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by abider 5y ago
I loved this write-up, thanks for submitting/authoring it! Just wanted to point out you have a minor typo in there: > In recent months, everyone has been pouring over the US Bank Secrecy Act (should be "poring over")
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by abider 5y ago
Oh yeah, sure. I think we're on the same page here. It's literally no different than an XSS vulnerability (done on purpose or otherwise), which basically boils down to: yeah, don't do that.
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by abider 5y ago
This is just how the web (e.g. iframes, XSS) works in general.
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by abider 5y ago
This feels like some bizarrely confused clickbait for pseudo-technical people. I'm glad they at least mentioned: > Of course, websites often collect and store visitors’ IP addresses in virtue of how the sites function. Because, uh,
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by abider 5y ago
Oh wow, the fond memories I have of playing my brother in SuperMelee. I can't believe that after 10 years of being largely dormant an update was released a few months back. I'm excited to try this out! If ever I can muster the
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by abider 5y ago
I grew up on the Atari 800 and it has a special place in my heart. It's hard to overstate the prevalence and impact of the 8502, as well. I am thinking of getting another one (my parents gave mine away when I moved out) and seeing abo
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by abider 5y ago
This seems like the way it should be. Why should new music connect to newer audiences better than the best of breed from days past? Of course freshness will always need to be there but there's a lot of back catalog to consume that will
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by abider 5y ago
If you look at Google's messaging products timeline, it's an embarrassing mess. If you viewed it in reverse-chronological order, it actually looks like progress. I've never seen such a careless disregard for a user base comb
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by abider 5y ago
> Needless to say, I will never again use gmail for critically important things. That's a hot take. If it was critically important, you'd have 2FA and a recovery phone number associated with it - which would have prevented you
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by abider 5y ago
While failures are often worth celebrating (don't fear failure, learn from your mistakes, etc) there's a line there somewhere where this type of "toast to the rejects" can cross over into something else. Sour grapes? &
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by abider 5y ago
I think it would greatly help to better understand what it is you are looking to manage here (or what your concerns are). Is there really perennially sensitive information your SMS messages? In my experience, most of them are ephemeral in
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by abider 5y ago
have you thoughts about offering this as software service for something like the Remarkable?
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by abider 5y ago
While energy storage is a huge problem wrt renewable energy, I'd really like to see us get better at teasing out the difference between what's needed for a solar panel, wind farm, hydroelectric dam, etc. as distinct from the myria