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AM, which operates at a lower frequency, has radio waves with larger wavelengths, meaning they travel farther but struggle to penetrate solid objects like buildings.

Aren’t low frequencies better at penetrating materials?

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Even after reading the article I still have no idea how they plan to do it

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And rightfully so. Corporations will find every conceivable way to track you and no API will be left unused, including tracking MAC addresses of bluetooth devices around you, which is a relatively easy one.
However, you can absolutely allow an app to access that API so it can scan for those MACs.
Funny thing, as soon as the API is locked down and presented as an option to the user, companies stop using it since nobody wants to give bluetooth access to i.e. Facebook.

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Such a cool project, thanks for documenting it and posting here

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What are you aiming it? If it’s a false alarm, just unlock your phone again.

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Cars suck but I’ve been spending too much time in them and now I’m too stupid to explain why

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I never understood what the fuck was up with that. Most older dumb phones had that feature and even if they deemed it unnecessary, the sheer amount of flashlight apps would prove them wrong

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Wouldn’t agree.
You could’ve recorded a 30 minute video with the flashlight on without any issues. They also wouldn’t allow API access to the flashlight hardware for those apps if it was damaging the phones.
Plastic Sony Ericssons and Nokias had flashlights circa 2005 and could shine day and night and every one of those phones had internal power control of the LED (it would shine brighter when taking a photo and be dimmer when used as a flashlight).
Meanwhile metal and glass iPhones with even better heat dissipation didn’t have flashlight as a system feature until iOS 7 in 2013.

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That’s actually correct but I assumed they opened up the API afterwards. I used to notice it before because the optical image stabilization would kick in and you could hear the solenoids kick the lens around as you move the phone.

Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites (www.theverge.com)

In February, HouseFresh managing editor Gisele Navarro called out publishers like BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone as some of the culprits that publish content about air purifiers despite a lack of expertise — but Google rewards these sites with high rankings all the same. The result is a search results page filled with SEO-first...

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I want a search engine addon that allows blacklists, specifically ones that block every site that pumps out AI generated stories, preferably crowd-sourced. CNET would be the first one.
I’m sick of the internet at its current state, and it’s visibly getting worse day to day. I don’t even know how to search for shit and recommendations when planning to buy something.

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I’ve heard of it but I don’t like the idea of having search queries associated with my credit card, even though they say they don’t do that.

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Didn’t think this through, did I… But DDG works for now

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Hey, is Signal down? Ah, reactor exploded, destroying the datacenter along with the staff on prem
Jk, cool stuff

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Put a lil bit of proxmox on there and fuck around

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The more efficient the machines, the less efficient the code, such is the way od life

Nvidia to buy Israeli deep learning co Deci AI - report (en.globes.co.il)

US chip giant Nvidia Corp. has struck a deal to acquire Israeli deep learning developer Deci AI, "The Information" reports, according to a person involved in the deal. The report follows hard on the heels of yesterday's official announcement by Nvidia that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Israeli AI...

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I just did it! Thank you so much! I failed so many times in the past but this took a few hours and now I have that perfect setup that I always wanted.

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How do you handle the forwarded port change on every reconnect and updating it in qbt?

Pi.Alert is dead...💀 Long live NetAlert X 🚀 (network monitoring) (lemmy.world)

After thinking for about a year about it I decided to rename the project to 🚀NetAlertX. This will help prevent confusion about which fork someone is using, and differentiate it from the now stale upstream project. With about 1800 or so commits over the stale project, I thought, this project deserved a new name. It will also...

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Same goes with your phone, unfortunately

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How do you even encrypt a server so that it doesn’t require human intervention every time it goes down/restarts?

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Betteridge’s law of headlines still applies: When the headline is a question, the answer is no.

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He’s tired of checking, and so am I. Welcome to the future of the internet

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I fucking love 👍🏻 architecture, gotta be one of my favorite genders

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For sure, there’s nothing less valuable than data brokering

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It’s really loud since it’s spinning a huge led panel at 600RPM

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