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If he really wanted to troll Iran, he would change "strait of Hormuz" to "gay of Hormuz".

Dunno about type theory per se but I visited a Haskell-based company a while back, and they said 50% of the women they interviewed were trans. Not sure of the cause and effect relationship. I know of several male-at-the-time programmers who got interested in Haskell and then transitioned later.

I had to look it up, DLC is downloadable content.

The ‘Authenticated Transfer Protocol’, or AT Proto for short, is a very simple system at its core. A user signs up on a Personal Data Server (PDS) on which they’re given a data repository.

Ok this is some kind of web automation thing. Nothing to do with dialup modems where you say ATDT followed by the phone number, and so on.

Let us know how it goes!

The US federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour but that's ridiculously low and impossible to live on almost everywhere. States and cities can also have their own minimums. California is $16.90/hour and San Francisco (an expensive city in California) is $19.61/hour. Multiply the hourly amount by around 168 hours/month to get the monthly amount. But, if your BF has some kind of professional job in an expensive city, he will be making a lot more, at least $50/hour (100k/year), depending. To put this in context you basically can't get any decent rental housing in San Francisco for $2000/month for 1 person.

Is this like a real boyfriend or an online boyfriend? I wonder what he is thinking.

The one I linked is 12v but you can select other voltages with the pulldown. I mean you can order 6v, 9v, 12v etc. versions, not that they are programmable. There are programmable ones elsewhere, and also some that handle higher current.

This is pretty spammy. Those types of adapters have been around forever. You can get them from adafruit and probably aliexpress and so on. https://www.adafruit.com/product/6032

Is this some silly AI training question? 1000kg is the weight of 10 humans with some luggage for each of them, so transporting it by plane shouldn't cost drastically more than 10 passenger airfares. I mean come on. Plus you have to move it around by truck before and after the plane flight. Again no biggie. Clearing customs, who knows.

What are they going to do about upstreams that use it? Like the Linux kernel for example.

His real fury will be reserved for the worst of the apostate sects. The Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.

Source for this?

This is a start: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117140352254892456

The obsession with security chips is what allows Pixels and iPhones to be the most secure devices on the planet.

I remember the govt trying to muscle Apple into unlocking someone's iphone, til they suddenly stopped because they found Cellebrite could unlock it instead. There have been several new iphone generations since then but I haven't heard about govt muscling anytime recently. So I have to infer they can still unlock iphones. As for Pixels, this is in Dutch but very recent: https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6023856/drievoudige-moord-in-oosterhout-telefoon-van-verdachte-gekraakt

Machine translation of main paragraphs:

The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has unlocked the Google Pixel phone belonging to 29-year-old Veronica K., according to the prosecutor. "A large number of images of weapons and stacks of cash were found on her phone. There are also a large number of chat messages that can now be read." K. is alleged to have facilitated the murder by supporting the perpetrators.

The prosecutor expects to receive the first results from the NFI on Thursday. During the hearing, the prosecutor also said there is good reason to hope that the NFI will be able to unlock the Google Pixel phones belonging to the other two suspects as well.

So I think you're putting too much faith in this stuff. I will ask my crypto homies if they have any recent info about phone attacks though.

More relevantly, most secure devices AGAINST WHAT? You're talking about a locked phone attack which is the absolute least of most users' worries. The phone is so insecure in everyday use that the border patrol is near irrelevant. Plus users including paranoids like me don't have any opsec to speak of. When was the last time you crossed a border with an Android phone anyway? I don't think I've ever done that. Like most people I don't leave the country that often. Last time I did was before I switched to Android, IIRC. I might have had an analog or 2G flip phone or something. If I travel somewhere again it's not that big a deal to leave my Android phone at home, as I mentioned before.

Even in the border patrol picture, Graphene and TPM won't protect you from what used to be called rubber-hose cryptanalysis (xkcd.com/538). They're defending from the wrong threat.

Look, I understand the advantages of crypto hardware. I've programmed it and written simulators for it. But, the way to really keep cryptography in people's hands is to make it not require special hardware. Thus I'm skeptical that the government hates Graphene, but it really did hate PGP back in the day.

If I get to add new hardware to phones, TPM would be on my list but not at the top. First might be something like POCSAG (plus build out the pager network again) so you can receive text messages without transmitting anything or revealing your location. Second, third, etc. would be in a similar vein.

That's all very nice but not many of us are willing to buy a $1000 phone (or an obsolete Pixel) to get Graphene. They soon won't be able to run it on new Pixels, and also the stuff about AOSP updates stops mattering since AOSP itself is nearly dead. The obsession with security chips (fighting the seized phone attack while comparatively ignoring much more relevant threats) is another misplaced priority. It's the old notion of "fence post security", putting a 100 foot fence post in the middle of the desert expecting the attacker to try to climb over it instead of going around it.¹ And again, I'm amused at the idea of the US and Chinese governments allowing a Motorola (Lenovo) Graphene to be sold if it's really that secure.

We need a de-googled Android fork (maybe Lineage is that) on mass market phones using the hardware that those phones have. Otherwise we're acquiescing to the notion that Elon Musk deserves more privacy than Joe Schmoe when it should be the other way around.

¹ hpmor.com chapter 115.

You believe GrapheneOS is not able protect against Motorola?

Um yes? How do you protect against someone who literally controls the hardware?

Jellybean was Android 4.3. I think Android phones weren't really usable before that. But I didn't get one til much later. The Galaxy S3 originally came with 4.0 and later with 4.3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_III

No idea about your custom firmware ofc.

I have an old Android 2.1 music player (Archos 43) still kicking around. It's slow and the Android software is not very good.

I call dibs on my city being invaded by Hungary. I've visited there several times and it was great. Tell the invading troops to bring pálinka.

I think that isn't really a thing. Usually you would have a tape drive in a backup server for a network, and the backup server would have its own HDD, so you'd back up over the network to the HDD and then dump HDD to tape locally at close to the transfer speed of the disk. Higher capacity tapes have fast transfer and if your data source can't kee up, the tape has to start and stop all the time, which slows everything down and wears everything out.

"Some TB's" = single digits? Probably just back up to remote storage if you have enough network speed.

It's a large pot, yes, but not so big as to be hard to find or to consider custom fabrication. Web search found lots right away. Restaurants use them.

100 litres isn't that big. Mexican grocery stores (I mean big ones, not bodegas) around here have them. Look at restaurant supply places too. Or Amazon if you must.

Added: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=100l+steel+pot

finds a bunch.

Is this interesting? You can't really decrappify browsers without first decrappifying the web.