[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 122 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Okay so yes it's green text but...

I know people who work at inpatient acute facilities and they are constantly having to cockblock people to prevent truly horrible things from happening (think anorexia dating borderline or NPD + NPD)

So while this particular story may not have happened, this general story happens daily.

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This is a list of phone manufacturers that lock their bootloaders to prevent people from installing custom operating systems (LineageOS etc) to remove bloatware and spyware/tracking.

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 75 points 2 months ago

Okay Canadian assembly techs: you have an opportunity to do something extremely funny

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 70 points 2 months ago

We really need an open source mobile operating system that isn't controlled by tech megacorps.

Android is far too compromised by corporate profit motives.

  • it helps network operators identify tether traffic and prevents it from being hidden by the systems VPN.

  • it facilitates vendor pre installed adware, bloat ware, and malware that can't be uninstalled

  • it facilitates carrier locking to prevent users from switching carriers

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 125 points 2 months ago

Hello fellow criminals, anyone get up to any good crime lately?

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 62 points 3 months ago

They rip them apart and use the non-serialized components as repair parts. If apple didn't try to overcharge for and restrict repair parts this would be less of a thing.

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 107 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This doesn't do anything, all these aircraft are already in trusts. You can still track them, the N number/ICAO ID is what people are using

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 year ago

In his circles apparently HGH is viewed, erroneously, as a life extension drug. It wouldn't surprise me for an instant if he was mainlining it out of a fear of dying like a common peasant.

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 124 points 1 year ago

If you absolutely have to hand over your phone, turn it off completely, like hold the power button and then tap the off icon. That will dump any keys out of RAM, which is why it always requires the full password to unlock when you turn it back on. Both in terms of how your phone works and the leaks we've seen, the cracking tools the police have are overall significantly less likely to be successful when used on a phone that's been turned off and not unlocked since.

Also, IIRC iphones have a feature where they will dump at least some of the system keys from RAM if you push the lock button five times. I'd still trust fully off more but that's easier to do covertly.

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 98 points 2 years ago

I'm adjacent to the industry. This is dumb but I understand the reasoning. We're getting left behind in the electronics world. Nobody is creating hardware startups because every few months there's a viral blog post with a "hardware is hard" title on HN and none of the VC assholes want to fund anything but web based surveillance capitalism ad tech because it's a surefire way to make money. Even if you do get funded and you're US based you're absolutely doing all your manufacturing in China if you're remotely consumer facing (b2big-b has different rules). That means Chinese companies get all the benefits of all the labor from your highly trained engineers when they get the design files. If you try to build anything at volume in the US you have strikingly few options for boards and parts. Everything is whole number multiples of fucking PCBway and half the time it's lower quality unless you're paying aero-defense prices which is the only business anyone wants.

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 years ago

You wouldn't download an island

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 80 points 2 years ago

Yeah, a surprising number of people don't want these hyper complex cars with thousands of microchips and millions of lines of code operating them. Give me an electric 2012 Honda fit/Toyota matrix equivalent that just fucking works and costs $20k or less new.

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 years ago

Recommendation: report the pop-up as a bug with the provided link. Just act confused and claim to not be using an ad blocker. Muddy the waters and make life hell for their devs.

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