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New comment by bux93 in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

bux93 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:21:48 +0000

I'm not being pedantic, I'm saying their word salad is hard to read. As demonstrated by half of the messages in here arguing about what actually happened and whether the headline is correct.

It's not hard to say "We will not launch new models of OnePlus phones in Europe and NA. Current models will remain on sale, will still be supported and your warrantee is unchanged."

A pedant might say that telling people to use simpler words is the opposite of being "ostentatiously scholarly".

New comment by bux93 in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

bux93 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:15:56 +0000

>As part of the proactive global strategy adjustment, OnePlus has decided to conclude new product rollouts in Europe and North America.

So.. they will roll out new products, conclusively? They will sell the same new products globally, including in Europe and North America? They will.. stop selling new phones because they can't form an intelligible sentence? That's the one.

New comment by bux93 in "Bluesky Trademarks ATProto"

bux93 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:23:11 +0000

That's the Hayes command set[1]. Hayes was a registered trademark up until 2022[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set [2] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results/73319703

New comment by bux93 in "What `for x in y` hides from you – From Scratch Code"

bux93 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:32:13 +0000

In the author's mind, it's unexpected/amazing that 'for' can iterate over many types. But it's NOT unexpected/amazing that 'iter' can iterate over many types. I have no idea why.

It's not like 'for' is limited to counting in other languages. The grand-daddy in c does something until some condition is false, and that thing can equally be incrementing/decrementing a number or invoking some function. That's what a loop does in any case, it compiles down to a conditional jump (JNE/JE..)

Maybe his reason for astonishment is obscured by over-use of an LLM to 'enhance' the text.

New comment by bux93 in "Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes"

bux93 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:41:42 +0000

And teams. And new outlook. And powertoys. Onedrive. SQL Server. The Microsoft store. Winget. I'm also not confident Windows Update actually does update Office, which also retains its own update mechanism.

New comment by bux93 in "Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act"

bux93 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:24:22 +0000

If you design processes to be open by design, the cost of extracting data (removing sensitive data that is indeed not needed) goes down radically. Governments know this and resist it.

New comment by bux93 in "Just Let Me Write Digits"

bux93 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:13:41 +0000

IBM CUA (1987) should be required reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

New comment by bux93 in "Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers"

bux93 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:36:34 +0000

For most people, it is part of the OS though. Windows comes with Client and Server services activated by default even on the Home edition for some reason. The functionality is dumbed down and hidden though, while onedrive - which requires registering a windows account - is shoved in the user's face.

New comment by bux93 in "Harman and Dr. Sean Olive are reshaping headphone sound (2025)"

bux93 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:00:16 +0000

Well, the dB scale was once created on the basis that 1dB was thought to be the "just noticeable difference". Off the top of my head, I think trained listeners can actually notice differences of 0.3 dB, though this sort of thing is going to be frequency dependent too.

The eq-adjustments you'll find online often have adjustments ranging from 1 to 6dB in different frequencies. That's enough to notice.

Comparing settings/devices, it's very easy to notice. Just play some music on your laptop/phone speakers and move the device around a bit, and you'll hear striking differences in highs and lows.

However in isolation, I think most people wouldn't be able to say if a particular sound source is "good" or "bad". It takes a while for you to clock that, no, it's not the teams/zoom call that has bad quality, it's your headset that's dropping mids.

New comment by bux93 in "DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world"

bux93 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:40:18 +0000

djbdns/tinydns can schedule a change and give out a lower and lower TTL the nearer the changeover time gets - a quick search doesn't show any newer implementations but this is surely a good way to do it.

New comment by bux93 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

bux93 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:27:20 +0000

It's to create an in-group, and you are in the out-group.

New comment by bux93 in "CarPlay Is Additive"

bux93 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:31:27 +0000

My car has wired carplay/android auto, but I have a nifty little USB dongle that receives carplay/android auto wirelessly and passes it to the car via USB. Sometimes called an AI box, I think.

These things contain a whole System-on-a-Chip board. I presume what it's acting like a middle box; pretending to be the headunit to the phone, and then sending the phone's output to the headunit, pretending to be a phone.

Since they need a quite beefy CPU to do that, I'm guessing they don't just pass along packets, but actually speak the protocol on both ends, and perhaps transcode the a/v stream.

New comment by bux93 in "CarPlay Is Additive"

bux93 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:16:44 +0000

That's in fact one of the pros of carplay/android auto as opposed to just putting your phone in one of those windscreen attached holders; you get to use the volume buttons on the steering wheel. Annoyingly my car doesn't have play/pause buttons on there, but if it had, they would work.

New comment by bux93 in "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"

bux93 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:44:21 +0000

Agreed. Their privacy page even says they'll remove data if you withdraw consent, but they don't ask for consent. They also don't mention any you could object to data processing, claiming that "Processing is necessary to perform a contract with the data subject and to take steps toward the conclusion of a business relationship." which is a very contorted interpretation; taking steps towards the conclusion is about making quotes and such. It makes me sour on their claims "Keep your data private, compliant, and fully in the EU. As a privacy-first European company, we help you stay aligned with GDPR. No surprises. Full transparency."

New comment by bux93 in "8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea"

bux93 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:30:17 +0000

Linux is only used as a kernel temporarily until GNU is finished.

New comment by bux93 in "Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator"

bux93 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:49:09 +0000

This comparison to qemu gives some idea: https://www.unicorn-engine.org/docs/beyond_qemu.html

The ability to execute and inspect some code without any context (no OS, not even a complete binary) is useful for reverse/security engineering.

New comment by bux93 in "Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it"

bux93 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:23:41 +0000

The parable-replication crisis is real though

New comment by bux93 in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

bux93 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:27:16 +0000

If you book Ryanair, and your concentration slips up for a second, you WILL make a mistake and it WILL cost you money and/or inconvenience you. Then you might complain about that, and be met with smarmy, smug, smarter-than-you people who insist that they fly with Ryanair all the time and never pay too much, people who can't read shouldn't be allowed to book flights, etc. etc.

It's worth avoiding Ryanair just to avoid that scenario.

New comment by bux93 in "I thought I knew how electrolysis worked [video]"

bux93 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:20:34 +0000

I have fond memories of the, I think 1995, Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. I think it was given away with new computers, like Encarta and Grolier's. I think I did buy the Compton's CD, but at a huge discount, since I bought it grey market (not bundled with a PC, but from a PC retailer).

New comment by bux93 in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

bux93 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:27:10 +0000

Flexi discs were cool inserts for some home computer magazines; you'd dub the flexi disc to music cassette, and the noise and beeps were computer programs for your home computer.