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Nothing can stop the tower equipment manufacturer like Ericsson from knowing the location of your phone and cooperating with advertising or mobile tracking compainies to aggregate that data in useful ways. If you have a phone, people that want your location have it and there is nothing you can do.

False. You can:

1) Leave the phone at home

2) Use a phone with a hardware toggle switch that physically kills power to the cell modem, or turn off the phone and put it in a tested Faraday bag

3) Conspire with other citizens to make such location tracking illegal and to enforce that law

I’m tired of privacy doomerism. You have options, use them.


> If you have a phone, people that want your location have it and there is nothing you can do.

> False. You can: 1) Leave the phone at home

Then you dont have a phone, do you? Come on you are being pedantic for no reason.


Not all the time, no. But I can make calls over wifi and forward texts to myself. And nobody’s tracking me. Why would I always need the phone with me?

So people can give you a call even if you're not home? I mean, this has been the main selling point of mobile phones for over 30 years, and especially before smartphones became a thing. If you don't take your phone with you, you might as well wire in a landline and just use that.

> So people can give you a call even if you're not home? I mean, this has been the main selling point of mobile phones for over 30 years, and especially before smartphones became a thing.

It was the selling point of mobile phones before smartphones became a thing. It obviously hasn't been the main selling point of mobile phones since then.


You making a lot of calls in 2026? Messaging services seem to be more popular with people I know.

I have a phone so I have options if I need to be reachable or reach someone immediately while out (rare), or for travel. And because some services, mostly banks, refuse to accept VOIP numbers but require a verified phone number.


I'm young, and although most people prefer using texting or online messengers, I still call others and receive calls from time to time. I don't understand why everyone immediately locked onto proving that calling is unpopular now, because it doesn't disprove the point I was making. Phones are, first and foremost, portable communication devices. Be it calling, texting or using the internet, the point of the phone is to make you reachable on the go, and to let you reach other people from anywhere. If this wasn't the case, why would I and everyone else still be paying for a phone number? Sure, modern smartphones have gotten a lot of secondary functionality that is sometimes even required for participating in society. But the reason why I carry one around is so my friends, family and so on could reach me if so needed. If I chose to leave my phone at home most of the time, what's the point in having one? I might as well just use my computer for everything.

I do the same… and I don’t own a phone!

>> Nothing can stop the tower equipment manufacturer like Ericsson from knowing the location of your phone

> False. You can: > 1) Leave the phone at home

If you're going to be pedantic, at least be pedantically correct. The tower (and carrier) would still know the location of your phone in that case. (It just wouldn't be with you.)


Also, run an OS that doesn't allow every running process to read your GPS location. And allows you to turn off your cell modem.

So... Ericsson has a backdoor into every RAN and Core equipment they sell?

Yay new version! Not the most exciting (as Go releases tend to be which is good), but hopefully jsonv2 and greentea can get some testing and be standard in 1.26


> greentea

I didn't know what it is and had to look it up. Looks like a new GC.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73581


Is reading the posted article just something we don't do anymore?


To be fair, I read the article but still don't know what greentea is. The article never directly refers to the new GC by this name. It appears in a command line option value, that's about it.


> The new garbage collector may be enabled by setting GOEXPERIMENT=greenteagc at build time

I don’t know if you’d count that as directly referring to it by name but it’s there.


The sentence reads

The new garbage collector may be enabled by setting [blurred] at build time

to me, where exact flag value is automatically ignored, because I don't care what's in there. I don't pay attention to such irrelevant details


Yeah that’s extremely fair.


Haven't done that in ages. I open both the page and the comments. The first few comments usually dictate if I'm going to bother with the page.

What I want next is just an AI summary of the comments with vibe analysis ("Is this worth reading?).


If people were intended to read we wouldn't have to yell at them to RTFM!!


    I tried to find something fast and native. Saying "native" I mean something which doesn't require a browser.
Uses a browser which doesn't meet the requirements they set.


Yep. Personally I love the Firefox profiler for interacting with perf - since it can show you flame graphs and let you explore a perf trace by dominators and whatnot.

But I applaud the effort to make small, native apps. I agree with the author - not everything should live in the browser.


I think they were saying "fast and native" because web things usually aren't fast. In this case it is though, so I don't see why it would be a problem for it to be web based.


I said "fast and native" because none of browsers made it impossible to inspect the flamegraph.

> In this case it is though, so I don't see why it would be a problem for it to be web based.

Would you like to say that your browser is able to render the flamegraph https://laladrik.xyz/img/pic.svg and inspect it? As I wrote in the article (the first paragraph), it takes a couple of seconds to render the graph, and nothing happens when I press on a frame. Could you check it, please? If your browser renders it as fast enough and allows to open a frame, please, let me know how could I improve any of browsers. I would really appreciate it.


I don't know what 529 you guys invested in but Utah's 529 which anyone can use whether or not they live in Utah allows you to invest in regular old Vanguard funds like VSTSX. They also offer target dates funds that handle gradually shifting to a more conservative allocation as enrollment date nears if that's what you want.

I agree that not all 529s are good, only 2 plans received a gold rating from Morningstar in 2022: Utah & Michigan. I wouldn't choose anything other than those.


The S&P 500 is also flat since October and up 16.3% in the last year. VXUS is down in the last year. If you want a simple strategy buy into an S&P 500 index fund and don't worry until you're closer to retirement.


Yeah it seems to not load if you're logged in. Both old and new Reddit working fine in Incognito mode in Chrome.


I thought the same in the other post, try this someone suggested: That's probably because you have it set to show the old interface by default. Go to new.reddit.com and it should work fine.


I stand corrected.


Regular https://reddit.com also doesn't work so I'd say this could also be a larger problem.


That's probably because you have it set to show the old interface by default. Go to new.reddit.com and it should work fine.


But that URL shows the fisher-price level interface.


Yes, but the point is it's not all of reddit that is down, just something specific with the old interface.


Just something specific with the only reasonable interface.

I didn't see anyone claiming that all of reddit was down.


The user I replied to literally said that all of reddit was down and I pointed out that it is not all of reddit.


Missed that, sorry.


On an Android phone I can just use F-Droid or install an apk I downloaded from anywhere. That's not the case with an iPhone. Not sure about consoles.


Utopia can only enter cities that allow & fund it, so for most cities this not an option. Nothing like Comcast.


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