parlortricks (u/parlortricks)

parlortricks commented on Pixel 10 Phones blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium

maples37 · 10 days ago

GrapheneOS not only provides a sandbox for Google Play (meaning it's just another app with no special privileges, and you can grant/revoke permissions (including network!) as you desire), it also heavily promotes user profiles for further isolation.

I have a "banking" profile set up with Google Play services installed. 98% of the time I'm using my phone, I'm using the primary Owner profile. All the other profiles are encrypted-at-rest, meaning that until I enter my Banking-profile-specific PIN, the apps and data (including the Google Play Services installed there) are just encrypted files, and unable to do anything at all. (There are provisions for allowing a secondary profile to run in the background, but in this case I have obviously left that disabled.)

parlortricks · 10 days ago

That sounds great, how much friction does this setup cause you daily? Could you hand your phone to a firend or family easily if they needed it?

parlortricks commented on BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM retrogamecoders.com/bbc-m... · Posted by u/ingve

dgl · 13 days ago

Not exactly, but close, the BBC made Micro Men (2009) which covers the whole era, in a relatively accurate way... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men

parlortricks · 12 days ago

I just watched this yesterday, and i thought it was fantastic. It would be great to have more of these kinds of movies to explain the rich history of tech, as there is just so much of it.

parlortricks commented on Bullfrog in the Dungeon filfre.net/2025/08/bullfr... · Posted by u/doppp

ericbarrett · 15 days ago

Seconded. Pretty sure the narrator is the same voice actor too

(Edit) yup: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ridings

parlortricks · 15 days ago

Daddy Pig thinks you're too poor to train your creatures.

parlortricks commented on Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU dougmacdowell.com/coffeem... · Posted by u/dougdude3339

parlortricks · a month ago

Time for you to use my 1080ti with Furmark too cook some eggs and bacon to go with the coffee.

parlortricks commented on A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet theguardian.com/education... · Posted by u/Hooke

fsckboy · a month ago

it's not hard to read for native speakers, but you have to go slowly, where ordinary reading is very fast. reminds me of the experiment that shows you can read words with all the letters scrambled if the first and last letter are not part of the scramble https://www.sciencealert.com/word-jumble-meme-first-last-let... I assume that works in any language? but that "reads" fairly quickly whereas this one here for me at least is a little slower

parlortricks · a month ago

It feels like I was able to read the text at the same speed as normal English text.

parlortricks commented on 7-Zip 25.00 github.com/ip7z/7zip/rele... · Posted by u/pentagrama

Dwedit · 2 months ago

7-Zip 15.05 is still useful today, because it was the last version to include built-in support for decompiling NSIS installer scripts. The feature was removed due to security concerns.

parlortricks · 2 months ago

Why is decompiling NSIS a security concern?

parlortricks commented on Why AO3 Was Down reddit.com/r/AO3/s/67nQid... · Posted by u/danso

chii · 2 months ago

> I wouldn't walk into when wandering through the internet

it's interesting that some people are on the internet but is very well insulated! AO3 is very well known for me...

parlortricks · 2 months ago

this is the first i've heard of it

parlortricks commented on Tailscale Enterprise Plan 9 Support tailscale.com/blog/tailsc... · Posted by u/donatj

parlortricks · 5 months ago

You got me, i was excited for Tailscale for Plan 9. I should have paid attention to the American date...

parlortricks commented on The Landscape of Lisp churchofturing.github.io/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

roxolotl · 6 months ago

Not a lot of packages but more than 0. For example I’m working on a small static site generator so I’m using lunamark.

Fennel has the ability to compile[0] to a binary that works pretty well and very well so long as you don’t have any dynamic links.

0: https://wiki.fennel-lang.org/Distribution#binary-executable

parlortricks · 6 months ago

I use Fennel with TIC80, Love and Raylib. Such a fun little Lisp that was the first one to really stick. Really helped that Fennel has anti-fennel that converts between Fennel and Lua.

parlortricks commented on A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet wasmgroundup.com/blog/was... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

parlortricks · 7 months ago

Is this a Tweet or a Xit (zit)? ha.

This is cool though, i love these programs that exist in these constraints, like Dwitter does with the demoscene.

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