Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (May 08, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for May 08, 2023 :</p>
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Ancient Earth Globe
Summary: The provided URL leads to a visualization created and maintained by Ian Webster that shows the Earth's paleogeography at various points in time, ranging from 750 million years ago to the present day. The visualization includes information on the emergence of various life forms, such as green algae, coral reefs, land plants, insects, reptiles, and dinosaurs. The visualization also includes information on the formation and breakup of supercontinents, such as Pannotia and Pangea. The maps are based on plate tectonic and paleogeographic data provided by C.R. Scotese and the PALEOMAP Project.
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Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled
Summary: The author of the article, Thomas Fitzsimmons, is requesting that Google ungrey the "OEM unlocking" toggle in the factory before shipping Pixel phones to customers. He argues that customers should not have to connect their devices to the internet before being allowed to install the operating system they want. Fitzsimmons bought a Pixel 7 Pro from store.google.com, which was advertised as an "unlocked smartphone," but found that the "OEM unlocking" toggle was greyed out and required an internet connection to unlock. He believes this is a customer-hostile practice and that customers should not have to connect their devices to the internet to use all of its features. Fitzsimmons was able to determine that the final site accessed just before "OEM unlocking" became operable was "afwprovisioning-pa.googleapis.com."