seanw444 (u/seanw444)

seanw444 commented on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public practicalshootinginsights... · Posted by u/eoskx

aerostable_slug · 4 days ago

P320/M17/M18 trigger weight is not the problem. Glocks have roughly similar weights (except for the NYPD horror show), so do S&W, Walthers, and any number of other pistols.

Trying to equipment-ify your way out of a training problem resulted in NYPD equipping its pistols with a trigger so heavy that their already-easy qualification course became a problem for many recruits. Their hit percentage in actual shootings is awful, and that ~12 pound NYPD-spec trigger didn't help it any. They finally saw the error of their ways after making their officers suffer needlessly for years.

https://www.police1.com/patrol-issues/articles/nypd-should-i...

seanw444 · 4 days ago

12-pound duty trigger is absolutely wild. I wonder how many cases of collateral injuries there were because of it.

seanw444 commented on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public practicalshootinginsights... · Posted by u/eoskx

aerostable_slug · 4 days ago

They might have very zealous web filters. Something like Websense would categorize that site as "Weapons" related and visiting the site, even if not blocked, would result in a scoring change to the user's profile.

I don't blame them for playing it safe. I've personally had to help Bay Area HR types understand that looking at "weapons" sites by itself was probably okay when the company we worked for had thousands of employees across California and at least some percentage of them hunted, went target shooting, etc.

seanw444 · 4 days ago

We really do live in a lame version of a cyberpunk dystopia, don't we.

seanw444 commented on Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos zdnet.com/article/meta-mi... · Posted by u/mdhb

seanw444 · 4 days ago

GrapheneOS is too precious. Being able to pretend like the app has full access to my gallery, while only specifically allowing certain directories or photos, is awesome. I've actually discovered that selecting a photo in the gallery and "sharing" it to a Messenger chat skips the need for it to be in the allowed directory, so I've been doing that too. Anyone know if that's working as intended, or if it's a potential security hole?

And yes, putting Messenger on my GrapheneOS phone is dumb, but my normal people friends all use Messenger, so that's where our group chats are. Best I can do is fail to convince them to install an XMPP client and join my self-hosted server, or minimize the impact of Messenger.

seanw444 commented on Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos zdnet.com/article/meta-mi... · Posted by u/mdhb

Workaccount2 · 4 days ago

Meta is by far the most shamelessly insensitive tech giant. They must actively seek out the most morally depraved devs, I can only imagine the people in those meetings when discussing some of these implementations must have been laughing at how devious they are.

seanw444 · 4 days ago

The devs get paid a fine salary, and can't afford it lose it, or they'll probably miss payments on their expensive vehicles and houses. So they do as they're told and don't complain.

seanw444 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

hbn · 7 days ago

> Makes sense why they had to get rid of the "don't be evil" motto.

I hate how this always gets brought up because:

1. Evil has no definition, so it means nothing. They get to define what evil is for themselves. They stated their reasons they think this change is good. You can't prove it breaks their code of conduct.

2. It's straight up false, it's still in their code of conduct:

> And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

seanw444 · 6 days ago

> They stated their reasons they think this change is good.

Right, because someone doing something evil would say outright what they're doing is evil.

> It's straight up false, it's still in their code of conduct

This is news to me. I think it's interesting that they removed it from the opening and put it at the end though.

seanw444 commented on Framework Laptop 16 frame.work/ro/en/laptop16... · Posted by u/susanthenerd

lotharcable · 7 days ago

Things have changed a lot since Steam deck. Especially in the last 3 or 4 years.

Mobile users suffer more problems then people with dedicated desktop GPUs, but it still gotten a lot better.

The one thing to be careful about AMD GPUs is that for most GPU OEMs AMD is just a after thought. So they get sub-par QA and heatsinks compared to their more popular Nvidia models.

It is best to go with card makers that only sell AMD GPUs, like Sapphire, PowerColor, and XFX. I am partial to Sapphire.

seanw444 · 7 days ago

Had good experiences with XFX so far as well.

seanw444 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

IlikeKitties · 8 days ago

> There's no reason a competitive Linux-based smartphone can't exist (no, I'm not counting Android in that).

Yes there is. You all don't understand that they will use remote attestation to force everyone to use approved devices with signed apps on signed OSes only

You won't be able to bank, call a cab, write a chat message, watch a youtube video or do anything relevant on a device anymore that isn't signed, approved and controlled by google. They've made us cattle and now they are going to milk us dry.

seanw444 · 7 days ago

That's the blackpilled take. The whitepill is that sticking up for yourself hasn't ever been easy, but it's always been an option.

seanw444 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

jlokier · 7 days ago

For example, Starling Bank in the UK.

They have a nice web app, but you must use their mobile app to login on the web version. The app takes a video of a QR code on the web page during login. Web login completes as soon as the mobile app notifies the server. There's no 2FA code to enter, and no alternative.

I asked them about this, by phone call, when my phone screen broke and I urgently needed to make a transaction. Surely there as an alternative? Or could I do the transaction by phone call?

They told me that indeed there is no other option. Despite having phone customer support, they had no phone or web banking service at all which could be used without a registered mobile device. The only phone service they could perform was to register a new mobile device, which I didn't have. I had a tablet, but it was too old.

So I had no good choice. The Android phone I'm using right now was bought in a hurry just so I could be allowed to make a bank transaction.

It wasn't my first choice of phone. I didn't have time to investigate alternative devices, let alone weigh up open alternatives. I ended up buying a mid-range device under pressure that seemed ok and was available in a store without waiting. (It was a brand new Samsung, and despite the IP rating it got water damaged and stopped working entirely after a few splashes a year or so later, but I was able to get it repaired.)

seanw444 · 7 days ago

Sounds like you should find a new bank. I would, at least.

seanw444 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

seanw444 · 8 days ago

Makes sense why they had to get rid of the "don't be evil" motto. They've been on a roll.

I've seen a lot of similar sentiment on this thread, but the reason I use Android is because it gives me more control than iOS by allowing full-on painless sideloading, and custom distributions like GrapheneOS. They're doing everything they can to turn themselves into a worse Apple. All of the downsides of Apple, but none of the upsides. Apple beats them in every aspect that isn't "openness".

When will the straw break the camel's back? I'm shocked we've let it get to this point with no realistic alternatives. There's no reason a competitive Linux-based smartphone can't exist (no, I'm not counting Android in that).

seanw444 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

petralithic · 8 days ago

How do you access banking and other sensitive apps? If the answer is, you don't, well, you can see how that's a non starter for the vast majority of people.

seanw444 · 8 days ago

A web browser in the worst case scenario. The same way you'd do it on a computer.