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Raqbit | 1 year ago | on: Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade to the RPi 400

The first two generations of the Pi only had a single HDMI output - later generations have 2 and hence required smaller HDMI ports to be able to keep the Pi footprint.

Raqbit | 1 year ago | on: A story on home server security

You can install docker's compose plugin, and podman is able to use it via "podman compose": https://docs.podman.io/en/stable/markdown/podman-compose.1.h...

Raqbit | 1 year ago | on: Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade to the RPi 400

I'm assuming they chose Micro-HDMI here so they could use the same part they use on the Pi 5.

Raqbit | 1 year ago | on: Google is (not) bringing Fuchsia OS to Android devices

The Fuchsia team is working on a Linux compatibility-layer, named Starnix[1], which is much like WINE on Linux. This would allow Linux applications to run on Fuchsia as-if they were running on a Linux kernel. A massive amount of work, but less work than adapting every single existing application to run on Fuchsia.

Back in 2022, there were signs[2] that Google was working on testing the Android Runtime (ART) on top of Starnix, by trying to get the clock app running on top of it. Most of this work has been done in private though, the tracking-issues mentioned in the article were quickly set to private after they were found.

[1]: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/starnix [2]: https://9to5google.com/2022/07/15/android-removes-fuchsia-co...

Raqbit | 2 years ago | on: CSS Findings from the Threads App: Part 2

This sounds like an issue with CSS authoring tools, and not CSS itself.

Raqbit | 2 years ago | on: Hacking my “smart” toothbrush

A few years ago I reverse engineered my Oral-B (Braun) toothbrush in order to change the color of the brush (handle) to one of my liking, without being constrained by the pre-set colors available in smartphone app. (Which I think now also requires you to log in)

Turned it into a Go library: https://github.com/raqbit/goralb

Raqbit | 2 years ago | on: Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)

Middle boxes can arbitrarily limit the request URL size in certain cases.

Raqbit | 2 years ago | on: Has Apple sounded the last POST?

Device Firmware Upgrade

https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/DFU_Mode

Raqbit | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

Auto-updates had nothing to do with it, in this case it was a pre-existing bug in Firefox's HTTP3 implementation getting triggered by new changes to load balancers in front of Firefox's data collection servers.

Raqbit | 4 years ago | on: Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation

If someone doesn't accept cookies, how exactly would a site remember that the person did not accept cookies?

Raqbit | 4 years ago | on: You don't need that CORS request

This is also the reason you can still POST text/plain to random TCP servers on the user's local network, without pre-flight check.

Raqbit | 4 years ago | on: When HDMI 2.1 isn't HDMI 2.1 – the confusing world of the standard

Was "USB 3.2 Gen 2x2" not the name of SuperSpeed 20Gbps before USB 4 got released?

Raqbit | 4 years ago | on: U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

Google is, with Fuchsia: https://fuchsia.dev

Raqbit | 4 years ago | on: Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021

They are working on creating a full distro, based on Arch Linux ARM, which will be an easy-to-use package for end-users with bleeding-edge versions of the software they develop.[1]

That said, all components will be upstreamed into their respective projects such that other distributions should eventually be able to add support for Apple's line of desktop computers with Apple Silicon.

[1] https://asahilinux.org/about/#is-this-a-linux-distribution

Raqbit | 4 years ago | on: Apple and Google investigated by UK competition body

Not so sure about that last bit, Android is by far the most popular OS according to StatCounter, a global web analytics service: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

Raqbit | 4 years ago | on: Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs

This process was revised after the first round of aid to no longer allow the companies to give bonuses.

Raqbit | 4 years ago | on: Huawei replaces Android with HarmonyOS, which is also Android

They are actually working on porting the Android Runtime (ART) to Fuchsia. [1]

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/device/google/fuchsia/

Raqbit | 5 years ago | on: What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014)

Last time I checked, Outlook (The desktop application) exported contacts in localized CSV (semi-colon separated in my case) but Outlook (online) only accepted contacts separated by commas. As I was trying to migrate contacts on someone else's computer, I had to use notepad to change it.