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by WA 2y ago
If you give an app access to your photos, it can do whatever it wants with them. Even if the normal operation is end-to-end encrypted, the app could still upload straight from your photo library to servers. I'm not saying this is happe
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Nah, this plan is outright evil. We all learned from the cookie banner madness that everybody just opts-in to everything all the time, just to make the thing go away. This proposal gives us a fake choice, because so many coordination of rea
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How is this supposed to work in reality? Do we really want to provide Meta, Apple and Google with a list of phone numbers of accounts of militarly and security personell in order to have their feature-flags for sharing links/photos ena
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Seems like you are talking about Telegram, not WhatsApp?
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> I’ve been short this nonsense for a decade I'm curious: are you short all of SPX or just tech companies?
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The hack was to scan ICQ numbers for their associated email addresses, filter by big providers like Hotmail and Yahoo and try to sign up for the same address. Some were abandoned and you could use the username again. Then password-reset in
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Ok, but a very interesting part is missing: how did you scrape the data in the first place?
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The original badge in the article literally says issued in 1977: https://i0.wp.com/cabel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image...
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> and refuse to disclose their home country, in which case imprisoning them until they agree to play ball doesn't seem unreasonable. How would this work in practice? Person comes from country A, claims he is from country B. You send
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Thanks, coincidentally, I listened to a podcast episode about RSD (assuming you mean Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria) this morning and yeah, it is absolutely real. He's extremely sensitive to criticism, which often results in a vicious c
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> I had passion as a kid, interest in weird things, but school and the social environment killed every little bit of it. As a parent of an autistic kid: How would you cultivate that? Our son is autistic, he is 8 years old. He started t
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It's not. We need a sustainable size of population. Unlimited population growth is not sustainable. It doesn't mean that we are going to die out. It just means that there are as many newborns as old people dying. Check out this go
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Software has different risk classes. Controlling a 737 has vastly more requirements of the operating system / runtime environment than an app that controls a small thing for a single person. What might be ok for one risk class is not o
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You can safely replace this with: Apple does not care to regulate apps at all . Their App Store rules are arbitrary and do not resemble local laws. There aren't that many regulations for software anyways, except for a) medical devices
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> Does anyone know which restrictions they impose on medical apps? especially ones that control medical grade devices? Zero. It's not Apple's responsibility. Google Play Store just asked developers to provide more information o
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But if a new reply doesn't address a single thing in the parent post, but merely the gist of it or adds an entirely new argument, there's no need to quote an exact sentence.
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I think it relates to the last section of the post about building websites.
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That's quite a stretch. Competition is good for the market. The problem are the big tech quasi-monopolies and they usually don't hire small web agencies to build their website. Or to stay in your analogy: if your country is at war
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A bad one after all. There is no way to deny.
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Surprisingly hard to find this info. This says it’s 66% for Chrome on macOS: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?opt...
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I feel old when an article explains that a server can generate HTML and the browser renders the HTML and that this can be done quite efficiently for every interaction with a user. It’s strange to me that one can be a webdev without understa
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People develop for other people and markets, not for Apple.
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Sounds like Stripe announced a new version of its checkout experience that will be using THE BLOCKCHAIN AND A WEB3 INTERNET COMPUTER to give a more precise selection of payment options to customers depending on location and what customers
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If I read something with a critical eye, it’s not the content that shapes me, but the way I engage with the text. Otherwise, every conspiracy theory I read about would shape and change me.
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What's the main advantage over AsciiDoc? Although it's already on your roadmap, but it definitely needs more complex examples. Fiddled around a bit with links to same-doc references. Got it to work, but took a while.
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Last time I went to an Airbnb that was actually the home of someone else was in 2016 or so. I assume most Airbnbs are apartments made explicitly for using them as Airbnb rentals. Same logic applies to Robo taxis. This won't happen. The
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> Get information from llms after learning how to prompt them so that they won't hallucinate. That is structurally impossible, because LLMs have no mechanism of knowing which answer is right or wrong. Please provide information how
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Stream of thought feedback – nice idea, but feels clumsy: - Same doc references to sections or tables, how are they supposed to work? Can't get it to work. - I hover over the "element selector" way too often by accident when
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Looks interesting. Cross-references within the same doc are surprisingly rare in Markdown editors. However, there is no import function for existing Markdown (or any other file format)? That makes it pretty hard to try this out in a serious
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Exactly this. And the irony is that he himself follows the very same standard playbook: play around, do several "small bets" and then go all in on the most successful one. But he sells you the idea that you need to be your own VC

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