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by Ajedi32 1y ago
In this case it looks like they didn't just want an image though, they wanted the cursor to invert the color of whatever part of the web page it's over, and to seamlessly morph into a selection highlight whenever you mouse over ce
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
That's only a problem if the stolen property is in an apartment and not a house or driveway. And even in the apartment case it could probably be used in combination with other evidence (if available) to obtain a warrant, though you&#x2
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
That's true. But the advertised use case (tracking stolen items) is perfectly valid.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> You shouldn't go get back your belongings from a thief anyways. And the police shouldn't either? Seems like knowing the location of your stolen property would help with getting it back in most cases.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Or takes a bus
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> It's not fair economics I think you have a distorted sense of what fairness is. Charging the same price to the rich that you charge to the poor for the same service is fair. Charging different prices would be unfair. Charity/
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Free stuff from the government is almost always very popular regardless of how bad of an idea it is. Free roads are no different.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
You can grant permission to multiple folders you know. Downloads is blocked because it would include everything you download, possibly including private stuff you don't want other apps to access. Just save the stuff that you want synce
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
If you care about always having the latest software with the latest Google features just get a Pixel. 7 years of OS and security updates: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en Google doesn&#x2
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
"Big refresh" seems like an exaggeration compared to the overhauls Android has gotten in the past. These are pretty subtle design tweaks. Which is fine; I don't think Android particularly needs a huge overhaul at this point.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I interpreted that statement as "this is available in API level 19 and up", not "this was introduced on the same date that we originally released API level 19", but it looks like you're correct: https://w
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> Notarization is an automated process This is false. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/118110#:~:text=a%20combinati... > It doesn't care about the content or type of app you're building. But it does
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I'm guessing it was back ported to Android 4.4, so it probably hasn't been available quite that long. (Update: Nevermind, looks like it was in the initial 4.4 release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxHVeXbK1P
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> people want their entire photo folders mirrored Then request access to their media folder. You don't need full disk access.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> I had to wonder if anyone writing the checks had ever seen the product Probably not, and that's like 90% of the issue with enterprise software. Sadly enterprise software products are often sold based mainly on how many boxes they
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Seems like a reasonable idea, though depending on how many users are affected that may effectively amount to going public. Also only works if the vulnerability gives you access to all customer emails, and you're willing to exploit it t
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
It's just a default, you can change it. Did Google coerce Apple into taking that deal somehow? Or did they simply offer them the most compelling deal in a free market? Keep in mind that if paying to be the default search engine in a br
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
What evidence do you have that their business model is harmful? As a consumer search seems like an extremely healthy sector right now with plenty of competition. Google just happens to be by far the best. What exactly do you think is stoppi
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> why did you cite them as the reason for China's authoritarianism becoming a problem China annexing Taiwan wouldn't merely be "intervening in foreign affairs". When an authoritarian regime conquers a liberal democrac
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I don't think you know what authoritarianism is. Military interventions in foreign affairs are a completely orthogonal issue. On that subject though, the US has generally been a force for good around the world. Iraq was briefly a liber
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
The US's authoritarian tendencies are not in remotely the same league as China and it's absurd to pretend otherwise. Our right to declare that rule apart from the consent of the governed is unacceptable comes from the fact that it
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
China is a potential adversary because they are an authoritarian, undemocratic regime making military threats against neighboring free, democratic nations (Taiwan). If everything stayed exactly the way it is today, except the Communist part
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
That's possible I suppose, but do you have any evidence of that or is it just your personal biases causing you to assume the worst motivation you can imagine must be the correct one? I know personally that given the choice I'd pro
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Valid concerns about op-sec and personal responsibility aside, I think this is another example of why "security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security". Official DoD communications equipment sucks, so people
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Is there any surveillance involved in this proposal at all, let alone "total" surveillance? Facial recognition software doesn't "surveil" anything on its own. If you want to talk about total surveillance, I'd w
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
That's fair. I've just been screenshotting the page and asking Gemini what I did wrong for free but I guess Google has deeper pockets than Duolingo so they can eat the cost of that for longer.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
I'm not sure exactly what method they're using, but inference costs for speech to speech models are pretty significant so it does make some sense to charge more. The LLM-based text explanations for translation problems are also in
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Note that DuoLingo does offer live voice conversations with an AI partner so it's not just translation. Unfortunately that's a "super premium" feature though; even the normal paid tier doesn't include it.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
The usual HN solution to this problem is to just flag purely political stories and not discuss politics. I agree any system that ranks posts purely on the ratio of upvotes to downvotes isn't well equipped to handle discussions of contr
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
I see no disagreement here. Due to human nature, ragebait is a subset of content that gets high engagement, so it gets amplified the same as any other high-engagement content.

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