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meltyness commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

bandrami · 4 days ago

"This regulation will only apply to people who are already criminals" is a line that has never held

meltyness · 4 days ago

I mean, you don't really have to speculate about what this is for, it's for an authority providing for lawful search, it seems pretty well-scoped, and similar to any old search warrant, which is not a new thing, really https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/deccd...

Basically, they're not really setting up for a blanket ban on personal security features, that interpretation is obviously catastrophizing. Not that there aren't hamfisted laws somewhere like this, but NSWs implementation seems OK I guess

meltyness commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

dhx · 4 days ago

As an example of government regulation driving this change, see [1].

This regulation of NSW, Australia considers rooted devices with extra non-Google/non-Apple approved security features such as a duress/wipe PIN (a standard feature of GrapheneOS[2]) as a "dedicated encrypted criminal communication device". How the device is being used doesn't matter. It's how it _could_ be used.

[1] https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca190...

[2] https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

meltyness · 4 days ago

This is uncanny and worryingly specific, and I'm not a lawyer, but if you're not already under suspicion of being a criminal, then installing graphene doesn't match this definition I think

meltyness commented on The Core of Rust jyn.dev/the-core-of-rust/... · Posted by u/zdw

meltyness · 8 days ago

I find Rust pretty cohesive and consistent in its semantics. Accomplishing different tasks involves less sugar than other languages like this article seems to focus on.

Generally all of the interfaces conform to the patterns in the mem module. If you want to understand the structure of everything else unambiguously it would be best to start there: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/

meltyness commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

vjk800 · 11 days ago

Communities don't scale. This is the reason why nobody has done and why you couldn't get rich forming communities. Communities are handcrafted to accommodate the unique personalities of the people involved. Communities involve activities where a handful of people can socialize and bond. A service with a million users can never become a community because our social/grouping instincts don't work on that scale. A community should always be a few dozens of core people, with maybe a larger number of non-core people participating occasionally.

meltyness · 11 days ago

When they establish personality archetypes and roles bonds form readily. That's like, the purpose of roles in an organization.

meltyness commented on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-... · Posted by u/alexslobodnik

meltyness · 2 months ago

Well I guess a GLP-1 pacemaker would address this. A lifetime of doses weighs at much as a nickel?

meltyness commented on AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440... · Posted by u/JnBrymn

thaumasiotes · 2 months ago

We should note that "where is there a line missing from this poem: ____?" contains sufficient information to answer correctly without needing a copy of the original to compare to.

Here are two verses of a poem (song) in Mandarin Chinese:

yi quan ting ni de

er gei ni hao de

shu dao san yong yuan ai ni yi ge

si bu hui fan cuo

wu bu hui luo suo

shuo ni xiang shuo de

zuo ni xiang zuo de

bie pa shi bai yin wei ni you wo

pei ni kan ri luo

pei ni yi qi chang wan wo men ai de ge

I removed two lines. Where did that happen?

Would your answer be different if I told you that I might or might not have removed some lines?

meltyness · 2 months ago

Two lines clearly deviate from AAB.

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meltyness commented on GCP Outage status.cloud.google.com/... · Posted by u/thanhhaimai

meltyness · 3 months ago

Can't upload discord attachments from mobile.

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meltyness commented on How we reduced the impact of zombie clients letsencrypt.org/2025/06/0... · Posted by u/jaas

globie · 3 months ago

Were you running certbot multiple times per day?

Looking at the relevant limit, "Consecutive Authorization Failures per Hostname per Account"[0], it looks like there's no way to hit that specific limit if you only run once per day.

Ah, to think how many cronjobs are out there running certbot on * * * * *!

[0]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/#consecutive-author...

meltyness · 3 months ago

By my memory, a cron runs a script that checks my cert file's last modified daily. When it is a certain number of days since (flavored Bash statements) the file last modified I'll certbot and install whatever comes back.

It's very under-engineered, maybe a trifold pamphlet on light A11 printed with a laser jet running out of ink.

I've probably spent more time talking about how much it sucks than I have bothered considering a proper solution, at this point.

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