And now I wish for somebody to include this into their fictional universe. If any proffesional writer reads this, pay attention!

Removing a bunch of corn syrup from our diet can’t hurt us.

always ask:

1. How many people would have to be in on it?
2. How likely is it for everybody to keep the secret?

I feel like 3D is a different kind of medium. Directors used to shoot movies that look good on a 2D screen weren’t fully utilizing the possibilities of the new medium. However, shooting movies solely for being presented in 3D would not have been financially viable.

VR suffers from a similar problem. But thanks to lower costs, compared to a Hollywood movie, it’s possible to target the smaller market of VR users.

Only thing that’s disturbing is journalists thinking this type of headline is OK.

I feel like the opensuse is always on the outskirt when discussing distros, but their security reviews are often pretty brutal, in a good way.

I have a deep respect for them ever since they ripped a new one to the deepin devs / packagers.

So the google can spy on anyone’s phone calls without a consent (google screening), but if you want to record your own phone calls, there needs to be a mandatory warning. Makes total sense :D

edit: but at least this enables automatic call recording, not just a button, plus automatic deletion of old recordings. This is actually pretty useful.

I’ve patiently waited until the flashing guide for the roborock s8 was out, went to buy the s8 pro ultra, just to discover valetudo has dropped the support, because appearently a different version of the same robot was silently released, that would’ve been turned into a brick if I tried the installation procedure.

Now I have a dumb robot. It does like 95% of what I expect it to do, but I might at least solder an ep32 to the top buttons so that scheduling through the home assistant would be possible

Those are beautiful, but jesus christ on a unicycle, how did they end up supporting klarna? Offering people loans for a tea cup feels insulting.

Some people stuggle to learn a second language their entire lives. These badasses did it for a gig!

That sounds like a fancy speak for a Trusted Platform Module. Isn’t some kind of TPM mandatory to obtain a google certification for a new device?

The dawn of the 4G will forever be remembered as the time our civilization forgot how to make phones that can make phone calls. I feel embarrassed every time I randomly think about VoLTE.

“We think that the internet is real.”

• Peter Sunde

There’s no legal solution to a technological problem. Laws are always temporary, for better or worse.

people have stories how the dev is an ass

If an opensource project has an author who’s not a jerk, that’s when you get suspicious!

I once put my homelab rack outside of my apartment, in the hall. Then used it to catch a bastard who kept stealing my bike light, and later tried to snatch the whole bike.

Admins: ArtemZ

Forgot to switch from personal to work account? :D

you’re not going to have much luck convincing anyone.

Oh boy, how I wish you were right.

No way, I thought the thrill of browsing sketchy appstores to find the other half of the ACR phone was part of the fun.

For those out of the loop - ACR phone is a dialer app that does call recording. It’s distributed through the play store, but without the call recording part, because that would be against the ToS. Once installed, it instructs you to go find the other app that serves as an accessibility module with access to the microphone. And by that I mean ONLY your microphone. The other side of the call is recorded only as an echo of the speaker caught by your own mic.