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by Shank 2mo ago
> Don’t Bloomberg & FT have a number of well-written, informative articles every month? They do! And I did test a subscription to Bloomberg, and subscriptions to various other sites, but I have never found it compelling enough to vis
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by Shank 2mo ago
> Do people want actual journalism to go out of business? Former Google Contributor user reporting in! I absolutely do not want normal journalism going out of business, but I’m not going to subscribe to Bloomberg or FT or any of those si
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by Shank 2mo ago
Apple believes SwiftUI is the future, not AppKit and UIKit/Cocoa.
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by Shank 2mo ago
The Japanese government (more specifically the Tokyo Metropolitan Government) actually runs a lot of these for flood monitoring and prevention. You can find a feed for essentially all rivers so that during rain storms, each can be monitored
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by Shank 2mo ago
While Japanese convenience stores are certainly fun, they aren’t grocery stories. Try Maruetsu, Olympic, LIFE, AEON, My Basket, etc. There are also the fancy grocery stores on the basement of malls. Convenience stores do sell groceries and
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by Shank 2mo ago
Incredibly, WeChat Pay in China is now easy for foreigners: submit a copy of passport, link a debit account, and you can use WeChat Pay with no problems. No physical presence in China required, and the only restriction is that you can'
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by Shank 2mo ago
> Ads shown on search engine results pages, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search providers There are many subpar adblockers available both built into browsers on iOS and as extensions. uBlock Origin Lite for Safari remains
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by Shank 2mo ago
> But if I were Brazillian, I'd be immediately following all ~700 accounts (and probably unfollowing all 700 after the election). I wonder how many normal people actually follow political accounts like this. I follow my local govern
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by Shank 2mo ago
My experience using uBlock Origin Lite on iOS is that some particularly intrusive ads will figure out a way to load, like local news sites from the US, and many sites will be fully broken (missing entire content portions, content doesn’t sc
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by Shank 2mo ago
Back when I first moved off of Firefox the answer was performance. A lot of users mass-migrated to Chrome because it supported a very similar set of extensions and was significantly more stable and performant. People like me evangelized swi
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by Shank 2mo ago
Yes, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is widely criticised for making almost any act a violation ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030 ) including many things that many people do on a routine basis,
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by Shank 2mo ago
> Likely a bad translation from the original Chinese version? No, most likely they're referring to users who created accounts etc on the meta infrastructure which is being spun down and erased and accounts created prior were never i
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by Shank 2mo ago
> To the companies: You don’t need HackerOne anymore. The tokens to build your own in-house platform cost less than single year of HackerOne. You know, the biggest thing that HackerOne delivers is a universal payments system that require
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by Shank 2mo ago
Citation needed? I'm not a fan of residential proxies but these are pretty wild claims that aren't substantiated. Calling them a "national security threat" implies it is a threat to e.g., the continued existence of the U
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by Shank 3mo ago
Hmm, does DoH work?
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by Shank 3mo ago
No, it's Apache 2. https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/LICENSE
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by Shank 3mo ago
So close to something you could install in Japan via AltStore: > One or more apps in source "Reynard Browser" are missing a marketplaceID. This most likely means they are not notarized, which is not supported by this version of
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by Shank 3mo ago
The news articles are real, but the Nambu line brought their departure melodies back played from the cars themselves late in 2025.
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by Shank 3mo ago
They're Blu-Ray discs.
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by Shank 4mo ago
Well, it is a Chinese model, maybe it thinks better in Chinese?
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by Shank 4mo ago
You can set a user preference to open in a new tab. The reverse is not true.
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The fight over Claude Mythos 5(theverge.com)
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by Shank 4mo ago
For the record, those providers already charged a significant premium for the equivalent compute you could get at Hetzner and OVH. The margins have decreased but they've had a profit margin on compute for a long time.
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by Shank 4mo ago
> Have no clue what's going on in the back Hetzner and OVH and other bare metal but low cost providers use commodity hardware. When that commodity hardware increases there is simply no other option. The secret to the success of thes
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by Shank 4mo ago
> In one case, investigators in Kanagawa Prefecture found that a Sri Lankan national had set up roughly 600 shell companies. He also allegedly submitted business manager visa applications for at least six Sri Lankan nationals by listing
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by Shank 4mo ago
Of course not. It is clearly a fun toy.
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by Shank 4mo ago
Liquidity has value too. Many FTX customers needed immediate liquidity. If you need immediate liquidity the value proposition years later is meaningless for most people because most people can’t get any bridge financing to cover the gap. Mt
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by Shank 4mo ago
Is there any information on if this is the same attack vector (orphaned packages that were adopted)? I believe they already locked down adoption, but maybe also a combination of existing maintainers being taken over?
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by Shank 4mo ago
That's correct, orphaned packages could be adopted seemingly automatically, so someone did and then published malware in bulk.
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by Shank 4mo ago
Neither one of these did anything on Opus 4.8 / Max.

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