Anamon

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by Anamon 2y ago
Copyright infringement is not theft -- false comparison. Also, have you considered how likely the people who are trying to get around your payment would be to pay up if they didn't find a way? If what you say about how long they try is
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by Anamon 2y ago
It's also common in German ("einen Bärendienst erweisen").
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by Anamon 3y ago
I think we have far passed the tipping point, and what we need is a drastic reduction. We're not that different from fruit flies. They multiply like crazy as long as there's enough food, and when it's gone, there's a mas
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by Anamon 3y ago
Another example for how preventing users from doing rollbacks is a terrible practice. Even if it's not your application's fault, users may have very good reasons to revert an update, if only temporarily. This also bothers me on An
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by Anamon 3y ago
See also the lawsuit against the Internet Archive, as some other comment already pointed out. What this also primarily is, is a direct attack by the publishers on the first sale doctrine, a crucial balancing part of copyright law. Time-limi
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by Anamon 3y ago
And to celebrate their history, they deleted their history site. https://web.archive.org/web/20230730070955/https://www.ibm.c... (This was still online a few weeks ago)
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by Anamon 3y ago
My number one grievance with Win11. Also, I think it's in the top 3 of all feature requests on Microsoft Feedback by votes. Yet, no movement. It feels so anachronistic to force the waste of space that is a horizontal task bar, in an ag
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by Anamon 3y ago
To disconfuse: the "displayed" in the final sentence is a mistranslation from "anzeigen", which means pressing charges. "Thank you for saving us from liability hell and damages by helping us fix our shit. Police off
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by Anamon 3y ago
Were you the guy sending test push notifications from Firebase to all users of Xperia phones last year? :D
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by Anamon 3y ago
I know people in the translation business. Automatic translation is out of the question in a lot of businesses and areas. One category would be safety-critical businesses where companies can get into a world of legal hurt if their translati
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by Anamon 3y ago
It's noticeable that they're working with a much much smaller team than their competitors, and they occasionally roll out new bugs. On the other hand, they seem really dedicated and listen to the users. I've switched to Qobuz
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by Anamon 3y ago
Unfortunately, many spam callers don't even use number lists, but just iterate through. phoneNumber++ ad infinitum. With parallelised robocallers that only involve a human when a connection is established, it's cheap and effective
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by Anamon 3y ago
I tend to try and give them the impression that I'm gullible enough to maybe fall for it, then say I quickly need to do an urgent thing like move the washing to the dryer, put them on hold, and later check how long they stayed on the l
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by Anamon 3y ago
I still do the Spamcop thing diligently. Heck if I know whether it does any good, but it's not a big effort and if it helps in a few cases, why not. A surprising amount of the spam and phishing mails I get come through major providers:
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by Anamon 3y ago
The sad part is that it only got really really broken when it got digitised, i.e. IP telephony. Preventing number spoofing was trivial and a solved problem back when the phone system was still "antiquated". These design flaws we
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by Anamon 3y ago
> who the hell has 20 users just waiting for your app? I'd wager that the majority of apps published to app stores struggle to find 20 users total, period. Let alone before public release. It really seems like an obviously counterpr
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by Anamon 3y ago
Another writer mistaking LLMs for AI. As a programmer, I'm paid to solve novel problems, things that can't be solved by just glueing existing things together. But that's all LLM-generated code can do. And it's a qualitat
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by Anamon 3y ago
You may have still been susceptible because it seems that you can just change the key to a new one in that settings screen. I just tried, and setting a new key only asked me to confirm the password. An encrypted confirmation mail is apparen
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by Anamon 3y ago
This isn't about sending e-mail through Facebook (although that may be possible, too, I don't know), it's about the e-mails Facebook sends to users, such as password recovery messages.
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by Anamon 3y ago
Aren't those very payments currently turning out to be a big antitrust issue for Google, for unfairly keeping people away from other search engines? Different battleground, but could very well end up having a major impact on this.