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Zak

@ Zak @lemmy.world

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  • I'll wait for those very good accident investigators to release a conclusion before I speculate too much about how it happened. Maybe they'll have a conclusive answer based on other evidence, but if they don't, it's easy to imagine how a video could have helped.

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  • I'll leave the implementation details to the experts, but I'm sure there is a suitable option for storing 24 hours of video that adds only a negligible amount to the cost of a quarter-billion dollar airplane like the 787.

  • Mouse recommendations

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  • I like my Logitech G604. This may be unhelpful since they're discontinued.

    My main selection criteria were:

    • Wireless
    • Standard-size field-replaceable battery
    • Both Bluetooth and dongle connectivity

    It's been a solid all-around mouse as well as having the feature set I wanted. The rubber that covers much of the upper surface is starting to degrade though.

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  • it would only make blame slightly easier

    If anything other than an intentional act by ones of the pilots is to blame, then that's pretty useful. If the switches malfunctioned or there's a way to actuate them accidentally, that's a design flaw in the aircraft.

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  • vastly increases the storage requirements

    A couple terabytes of SSDs is a trivial expense on a commercial aircraft in 2025.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • When I was about five years old, my parents were shopping for a car. When the radio said Brand X Dealer was the best place to buy a car, I was so excited to tell them what I'd just learned.

    I haven't forgiven advertising since.

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    RANT: MAGA is imploding. Stop turning defectors away.

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  • I just saw, probably on Lemmy The Far Right Contagion, offering the explanation that many of the people turning to far-right movements around the world don't necessarily hold far-right beliefs, and often oppose far-right policies. Instead, they feel abandoned by the current system and will align with nearly any movement promising to dismantle it.

    If another movement makes them feel heard and offers solutions to their problems, it's very likely to be able to redirect that momentum. Assuming it's a better movement (and it would be hard to do worse), that's a win for humanity. We won't get there by branding everyone who got sucked into a far-right movement as an enemy for life.

    That's not to suggest that any person is wrong to be angry at someone who voted to hurt them, but is holding on to that anger more important than a better future?

  • TSA ends shoes-off policy for US airport security screening

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  • I do think Trump's weird immunity to consequences (if this was fiction, I'd call it plot armor) is a factor in this. Everybody in authority had to know it was pointless security theater from the beginning, but being seen as reducing protection from terrorism in any way politically dangerous.

  • What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?

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  • A decade ago, I thought phone numbers would soon die out. Instead, the most popular messaging apps use them as identifiers and adoption of those in North America is poor.

  • Is social media an appropriate term to describe the logic of these applications? Or is it a term that obscures the logic of these applications?

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  • If by "these applications", you mean Lemmy and Lemmy-likes such as Piefed, I think "forum" or "message board" is a good classification. Some people might consider that a subcategory of social media, but I think many would argue they're separate categories.

  • Apple appeals EU's €500M fine over App Store payment restraints

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  • It's likely their priority is continuing to collect all the fees they can for as long as they can rather than the fine itself.

  • MAGA Couple: 'I Voted For Change, But I Didn't Vote For THIS Change'

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  • The cynical answer is she thought the would be spared because she's white.

    The straight answer is that Trump told people the country was being overrun by criminals and gang members whom he would deport. People who bought that story thought those who didn't fit that description would be safe.

  • Do you succumb to the urge to stop the microwave a few seconds before it actually stops ?

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  • It depends on how annoying a noise it will make if allowed to finish. I find it odd that the option to disable the beep on completion isn't common. There's rarely any urgency to remove what I just heated.

  • Do you succumb to the urge to stop the microwave a few seconds before it actually stops ?

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  • That's the best way to control a microwave.

    I remain fond of the analog knob myself.

  • ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it

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  • This is not one of the claims made by the ICEBlock developers; their claims are only to do with notifications.

    If you want to claim that a locked Android device is substantially easier for law enforcement to break in to than a locked iPhone, please cite up-to-date (from 2025) sources.

  • ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it

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  • It makes me suspect they’re not talking about the stock systems OEMs ship.

    The developers of GrapheneOS, an independent, security-oriented Android distribution are probably not only talking about stock OEM Android. What they're saying is true about stock OEM android though.

    That's a separate issue from whether users are forced to get all their software from a specific source, which is also separate from whether users will actually use other sources when given the option.

    On Android, developers can offer users a way to install an app that isn't easily traced to their identity and on iOS they can't. Furthermore, an Android app can be both on the Play store and available from other sources; there's no exclusivity.

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  • It's true that FCM will result in more reliability and a better UX than other ways to implement notifications. Doing something else is still the right choice for certain use cases, such as those where privacy or keeping the entire codebase open source are top priorities.

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  • Maybe they want that, but the statement on their website is not wrong on a technicality because it's oversimplified; it's wrong because it asserts a privacy difference between the two operating systems that does not exist.

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  • The link in the comment you're replying to says which part is not true, but since you seem more willing to comment than to click a link and read, I'll summarize:

    The part about the Apple Push Notification service requiring less information that can identify an individual user than Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging is not true. Both use a similar token system. Furthermore, it is possible to build android apps with notifications that do not use FCM.

  • Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up

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  • I think generating and sharing sexually explicit images of a person without their consent is abuse.

    That's distinct from generating an image that looks like CSAM without the involvement of any real child. While I find that disturbing, I'm morally uncomfortable criminalizing an act that has no victim.