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Sorry but I don't speak German, what's the context for that video?

Just watch it until about half way in.

This is the context:

> and cars aren't mounting pavements to get me...


> They act like we’re going to war with them when we’re asking for parity and for their self reliance to increase.

Threatening to take over Greenland by force isn't considered "going to war" for you?


That'll only support L3 DRM, so you'll only get horrible quality and are better off sailing the high seas.


Shoutout to https://localsend.org/ - it can even open a local webserver if needed.


LocalSend requires the devices to be on the same local network. TFA is about file sharing using a direct device-to-device wireless connection.


We've had ad-hoc WiFi for about 3 decades, but that requires a level of device access that no gatekeeper will agree to anymore.


WiFi Direct has been in Android for at least a decade, maybe even a decade and a half: https://developer.android.com/develop/connectivity/wifi/wifi...

The code was added to Android with Android 4.0 back in 2011.

You can check for WiFi Direct networks manually in Settings > Network & internet > Internet > Network preferences > Wifi Direct. If you live in a city, you can probably find one or two printers in the neighbourhood advertising a WiFi Direct channel you can use to print over.


Well, one gatekeeper. Wifi direct/aware seems to work fine outside of iOS and Mac os.


It is now supported bey iOS as well, thanks to the EU: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/WiFiAware


I prefer https://pairdrop.net/ ; nicer interface


To continue the thread, my favorite is https://drop.lol


I’m using FilePizza when I need it, saw it on HN recently. All this AI magic allegedly taking our jobs, but we still can’t transfer files from one device to another, or print a document reliably.

https://file.pizza/


I've been very happy with Blip. My use case is to share processed photos from my MacBook to my Pixel to use for Social sharing. It's super-fast, especially when the devices are on the same LAN.


> we still can’t transfer files from one device to another

Nor send text message with images.


Why would a text message support images?


Or react to images sent by those that can.


Is replying not enough? I always feel like react is a lazy way to avoid replying


A well placed react can be quality comedy. Also very easy way to communicate to somebody you saw what they sent/are doing what they asked.


reactions are richer than a word


what about two words


A text is already a lazy way to avoid speaking.


One level of laziness should be enough for anyone.


idk, for me text is more hard. talk is easiest. voice messages is top lazy and I hate them.


Drop.lol works in android-firefox. File.pizza isn't, for me.


To continue to continue the thread relaysecret.com and relaysecret.com/tunnel Found it on hn years ago, still use it all the time. Perfect replacement for Firefox send, rip


What about b.o.b.? https://bob.osau.re/


It's slow as suffering in hell.


Really? It has been by far the fastest and simplest option I've found and use across all my devices these days. Not that I looked very deep though, like pairdrop and such.

So what's better than this?


One of those apps that "just works". Been using it recently to share files between an Android phone and my Mac. Turns out it works better than Airdrop itself when I couldn't send a file from my iPhone to my Mac. Great user experience as well.


+1. Easy to use and works on every platform. Also supports sending plain text between your devices (into clipboard of recipient).


Not the same.


Swiss-German accent doesn't seem to be on the list, so it guessed mostly Swedish.


Vikings are a very good archer civ, full tree and the free handcart is a top-tier eco-boost.


I just distinctly remember getting slaughtered by Paladins, and having very few good options to counter.


With non-unique units paladins can only be countered by upgraded halberdier, heavy camels or a huge mass of arbalesters. Monks counter them in small numbers but in late game when they're massed they're almost unstoppable unless you have halb/camel in equal numbers.


Well even arbalesters get slaughtered by Paladins, unless we are able to push them behind a wall or a corner with only a very tiny attack area for the Paladins.


I think even in open ground if you have a big enough group you can still trade well. Ethiopian arbs fire 25% faster. If you micro the arbs to focus on individual paladinsthey can one shot paladins and their attack surface area increases with the sqrt() of their numbers. For sure it's a lot more work than spamming halb.


Yeah it needs a lot of micro though.


Note that the Viking Pikemen have a lot of extra HP though.


Good candidate for the next civ split after this next release. Curious to see what happens.


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Population density: - Germany: 239 people/km^2 - Switzerland: 563 people/km^2

Public funding per citizen per year: - Germany: ~200€ (2013, so 250€ with inflation) https://www.bmuv.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Pools/Forschungsdate... - Switzerland: ~750€ (2024) https://switzerlandtimes.ch/swiss-public-transport-revenues-...

So you have a third of the money, and about half the population density.


tl;dr: DRM for websites


It looks very similar to the “secure boot” mechanisms in Windows and other commercial client OS.

Strikes me as very dangerous though on the web where there are so many paths for malware to get in and this could get in the way of plugging the holes.


No, it's similar to attestation APIs like android SafetyNet (now called Play Integrity API) that are used to check that "your ROM is valid according to Google".

Secure boot can protect you eg. against malware gaining write access and modifying your system. I see it as user protection, as long as you can sign the trust chain. This is what GrapheneOS is doing as far as I know.


A trust chain beginning at the bootloader is what will ultimately enable this API, though, because that's what SafetyNet/Play Integrity API relies on. If you don't have a locked bootloader, or you're not running stock Android, you won't pass SafetyNet/Play Integrity (at least the higher tiers of it).

To take your GrapheneOS example, apps wishing to support it must add GrapheneOS keys: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...

If this proposal goes ahead, it's unlikely that you'll be able to convince site owners and/or ad networks to add the keys of your open source OS.


I don't disagree with you, but let's not throw away secure boot because Google found a way to ruin it!


It was also dangerous for your PC: as soon as people ceded the ability to led their parties control what we run on our devices--such as by "only firmware signed by Apple can run on my phone"--we lost this war.


> It was also dangerous for your PC: as soon as people ceded the ability to led their parties control what we run on our devices--such as by "only firmware signed by Apple can run on my phone"--we lost this war.

If that's how "we lost this war", then it was lost before it even started. Even before Apple released their phones, it was already the case that phone firmware came only from the phone manufacturer. That is: phones come from a different lineage than PCs, and were never as open as general purpose computers ended up being.


I mean, those were by and large fixed function devices and while phone calls are certainly a form of communication they aren't really networked devices. And... while it was technically possible to update the software on them, most people never did.

There were only a scant handful of years where there even existed phones where this could matter... but now this same mentality is being applied to every new category of device--all of which acting as general computing devices--based on these precedents.


Or a malicious server trying to detect if you're using `curl | sh` https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032


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