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811.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
It's not actually the scammers that are redeeming the gift cards - instead they are in turn reselling the codes on marketplaces (to legitimate customers) for a small loss as a way of laundering them. From Google's perspective - so
812.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575391
813.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Before you look at technical solutions, how do you define a "dip" vs a continuous collapse of the price? Or do you just assume all coins will eventually go up and just play the very long game?
814.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
For a "statement" piece and limited edition with otherwise no notable features I'm surprised how cheap it is.
815.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
I am talking about recommendations in the right sidebar of a video.
816.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
That's the GDPR "compliance" approach of a lot of companies. Because of near-nonexistent enforcement, they get away with it.
817.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Was piracy a big problem in the enterprise world (which SaaS focuses on)? My understanding is that piracy is a big no-no for businesses. Nobody bothered to go after consumers but business is a different story.
818.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
But OS bugs don't matter as long as people can "engage" with the notification to subscribe to Apple TV+, or their new Apple Intelligence AI thingy. (the payment process itself will likely fail with random obscure errors after
819.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
> Someone needs to keep those running. Those services are either paid or havd (much less obnoxious) ads - that didn't change. OSes themselves were paid, typically baked into the purchase price of the computer. > You don’t pay Wal
820.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
> Operating systems have become MUCH more stable 2010 is Windows 7 era, not the dark ages of pre-XP-SP2. I don't recall having computer crashes out of the blue - all the ones I've experienced are due to my own fault by trying t
821.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Still better than paying for SaaS, still getting pwned and getting free credit monitoring in compensation? Not to mention local-first software has much less attack surface for pwnage. You can wrap insecure protocols with encrypted tunnels,
822.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
If it's so critical, then you will buy it. Market supply/demand and all that. But there's many "security flaws" that are nowhere near critical or just don't apply to your use-case for the software.
823.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Counterpoint: what if version 4 is just fine? > Software is economically expensive to produce Maybe we just produce too much of it in an effort to justify our salaries and stock prices? For all the software that's been produced over
824.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
The advantage isn't necessarily about blocking addresses but them not being able to be correlated. Nowadays every product sends your email to ad providers (Facebook, etc), sometimes in hashed form. Using unique addresses per company de
825.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
If they mostly received inbound traffic, the carrier actually gets paid for it, so may not have any incentive to stop this. Carriers generally only care when SIM farms place outgoing traffic (it allows them to use cheap/free consumer p
826.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
They're not short-sighted; there's science behind it. The science of getting people to waste as much time as possible generating "engagement". All of this is A/B tested to hell and people's careers live and die
827.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Recommendations are mostly tailored to your history, except with a couple hardcoded slots populated with some general-purpose "engaging" trash from your locale/geographical location, pretty much always political content. An
828.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
That's the one, thanks!
829.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
I mean Mb/s; just reusing the same terminology a lot of speed tests use (they report in Mb/s but often refer to it as "mbps").
830.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Counterpoint: pentests are good to catch regressions over time. Should it be your only security strategy? No. But it can help in combination with other solutions.
831.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Do you have a link to the story?
832.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
TCP would be too wasteful - Whatsapp already has retransmissions/etc. You'd want to proxy at a higher layer such as HTTP and just relay HTTP messages (or ideally QUIC traffic so that you take advantage of header reuse/compres
833.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Starlink-based ones have enough bandwidth for the whole plane to have workable bandwidth (just rate-limit based on client so no single heavy user hogs the entire bandwidth). There's also an European one whose name currently escapes me
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
BA was the one who got pwned with a card skimmer script on their checkout page, so this tracks. On the other hand, in-flight Wi-Fi "security" and actual company property security don't have anything to do with it. The in-flig
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> Almost impossible task Except if the messengers happily collude with you, which Facebook does - they have a website (can't remember the link) where network providers can get IP ranges and other information to enable "zero rat
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
The networks where you can pay through the captive portal have to temporarily allow all traffic to load their payment widget and provide 3D-Secure (they don't know the domain your bank uses for that, so they have to allow all). Those c
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Not to mention having to make real estate numbers go up, which WFH threatens by distributing demand across a much larger area.
838.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
USB-A has much larger pins, meaning it will continue to work even if slightly damaged. USB-C has much higher pin density so the slightest misalignment (due to damage or just bad manufacturing tolerances) causes dropouts. I'm just salty
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Comparing to USB-A specifically. C is absolutely better than the micro/mini variants, but not the full-size ports.
840.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
At least one reason for intentionally not having fully autonomous flying is that you want the human pilots to keep their skills sharp (so they are available in case of an emergency).

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