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by _zzaw 4y ago
Ew. Definitely a reason to stick with taxis.
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by _zzaw 4y ago
If I saw this message from a service, I'd start to question whether or not I trust that service. In short: it's obnoxious. Most of us spend our browsing days dealing with various intrusive demands: GDPR stuff, anti-adblock screens
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Yeah, I can't imagine any of them expected to remain at Twitter after Musk took over. This sounds more like the opportunity of a lifetime than anything else: a chance to quit an increasingly difficult, high-pressure job and get paid ha
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I'm not surprised. I post there sometimes for professional reasons, but I never browse or interact with anyone anymore. Reasons: - increasingly irrelevant content. Most of my feed is garbage from people I don't follow, or want to
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by _zzaw 4y ago
https://archive.ph/KW7Jv
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by _zzaw 4y ago
https://archive.ph/gDziw
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I'm not sure if this is the case for all phones, but I think the front-facing camera on some phones can show infrared light. If you're concerned about hidden cameras in a room, you could try waiting until it's dark and then l
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by _zzaw 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Mcsmk
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by _zzaw 4y ago
And this, more than anything else, is why I've shifted 100% to (1) open source software; (2) native system apps—which, on iOS, have gotten increasingly capable—and (3) apps with the pay-once licensing that remains. Greedy licensing has
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Finally, actual consequences for one of these monsters. It's hard for me to think of any form of cybercrime that isn't obviously bad, but there's a particular sociopathic cruelty to ransomware that makes it a lot more vicious
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by _zzaw 4y ago
https://archive.ph/GF3UW
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by _zzaw 4y ago
This is crucial: don't be obnoxious. When I go to a site, and get besieged with popups, videos, and a thousand other things clutching at my attention, I leave and never return. Keep the site clean, accessible, and considerate to your r
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by _zzaw 4y ago
There are scummy services that simulate interactions with spam email addresses so Gmail sees the activity and thinks these are legitimate senders. Not going to mention or link to them, but I was shocked to see one actually show up on Produc
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by _zzaw 4y ago
That's really interesting. I didn't know the intricacies behind that.
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Both. If Mexico held a referendum to annex Texas, and 99% of Texans voted to join Mexico—some willingly, some because a guy with an AR-15 was holding the ballot box—I doubt the US government would shrug and say "oh well, it's the
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Highly doubtful—I'd imagine his technical abilities are more needed than ever now, given how many tech folks are trying to get out of Russia. But I do have to wonder what his arrangement with Putin's regime is. Seems unlikely th
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Reminds me of when a security researcher discovered that, in addition to some serious security flaws, certain Siemens PLCs had monkeys hidden in their firmware: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/0
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by _zzaw 4y ago
There is no way this is mechanical or feedback-related. The sounds are just too varied. There's a point where the guy clearly says "raargh". It's obviously someone messing around. I assume AA claimed it's a glitch b
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I think a case could be made that it's unauthorized access, since the prankster is definitely not supposed to be using the system for those purposes, regardless of how accessible it is. Same as if you walked into a bank or something an
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by _zzaw 4y ago
That, or a particular employee—maintenance or grounds crew—who serviced those planes. Seems like whoever's doing this knows those systems unusually well, given that their own personnel don't know how it's done.
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Nonsense. I'm neither female nor remotely attractive and I have constructed an entire condominium from stolen shopping carts. Recheck your facts.
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by _zzaw 4y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if the constant threat of genocide has a lot to do with it; Israel's technological advantage is why it continues to exist. More directly, there's a fascinating Darknet Diaries episode about Unit 8200,
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Damn it, I really thought this was going to be a list of suggestions for creative, non-boring things to do on a date. Should've remembered what forum I'm on here.
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by _zzaw 4y ago
https://archive.ph/8QcCQ
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by _zzaw 4y ago
https://archive.ph/qT7QR
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by _zzaw 4y ago
This is egregious—and potentially illegal—enough that I suspect it's unintentional (bug, bad UX, misconfiguration, etc), but given how accustomed all of us are to the obnoxious, grubby tactics favored by tech companies, I'm not re
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by _zzaw 4y ago
https://archive.ph/6IijE
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by _zzaw 4y ago
This is the obvious conclusion to draw. I think it's a very real question whether what they get from going deep on ads will make up for the hit to their feel-good "we care about your privacy" reputation they've spent so
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by _zzaw 4y ago
In every one of these articles, notice how nasty and condescending the anti-remote-work people are. Qatar Airlines guy, railing about how WFH is "easy money". Eric Adams, who's under the impression that WFHers sit around in t
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I think if it's "I think this is offensive", they don't take any action—that just tells their algorithm what sort of thing you don't want to see. For the more specific/serious stuff—reporting scams, violence, e

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