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by TheDong 1y ago
This is another case of being on the other side of an airtight hatchway: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31... If someone has arbitrary code execution on your machine as your user, then o
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by TheDong 1y ago
> Every other major messaging app exposes something to developers Not iMessage, which is the largest messaging app in the US. Uniquely, it doesn't even have an android app, so android users have to pay $800 to buy a single-use devic
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> Can one form of entertainment really be more well-regarded than another? Is fine art fundamentally different from pop art? It depends on what you want to get out of art. Do you want human connection and shared cultural context so you c
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by TheDong 1y ago
Proxying network traffic is wildly easier. The tor project was built specifically to ensure anonymity for internet traffic, and it works well as far as I know. Phone numbers are not the same, countries require you to verify your identity to
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by TheDong 1y ago
> Covariates. All models adjusted for ... age, sex, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, and log-transformed current household income. Let's look at something else which wasn't controlled for at all: doing physical acti
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by TheDong 1y ago
I assume you're vegan? The amount of plastic in any single consumer device is negligible compared to companies and norms. If we wanted to save earth, we need to target corporations and norms, not make snarky comments about individual&#
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by TheDong 1y ago
"And now let's introduce this video's Sponsor, SpywareVPN" Yeah, sure, "ad-free plan". As long as you don't watch (what feels like) the majority of videos on the platform. I pay for premium, but I'd g
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by TheDong 1y ago
If gambling should be legal, then so surely should malicious advertising right? Predatory advertising, gambling, they both prey on people. Cards on the table, I think both advertising and gambling should be heavily controlled.
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by TheDong 1y ago
> move them over to ChatGPT OpenAI has even more VC money to pay back than Google ever did. Practically all the large tech companies so far have turned to ads and monetizing users rather than charging enough to remain more neutral. I su
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by TheDong 1y ago
Using AI makes me want to resign from life, it removes all the fun and joy from coding. I absolutely will resign if my job becomes 100% generating and reviewing AI generated slop, having to review my coworker's AI slop has already made
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by TheDong 1y ago
Take a page from janestreet's book: use ocaml. Rust is also a general purpose language, there's no reason you can't use it for just about any problem space.
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by TheDong 1y ago
If your data format is so complicated that all commonly used implementations are not compliant with your spec, maybe it's a problem with the data-format. Every single implementation people actually use seems to be a messy mix of yaml 1
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by TheDong 1y ago
> Easy to write and read by hand, while also being easy to write and read with code in just about every language Language implementations for yaml vary _wildly_. What does the following parse as: some_map: key: value no
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by TheDong 1y ago
Wanna DRY out your github actions yaml? Generate it from Dhall, or cue, or python, or some real language that supports actual abstractions. If your problem is you want to DRY out yaml, and you use more yaml features to do it, you now have m
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by TheDong 1y ago
Holding a phone in front of your face in public is so normalized at this point that targeted recording is not a matter of hardware, but of someone wanting to do it. As you point out, most influencer-types aren't aimed at you. That gene
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by TheDong 1y ago
As opposed to now? Everywhere you go in public, people are holding their phone up watching tiktok or such. There's no recording indicator on phones, they could be recording you. Heck, go to a tourist location, like a famous area of lon
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by TheDong 1y ago
Begone blockchain whitepaper. ... Really though, if you've got a whitepaper from 2020 about "building a protocol", and 6 years later you've got exactly 0 users actually using the protocol, it's maybe not even worth
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by TheDong 1y ago
What you've re-invented is XMPP. The original Facebook Messenger and Google Talk both used XMPP, it has support for encryption and push notifications.... For a brief period, you could actually chat across ecosystems. And it died, every
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by TheDong 1y ago
Sure Papua New Guinea scores 5/5 on the "Violent Crime" assessment (to the US's 2/5), but the US incarceration rate is 5/5, while Papua New Guinea only scores 1.5/5. The US also has much more weapons expor
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by TheDong 1y ago
2FA can be all it's cracked up to be. A Yubikey you have to physically possess, and physically touch, to login to a site is completely immune to this. Yes, you need to buy hardware, yes you need 1 or more backup yubikeys in a bank safe
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by TheDong 1y ago
There are many ways to "eval" in javascript, and static analysis can only work if that's also statically disallowed. Unfortunately, eval is still used in a lot of code, so disabling it isn't trivially viable, and with ev
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by TheDong 1y ago
They can be enabled by policy. An enterprise will usually have a policy installing it's custom ca https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/crlsets/ See here for some of the why: https:/&#x2F
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by TheDong 1y ago
There's stuff like NewPipe, which is just youtube videos so it's awful for the soul. There's also games and blockchain apps which are bad for the soul
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> Everything there is mostly out to exploit me, or a direct security liability regardless of what app store. As a shining bright light of hope, I will list some apps I have installed which do not appear to me to fall into those buckets.
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There is a certain amount of expected "lock-in" for social media and network effects, as you say. I think there are classes of product that have an outsized amount of power and should be subject to more strict judgement on this ho
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by TheDong 1y ago
It's fine, this is an american site so JAQing is in fact safe under free speech. You're welcome to ask b "would none rid me of this meddlesome priest" with no fear
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by TheDong 1y ago
Locked into iPhone. I want to switch to Android, but I have all the following problems: 1. iMessage, unlike whatsapp etc, does not have an android app, and some of my family uses iMessage, so I would be kicked from various group chats 2. My
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by TheDong 1y ago
I think it will depend on if it seems like it's anti-competitive gatekeeping or has a legitimate use. The DMA specifically prohibits measure that are meant to gatekeep, but iirc it has allowances for things that have real technical jus
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by TheDong 1y ago
You said "no cost to developers", that part's not true. you're of course right that it's not really enough money to be relevant though. The more cogent argument is that if apple doesn't want to spend money maki
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by TheDong 1y ago
Garmin pays apple already for a developer license to have an app to pair garmin watches.... and yet 90% of the features of the apple watch simply cannot be implemented for a garmin watch, no matter how much they pay, because those APIs are

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