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by Nextgrid 1y ago
USB-C connectors are much less reliable than their predecessors due to their design though. I have several connectors that failed, either they no longer grip the cable securely or they just lose contact randomly. I'm sure it's han
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
I am aware it is illegal, and yet just like for cookie-based tracking, everyone gets away with it.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> Nobody wants a 20s boot every time you want to take a picture But that's less due to the RPi and more due to lots of amateur projects that ship the RPi with a desktop Linux distribution like Raspbian (itself based on a very cons
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> they would probably want to pay $100 (rationally, closer to $1000) amortized over 50 years to pay for that Which would just flow into the pockets of ClownStrike or some big consultancy and nothing would actually change.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
This could be applied to most of technology nowadays and the continuous decline of software quality. A lot of UI/UX problems were effectively solved 20 years ago. The problem is that since then technology shifted from a tool to help
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
The law is only for plebs like you and me. Companies get a pass. I'm still amazed how deploying spyware would've rightfully landed you in jail a couple decades back, but do the same thing on the web under the justification of adve
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> What happened with AWS outage recently I'm not hearing about any large lawsuits or customers migrating off the apps affected by the AWS outage... hell I'm not even hearing about migrations from AWS itself... meaning every par
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
According to the article the system was developed by a regional subsidiary of a German mobile telco, which already tells you everything you need to know about its quality, but on top of that it was rushed to launch in time for some sporting
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
What he did there could indeed be legally risky. Remember that while for a lot of us this kind of security research & remediation is “fun”, “the right thing to do”, etc there are also people in our industry that are completely incompete
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> what you are basing the opinion "Delivery of those nines is not a priority" off of. Because I don't see the business pressure to do? If problems happen they can 1) lie on the status page and hope nothing happens and 2) i
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> even if they themselves didn't commit any crimes Does that still even exist? The problem I see in politics is that everyone has their hand in the cookie jar to some degree. You don't get into politics unless you already have
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> You want to share it? Get my express consent. That's literally the GDPR? But the problem is that enforcement is severely lacking, so it is more profitable to breach the GDPR than to comply with it.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Search on forums/etc for your particular car brand about which compatible scan tool to get (you want the manufacturer-specific one to be able to change settings, not the generic OBD2 which only lets you read engine & emissions data
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Google Chrome? They breach the GDPR on the web, why is it so far-fetched to think they wouldn't do it in local software too? Firefox is no better, with their telemetry being opt-out and I believe even if you opt-out some telemetry is
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
The regulation actually specifies what counts as informed consent. Annoying users into accepting tracking does not count. The problem is that there's a chronic lack of enforcement, so the winning strategy is to breach the regulation. W
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Don't worry, you are still being tracked by IP + browser fingerprinting... and using a browser with a low single-digit marketshare stands out like a sore thumb. (which is also why framing GDPR discussions around cookies misses the po
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Why is Microsoft's implementation a problem? Having the setting default to a safe value is the rational choice. It's like saying having a secure OS/browser would deprive malware authors of revenue, and thus vulnerabilities sh
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
There was Do-Not-Track which is a header that could be set at the browser level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_track And way before that (before spyware became common on the web) there was P3P: https:/&#x2
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
The key is to never let them know you're not working. Deliver the output they want. Whether you personally created that output or a machine is irrelevant. Labor, just like any market relies on information asymmetry. Your company is i
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
The trick is to automate for your own benefit and keep quiet. Automate your 8hr/day job down to as low as possible, and use the free time for entertainment or another job (where you ideally do the same). The reward for good work is mor
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Most business transactions involve the delivery of some good/service. You will generally know whether you've been scammed or not. With aid agencies and donations you're often entirely reliant on their word as to whether your
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> We do have a concept of fraud We only do have such a concept when it's about an individual lying to a company for profit. When companies lie to individuals it's just business as usual, or worst-case scenario a "mistake&q
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Yeah that's the issue - nobody wants to just rent you a gaming PC in the cloud, they all want a cut of game sales/licensing. But if someone were to do it, the technology is absolutely there. You don't even need to create any
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Read my post again. You can go to any website and see evidence of their non-compliance (you don't have to look very hard - they generally tend to push these in your face in the most obnoxious manner possible). You can't consider a
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
It's less about company loyalty and more about protecting their investment into all the buzzwords from their resumes. As long as the illusion that AWS/clouds are the only way to do things continues, their investment will keep bein
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Actual multi-region replication is hard and forces you to think about complicated things like the CAP theorem/etc. It's easier to pretend AWS magically solves that problem for you. Which is actually totally fine for the vast major
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Chances are there's some cyclical dependencies. These can creep up unnoticed without regular testing, which is not really possible at AWS scale unless they want to have regular planned outages to guard against that.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
There's nothing particularly wrong with AWS, other than the pricing premium. The key is that you need to understand no provider will actually put their ass on the line and compensate you for anything beyond their own profit margin, a
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
The point of AWS is to promise you the nines and make you feel good about it. Your typical "growth & engagement" startup CEO can feel good and make his own customers feel good about how his startup will survive a nuclear war
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
There's also the issue of sometimes needing actual strong consistency. Things like auth or billing for example where you absolutely can't tolerate eventual consistency or split-brain situations, in which case you need one region t

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