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by Zak 2y ago
After further consideration, I think the entire idea is a mistake. Labelers already provide a way for anyone to assert things about an account, which could include "@bsky.app says this account belongs to a famous person". It would
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by Zak 2y ago
It seems to me this feature would be much better if users could subscribe to verifiers the way they can labelers, perhaps with the official verifier subscribed by default. The current implementation feels centralized in a way that conflicts
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by Zak 2y ago
I should also note I have adult content set to allowed and all moderation categories set to warn or show, nothing set to hide. I can't recall seeing any porn at all outside of a couple searches meant to test the moderation settings.
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by Zak 2y ago
That hasn't been my experience with it, and I'm curious as to what usage pattern gets that result other than intentionally following accounts that post pornography. My account that follows and posts tech and general interest stuff
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by Zak 2y ago
The assumption, as I understand it is that a guilty person is more likely to confess if they believe the evidence against them is strong, but an innocent person will not believe the lie because they know they didn't commit the crime an
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by Zak 2y ago
It probably varies based on item price and how obvious the issue is. I had two sub-$10 items arrive visibly broken recently and got refunds in under 5 minutes.
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by Zak 2y ago
It's an optimization loop where one part of the cycle (showing people stuff and seeing if they buy it) is very fast, and one part (product development) is very slow. This is sure to find local, rather than global maxima.
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by Zak 2y ago
Stylish mid-engine cars like the NSX look exotic because they remind people of Ferraris and Lamborghinis. The average person who doesn't know much about cars will think a second generation MR2 is more exotic than it is. Toyota probably
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by Zak 2y ago
Yes. It's still pretty common that I want the official website for a thing, or product reviews written by humans who actually know what they're talking about rather than a single answer to a question. DuckDuckGo is better at deliv
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by Zak 2y ago
The thing I think a lot of people don't want to acknowledge is that unlike so many issues with grey areas and middle ground, this one is binary: either criminals can have secure communication, or nobody can. I don't want a world i
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by Zak 2y ago
Thanks for sharing what you could. I wasn't really thinking about video; the storage requirements to work with raw video are indeed big .
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by Zak 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I have to question how reality-based that thinking is. I do not, of course expect you to defend it. It seems to me that nearly all photographers who are particularly concerned with image quality shoot raw and use
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by Zak 2y ago
> But in theory the RAW converter has been profiled for each specific camera using ICC color targets and stuff like that. In practice too, if consistent results are desired. The format being identical doesn't mean the values the s
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by Zak 2y ago
The main reason people shoot raw is to have more creative control over the final product. A simple example is white balance. The sensor doesn't know anything about it, but typical postprocessing makes both a 2700K incandescent and a 57
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by Zak 2y ago
> They won’t discuss their Raw format in detail Can you share the reason for that? It seems to me that long ago, camera companies thought they would charge money for their proprietary conversion software. It has been obvious for nearly
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by Zak 2y ago
When there's a significant opportunity for growth in userbase, corporate social media is good to users. Once that plateaus, they look to grow something else, usually advertising revenue. The current incentive structure rewards growth m
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by Zak 2y ago
This study seems to be focused on breaking rules imposed on the organization by external entities, not rules the organization created independently to support its own objectives. Supervisors aligned with an organization's goals likely
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by Zak 2y ago
That looks pretty useful. A Firefox release would be most appreciated.
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by Zak 2y ago
"Stating biological facts" is code for an opinion about how society should view trans people, which is off-topic for HN.
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by Zak 2y ago
A quick web search of the list of apps it's checking for suggests it's jailbreak-related, not general fingerprinting. Only banks get to escape Apple's restrictions, not end-users.
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by Zak 2y ago
That comment introduces some confusion with "moving travelers from paper tickets to the use of their phones" before giving a mixed list of benefits of e-tickets and mobile boarding passes. E-tickets were introduced in the 1990s, a
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by Zak 2y ago
Paper tickets , yes. Paper boarding passes , no. Replacing a paper boarding pass has been easy since airlines switched to an electronic ticketing system where the actual ticket is an entry in the airline's database.
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by Zak 2y ago
They're more dangerous. The reason lithium-metal batteries are "non-rechargeable" isn't that recharging them doesn't work; it's that they have an unacceptable probability of exploding during the process. Othe
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by Zak 2y ago
Spare non-rechargeable lithium batteries are also forbidden in checked luggage[0]. AirTags are allowed because the battery is installed in a device, though Lufthansa briefly tried to argue otherwise after some bad press involving passengers
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by Zak 2y ago
Some web development advice I remember from long ago is to do most of the styling after the functionality is implemented. If it looks done, people will think it is done. LLMs did the "styling" first. They generate high-quality l
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by Zak 2y ago
That would solve the problem of accidentally adding journalists to chats, but phones belonging to high level officials are surely targets for the intelligence services of hostile nations. A phone that's used casually, taken to foreign
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by Zak 2y ago
I imagine Signal itself is secure enough that it wouldn't be unreasonable for a government to develop a procedure to use it to transmit classified information under certain conditions. That list of conditions would likely be quite rest
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by Zak 2y ago
I agree. There are official channels that already exist for discussing sensitive information, and it does not appear Signal is one of them. These officials using any device or software not approved for that purpose constitutes a serious bre
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by Zak 2y ago
That's just phishing. Signal could make the pairing attack impossible by eliminating the device pairing feature, but that would also reduce its appeal and harm its mission of bringing secure communication to a broad audience. It could
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by Zak 2y ago
I thought that at first, but the group was clearly temporary, intended for this particular military action. There was likely little value to staying, and as other comments note, a nonzero risk of (likely unsuccessful) prosecution.

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