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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • It’s pretty f. weird that Lisa Su is the CEO despite being so closely related to Jensen, I would dislike this if I were an AMD investor. However this is not a family monopoly, since neither Su or Jensen own these companies, not substantially anyway. (well below 1% & 3 something % owned respectively) Meaning of shareholders at large disliked Lisa Su’s way of doing things, she would be booted without too many hurdles I would think & the same is true for Jensen.






  • Building an app in python reliant on pyqt is simplicity itself, vibecoding or not. If you have a Linux phone you can run these simple boiler plate apps. For Android you need a build chain & everything is just more complicated, including testing. (as far as I understand it anyway)

    Suddenly it occurred to me that perhaps my LineageOS phone needs some sort of a Linux runetime, Vm whatever to run my weather app…


  • I legit don’t know what to do.

    There is nothing much you can do, maybe you could tell your representative that they would lose your vote if they voted for this…

    Well, unless you are willing to dedicate your life to create a new populist (doesn’t matter if it’s left-right or center) political force to actually get somewhere, like some Serbians & Hungarians have done in recent years.

    The kind of protest that would have actual impact will not happen in Canada anytime soon, almost no matter what happens.


  • The problem is convincing developers and publishers that it’s worth it.

    I don’t think this is difficult. On GoG you are allowed to download your game installers & burn them to physical media if you so please. It’s not unreasonable to think that GoG could do the same at your behest, with some professionally printed art added in. I don’t really see a circumstance where anyone would oppose this.


  • Honestly I’m not entire sure, i’m not a lawyer.

    Though Proton is a subscription service. Then again, probably with some clever tricks it’s possible to devise a renewing subscription that is not storing the payment credentials in such a way that the company could not extract it. The more I think about this, the more i’d like to know what Swiss law really allows for. (chatGPT thinks you’re right & my argument is on very weak grounds)


  • Why isn’t that incident enough for everyone to drop them?

    There is no public email service provider -as far as I know- that would refuse a court order to share such information. In the case of Proton any foreign authority wanting such needs to convince Swiss authorities that their request is legitimate.

    Ultimately if you register an account with false credentials & never pay for pro, then the only thing proton can give to Swiss authorities is maybe your IP address, which will be your VPN if you have one. If you pay then payment credentials could be used to identify you.

    All the emails stored on proton’s servers are non-recoverable, same as with Tuta.

    It sucks that paying for pro reduces your privacy, but this applies to other email providers as well. This is actually what happened in the Atlanta case & there is no real defense against it. Using your personal credit card creates a trail.

    Can you imagine a world where you can order physical cards for email credit? (and they would have randomized codes to avoid this exact problem)

    Did he make a post defending the asterisk “privacy first” should have in their marketing?

    Private email is a bit of an oxymoron, the best anyone can do is to store your own email history in an unrecoverable way, which proton is doing, but their marketing team is not really transparent about what “private email” really is & what that means to users.










  • There are two innovations kind of worth noting. One is that the software animation when closing or opening the phone looks very cool & the second is that Apple’s plastic screen protector is using a somewhat clever matte nano tech that hides the crease -and reflections in general- quite effectively.

    Imo folding phones are not really worth using, but the Iphone Fold is especially bad. Not only is the hinge design itself obviously flawed causing all these breakages, but also the hinge internals are sealed really poorly so you get some dirt in there & gg.