No Child Left Behind
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Readit Newstrav4225 commented on FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as they end DEI programs arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/rntn
trav4225 commented on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/josephcsible
But it’s literally the dumbest feature ever. There’s absolutely nothing preventing a user from pulling out their phone and taking a picture of any slide they want. Or having a camera recording the whole session out of view of their webcam.
It is security theater at its peak.
But just wait until all consumer image display and capture devices start using invisible-to-the-naked-eye watermarking and content protection, only allowing you to photograph sources which have explicitly granted permission to be photographed. :-)
trav4225 commented on Rust Solves the Issues with Exceptions home.expurple.me/posts/ru... · Posted by u/Expurple
> Can you guess why I used an intermediate variable instead of calling f(g(x)) and f(gException) in try-catch?
I can't guess why. Could someone explain why the intermediate variable is important?
Click the triangle icon next to that question to see the answer. :-)
trav4225 commented on Syncthing Android App Discontinued forum.syncthing.net/t/dis... · Posted by u/opengears
> I wish there were an alternative (a practical pocket computer), but there really isn't.
There really is: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.
And it's my daily driver.
Appreciate the feedback. For some reason I feel like I dismissed this as an option at one point, but that was long ago. I'll take another look!
trav4225 commented on Syncthing Android App Discontinued forum.syncthing.net/t/dis... · Posted by u/opengears
trav4225 commented on Syncthing Android App Discontinued forum.syncthing.net/t/dis... · Posted by u/opengears
I gave up. My phone now is just a communication and utility device, and thus I don’t feel the urge to upgrade until it can’t do those tasks. I went back to computers (and Linux) to be able to just use them as a computer.
Same. I wish there were an alternative (a practical pocket computer), but there really isn't. So I too gave up on fighting my phone, and have also completely stopped doing mobile development. I now treat my phone essentially as an untrusted, prepackaged walled garden with limited utility. :-/
I tried it when it was new and found it impressive and cute as a gimmick and intriguing from a technical/scientific point of view. Since then I haven't found any uses for it and stopped using it altogether.
Hah! This resonated with me. Maybe I'm just "getting old", but I fail to understand the value of 99% of this stuff...
Hah! IIRC, it was a binary tree of some sort.
trav4225 commented on Ask HN: It's 2024, why are voice assistants still so buggy? · Posted by u/samuelg123
Because everything is buggy these days. ;-)
trav4225 commented on A daddy-longlegs possesses six eyes, including two vestigial pairs nytimes.com/2024/03/01/sc... · Posted by u/furcyd