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travoc··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
It’s reasonable to like to hack things, but to want a phone that just works.
travoc··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
Look at this tyrant trying to ban popular ideas that he doesn’t like.
travoc··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
The US still generally has freedom of speech and association. We don’t ban political parties from organizing, nor do we tell voters who they cannot vote for.
travoc··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
“party is actively working, in a combative and aggressive manner, to damage or destroy the democratic constitutional system in Germany”

You declared it, so it must be true.

travoc··on CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks
CFPB is inherently political, like all government agencies. Of course it ignored the debanking issue. CFPB was just serving its current masters.
travoc··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
ACA literally forced every person in the US to become a customer of health insurance companies.
travoc··on France's tax agency got hacked (in French)
We have a certain degree of financial privacy rights in the rest of the world.
travoc··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
It automatically saves and reopens whatever you previously pasted in there. Quite a shock the first few times it happens. It's not a safe temporary holding area anymore.
travoc··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Marketing turds can't just block registrations from all of @icloud.com.
travoc··on Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
Wrong and defamatory. Ouch for your wallet.
travoc··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
If only they could make an engine or transmission that doesn't blow up at 80,000 miles.
travoc··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
Increased demand will not drive down energy costs.
travoc··on Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2
AdGuard DNS servers are excellent.
travoc··on Nobody gets promoted for simplicity
So nobody can ever hire someone better at particular skills than they are? Oh boy.
travoc··on Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
"luckily all my projects are now EOL as I am retired."

I doubt that everything you ever worked on is end-of-life. Some of it is still out there...

travoc··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
Your short form comment is in violation of EU Directive 20.29A. Agents have been dispatched to your home to collect your devices.
travoc··on Crews claim Boring Company failed to pay workers and snubbed OSHA concerns
Which transit effort did they derail in Nashville? There was nothing on the horizon.
travoc··on iPhone Pocket
Who is “we?” Why are you preventing women from having pockets? I’m certainly not.
travoc··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
ASUS routers with Merlin firmware work well in a mesh configuration.
travoc··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
What does that have to do with H1B engineers, who typically end up writing crud apps for banks?.
travoc··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Who else is going to pretend to rewrite my ancient CRUD apps?
travoc··on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
Wikipedia eventually failed.
travoc··on Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
FYI calling something "asinine" is not an argument.
travoc··on Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video]
The middle of the lane is where cars drip years of oil and coolant.
travoc··on Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or other health conditions
It’s the whole “forced to take them by the government” that scares them. Ridiculous, since governments have always been trustworthy.
travoc··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
Really? I turned off the crypto buttons once several years ago and it’s been just fine since.
travoc··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
Most P2P tools work in a way where you cannot download without simultaneously uploading.
travoc··on The New York Stock Exchange to Launch NYSE Texas
It’s cute that you think stock exchanges are only used by people who live in that city.
travoc··on An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1
It's ok, they'll know it when they see it. Keep trying.
travoc··on Apple squandered the Holy Grail
You cannot install any apps on an iOS device without registering and logging in with an AppleID, which requires both an email address and a telephone number.
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