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New comment by goda90 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

goda90 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:32:29 +0000

I've been dreaming of doing an EV conversion on my 2008 Honda Civic that I barely even drive. No cellular radio, no OTA updates, no touchscreen. I lack the mechanical skills and time though, and I'm not aware of people in my area that do conversions as a service for anything but like high end classic cars(which a Honda sedan is not).

New comment by goda90 in "R3 Bio pitched “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies"

goda90 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:15:24 +0000

I enjoyed reading a Young Adult Sci-Fi novel with this premise called The House of the Scorpion[0]. The main character is a clone who's owner is a powerful enough drug lord to get away with not having his organ clones' brains crippled at birth like all the others are.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Scorpion

New comment by goda90 in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

goda90 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:28:20 +0000

Just don't connect it to the internet.

New comment by goda90 in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

goda90 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:23:45 +0000

In January, the youtuber Technology Connections did a whole rant about how ridiculous it is that we're not rushing as quickly as possible to get off of non-renewable energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

New comment by goda90 in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

goda90 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:04:09 +0000

Use the antimatter as an electricity source to power ion thrusters, maybe?

New comment by goda90 in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

goda90 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:55:33 +0000

I mean, there's got to be a spectrum of nuclear winters, just like there's a spectrum of volcanic and impact winters. Assuming a full scale nuclear war, there's still questions of how much of the arsenals actually detonate(as opposed to failures to launch, getting destroyed by other nukes first, etc), how much the fires burn, the time of year impacting fires and dust and the state of the biosphere, and how much the aerosols are limited to the northern vs southern hemisphere.

Think about all the ways you could die from nuclear war + winter. There's some worth avoiding(slow painful death from radiation, moderate burns, trapped in collapsed buildings, etc), and others that you might be willing to delay/prevent in a hope of things getting better(starvation, cancer, civil unrest, etc). There are ways you can reasonably prepare to increases your chances, if you're lucky in the critical moment of nukes dropping, to survive long enough to attempt forming communities and farming again.

New comment by goda90 in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

goda90 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:27:07 +0000

Which works unless the app needs Play Services, which do require logging in.

New comment by goda90 in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

goda90 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:26:35 +0000

I haven't tried anything advanced with profiles/private spaces yet. But I did successfully get Android Auto to work with sandboxed Play Services and Google Maps just this last week on my "new" GrapheneOS Pixel 9 Pro XL.

New comment by goda90 in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

goda90 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:24:23 +0000

There's also IronFox.

New comment by goda90 in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

goda90 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:22:05 +0000

Many cities in the world have many thousands of far commuters arriving by train every day. And many of those people even live in single family homes and own cars.

New comment by goda90 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

goda90 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:01:19 +0000

I've had multiple apps attempt to use Play Integrity on my GrapheneOS phone(it tells you when they try), and then just work anyway. Not sure why.

New comment by goda90 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

goda90 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:59:11 +0000

> with nothing (genuinely nothing) installed on your computer

Not 100% accurate. You need a browser that supports WebUSB[0] which are just Chromium based ones, not Safari or Firefox.

[0]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebUSB_API

New comment by goda90 in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

goda90 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:25:18 +0000

Maybe the hardware supply crisis caused by demand for AI data centers will lead to a push for more efficient and backwards compatible client software.

New comment by goda90 in "Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification"

goda90 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:16:45 +0000

You might say the bills themselves are theater. Respond to theater with theater.

New comment by goda90 in "Fix your tools"

goda90 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:31:10 +0000

I recently got assigned to enhance some code I've never seen before. The code was so bad that I'd have to fully understand it and change multiple places to make my enhancement. I decided that if I was going to be doing that anyway, I might as well refactor it into a better state first. It feels so good to make things better instead of just making them do an extra thing.

New comment by goda90 in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

goda90 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:02:16 +0000

There's also value in live traffic and road closure information.

New comment by goda90 in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

goda90 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:41:31 +0000

What would sandboxing an app like Google Maps look like? There are definitely situations where a sub-par map app would be detrimental. Obviously it's going to send data to Google, but do I have to sign into an account or will it have some other way of identifying my phone if I used a one-off account just for it?

New comment by goda90 in "I guess I kinda get why people hate AI"

goda90 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:37:23 +0000

"We've always been at war with Eurasia"

New comment by goda90 in "Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation"

goda90 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:41:03 +0000

What are some strategies a platform like this can take against spam or influence bots? Tying real life identities to users would certainly limit that(though identity theft and account selling could still happen), but that adds friction to joining, poses security risks, and many people might feel less comfortable putting their opinions openly online where backlash could impact real life.

New comment by goda90 in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

goda90 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:59:59 +0000

If you open up zoning to mixed density with light commercial, get rid of parking minimums, and design infrastructure that's walkable and bikeable, you don't need to intentionally bulldoze and rebuild any city from scratch. Instead people and companies will do it piecemeal because it makes sense to. New coffee shop opens and it's so busy that people who can't walk there can't find parking either? Sounds like demand for more coffee shops closer to those who can't walk to the first one. Someone is going to take that business opportunity.