Macha

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by Macha 1y ago
Honestly I'm willing to bet that the contacts/account managers at Google genuinely didn't know that easyprivacy had added their view tracking to the blocklist, and reached out to some people internally who's job is impl
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by Macha 1y ago
Why not? They block all the ad attribution companies that are doing this. Is it being first that makes the google one special? Or is youtube somehow more trustworthy than the rest of google?
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by Macha 1y ago
There's a whole industry of independent validation tools - DoubleVerify, IAS, Human, etc.
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by Macha 1y ago
Once upon a time, their corporate and developer sites were x.com even, before they moved to a more professional domain and later sold that one back to Elon.
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by Macha 1y ago
There's a tradeoff between subdivisions per country and the UX that causes for timezine picker dropdowns in making everyone else scroll past all the US, Canada, India etc. subdivisions
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by Macha 1y ago
I wonder how much of an influence it is that US/Eastern is easier to type than America/New_York
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by Macha 1y ago
True, that priority is probably "runs the apps which I require to function in society", which basically means Revolut for payments and Whatsapp for messaging here. Oh and the occasional taxi app. I mean the fact that GrapheneOS an
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by Macha 1y ago
For both banks I use, setting up Google/Apple Pay requires you to install the app on your phone to approve it. It's also the only permitted method for 2FA which is required to make online payments. Even logging into the website re
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by Macha 1y ago
I wonder how well this correlates with people for whom 2FA adoption was not a choice they made in the first place, but a thing that "NPM insists we do". For them, this email is not all that different from the emails that required
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by Macha 1y ago
It doesn't run my banks' apps so it can't be more than a secondary device for playing around.
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by Macha 1y ago
I remember an email I once got. Title: "Expense report overdue - Please fill now" Subject: <empty body> <Link to document trying it's best to look like google's attachment icon but was actually a hyperlink to a
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by Macha 1y ago
I'm actually considering buying myself an iPhone for the first time. I have basically two priorities when buying an phone: 1. Freedom. I should be able to build and run apps on it without the platform holder having a barrier on it. 2.
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by Macha 1y ago
I have to say the openssh random art has never really helped for me - I see each individual example so infrequently and there's so little detail to remember that it may as well just be a hash for all the memorability it doesn't ad
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by Macha 1y ago
I've noticed failure to fill the right fields (or any fields) on Lastpass, 1Password, Bitwarden and the KeepassXC browser extension. What is your mythical "good password manager"?
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by Macha 1y ago
The package manager for C/C++ is apt, or rpm, or whatever package manager your system uses. These package managers were designed for the world of C/C++ software so it's less surprising that these languages haven't found
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by Macha 1y ago
Note that while none of the CEOs will be fired for getting it wrong, plenty of people will be fired because the CEOs got it wrong, as the CEOs cut headcount to reduce costs to have _something_ to present to investors in earnings reports.
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by Macha 1y ago
I can only speak in EU terms in any more detail here, but the EU laws are based on "dominant market position". Monopoly is one route to that but it's not the only route and there is no minimum market share required, as e.g. Q
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by Macha 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing#Legal_aspect...
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by Macha 1y ago
GitHub, or sourcehut, or whatever you prefer. Maybe you feel that jj git fetch and jj git push are using "git" but it means you avoid the git cli in favour of the IMO better designed jj cli.
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by Macha 1y ago
This link is not paywalled, unlike the WSJ link.
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by Macha 1y ago
You'll need to tell that to about 30% of the bars in the country.
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by Macha 1y ago
The top link when you search the title of the article is the article itself? I am shocked, shocked I say.
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by Macha 1y ago
Source: Cloudflare https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-unde... Perplexity's defense is that they're not doing it for training/KB building crawls but for answering dynamic queries calls and
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by Macha 1y ago
> When I put a Pixel on a table, it sits there stable My experience with the Pixel 7 Pro is due to the very pronounced camera bump and the rounded edges, the phone would slide off tables with problematic frequency, to the point that mine
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by Macha 1y ago
Do these same people refuse to use Go because the homepage has a gopher mascot that could be straight from western children's cartoon courage the cowardly dog on the homepage? FreeBSD because of the cartoon devil? Bash because of the G
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by Macha 1y ago
It used to link to Putty _and_ to the domain owner's competing software: https://web.archive.org/web/20170822083048/http://www.putty.... The domain owner seems to feel he was providing a service to
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by Macha 1y ago
> Some might be worried, that they will refuse less problematic request, and that might happen. But so far my personal experience is that I hardly ever get refusals. My experience using it from Cursor is I get refusals all the time with
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by Macha 1y ago
1% means it happens to 2-3 people per flight. My personal experience is I've had my luggage lost twice in the last 10 years at an average of 6 flights per year, so my personal incidence rate seems to be 2%
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by Macha 1y ago
I learned how to write cursively in school, but as soon as it was no longer mandatory I switched back to print capital letters and some years later to print letters entirely, as it was just much easier for me to make legible. At this point,
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by Macha 1y ago
It will take a lot of time for your Japanese language skills to get up to par with robot translation, that is true. It was also arguably true with google translate many years ago too. But isn't this true for most things? It will take a

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