Why is it wrong for US diplomats to advocate for a policy that clearly benefits US companies?
The data sovereignty initiatives have been massively promoted by US policy. All this advocacy will achieve is make the US look even less trustworthy.
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lloda commented on AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem github.com/kavishdevar/li... · Posted by u/moonleay
They don't report battery status to non-Apple devices. This is a pretty basic feature and without this I wouldn't consider them to perform "on par" with other Bluetooth headphones.
Not just non-Apple devices. I have a machine with older MacOS and the current Apple keyboard doesn't report battery status. I can't think of a reason why that would work differently from Apple's own older keyboards, but it does.
This looks fantastic. The only negative I see so far it is only monochrome passthrough. The full color passthrough on the Quest 3 is pretty killer, it sucks to go backwards on that.
I think the passthrough is more useful when there's a VR OS to take advantage of it (map your real room/hands/kb/screen onto VR, let you pin stuff, etc.) and I'm not sure Valve is even planning to do that, or anyone is on the Linux side of things (?)
We blame AI here but what's up with law enforcment that comes with loaded guns in hand and send someone to the ground and cuff him before actually doing any check?
That is the real issue.
Police force anywhere else in the world that know how to behave would have approched the student, have had a small chat with him, found out all he had in hands was a bag of doritos, maybe would have asked politely to see the content of his bag, explaining the search has been triggered by an autodetection system that may lead to occasional errors and wished him a good day.
Or they'd have looked at whatever images the system had used for its decision and see it was a false positive without having to send anyone over.
lloda commented on Why Is Python So Popular in 2025? blog.jetbrains.com/pychar... · Posted by u/rbanffy
> Python is never the best language to do it in, but is almost always the second-best language to do it in.
I've been writing python from the last century and this year is the first time I'm writing production quality python code, everything up to this point has been first cut prototypes or utility scripts.
The real reason why it has stuck to me while others came and went is because of the REPL-first attitude.
A question like
>>> 0.2 + 0.1 > 0.3
True
The REPL isn't just for the code you typed out, it does allow you to import and run your lib functions locally to verify a question you have.
It is not without its craziness with decorators, fancy inheritance[1] or operator precedence[2], but you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
[1] - __subclasshook__ is crazy, right?
[2] - you can abuse __ror__ like this https://notmysock.org/blog/hacks/pypes
Just about anything that has a repl has a better repl than Python.
lloda commented on Swiss voters back e-ID legislation admin.ch/gov/en/start/doc... · Posted by u/Davidbrcz
This is a surprising result. I wonder how they managed to convince people this was necessary.
There’s a real split in this debate, between people living in countries that have this and people living elsewhere. People who have used it are generally supportive, if they think about it at all. People who’ve never lived in a country with this are generally skeptical about the benefits and pessimistic about the downsides (privacy, mainly). HN being HN, is almost entirely in the latter camp regardless of where they live.
I would have expected the Swiss to be skeptical, and to some extent they were. This is the narrowest possible margin of victory. Still, it would be interesting to know what argument the Yes campaign used that resonated with > 50% of voters.
The main reason I voted against was because it is tied to smartphones with only the vaguest promise that it won't stay so. Ironically one of the arguments in favor was independence from megacorporations (or foreign countries for that matter). But you couldn't find this point in the main opposition website. The opposition was very weak with weak arguments and the parliament was massively in favor.
lloda commented on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) smallandroidphone.com/... · Posted by u/asimops
I think a squat format like 4:5 would be much more practical than 9:16 or whatever most phones are. It's unfortunate that's the format that's come to dominate, especially when you consider the rise of vertical video.