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ycombinatrix··on Core Devices keeps stealing our work
>Core took Rebble’s work, added to it, and then paid us back by putting a more restrictive license on their contributions and wrapping a closed-source UI around it.

Is that legal?

ycombinatrix··on Apart from coding agents, what other category of agents are seeing scale?
web browsers are user agents
ycombinatrix··on Smore families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides
"Smore"?
ycombinatrix··on When stick figures fought
shame on nike
ycombinatrix··on Shinzo Abe killer's trial is exposing Unification Church in Japanese politics
Fun fact: mormonism is also big in Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_...

ycombinatrix··on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
>if I get a tourist sim card at an airport, I don't have to worry about taking out or losing my main sim

bold of you to assume we'll still have a sim card slots

ycombinatrix··on The AI bubble has reached its 'Fried chicken' phase
paywall
ycombinatrix··on Keep Android Open
Many of them are actually not bootloader locked.

iiuc the OG Verizon Pixel has an unlockable bootloader, but the operating system doesn't let you unlock it, meaning root access should allow unlocking the bootloader.

some devices have a legitimately locked bootloader, which means you're SOL.

ycombinatrix··on Keep Android Open
iiuc that is because malicious actors were buying phones in bulk, flashing them with backdoored/malicious operating systems, then re-selling them to people.
ycombinatrix··on Most expensive laptops
$9k for 64 gigs of RAM...fyi a single 64gb DDR5 SO-DIMM stick is only $200
ycombinatrix··on Bit banged 100 MBit/s Ethernet transmission on RPi Pico
Cool project.

>Warning: Do not connect to any POE capable equipment!

What's the deal with this? I thought POE hardware always needed to "detect" attached POE capable devices before sending power.

That being said, my ubiquiti POE switch somehow managed to brick the ethernet port on my 1st gen Nvidia Shield so maybe it isn't that safe...

ycombinatrix··on Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
You mean scroll down? That's when you hit the paywall.
ycombinatrix··on Desperate SF residents ask for help blocking autonomous cars from their street
Did you read the paper? Did you see the images? What are you talking about? The attacks would obviously not work on humans.
ycombinatrix··on How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
i'm gonna argue that video games can be better cost to value ratio.
ycombinatrix··on Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act
Arguing a case in front of SCOTUS still means something today?
ycombinatrix··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
That would make sense except they aren't doing any app reviews lol. They're just scanning your government ID. It is a farce.
ycombinatrix··on The world's first: WAYMO DDOS
50 people standing together on a street is the polar opposite of "distributed"
ycombinatrix··on Run Caddy Rootless and Distroless
Distroless is not actually "distroless" - it is debian with most of the stuff removed.

You want a scratch container, not distroless.

ycombinatrix··on Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere
Only if you allow it. This security patch doesn't affect that at all, so why is that relevant?
ycombinatrix··on Marc Benioff says he wants Trump to send National Guard to San Francisco
Uncle Ben is off his meds
ycombinatrix··on Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
Yikes.
ycombinatrix··on Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere
How on earth is this a "vulnerability"? It needed adb shell access.
ycombinatrix··on AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025
Avatar 2 was particularly egregious with the poor interpolation
ycombinatrix··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
840TB before or after configuring RAID?
ycombinatrix··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Guess they'll have to ask China for their backup.
ycombinatrix··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
All able bodied men don't become officers.
ycombinatrix··on Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App "Red Dot"
If star trek communicators were real, that would be a perfect use case to fill this void.
ycombinatrix··on Using Terraform in *Local* Dev for Reproducible, High-Fidelity Dev Environments
so they already had the environment working in docker-compose, then ported it to terraform for seemingly no reason
ycombinatrix··on Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)
>Security researchers who do something like test the security of a car without the permission of the car manufacturer (like in this post) are committing a felony.

citation needed

ycombinatrix··on Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App "Red Dot"
"developer verification" is gonna be rough
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