The grading is a mess. It goes about qualitative, quantitative… and statistical corrections “to make it fair”.

Anyway, there is ~30% margin on the scores for passing, so chances are that 9% is better than the worst doctor who still “passed”.

I’ve been using fondleslabs for a long time, and based on early experience:

• Nexus One - 3.7" display, too small to be practical
• Galaxy Nexus - 4.6" display, better but still small
• Nexus 7 - 7" display, sweet spot ✅
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 - 10.1" display, cool tablet, too huge to hold

I used to spend more time with the Nexus 7 than any other device.

Nowadays, a Galaxy A35 has a 6.6" display, which is pretty close to the “sweet spot”. While I can’t comfortably hold it with one hand by itself, a Magsafe case and a PopSocket, let me hold it in multiple ways (a Qi charging addon under the case, allows wireless charging while protecting the USB port, without spending four times as much on an S series).

I’m not surprised at all that flagships are converging towards 7" displays. Smaller phones are for special use cases, like some ruggedized models.

For now, trifold are a gimmick, the screens break and the hinges get full of dust.

It’s yet to be seen whether a trifold can be made into a similar folded size as a non-fold phone with similar capabilities, but even then… the resulting unfolded phone would need to be about 1/3rd the thickness of a normal phone, which is a lot to ask; by the time the technology is there, normal phones will be 1/3rd thinner too, so a trifold will again seem “clunky”.

Backpack phones, is what we call “laptops” nowadays, some come with 2 extra monitors, or you can add them as an accessory.

Android phones can run regular Linux via Termux, and starting with Android 16 they’ll come with a regular Linux VM with GPU acceleration support.

Yes, every 30 seconds, for hours on end.

Useful for many things, starting with CI/CD status panels.

When OpenEvidence took the US Medical Licensing Exam recently, it was wrong 9% of the time

The passing score for USMLE is ~200 out of 300… how many “wrong times” is that?

https://www.kaptest.com/study/usmle/passing-scores/

Which part? Putin is a former KGB agent, former FSB director, and has openly stated that he wants to rebuild the USSR.

I had the “Page Refresh” one… disabled, but still installed. There are multiple “[Auto] [Easy] Page/Tab Refresh/Reload” extensions in the store, hard to pick one that won’t go rogue.

a device that can capture photos and videos, support some large language model or another, and be used to interact with the world without having to pull a phone out of their pocket.

Bodycam + Echo/Nest + projector, sounds interesting… too bad they had to make it so expensive, and locked down.

Wonder if there are some cheap secondhand ones out there.

Some obvious jurisdictions that come to mind, are US vs. EU:

• US: protects “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII)
• EU: protects “Personal Information” (PI)

The color of your hair… is PI in the EU, it isn’t PII in the US since it’s not enough to pinpoint you as a single person.

Under US law, a data broker can gather a bunch of “not-PII, just PI”, and refine it into profiles that can end up pinpointing single individuals.

Under EU law, that’s illegal; no selling PI, period.

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They say that they’ve removed the ability for you to save locally, but I can’t see how that’s possible

It’s quite simple really: think of it as a “demo”. You can be offline, start it, mess around, copy&paste stuff… close it and lose all your changes… or go online and save the file to OneDrive.

It is “not cloud” only in the sense that a cloud solution sends the code to run the app to your browser, which most likely will save it to local cache, then read it from there unless there is an update online.

Meanwhile, if you browse to draw.io, you can have your browser download the app to its cache, optionally “install locally” then go offline, open the app, load and save from local, go online, load and save from cloud… is that a “cloud” solution, or a “local” solution? What is a PWA?

IndexedDB et al, can be cleared from the devtools, I think should be cleaned when removing browsing data, or can be deleted directly through the OS. “Cookie AutoDelete” should still work with V3, but it may need some updates, and it seem like it hasn’t been updated since 2022.

Interesting. Sounds like it saw you watch “TLDR” content, and binned you with the “I want simple answers, here and now” cohort, a prime target for manipulation videos. Probably could have pushed you in any direction you seemed inclined to follow.

Does anyone check that updated versions pushed to the extension store, match the available source, and have no extra “features” included?

uBlock (not Origin) was also open source, then it got sold to AdBlock, which also had been sold, to a company that charges advertisers to bypass it.

No, neither does. V2 browsers show a generic warning on first install, V3 removes the API. Google argues that it’s a security issue… and yes, it is. Their solution though, is some kneejerk BS. Mozilla argues that it’s a user’s right to privacy to block ads and trackers… and yes, I agree. They don’t address the security part, though! So it’s an “all or nothing” choice, which is silly.

Ad blockers can still work on V3… not as thoroughly and not as pretty, but more secure. It’s a nonsense trade-off, when both issues could be addressed by giving users more control.

It looks like neither Google nor Mozilla want to put in the work or take on the responsibility, while ad blocker developers are simply cheering for the less secure option… which makes me uneasy.

It keeps amazing me how these Manifest V2 vs. V3 discussions, fail to address the elephant in the room: intercept and modify network requests.

Do you want your web browser — that you may be using to access your banking account, or your shopping account, or an internet, or any sort of private content you want to keep secure — to allow every extension you install, forever and ever, to “intercept and modify network requests”… even if it initially didn’t, but then over time the developer, or whoever the developer might sell it to (see AdBlock and uBlock), might decide to “intercept and modify network requests”, for any reason they want, without any warning?

What is so wrong with the browser ASKING THE USER before denying/granting that permission to random extensions?

And how about having the browser let the user decide whether an extension is allowed to do that, on a per-website basis? I know, you can tell uBlock Origin to ignore a website… and “trust me, bro”? How about the browser enforced that instead?

Serious question: radicalize in what way?

I generally skip ALL propaganda videos longer than 10 seconds, no matter the orientation or product advertised. It’s my BS detector from years of watching TV as a kid. (Only exception is when I want to see the latest trends in ad techniques, and analyze them).

I honestly wonder how does a radicalization process look like. 🤔

I’m still using RSS. YouTube lives off ads/subscriptions, they don’t care how you find the videos.

(the bell) and it doesn’t even fucking work 100% of the time. I subscribe to and have notifications enabled for about 13 channels that upload every single day; I only get notified like once a month

Do you have it set to “All”, or to “Personalized”?

I don’t really care about most notifications, so I leave them on “Personalized”, which lets the algorithm decide when to send one. The few channels I’ve set to “All”, seem to notify me every time.

YouTube prefers you use the home feed

I’m not all that sure; don’t they get the same amount of money from ads no matter how you find them? And they get a hefty chunk on “Join” and “Thanks” payments (a 30% cut, IIRC), which people are less likely to spend on non-subscribed channels.