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orclev

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  • Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts

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  • That's certainly part of it, but I'd use any mobile payment app, not just Googles one, but there's basically zero competition there. Some banks apparently had their own mobile payment support briefly, but it seems like just about every single one of them has removed that feature and replaced it with a wrapper around Google Pay.

  • Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts

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  • This is nice for Europe I guess, and I want to like the fairphone, but unfortunately it's not viable for me.

    Besides basic phone features and the ability to run Android apps I have 3 requirements, 2 of which the fairphone fails at. I need it to be usable in the US on my phone carrier. I need to be able to use Google Pay or another mobile payment alternative (that's accepted in most stores). Finally it needs to have at least a 48 hour battery life.

    Fairphone unfortunately doesn't work in the US with most carriers, and the one that kills not only it but all the de-googled phones, it doesn't support mobile payment of any kind. I've done a ton of research trying to find some kind of fix for that second point because I'd gladly use something like GrapheneOS if I could, but every time the answer I come to is it's just not possible.

  • Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs

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  • That is not even remotely why they added a tax on EVs. The reason they added the extra tax is because they make a ton of money by taxing gas and as EVs are gaining popularity they're starting to see their tax revenues plummet. There is a nugget of truth in that some of those tax revenues are used to pay for maintaining the roads and that EVs do still put wear and tear on the roads, but it's not that they're destroying roads any more than any other car does.

    If you're seeing a drop in road quality it's because your government isn't paying to have the roads maintained like they have in the past, not because there are more EVs driving around.

  • House shelves effort to impeach Trump over Iran strikes

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  • Already? I knew it wouldn't go anywhere but man that's the shortest attempt yet. I didn't think it was possible for them to disappoint me with my basement level expectations but they certainly have managed to do so.

  • Trump lashes out at Israel and Iran: 'They don't know what the f--- they're doing'

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  • Could have ended that sentence 4 words sooner and been just as accurate.

  • 2000 LGBTQ+ activists to lawmakers & civil society orgs that support Trump censorship bills: stay home from pride

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  • Pretty sure he meant intentional.

  • Al Green introduces article of impeachment against Trump

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  • If only that would do something. It's good he's at least going through the motions, but I'm doubtful this will do anything more than generate headlines. Then again maybe a miracle will occur and Trump will have pissed off enough Republicans to make this actually stick.

  • Trump says Iran and Israel agree to a ceasefire

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  • We've seen the way Israel does ceasefires and it looks an awful lot like Russian ceasefires. This is just Israel taking a timeout to restock ammunition and hoping for a good opportunity for a sneak attack. Also it's Trump saying it so who knows what if anything was actually agreed on. The only thing you can reliably count on Trump for is lies and grifting.

    The only way I could see Israel going for an actual ceasefire is if Iran has nukes or one of their backers makes a believable threat to drop a nuke on their behalf. Or maybe Israel did the math on what it would mean if their psycho buddy Trump actually dropped that nuke he's been salivating about on Iran and don't want to deal with nuclear fallout and the very real possibility that someone would nuke them as a freebie while chucking nukes at the US.

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    How can websites verify unique (IRL) identities?

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  • Safe and private? Nope absolutely impossible. If you don't care about privacy at all pretty much the only way to do it is to have your government issue you a unique hardware token and require that to access the internet and it shares your unique ID with the website. It's not 100% impossible to spoof an identity as you could borrow/steal someone elses token, but if they were secured with a pin/password or basic biometric it would become significantly harder.

  • AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic

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  • So I had this joke idea of "they'll just start showing the ads to the AIs", but the more I thought about it the more it started to sound less like a joke. Imagine if someone figured out how to cram ads into the AI training models and it skewed the outputs. Why astroturf when you can train the AIs to astroturf for you. This is some black mirror shit and now I've made myself a bit depressed.

  • AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic

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  • Less depressing example. A country (I think it was India but my memory is hazy and I'm too lazy to go google it right now) had a problem with a certain venomous snake. They decided to offer a bounty for every snake corpse brought to them. The goal was to incentivise people to hunt snakes. What actually happened was people started breeding the snakes to turn in for the bounties. They realized the program wasn't working and cancelled it at which point the breeders dumped their snakes into the wild making the whole situation even worse.

  • Mastodon: New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content

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  • So CAP theorem says you can have a distributed system with at most two of Consistent, Available, or Partition tolerant. I haven't looked too closely into the federation implementation of Mastodon but I suspect they opted for Available and Partition tolerant (as Consistent and Partition tolerant would mean the entire network goes down when one node does, while Consistent and Available would mean once any node lost contact with the network it could never again rejoin). Since consistency is not guaranteed (and provably can't be) there is absolutely no way to guarantee that deleting something from one instance will remove it from all instances even allowing for a very generous time span.

    TL;DR: You're not just right, you're mathematically right.

  • 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now

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  • Kind of both. The modern way of brute forcing is to just hash the 100,000 or so most common passwords, previously leaked passwords, and minor permutations of all of the above. It's computationally and space intensive, but for a determined attacker entirely doable on modern hardware. That's why complexity matters, because it's not a simple iteration through every possible permutation, but a targeted search through a known password list.

  • 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now

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  • Hashes can be brute forced, it's just normally too expensive to do so for any reasonably complex password. If you're using "password123" as your password even a hashed password is easily cracked (salting and peppering can help make this more difficult, although still not impossible).

  • Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers

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  • Crypto is not anonymous, the entire concept of how it works is to be the worlds most public and distributed transaction ledger. It is more difficult to track than credit card transactions, but that's a very big difference from being impossible to track. There have been multiple papers published at this point on how you can de-anonymize any crypto purchase.

    People really need to get over this idea that using crypto to buy things makes you anonymous.

  • Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China

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  • I don't think they're talking about the janky render. They're saying the published specs closely match the REVVL 7 Pro. The render as you point out is garbage and shouldn't be used for anything.

  • Microsoft Tests Removing Its Name From Bing Search Box

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  • Next time I need to explain what bikeshedding is I'm just going to point to this article.

  • Donald Trump responds to "No Kings" protests—"We're not a king"

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  • I was curious so I checked and apparently I beat you by one day. I wonder what the date distribution looks like around that time for people joining.

  • Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His Staff

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  • Man who voted for Leopards Eating Faces party devastated after leopard eats his face.