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stevefan1999 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 · 10 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

stevefan1999 · 10 days ago
I could use a knife to chop meat, not people; I could use a car to commute, not as a high speed bullet; I could use a gun to eliminate pests, not to kill people. Just because I can use something to do something nefarious doesn't mean it should be banned, of we should not use Internet at all because it facilitates scammers.

It is always the human mind that dictates the action, not the tool. It is futile to try and ban the tool, and I bet 100% they knew that.

stevefan1999 commented on Shutting Down Clear Linux OS   community.clearlinux.org/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
stevefan1999 · 2 months ago
How I fork the CI pipelines and the source codes
stevefan1999 commented on GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS   mips.com/press-releases/g... · Posted by u/mshockwave
stevefan1999 · 2 months ago
AMD's former girlfriend now married MIPS. Yikes
stevefan1999 commented on Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust   trifectatech.org/blog/bzi... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
tcfhgj · 3 months ago
> Counting CPU cycles as if it's an accomplishment seems irrelevant in a world where 50% of modern CPU resources are allocated toward UI eye candy.

Attitude which leads to electron apps replacing native ones, and I hate it. I am not buying better cpus and more ram just to have it wasted like this

stevefan1999 · 3 months ago
You know it is just Wirth's law in action: "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." [^1]

In fact Jevons Paradox: When technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, but the rate of consumption of that resource rises due to increasing demand - essentially, efficiency improvements can lead to increased consumption rather than the intended conservation. [^2][^3]

[^1]: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~damithch/quotes/quote27.htm

[^2]: https://www.greenchoices.org/news/blog-posts/the-jevons-para...

[^3]: https://quickonomics.com/terms/jevons-paradox/

stevefan1999 commented on Why Use Structured Errors in Rust Applications?   home.expurple.me/posts/wh... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
stevefan1999 · 3 months ago
Try not to use thiserror but this instead: https://docs.rs/derive_more/latest/derive_more/

Reason: thiserror still requires std which greatly hinder its use for no_std context

stevefan1999 commented on Estimating Logarithms   obrhubr.org/logarithm-est... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
stevefan1999 · 3 months ago
Related Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_number_system

Also related: https://blog.timhutt.co.uk/fast-inverse-square-root/

(I see that someone already mentioned fast inverse square root algorithm is related to this, which is famously used by John Carmack which is one of my hero who led me into tech industry, despite I didn't end up in gaming industry)

stevefan1999 commented on Show HN: Chatwoot 4.0 – Open-source intercom alternative with AI agents    · Posted by u/sojanofficial
stevefan1999 · 4 months ago
Unfortunately, it doesn't seems to support ollama...which means we can't use it for self-hosted model with our own RAG for automated responses...plus we will leak prompts to OpenAI
stevefan1999 commented on Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself   github.com/PhialsBasement... · Posted by u/miles
stevefan1999 · 4 months ago
That is just reinforcement learning in disguise

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