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New comment by felurx in "A4 Paper Stories"

felurx — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:44:42 +0000

I've participated in (and now have been a ref for) a robotics competition, First Lego League, a couple of times. The robots can have a height of up to 30.5cm (12"), and that's usually quickly checked before each round.

Since there's pretty much always some A4 paper lying around near you, probably a copy of the rules, in most situations we just hold up a sheet (rolled up if you're feeling fancy) next to the robot. Much quicker than finding the ruler that's probably in use (or misplaced) somewhere else :D

New comment by felurx in "If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app"

felurx — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:46:19 +0000

The problem is that apparently, often enough that is just not the case.

On laptops, the LED is not powered with the camera, but controlled by it. And on smartphones, if it's a green dot on the display it can obviously be bypassed in different ways given the right vulnerabilities.

Also, aside from that, your condescending attitude is frustrating.

New comment by felurx in "The Goon Squad"

felurx — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:28:54 +0000

What are Jack and Jill parties? (DDG only gives me generic listicles for how to plan a wedding shower.)

New comment by felurx in "Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid"

felurx — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:15:30 +0000

You have to enable a setting to see apps marked with that anti-feature when searching

New comment by felurx in "Introduction to GrapheneOS"

felurx — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:25:46 +0000

As described in the README, the combination of root access and locking the bootloader has the caveat that it's easy to brick your boot partition by accidentally making changes to it. That causes the signature check to fail, and then you have to unlock the bootloader and wipe all your data to re-flash it.

I don't know if there's any good solution to this, since all this seems to be necessary for the security model.

EDIT: Wait, isn't this what A/B partitions are for? (ie, you can brick one partition and still boot from the other) Also, shouldn't it be possible to flash an image signed with the correct keys without unlocking the bootloader and wiping the user data?

New comment by felurx in "The staff ate it later"

felurx — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:40:22 +0000

You would spend some time outdoors being active, which is good for you but also entirely possible without killing animals. I'd argue that's the same for meat.

New comment by felurx in "Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility"

felurx — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:27:12 +0000

> DP has a HDMI compatibility mode that allows a DP output to output a HDMI signal, but at the wrong voltage. The external adapters are just level shifters to bring the signal voltages into compliance with HDMI, but their entirety passive devices.

That's DP++, which is not supported on all DP outputs, and notably is not supported by the USB-C DP AltMode.

New comment by felurx in "Louis Rossmann: Clippy for Vendetta (change your profile pic to Clippy)"

felurx — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:35:54 +0000

He did make a "sequel" addressing that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SkL9vzW7nY0

You usually can't do much against anti-repair or anti-consumer stuff alone (especially in organizations), and that people often feel like they're the only ones who care in a five mile radius. The idea is that the clippy pics activate people to actually do something, because they feel like that precondition of others also caring and wanting to do something is fulfilled.

New comment by felurx in "Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective"

felurx — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:48:21 +0000

I sometimes think about trying keyboard things like this, but I'm pretty much always on the go with my laptop. My desk at home can be described as just the horizontal surface that happens to be near where I sleep and sometimes do other stuff, not my primary place of doing computer activities.

Is there some kind of very portable ergonomic/alternative typing device? Maybe something designed for steno or whatever. It would be cool if I could just hold it in my hands, since often that'd be more comfortable than the surface my laptop is on.

New comment by felurx in "Dumb Pipe"

felurx — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:45:55 +0000

You actually can connect two machines via USB-C (USB4 / Thunderbolt) and you get a network connection.

You only get Link-Local addresses by default, which I recall as somewhat annoying if you want to use SSH or whatever, but if you have something that does network discovery it should probably work pretty seamlessly.

See https://christian.kellner.me/2018/05/24/thunderbolt-networki... or https://superuser.com/a/1784608

New comment by felurx in "Are we the baddies?"

felurx — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:00:50 +0000

Depends on your definition of sale, but influencing elections comes to mind.

New comment by felurx in "Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation"

felurx — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:26:21 +0000

AI scrapers aren't a subset of the users/readers/audience of a website, they are parasites to society that harm their prey by causing huge costs.

New comment by felurx in "Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation"

felurx — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:20:11 +0000

I suppose they're going for a trade-off between "cheaper" and "satisfying" (as in, the satiafaction of sticking it to unethical shitty companies)

New comment by felurx in "Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API"

felurx — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:33:04 +0000

TFA = The Friendly Article (or with the other word that begins with f)

It's used as a shorthand for "the article we're talking about"

New comment by felurx in "$100 Hamburger"

felurx — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:12:33 +0000

Probably depends on the city, but where I'm from it's difficult (but probably not completely impossible) to get a Döner for 5€ :(

New comment by felurx in "EU regulations to look out for in 2025"

felurx — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:42:38 +0000

14TB of mobile data usage sounds fun, how did you do that?

New comment by felurx in "Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math"

felurx — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:17:57 +0000

With all else being equal, I'm willing to believe that more intelligence would lead to greater income. But if you're claiming that IQ is the sole/main predictor for income that'd be a hard [citation needed] in my opinion.

New comment by felurx in "What really happens inside a dating app"

felurx — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:44:29 +0000

I think users "want" it the same way smokers "want" cigarettes.

New comment by felurx in "What I learned reporting in cities that take belongings from homeless people"

felurx — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:28:24 +0000

Genuine curiosity: How do you know?

New comment by felurx in "The semver trick (2019)"

felurx — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 22:25:43 +0000

You only re-export the unchanged parts. EVFILT_AIO is the same in 0.2.0 and 0.2.1 (which is different - in practice and to the compiler - to EVFILT_AIO in 0.3). (Only) c_void is the same in 0.2.0, 0.2.1 and 0.3 (again, in practice and to the compiler.)