EastSmith

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by EastSmith 4y ago
Never buying a Sony device ever again. Got one 4,5 years back (3rd one for last 10 years). It had Google TV and I could not pass a screen and use the TV unless I agree a stupid EULA. Had to take it, because ... family, but they made me feel
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by EastSmith 4y ago
Hmm, I just gave it a try with https://fingerprint.com/ and each time I restarted the browser it says it is my first visit. This is really a nice surprise, as fingerprint.com tends to always recognize your previous visits.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
FB open source algo looks much better, right? /s
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by EastSmith 4y ago
It is weird that you mention Elon Musk, but not Apple and Google, for example. These last two also push their employees to come back to the office, especially Apple. Every two months there is an article about Apple trying to bring everyone
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by EastSmith 4y ago
I think you should do what you told them you would do anyway - posting on each and every social network.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
It is sad that Brave + uBlock Origin + DDG Privacy Essentials does not seem to be able to fight this.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
Just learned that Spotify made all the private playlist (along the playlist' label) public. Someone posted about it the other thread for the same news. I am shocked.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
WTF? I just checked all my private playlist are now public! WTF Spotify?!?
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by EastSmith 4y ago
We are moving to such cloud environment, and it makes me sick. Maybe you need to dockerise Mongo, MySql and 5 other dependencies - I can get this, but I don't get it why the rest the code should still be running in the cloud. Python, R
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by EastSmith 4y ago
No, it will not get Carmack banned, because he is not promoting his FB account. He links to a news worthy post.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
Not agreeing with the policy, but is there any reason TikTok is omitted?
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by EastSmith 4y ago
"Think for the children" is the stupidest justification to do anything. (someone's father)
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by EastSmith 4y ago
We need Linux phone.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
Looks like a single NVIDIA A100 costs $23,667.29 [1]? So 8 servers X 8 cards X $23,667.29 means the whole setup costs $1,514,706.56? https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/nvidia-ampere-a100-pcie-300w...
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by EastSmith 4y ago
Binance KYC's process is a joke. I've been using them for years, suddenly they needed more KYC and their automated process failed me more than 4 times in couple of months. Glad they failed me though, life turned out pretty great w
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by EastSmith 4y ago
Those python examples at the end are both simple and great, thanks.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
What an actual marketing BS is this?
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by EastSmith 4y ago
Too much marketing speak I think. > We're planning Turbopack as the successor to Webpack. In the future, we plan to give Turbopack all the tools needed to support your Webpack app. > Currently, migrating to Turbopack from Webpack
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by EastSmith 4y ago
> Don't like it, don't go. I am not going, but I guess players do not have this choice?
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Cloudflare is breaking the internet by requiring "JavaScript and cookies“(imgur.com)
79 points by EastSmith 4y ago|64 comments
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by EastSmith 4y ago
The title should be TikTok (like Google, Meta and other ad companies) now too tracks you across the web. Side question: uBlock Origin + Brave should be enough for this type of tracking, right?
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by EastSmith 4y ago
I knew of Tibco from an "Ajax IDE" they built gazilian years ago, from the time when there was a site called Ajaxian. Lol.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
I wonder what TV units big corps buy for conference rooms, etc? Imagine you are Google and you buy LG Spy TV, or Samsung Spy Panel. You put it in your conference room, where you meet regularly to discuss next Pixel phone with the Samsung&#x
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by EastSmith 4y ago
I am in a search for Wi-Fi 6 router, can you please name the company I should avoid?
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by EastSmith 4y ago
Aren't all companies test for employee happiness (quarterly thing for us)? If we had teams thrown at us, we would for sure complain a lot.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
> keystroke patterns or rhyth Well this is something new to me. I understand how this can provide entropy, just I had not realized we are there yet. Edit: Quick search gave this - "Understanding users' keystroke patterns for co
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by EastSmith 4y ago
So not only Cloudflare does not serve the website, it also serve another site with links to Cloudflare.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
Or do jot use local apps at all, only web apps (yes on mobile).
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by EastSmith 4y ago
I am not sure I've ever heard someone being happy for being monitored at work.
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by EastSmith 4y ago
My top question right now: Can I use my own hardware & will you monitor me (time tracking, screenshots, etc.)?

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