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Re:FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @07:39PM (#48999869)
I would say that there is no such thing as firmware targeted for regular consumers. Regular consumers do not know what firmware is.

I am still disappointed that there is no kindle sized hardware that this can run on, but I think that has to do with manufacturers rather than firmware developers.

None of them have asserted that export controls apply to whatever domestic distribution the administration says that never leaves the country.
I haven't done any math, but if you have individual users that can burn millions of tokens a day, then it does not take very many of them (at SaaS scale even limiting to power users) to hit trillions. And even fewer to run into problems specifically with time of use.
Re:Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:09PM (#48217386)
The IRS's fillable forms do a perfectly fine job of copying values around and doing the basic arithmetic that they can automate.
Re:Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust on Monday May 04, 2026 @11:06PM (#48017627)
The commit would look exactly like that if it was a 100% deterministic transpilation (like Golang did with their original C implementation?).

This is obviously very different from that, but the way the commit looks doesn't make it so.

Re:Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:34PM (#47968506)
Any car that can record audio in the cabin could have information about your sexual activity. Could also argue it based on location data.

Some laws require discussing very specific lists of categories of information they might have. I'm guessing this is a completionist CYA lawyer accounting for this.

Re:Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:28PM (#47968445)
No, that's "lane departure warning"
I'm thinking those prices are just for large sets of phone number ports/clones to get past 2fa on valuable accounts.
Re:Help Keep Thunderbird Alive on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:14PM (#47707333)
Yeah, and those amounts are much more common when organizations are pushing for users to make their donation a monthly recurring donation resulting in much smaller transactions.

I believe they use stripe and this would also include:

- subscription billing fee (up to 0.7%)

- currency exchange fees

- chargeback fees

- processing fees on refunded transactions

Re:Help Keep Thunderbird Alive on Thursday April 09, 2026 @10:05AM (#47703956)
Re:LittleSnitch for Linux on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @10:30PM (#47698670)
LS seems to not be claiming any security promise on Linux because it can't make any guarantees given eBPF limitations. But the entire purpose is different and there is very little overlap in my view. PiHole is entirely (I think?) just applying the blocklist made easy. LS allows you to build the blocklist in real time.

I would guess that to the extent the blocklists include things that are loaded by applications and not websites, they are almost entirely built by users of something like LittleSnitch or OpenSnitch. This is also entirely doable with wireshark logs, but I think that requires more infrastructure to build into usable lists.

Re:LittleSnitch for Linux on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @10:20PM (#47698619)
That seems... not correct?

The comment was asking about preventing a compromised supplier for the developers.

A supply chain attack can be anywhere in the supply chain to the target. If I, the end user, am the target, then a supply chain attack compromising the developer of LittleSnitch is effective.

I may then be a conduit to compromising other software or components, and would both I and LittleSnitch would be part of the supply chain that could be attacked targeting them.

Re:US Job Market Visualizer on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:48PM (#47402297)
This is in fact true (in the US at least), but part of why it is true is that people don't wash dishes the way they used to (with multiple bins of soapy + rinse water) and instead just run a bunch of hot water.

Modern high-efficiency dishwashers probably beat the most efficient humans now, but that's relatively recent and not a huge margin (and may not get the same results).

Re:Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:26AM (#47287926)
For those not aware, this is a specific feature available in Claude Code.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11932705-automated-se...

I believe they generally refer to themselves as open-core.
Re:Owners, not renters: Mozilla's open source AI strategy on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:11AM (#46602935)
Opera was also essential at this point, not in terms of market share, but of innovation in the browser space with features that would eventually spread to everything else.
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:14AM (#45968160)
Some of them do. There are very few products or services where all of them will.
I am blocked from this post.
This is still just moving the heat around, but with metamaterials you can now passively convert the heat energy into wavelengths that do not get absorbed by the atmosphere and beam a decent chunk of it back into space.
Re:Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025 on Friday October 10, 2025 @08:49AM (#45538399)
I didn't say it was clear, and I never said there was a defense. I implied that the wronged party in one case might want to be careful about raising the specter of liability or criminality.
Re:Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025 on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:50PM (#45532240)
If Andre doing that was criminal, it seems quite possible that their original takeover of the github organization was also criminal?

I have been waiting to hear if there would be any civil action on it since it's not at all clear they had any rights to do most of what they did.

Re:Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @03:09PM (#45507424)
Yeah. The temperature issue would have been my first guess.

Regarding concentrating solar: are people still trying to make that work for commercial generation? I thought this had generally failed to pan out for electricity generation.

But linkedin is doing so in accordance with the legal agreement you have with them, which I am able to exit at any time and instruct them to remove my data. I can't do this for every company that illegally (in many jurisdictions) hordes information about me.
Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:35PM (#45189558)
This is not the definition of a static site.
Re:Framework Making Printers on Thursday September 04, 2025 @08:36AM (#45126542)
Re:Use One Big Server (2022) on Monday September 01, 2025 @12:25PM (#45094078)
Linode was bought by Akamai. They immediately raised prices, and they have been, if anything, less reliable.
Re:Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification on Sunday August 31, 2025 @05:25PM (#45087239)
You've said this a couple times, but... it's not true?

Webauthn allows for software authenticators and there is nothing to stop you from transferring it complete with keys to someone else.

Re:The hype is the product on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @04:21PM (#44739065)
Only if you redefine "reasoning". This is something that the generative AI industry has succeeded in convincing many people of, but that doesn't mean everyone has to accede to that change.

It's true that something interesting is happening. GP did not dispute that. That doesn't make it reasoning, and many people still believe that words should have meaning in order to discuss things intelligently. Language is ultimately a living thing and will inevitably change. This usually involves people fighting the change and no one know ahead of time which side will win.

Re:Maru OS – Your phone is your PC on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @05:22PM (#44728402)
There are no new native apps, only Electron or similar.

This is only sort of sarcasm.

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