let's hope cases like this will make companies think twice before doing a switcheroo the next time: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/open-lawsuit...

If you lookup the details about the decision to build and construction of Stuttgart 21[1] it's an insane mix of corruption, nepotism and incompetence. Partially also a result of laws changing and allowing privatisation of public infrastructure.

This satire [2] about it on German TV is 6 years old now and the project is still increasing in cost and being delayed. It's a pit without a bottom now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21

[2] https://youtu.be/V49b13fYFik

I find the BL-5J battery format and its siblings quite cool actually. They fit much better for some projects than a 18650 etc. I wish there where more standard sized batteries and PCB holder for batteries like the BL-5J. While I can get many 18650 battery holders for PCBs even surface mount I have not seen anything more compact.

Can we stop pretending Google and Apple don't already know exactly (probably down to the month) how old a phone user is?

Digital ID is not required...

If I were Disney I would want up front cash from OpenAI at this point.

It's not by choice.

I built the original android native client. Every so often I would get an update rejected from the play store because of the default instance content.

The app is currently still in a pending appeal because of a NSFW switch already for more than a year. I have abandoned it at this point.

https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android/issues/302#is...