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  1. Comment on What can I do with my old Pixel 3 phone in 2025? in ~tech

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    Additional information for others: Not all Pixel 6a devices are affected. You can check here if your Pixel 6a is affected: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/16340779?p=pixel6a_battery

    Additional information for others:
    Not all Pixel 6a devices are affected. You can check here if your Pixel 6a is affected:
    https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/16340779?p=pixel6a_battery

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Making your own MSP/payment processor (in response to Itch/Valve) in ~games

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    I think they talked about this:

    I think they talked about this:

    What I'm saying is yes, Itch could deal with CCBill or Epoch for porn. It would be a nightmare at every level and they probably can't afford to. Even only sending 18+ game purchases to them, there's giant recurring fees just for the privilege.

    Also there are people I trust who have been around this block, like the Dreamwidth founder who say every high risk MSP ever forbids this practice of split horizon processing.

    10 votes

  3. Comment on Miami jury orders Tesla to pay hundreds of millions in damages in Autopilot crash case in ~transport

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    They should be forced to record a certain base level of data and release this data for accidents and if they don't they should be fined to oblivion.

    Tesla has previously faced criticism that it is slow to cough up crucial data by relatives of other victims in Tesla crashes, accusations that the car company has denied. In this case, the plaintiffs showed Tesla had the evidence all along, despite its repeated denials, by hiring a forensic data expert who dug it up. Tesla said it made a mistake after being shown the evidence and honestly hadn’t thought it was there.

    They should be forced to record a certain base level of data and release this data for accidents and if they don't they should be fined to oblivion.

    9 votes

  4. Comment on MTG - Building a collection in ~games.tabletop

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    Offtopic: I prefer using https://mtg.wiki/ as it is ad free and not bloated as the fandom wiki. It's hosted by the same team as https://scryfall.com/, which is s great resource to find specific...

    Offtopic:
    I prefer using https://mtg.wiki/ as it is ad free and not bloated as the fandom wiki. It's hosted by the same team as https://scryfall.com/, which is s great resource to find specific magic cards.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Content Independence Day: No AI crawl without compensation! in ~tech

  6. Comment on European Speedrunner Assembly’s Summer 2025 event, a weeklong charity marathon featuring speedruns, is live (runs June 28 - July 5) in ~games

  7. Comment on Can Bearblog links show authors? in ~tildes

  8. Comment on Four former Volkswagen managers found guilty in German emissions trial in ~transport

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    Two times prison sentence without suspension, two times with suspension

    Two of the managers received multiyear prison sentences, and two received suspended sentences. Jens Hadler, who oversaw diesel engine development, received the longest prison sentence, at four and a half years. Another ex-manager who worked in engine electronics, Hanno Jelden, received two years and seven months. The two men given suspended sentences were Heinz-Jakob Neusser, who was responsible for components development and was sentenced to one year and three months, and a man identified as Thorsten D., an emissions specialist who received one year and 10 months.

    Two times prison sentence without suspension, two times with suspension

    Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, director of the Center Automotive Research in Bochum, Germany, who worked at Volkswagen early in his career, called the four convicted men “scapegoats.” The scandal, he said, was the product of “a system based on fear and obedience created by authoritarian leaders.”

    The scandal has cost Volkswagen more than $30 billion in fines and legal fees.

    9 votes

  9. Comment on Larry David: My dinner with Adolf Hitler in ~society

  10. Comment on The Energia-Buran, as detailed by an eyewitness to the Soviet spaceplane before its destruction in ~space

  11. Comment on China bans 'smart' and 'autonomous' driving terms from vehicle ads in ~transport

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    China is banning automakers from using the terms "smart driving" and "autonomous driving" when they advertise driving assistance features, and will tighten rules around such technology upgrades, the government told industry representatives, according to a transcript of a meeting.

    The move follows a fatal accident involving Xiaomi's best-selling SU7 sedan in March that triggered widespread concerns over vehicle safety.

    Under the updated rule, automakers are no longer allowed to test and improve their ADAS via remote software updates for vehicles already delivered to customers without approval, according to the meeting transcript.

