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New comment by boredishBoi in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

boredishBoi — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:17:31 +0000

Sorry new Toyotas have mandatory alcohol testers? Which locale are you in? I’ve heard of mandatory breathalysers for work vehicles or DUI drivers but all new cars?

New comment by boredishBoi in "Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag"

boredishBoi — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:15:18 +0000

Beeper is owned by Automattic (of Wordpress fame). They’re a corp but I wouldn’t call them mega and they use matrix which is an open federated protocol.

You can run your own matrix server but tbh it’s easier for someone else to do it.

Not to mention the obvious advantages of their bridges into the closed networks of WhatsApp/fb/x/instagram etc

New comment by boredishBoi in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"

boredishBoi — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:08:37 +0000

I don’t disagree but none of the native RDP clients support oauth for non azure computers.

New comment by boredishBoi in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"

boredishBoi — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:31:08 +0000

Not many good MFA options for native RDP/RDG. Putting it in the browser lets you wrap the whole thing with OAUTH/passkeys etc

New comment by boredishBoi in "Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since"

boredishBoi — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 03:02:01 +0000

There’s a launcher called T-UI I used to use when I had an android. One of the features it allowed was this. It would display a log of all your notification on your Home Screen and you could just click it and go straight into the conversation as if you’d clicked the actual notification. And u could always scroll up and view older notifications because they weren’t dismissed.

New comment by boredishBoi in "Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33"

boredishBoi — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:11:56 +0000

I think the defaults they’re referring to are for fedora desktop, not server

New comment by boredishBoi in "Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW"

boredishBoi — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 23:02:36 +0000

Automotive grade programming is a joke. There have been numerous posts here including one a couple days ago about the auto accelerating Toyota’s and it was pretty clear that the problem was with Toyota’s programming as well as their lack of testing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10437117

Not to mention the numerous ways current automotive manufacturers fail at cyber security. Stuff like OnStar and being able to shut down cars remotely.

New comment by boredishBoi in "Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair"

boredishBoi — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:03:48 +0000

Actually MacBooks get 6/7 years from when Apple stops selling them. In contrast, the timer starts as soon as the first Chromebook with that cpu is released. It was a nasty surprise when I found that out

New comment by boredishBoi in "The Kindle is fine, but could’ve been much more"

boredishBoi — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:08:52 +0000

You can use Calibre to side load books without an account. It can also convert epubs to mobi’s.

New comment by boredishBoi in "Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says"

boredishBoi — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 03:23:18 +0000

What if their brother in law is an exec at an American competitor? I don’t see how your example is relevant given we’re discussing governments spying/compelling citizens to spy for them.

New comment by boredishBoi in "Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond"

boredishBoi — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 06:16:09 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC https://blog.cloudflare.com/http3-the-past-present-and-futur... Just because it’s a public discussion doesn’t mean there’s an obligation to explain things. I didn’t know what QUIC was either so I googled it.

New comment by boredishBoi in "Australian universities are accused of trading free speech for cash"

boredishBoi — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 15:18:59 +0000

I’m a uni student in aus right now and I’m not a fan of Chinese propaganda but I wouldn’t mind a free trip to China. Do you have any links/tips on how I could get myself on one of these trips? I’m at UNSW btw.

New comment by boredishBoi in "SanDisk 1TB MicroSD Card Review"

boredishBoi — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:33:15 +0000

Have you seen the T series portable ssd’s by Samsung. Nowadays multiple companies make portable ssds that use the same nand in their internal ssds but in a smaller custom form factor. They’re exactly like what you described, about the size of a deck of cards and much much more reliable and cheaper than micro as cards.

New comment by boredishBoi in "Apple to include new keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro"

boredishBoi — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:11:36 +0000

I think they mean MicroLED rather than mini oled. MicroLEDs are meant to look and act the same as oleds but since they’re non organic, which means they don’t burn out like oleds do.

New comment by boredishBoi in "Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Android phones for police"

boredishBoi — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:16:29 +0000

It is my understanding that under the DMCA the security measures themselves are copyrighted works and breaking them is a violation of the DMCA in and of itself. That’s why breaking DRM, even if it’s to access public domain works is still illegal.

New comment by boredishBoi in "Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI"

boredishBoi — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:56:04 +0000

Can you please expand on your phone? What model is it? It sounds very unusual for the user to be able to change the imei.

New comment by boredishBoi in "What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer"

boredishBoi — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 23:17:42 +0000

If this new OS is focusing on PWAs and UWPs, then it makes sense that MS would can Edge for a chromium based browser.