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taladar

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  • Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android

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  • Because, at least for now, the US has the greater power to fuck up our lives with the information gathered.

  • Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop

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  • I suppose you mean the same effect I have noticed with our younger apprentices who know very little about the way computers work anymore since they grew up with phones only, they don't even know what a file system is any more.

  • Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption

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  • Typically that is also the way you can use multiple accounts to unlock the same hard drive encryption. You just encrypt the actual key with each of the account passwords.

  • Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop

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  • Android is very much designed with every application in its own little silo that needs the permission of the OS vendor or something off-device (like a cloud service both apps access) to communicate with each other. This means, among other things, a very limited ability to do software development on the device and run your own applications, a very limited ability to automate applications, no chaining of workflows (e.g. read some sensor in one app, process the data in another, graph it in a third). You also generally don't have administrator/root access on the device and if you do get around that restriction a lot of the applications for things like banks will refuse to work. You can't properly control which data your device collects and where it sends it. Your ability to debug the behavior of your own applications and device is severely limited.

  • Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop

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  • , so if you have su access, that should give you all the power you need.

    Still won't save you from the complete isolation of the apps from each other, only allowing you to exchange data between them at the OS maker's generosity.

  • Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop

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  • Now the question is if people will be stupid enough to replace all the freedoms their desktop OS still gives them with the vendor controlled shit show that is mobile OS.

  • Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica

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  • Agreed, the US Supreme Court is entirely responsible if they receive more ridicule than respect these days.

  • Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica

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  • So certain lawsuits won't be possible anymore because advertisers don't like to be associated with that kind of content?

  • 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You

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  • [Your smartphone knows when] the phone is charging

    Out of all the things that someone tried to scare me into worrying about that must be one of the most ridiculous.

  • Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim

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  • The real questions is if that would make their statements be closer or further from reality. Historically they have been pretty good at talking about things that had very little relationship with reality already.

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    Is DOGE actually about collecting information to train AI for Musk products than saving money?

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  • Even without that track record, that was always going to happen. There is a reason why most privacy advocates consider the mere creation of centralized lists of aggregated data like that a very bad idea.

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • One other comment pointed me at one issue that might be a major difference. Is the code you generate in one of those ultra-verbose languages like Java where we had basically IDEs generating code from much shorter descriptions already 20 years ago? I could see LLMs doing well with those.

    I tend to try to generate code mostly in Rust or sometimes shell or config files or DSL for various programs and 99% of the time the code does not even come close to what I wanted it to do, mainly because it just hallucinates itself some library interfaces that do not exist.

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  • I don't know, asshole is a job that requires a lot of creativity in screwing people over.

  • Snapchat scraps ‘simple’ redesign as it loses users in North America

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  • Snapchat still exists?

  • Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica

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  • Yeah, but "some cases" is extremely vague. If it is indeed cached indefinitely under all circumstances I would expect changed passwords to never work at all.

    If it is just "some cases" it could be anything from the system using a stale cache just when it can not reach the online server (reasonable) over caches still being in some kind of TTL period to some sort of bug.

  • Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica

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  • So if I understand that correctly that cache is never updated again after it is initially created? Wouldn't that lead to a lot of issues when the online account has its password changed in terms of the new password not working too? Something seems to be missing from this article.

  • A new 3-D display lets you reach in and touch virtual objects

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  • Arriving soon on the hyperloop.

  • List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs

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  • it won’t look the way you expect it to when someone opens it up in Adobe which their company definitely has.

    That sounds like a problem between them and Adobe tbh

  • Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge

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  • Honestly, at this point I sort of wish there was a new technology that was as advanced and useful and revolutionary as the various hype-waves of the last few years have claimed, be it block chain, hyperloop or now AI. They all share in common that the hype just refuses to die because scammers love them even though their actual use cases are extremely limited.