    They are now required to carry out sufficient tests to verify reliability and to obtain approval from the authorities before such roll-outs.

    34 votes

  13. Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account in ~tech

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    Original source: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel/

    Original source:
    https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel/

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    • We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.
    16 votes

  14. Comment on Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face in ~tech

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    They're not lazy regarding evasion. They're just lazy regarding adapting their generic collection logic to specific sites to be less resource hungry, e.g. just use the repositories instead of the...

    They're not lazy regarding evasion. They're just lazy regarding adapting their generic collection logic to specific sites to be less resource hungry, e.g. just use the repositories instead of the web interfaces of code forges.

    Over the past few months, instead of working on our priorities at SourceHut, I have spent anywhere from 20-100% of my time in any given week mitigating hyper-aggressive LLM crawlers at scale.

    [...] and they do so using random User-Agents that overlap with end-users and come from tens of thousands of IP addresses – mostly residential, in unrelated subnets, each one making no more than one HTTP request over any time period we tried to measure – actively and maliciously adapting and blending in with end-user traffic and avoiding attempts to characterize their behavior or block their traffic.

    (emphasis mine)

    10 votes

  15. Comment on Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face in ~tech

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    Artificial intelligence (AI) needs a lot of data. That is collected by searching through every website and its sub-pages. Depending how this collection is done this can use a lot of computing...

    Artificial intelligence (AI) needs a lot of data. That is collected by searching through every website and its sub-pages. Depending how this collection is done this can use a lot of computing resources and thereby incur a big cost for the entity hosting the websites.
    There's an arms race between the websites and the data collectors to detect and evade detection respectively.

    8 votes

  16. Comment on Record thefts boost North Korea to third-largest bitcoin holder in ~finance

  17. Comment on Dutch parliament calls for end to dependence on US software companies in ~tech

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    The Netherlands' parliament on Tuesday approved a series of motions calling on the government to reduce dependence on U.S. software companies, including by creating a cloud services platform under Dutch control.

    While such initiatives have foundered in the past due to a lack of viable European alternatives, lawmakers said changing relations with the United States under the presidency of Donald Trump have given the issue fresh urgency.

    20 votes

  19. Comment on Who will maintain Vim? A demo of Git Who in ~comp

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    Thanks for the pointer. The update didn't exist when I made the post yesterday. It's always good to be explicit about the assumptions: The tool is using git's author field on every commit. If the...

    Reddit user y-c-c pointed out to me that the above analysis of Vim’s commit history is misleading because for many years Moolenaar gave credit to contributors in the commit message of patches he committed. So, during the many years where it looks like Moolenaar was the sole contributor, there were in fact other people contributing to Vim—it’s just that all of their changes were introduced to the repo via a commit from Moolenaar.

    Typically, a situation like this would be handled in Git by setting the commit author to the person who wrote the patch and the commit committer to the person actually making the commit. git who uses the author field. Still, everybody is entitled to use their tools their own way; it’s also possible this convention didn’t exist when Moolenaar first migrated Vim to Git. The fault is my own for not spot checking the commit history to see how the Vim project did things. Vim has had more external contributors and for far longer than I represent above.

    Thanks for the pointer. The update didn't exist when I made the post yesterday.

    It's always good to be explicit about the assumptions:

    The tool is using git's author field on every commit. If the repository doesn't use this field according to git who's assumptions the results will be skewed.

    8 votes

  20. Comment on Who will maintain Vim? A demo of Git Who in ~comp

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    Bram Moolenaar, creator and long-time maintainer of the Vim text editor, died in 2023. His death was a great loss. He left behind a piece of software used and beloved by many, as well as some big questions: Who will keep Vim going now that he is gone? Are there other contributors that can take over? Has anyone been working on Vim since he died?

    I recently released an open-source command-line tool called git who that can answer some of these questions. I wanted to build the tool because I’ve long been fascinated by what we can learn about a codebase from the metadata in its commit history. The commit history embeds a lot of information, especially about the people behind the codebase. git who surfaces this information. As a Vim user myself, I’m curious to see what git who can tell me about who is working on Vim now. I also hope this example will show how git who can be useful.

    11 votes