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by 542458 4y ago
You’d have to impersonate Google’s web servers to push the update, wouldn’t you? That would mean both hijacking the DNS and faking or stealing the TLS cert. That’s not impossible, but it’s pretty much a moderately-well-equipped-nation level
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I don’t think that’s a great argument. Just because a company is large doesn’t mean they’re ethically in the wrong on every possible accusation.
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Before iOS (and for the early years of iOS) people paid out of pocket for software updates. Now it’s an ongoing cost instead, imposed as a tax on software transactions. This is not an unusual arrangement - people rent things in perpetuity a
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Apple’s non-hardware expenses aren’t limited to the distribution platform… They make the OS, the libraries, the APIs, the development tools and continue to maintain those even after the hardware is sold… Why should third parties get to free
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There are lots of enterprise tech stacks where you have a single (or single-as-possible) centralized secret store… it’s far from uncommon, I.e., Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Google Cloud KMS.
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LinkedIn does have a jobs platform. I’m not an HR person, but the bits of it I used were pretty good. I liked the AI bit that auto-filtered-out people with nothing at all relevant on their resumes (which was pretty accurate from my spot che
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Thank you!
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What are you using as your Zigbee hub?
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While I somewhat agree, in my experience in practice the “just run it locally” approach results in software I need to use a clumsy and slow VPN to access, runs on servers that are either wildly over or underpowered, is constantly going down
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Yeah, as a Figma and Adobe consumer this feels like an intentional effort to limit my choice and enable Adobe creative cloud to continue to be more-or-less the only realistic option for design work. I’m perennially frustrated that I live in
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by 542458 4y ago
Yeah, over the last five years illustrator has added no useful new features (at least for my use cases) and XD has wandered around with no clear direction. Meanwhile Figma has been a rocketship of features that massively improve workflows.
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Cross-site caching doesn’t exist in any modern browser (IIRC each site gets it’s own separate cache) because it enables all sorts of tracking and leaks browsing history.
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Is that actually the test? That still sounds like it would make every third-party CDN (Cloudflare, Akami, etc) illegal - a CDN isn’t “necessary” and logs IP addresses all over the place. I can’t help but feel that the situation is much more
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All wood frame is not equivalent. Modern stick framing is designed to slow the spread of flame both with how the wood is used (see modern stick framing vs balloon framing) and the other materials chosen (drywall is fairly nonflammable, wher
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by 542458 4y ago
So what happens when there are hundreds++ of individuals all interested in a single domain name that will become available at a very well-defined time like this? Do people just hammer the ICANN/registrar servers in hope of being the lu
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by 542458 4y ago
That’s an interesting hypothesis. I could see how paper mail, by virtue of forcing you to put extreme effort into clarity and thoroughness, could spark some novel thinking. On the other hand, as much as I think I work with great people, I d
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I’m doing my best! I’m in a very hybrid environment right now. But even people with a lot of experience find it hard. The O’Reiley book “Discussing Design” (strong recommend, it’s a good book) is about design critique, and it spends some ti
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by 542458 4y ago
Probably going to get downvoted by people but… There are a lot of people ITT scornful of Apple’s decision here, and saying that they’re only doing it for dumb reasons, I.e., to justify their office or because managers are old and out of tou
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Says Linus Torvalds from 2018… > My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me. I know now this was not
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For anybody not familiar, WebFaction was “shared hosting for nerds”. The control panel gave you a lot more power than most shared hosts did, you had SSH access, and you could spin up servers for pretty much every web programming environment
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As a web dev, my choice of OS influences: * What IDEs/editors I have access to * What image editing tools I have access to * How easy it is to get my server’s backend running on my local machineas a dev environment The last one is most
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For what it’s worth - you can have a lot of fun with a small budget wood lathe and not a lot of space. Pens, small bowls and plates, chess pieces… it’s not as spectacular as big slab tables, but it captures the same “show off beautiful figu
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I work for an established medium sized company that is always looking for Delphi Pascal programmers for a realtime directX graphics application. Not surprisingly, this skillset can be hard to find in 2022.
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I agree with this. I always tell people that the designs aren’t carved in stone or written in blood, and if something looks or feels wrong to bring it up. There’s no point in the process where the design can’t be improved, and anybody can b
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It feels like there’s been a rash of companies messing up BGP stuff lately - Facebook, cloudflare, and now this.
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Honestly, those numbers seem pretty good to me for a first generation product. As a baseline, at Ontario electricity prices that means I can get my carbon emissions to net zero ignoring any zero lifestyle changes for ~$5000/an. That’s
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Trees eventually rot or burn, which releases most of the carbon again. Once a forest is mature carbon sequestration is minimal to zero: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210325150055.h...
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My initial idea would be to scrape allowed names from Wikipedia. Or maybe only allow a name if it appears more than N times in the corpus… Still, both of those would create issues with name collisions and common names, but it’s probably bet
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Here's Kate Downing, an IP lawyer specializing in software license: > According to Downing, the answer depends to a certain extent on where that code is hosted. If it’s on GitHub, there very clearly would not be copyright infringeme
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IANAL. My understanding is that the general legal precedent in the US is that a) datamining text has no copyright implications (in the same way that reading a book has no copyright implications) and b) it is not a copyright violation to use

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