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verall commented on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled 404media.co/fbi-couldnt-g... · Posted by u/robin_reala

rawgabbit · 4 days ago

Serious question. If I am re-entering the US after traveling abroad, can customs legally ask me to turn the phone back on and/or seize my phone? I am a US citizen.

Out of habit, I keep my phone off during the flight and turn it on after clearing customs.

verall · 4 days ago

my understanding is that they can hold you for a couple days without charges for your insubordination but as a citizen they have to let you back into the country or officially arrest you, try to get an actual warrant, etc.

verall commented on Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up mail.openjdk.org/pipermai... · Posted by u/csmantle

verall · 8 days ago

> The phrase "Chinese Mainland" when used in English comes loaded with the suggestion that Taiwan is rightfully part of China — it is an unavoidable implication.

I'm really curious - what people did you get this idea from? I've never heard this before. I have heard "mainland China" to mean, specifically, "China, not Hong Kong or Macau", from:

- Taiwanese people

- Hong Kong people

- Mainland Chinese people

- Taiwanese-americans

- Chinese-americans (immigrated from the mainland)

It's just mainland China (大陆）. I have never met Chinese or Taiwanese people who feel this is a politically loaded term.

verall commented on Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet netzbremse.de/en/... · Posted by u/tietjens

fc417fc802 · 15 days ago

> providers install their own Glass Fiber modem

It's the same in the US. The ISP fiber network falls inside their security boundary in my experience - you can't BYOD. They install a modem (these days often including an integrated router, switch, and AP) and you receive either ethernet or wifi from them.

I think the only major change in that regard has been that coaxial cable providers here will often let you bring your own docsis modem these days.

I never found any of this concerning until quite recently. With the advent of ISPs providing public wifi service out of consumer endpoints as well as wifi based radar I'm no longer comfortable having vendor controlled wireless equipment in my home.

verall · 14 days ago

US ftth in my experience (att + gfiber) are ONT and router/wap as separate boxes and you are free to byo routerbox but have to use their ONT.

verall commented on Banned C++ features in Chromium chromium.googlesource.com... · Posted by u/szmarczak

EliRivers · 16 days ago

The complete refactor, bringing it forwards from VS2008 to VS2022, and from a home-built, source-code edited Qt 4.7.4 to Qt 6.something, took about two years from start to finish.

verall · 16 days ago

> home-built, source-code edited Qt 4.7.4

That's scarier than the containter craziness you mention

verall commented on FOSS "just fork it" delusion hamishcampbell.com/foss-j... · Posted by u/mimasama

verall · 16 days ago

> That’s not empowerment – it’s fragmentation

> This isn’t resilience, it’s entropy

> That’s not openness, that’s abdication

> Just fork it” hides power, it doesn’t challenge it

> is not about obedience to maintainers. It’s about stewardship of commons.

> the goal isn’t endless new projects. It’s shared infrastructure

It's Not A Blog Post — It's Moralizing Slop

verall commented on The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18... · Posted by u/long

titzer · 19 days ago

There are so many holes at the bottom of the machine code stack. In the future we'll question why we didn't move to WASM as the universal executable format sooner. Instead, we'll try a dozen incomplete hardware mitigations first to try to mitigate backwards crap like overwriting the execution stack.

verall · 19 days ago

> In the future we'll question why we didn't move to WASM as the universal executable format sooner

I hope not, my laptop is slow enough as it is.

verall commented on Understanding C++ Ownership System blog.aiono.dev/posts/unde... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

jesse__ · 20 days ago

Does anyone reading this have links to people who have written specifically about a C++ ownership model that rejects the smart_ptr/RAII/friends model in favor of an ownership model that embraces bulk allocations, arenas, freelists, etc? I know there are groups of highly productive programmers that feel the traditional C++ ownership model is hot garbage, and I'd love a resource that puts down specific arguments against it, but I've never come across one myself.

Edit: clarity

verall · 20 days ago

If you have requirements for high performance then the traditional C++ "ownership model" (I would say a better description is "ownership strategy") is definitely "slow". It's pretty "safe" in that you usually aren't going to leak a bunch with it but bull allocations, arenas, and freelists are all potentially faster. And you wouldn't use them if they were slower since they're (usually) more to deal with.

But even in software using these strategies, they probably will be using different ownership strategies in different parts of the code. Once you're writing high performance code, you will use specific strategies that give you the best results. But it's completey domain specific.

verall commented on Iran is likely jamming Starlink timesofisrael.com/iran-ap... · Posted by u/ukblewis

greensh · a month ago

But USA can't even be on the side of their own people. I can see the recent ICE shooting, health care issues, clearly corrupt government officials. Why should anybody trust them with another country?

Also the US has massive protests aswell, would it be okay for china to liberate the USA, since china itself is lead by a "democratic party"? They could argue the USA isn't a real liberal democracy.

> why not let them vote in fair elections? Elections can be faked, people can be mislead, oppositions and media can be bought.

verall · a month ago

There's a big gap between "national firewalls shouldn't exist" and "country should invade/"liberate" another country to prevent national firewall (or insert other disliked policy)".

So to respond directly:

> Why should anybody trust them with another country?

They should not and should not need to trust them with another country

> would it be okay for china to liberate the USA

no, it wouldn't. But if China felt that the USA gov't was like, not cool, they could impose sanctions or not trade with USA.

verall commented on Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail hsrail.org/blog/caltrain-... · Posted by u/gok

thefourthchime · a month ago

I can tell you the light rail in Austin is a complete failure. There was some ridership before the pandemic, but after a few years, the numbers are dismal. They've covered the windows with ads, so you can't even tell how empty they are inside. Meanwhile, they crisscross the city, constantly blocking streets with rail guards just to shuffle a handful of people north and south.

verall · a month ago

The Austin train you are talking about is heavy rail. Not to be confused with Austin light rail which is Coming Soon (TM).

It's still more reliable than the busses. I think it's pretty fun.

verall commented on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far burkeholland.github.io/po... · Posted by u/tbassetto

avereveard · a month ago

But... you can ask! Ask claude to use encapsulation, or to write the equivalent of interfaces in the language you using, and to map out dependencies and duplicate features, or to maintain a dictionary of component responsibilities.

AI coding is a multiplier of writing speed but doesn't excuse planning out and mapping out features.

You can have reasonably engineered code if you get models to stick to well designed modules but you need to tell them.

verall · a month ago

But time I spend asking is time I could have been writing exactly what I wanted in the first place, if I already did the planning to understand what I wanted. Once I know what I want, it doesn't take that long, usually.

Which is why it's so great for prototyping, because it can create something during the planning, when you haven't planned out quite what you want yet.