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echoangle commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
CoastalCoder · 3 days ago
Yes, but in this case the restaurant was already empty of customers on most evenings.
echoangle · 3 days ago
So then it’s fine?
echoangle commented on LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis   labplot.org/... · Posted by u/turrini
ntxvega1975 · 3 days ago
I can't tell what license is applicable.
echoangle · 3 days ago
On https://labplot.org/frequently-asked-questions/ , under "Under what license is LabPlot released?", it says this:

> LabPlot is licensed under GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later, so to put it in a few sentences:

> You are free to use LabPlot, for any purpose

> You are free to distribute LabPlot

> You can study how LabPlot works and change it

> You can distribute changed versions of LabPlot

> In the last case you have the obligation to also publish the changed source code as GPL.

echoangle commented on Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move   neowin.net/news/hyundai-w... · Posted by u/duxup
OhMeadhbh · 8 days ago
I don't think the patch is hardware. The hardware they're talking about is the "Gameboy like device" that runs the exploit.
echoangle · 8 days ago
> The Verge now reports that Hyundai is offering a security patch for this issue through software and hardware upgrades to Ioniq 5 customers.

You do a hardware upgrade on the car to patch the vulnerability.

echoangle commented on I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer   drobinin.com/posts/how-i-... · Posted by u/valzevul
londons_explore · 9 days ago
Seems a stretch... What is special about that time?
echoangle · 9 days ago
If you truncate the current time to make it 8 digits long, every timestamp since the 2nd of February 2025 would return this result.
echoangle commented on Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches   theverge.com/news/759158/... · Posted by u/brandonb
brandonb · 11 days ago
Apple was in a patent dispute over this feature with Massimo. Their workaround is to calculate blood oxygen on the iPhone, using the sensors from Apple Watch.

The Apple Watch hardware is otherwise the same. The back of the watch shines light of a specific wavelength into your skin and measures the reflected light. Heart rate sensing uses green (525 nm) and infrared (850–940 nm) light; blood oxygen sensing added a red light at 660 nm in 2020.

The iPhone will now calculate the ratio of absorbed red to infrared light, then apply calibration constants from experimental data to estimate blood oxygen saturation.

More detailed writeup on how the technology works is here: https://www.empirical.health/metrics/oxygen/

echoangle · 11 days ago
Interesting that a small change like that is enough to not make it infringe the patent anymore. I guess you have to be really careful when writing patents to cover as much implementation variations as possible.
echoangle commented on Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court   malwarebytes.com/blog/new... · Posted by u/amarcheschi
HeavyStorm · 11 days ago
That's why in these cases you'd prefer a judgment without a jury. Technical cases like this will always confuse jurors, who can't be expected to understand details about sdk, data sharing, APIs etc.

On the other hand, in a number of highprofile tech cases, you can see judges learning and discussing engineering in a deeper level.

echoangle · 11 days ago
Is it easier for the prosecution to make the jury think Facebook is guilty or for Facebook to make the jury think they are not? I don’t see why one would be easier, except if the jury would be prejudiced against Facebook already. Or is it just luck who the jury sides with?
echoangle commented on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England   news.sky.com/story/facial... · Posted by u/amarcheschi
fastball · 11 days ago
The UK has been a surveillance state for a long time.

I've been the victim of property crime 4x in the UK, and 3 of those times the entire thing was caught on multiple CCTVs. But that didn't help me get my stuff back or prosecute criminals. The one time I did get my computer back was when the police raided a stash house (due to an anonymous tip, not surveillance) and found a treasure trove of stolen electronics, which included my computer.

But having cameras everywhere in London didn't help at all, so AFAICT they only exist to surveil you.

echoangle · 11 days ago
That’s fallacious, they could have a deterring effect and crime would be even worse without cameras.
echoangle commented on The Factory Timezone   data.iana.org/time-zones/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
throw0101a · 12 days ago
"settings.py" is your local configuration. The global default is still Chicago:

* https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/conf/globa...

echoangle · 12 days ago
settings.py is automatically generated when creating a new project and overrides this global default. If you create a new django project and run it, it uses UTC.
echoangle commented on Ashet Home Computer   ashet.computer/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
aa-jv · 12 days ago
By way of anecdotal counterpoint, I've got a teenage trainee apprentice working in my lab who can indeed read the RP2350 datasheet and describe what its doing and how to use it effectively in other applications.

I don't think things are as difficult to understand as you do - but then again, I grew up with 8-bit computers where it really was competitively important to understand how they worked - and I don't think the cyclomatic complexity of the Ashet is much greater than anything from that era.

echoangle · 12 days ago
Reading and applying the datasheet doesn't mean understanding the whole system. I don't even think a single employee of Raspberry Pi Foundation entirely understands the chip. It's a combination of IP cores and work of many different people, and probably too complex for a single person.
echoangle commented on Ashet Home Computer   ashet.computer/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
aa-jv · 12 days ago
The RP2350 is one hell of a tool, and I've seen it being used to solve some extremely thorny problems with great success.

So I'm pretty sure there are plenty of folks who understand whats going on, especially if they approach their study of the Ashet from the perspective of the RP2350.

Basically, its one hell of a swiss army knife for building computer systems.

echoangle · 12 days ago
I can solve thorny problems using Linux on a Laptop too, that doesn't mean I understand even 1% of the system. Even a relatively simple modern Microcontroller is so extremely complex that I don't think a single person could describe every aspect of it in detail.

u/echoangle

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