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867-5309 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android   9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
fn-mote · 3 days ago
> cracked versions of spotify/youtube/paid games

This doesn't make much sense to me.

To put the strongest face on it, by "cracked" youtube, you mean a version that shows the cracker's ads and maybe somehow generates extra clicks (or whatever) so they can get money out of it?

Cracked spotify? In my mind that's just like YouTube, almost entirely server-side. I guess you're talking about hijacking ads here, too? I feel like a "real" crack of Spotify would let you listen to music for free, but that should be impossible (unless their SWE's are incompetent).

867-5309 · 3 days ago
no, cracked as in the ad-free premium versions, without paying for them
867-5309 commented on NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/apress
unkeen · 4 days ago
> the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight

Now I feel the urge to dispute this!

867-5309 · 4 days ago
don't be so hard on yourself, there are plenty of low-calorie alternatives nowadays
867-5309 commented on Guid Smash   guidsmash.com... · Posted by u/nugzbunny
867-5309 · 12 days ago
please may all the death huggers go hug a tree. thanks
867-5309 commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act   bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox
storus · 17 days ago
Give me one example of a government-borking-resistant phone?
867-5309 · 16 days ago
tba
867-5309 commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act   bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox
storus · 17 days ago
An honest question - which devices can be used for secure communication if phones get government-borked for "children/foreign interference" purposes?
867-5309 · 17 days ago
an unborked phone
867-5309 commented on Learning basic electronics by building fireflies   a64.in/posts/learning-bas... · Posted by u/signa11
btbuildem · a month ago
> so I searched the web and found tinkercad.com has a circuit simulator where you can drag and drop all the components and see if and how it works. It worked for simple circuits, but for mine, the astable multivibrator, it didn’t for some reason. I tried falstad.com/circuit; the same thing happened. It also didn’t work. I searched the web for the reason, and I’ve noticed that sometimes these simulators don’t work well for complex circuits.

If anyone knows of a hobby-grade circuit design and simulation software (on macos! or online), I'd be so grateful to have it mentioned. I've tried kicad, diylc, fritzing, and a few other options, and nothing really "works". It's like the minds of people who created these are broken in a certain tragic way that just does not yield itself to making useable software.

The holy grail for me would be something that allows to design the electronic, then spatial aspects of circuits -- from testing the functionality, to making the board (and bonus points for stripboard support!)

867-5309 · a month ago
> astable multivibrator

come again?

867-5309 commented on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA   jonoalderson.com/conjectu... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
867-5309 · a month ago
Single-page Application
867-5309 commented on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)   quartr.com/insights/edge/... · Posted by u/bilekas
pavlov · a month ago
The credit card duopoly is another instance where the EU has done a good job with regulation, but everyone just takes it for granted until they’re reminded how much worse the rest of the world has it.

In the EU, card payment fees are capped at 0.2% for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards. In the US, these interchange fees are about 2%.

US businesses pay over $100 billion annually in these fees to card networks. If the fees were capped like in the EU, 85% of that money would stay with the businesses rather than feed the duopoly.

867-5309 · a month ago
that's only a very recent change, and not universally rolled out. for decades shops charged ~£3 "connection fee" for paying by credit card, no matter the purchase amount, and many still (probably illegally) enforce a minimum spend if paying by credit or debit card. like when paying or withdrawing money abroad, it's just a lottery as to the "fees" you'll be charged not because there are such fees, but because someone in the '70s created super advanced tech to detect usage outside the country of issuance, and everyone got used to that
867-5309 commented on Million Times Million   susam.net/million-times-m... · Posted by u/susam
867-5309 · 2 months ago
>imagine my disappointment when I left home for university, got access to computers and the World Wide Web, and discovered that the names I had learnt were off by several orders of magnitude

imagine discovering mega- giga- tera- then not mentioning them

867-5309 commented on What a Hacker Stole from Me   mynoise.net/blog.php... · Posted by u/wonger_
spankibalt · 2 months ago
And many fathers are useless.
867-5309 · 2 months ago
but all ewes are featherless

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