Nextgrid

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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
As an Easter egg, I wonder if they can make it accept input in stdin and just discard it. If I was working there and didn’t mind burning some bridges (I’m not sure how many people would get wind of it as it’s quite obscure) I would be tem
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> If your kid is going to get around that by clever vpn use, age gates don't help. I think politicians and their supporters believe they do help. Of course from their perspective the only way to know for sure is to implement the r
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
My concern with this is how far it goes and whether it has unintended side-effects. There are a lot of situations in history where in retrospect being able to evade government oversight and restrictions turned out to be a good thing. During
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> the entire point of age laws is to stifle free speech and ruin privacy Does it? I mean sure, it's a side-effect that some (most?) politicians might find desirable, but there's also people who just want to restrict access to a
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> I've never run into a bug with my 50K+ photos library. Have you tried dragging & dropping a photo from the Photos app to your desktop to export it as a file? I just tried it and while the Photos app UI didn't freeze (I gu
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
The kind of rug-pulling you describe only works if the software implements an online licensing check/DRM, and either way has nothing to do with security against malicious behavior. > Github archive with an appropriate track record H
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> they are hidden away inside the settings, and they are not granular. The switches default to off though, with a prompt on first attempt at accessing the protected resource. The problem is that they're leaky like a sieve and the pe
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> It's no guarantee, but it's a positive indicator of trustworthiness if a codebase is open source. It's something we as techies like to believe due to solidarity or belief in the greater good, but I'm not sure it&#x2
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Yep on the terminal that would work... though I still think it should be the default. On the other hand I'm not sure NOPASSWD would affect desktop environments - any desktop stuff goes via PolicyKit or whatever the latest systemd itera
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Actually yes one thing I didn't consider in my calculation is the fridge (mostly because it's a spiky load that rarely comes on and I based it off my own apartment's instantaneous consumption at the time which was ~100W since
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
If we're talking about profiting from fraud, then we're talking ads. Which are semi-public, you only see them if you fall within the targeting bucket, which definitely wouldn't include "law enforcement officer".
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> what kind of EV has a battery to power a house for a week? Assuming their heating, cooking and hot water is gas, a house doesn't actually consume that much. With a 50kWh battery you can draw just under 300W continuously for a we
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
The police doesn't have access to all the data for starters. Meta does.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> Feedback Assistant They finally found a marketable name for /dev/null.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> Something is wrong in the software industry Software and technology went from being a productivity tool to an ad delivery vehicle (or delivery vehicle for whatever bullshit is en-vogue like media subscriptions, AI, etc - that ultimatel
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
It's hard to realize things when you're in an echo chamber. It's also hard to measure the quantity and genuineness of bitching online because people complain about everything and there's an inherent incentive online to c
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I guess you're not thinking like a marketer/product person (and I don't claim to be one either, at least not anywhere skilled), but your proposed ad shows exactly what's wrong with the Linux mentality and why it didn&#x2
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I think people wildly underestimate how expensive skilled software development, leadership and especially design is (considering even Apple can't apparently find good designers). The price of renting a billboard isn't going to cov
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
https://www.chatwoot.com/
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Resetting the app ecosystem 3 fucking times by breaking app compatibility didn't help. Windows Phone 7 - Windows Phone 8 -> Windows (Phone?) 10.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
I RDP'd into a Windows Server VM a year or so ago and got a full-screen popup for Edge or some shit like that. If that wasn't bad enough, the popup was a web view, meaning none of RDP's acceleration/client-side compositi
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
The Vista comparison is unfair. I think a lot of the bad rap Vista got was from trying to run it on underpowered hardware thanks to marketing XP-era machines as "Windows Vista Capable". I actually ran it on good HW (the kind that
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Shortly after Windows 10 came out I was joking that Microsoft finally made a Linux distribution (by replicating all the jankiness we usually associate with it). Now I guess it's Apple's turn.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> plus it's open-source Open-source only matters if you have the time/skill/willingness to download said source (and any dependencies') and compile it. Otherwise you're still running a random binary and there&#x2
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Thanks to Apple's exceptional software quality the app has plenty of bugs and good luck exporting a lot of files out of said library - you're in for an endless game of spinners (it does some network IO on the main thread), "n
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> From an attacker’s perspective, this does not grant access to accounts or sensitive data I think there might be an effort in the "security" snake oil industry to classify publicly available data as some sort of breach. Probab
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Not entirely correct. OBD only mandates emissions information to be made available in a standardized way. There are plenty of proprietary codes that might set a malfunction light and not show up on an OBD reader, or not be interpreted by it
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Going to a loan shark is a significant increase in effort comparing to just using the credit card you've already got. Sure, some people will, but a lot of people will just cut back discretionary spending as a result, which I think is a
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Let me guess, they're seeing less "engagement" with AI slop since people were using this to filter them out so they removed it?
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
It may very well be a canned message since such issues would typically be detected during the evaluation period.

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