That’s pretty stupid. If the value drips, it’s no longer sufficient collateral.
It's collateral for their XAUt token, not the dollar one.
Readit Newsfunction_seven commented on Tether says it bought 27 tons of gold in fourth quarter finance.yahoo.com/news/te... · Posted by u/petethomas
It's not like companies have a choice. If they have a key in their possession and law enforcement gets an order for it, they have to provide it.
That only strengthens the parent point. Switch to an OS where this requirement doesn't come into play if you're worried about any governments having a backdoor into your own machine.
Yes. Like with Tuya devices (tasmota) or the WRT-54G two decades ago.
Only takes one person to create the new firmware. Everyone else can follow whatever steps are needed to use it.
You're excited about the prospect of repairing a manufacturer's faulty engineering at your own cost?
An analogy would be buying a new car then bragging to your friends that despite it being a lemon, you're thrilled because you can repair it yourself (at cost).
"Lemon" was never mentioned. That's extreme. I don't care what make and model of car you choose, I'll show you a list of TSBs associated with that model. There's never been a car produced that was perfectly engineered and had no after-sale issues common to that model and year. There's always something.
Yes, I would be thrilled to find a car that gave cheap and available replacement parts so I could remedy those issues later. That used to be the standard! The trend now is for automakers to keep juicing the proprietary software tools and one-off components, making repairability harder for the owner.
So, to rephrase your analogy: "[That's like] buying a new car then bragging to your friends ... that you're thrilled because you can repair it yourself (at cost)."
function_seven commented on The history of Casio watches casio.com/us/watches/50th... · Posted by u/qainsights
I was really surprised to find out that the F-91W was first released in 1989. I had assumed it was even older than that!
I wasn't too surprised to see their blurb leave out it's other (alleged!) known use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Usage_in_terrorism
function_seven commented on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/sandebert
Degradation has a generic meaning.
When you say enshittification, people know exactly what you mean.
Exactly. Degradation can occur for many reasons.
Enshittification is a deliberate kind of degradation to juice a metric.
That metric is never “customer satisfaction”
But, the obvious failure mode: you assume it locked automatically behind you, but how can you be guaranteed of this without checking? It seems to me at that point it's better to just lock it with a key, which guarantees it's locked.
I get a notification when the doors lock. I can also check the status of the lock in Home Assistant.
If for some reason the deadbolt jams, or the door was not actually locked, then I risk it for those few hours. It hasn't happened yet.
I have probably "manually" forgotten to lock my door more times than that. (e.g. Carrying items out to the car, I think I will go back for more, then I get distracted and leave instead.)
I never understood the smart lock. Some other connected appliances make sense - HVAC for example. But unlocking my door with a key is such a trivially easy, failure-proof thing to do, and every smart lock I've ever seen so riddled with failure modes, that it boggles my mind anyone would go through the cost and effort to install.
I love walking up to my front door and having it automatically unlock when I’m carrying groceries.
It’s also really nice to just leave the house and have it lock automatically behind me.
But I didn’t fall for cloud bullshit. It’s purely local and z-wave.
Are 3d printers allowed?
How about a soldering station?
Or a desktop scanning electron microscope?
All of those sound more reasonable than my Model M keyboard.
function_seven commented on What went wrong for Yahoo dfarq.homeip.net/what-wen... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Travis Kalanick of vibe-physics near-breakthroughs fame?
Ha! I don’t listen to the All In podcast, but I did see this: