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by afiori 1y ago
1) not the point, that list of criticisms was a bad list of criticisms 2) whether anything that happened in the last month is going to promote more domestic manifacturing is quite dubious at best. As a quick excercise: - for almost every in
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by afiori 1y ago
The homepage has many similarities to a landing page / marketing funnel.
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by afiori 1y ago
Every voice on that (except the last one as it is too vague) is popular with the relevant electorate. I dislike how a bunch of random unrelated shit is stuffed together into a single bill but that is because the US is a vetocracy.
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by afiori 1y ago
Nope, there is no need for this. Think of it like an attacker (the app) would breach a cryptographic target (you and every other user of the app). The attacker starts to send random messages or try to mess around with signatures/tokens
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by afiori 1y ago
How often do you think this person did experiments? It is a study with n=1 but the unrelated metric of how many times something else happens does not influence the likelihood of a false positive
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by afiori 1y ago
On the other hand it might point to something more serious, that the level of tracking Facebook and Google use lets them loosely predict what you are going to think about . So maybe the microphones are safe and pristine, but we should be wo
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by afiori 1y ago
Another source of audio data is the accelerometer, which often has laxer permissions
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by afiori 1y ago
If the EU were to worry about foreign propaganda then that would hit the US far harder than China
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by afiori 1y ago
Which EU company do you feel should be included in the list? Considering that one of the main criteria is the ability to abuse monopolies.
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by afiori 1y ago
Because the only non-US app/marketplace big enough to be affected by the DMA is tiktok.
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by afiori 1y ago
> is pretty clearly broken agree > And you can't meaningfully measure product metrics like impact for fundamentally broken products disagree
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by afiori 1y ago
This is a strawman, especially if like the parent claims this was improving security for one of the most popular website backends ever. Rules like this might very well have had incredible positive impact on ten of thousands of websites at t
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by afiori 1y ago
I believe that these kind of decisions are mostly downstream of security audits/consultants with varying level of up to date slideshows. I believe that this is overall a reasonable approach for companies that are bigger than "the
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by afiori 2y ago
But centralised state is "separation between components and data"
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by afiori 2y ago
Native Americans had rich oral traditions that would have served the same purpose
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by afiori 2y ago
No I meant that if things were planned differently decades ago and we developed train networks together with road networks (eg IIRC switzerland requires new wharehouses to have a rail connection) then a good 90% of intercity trips (both peo
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by afiori 2y ago
> What they forgot to mention in the article (or I missed) is that train is extremly expensive and has gotten more expensive over the years. Expensive for the user or expensive for the state? I believe that almost everywhere in the west
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by afiori 2y ago
I have no issue with the linguists deciding that their discipline is descriptive rather than normative. Most scientific endeavours are. My issue is with the claim that there is no sense in which a native speaker can make a grammar error. Ma
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by afiori 2y ago
There should be a middleground between "The dictionary is law" and "Any native speaker can redefine a language". At the very least the direct consequence of >If the grammar rules you learned in school disagree with (a
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by afiori 2y ago
This is why the new login prompt of 1Password is worse than the old one, it appears at the center of the screen where the website could easily put a replica. The old one opened at the height of the extension icon, a bit above where the brow
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by afiori 2y ago
I think that you can compose arbitrary images that way using an image-like font (using various Unicode chars and assigning to each a small tile of the full image) Actually I am now curious of how much detail/size/colours/anim
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by afiori 2y ago
The strategies to get to the top and those to stay there can be very different. Still you are right, thinking more about what I was trying to say I agree that my comment was off. I think that what I was trying to criticize was better descri
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by afiori 2y ago
The complaint is that a lot of companies have a very shallow and short term sense of self-interest as if they were starved for cash and in a non-positive sum game
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by afiori 2y ago
I am not proposing to do this, but if you were to use ascii separators you would do it this way
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by afiori 2y ago
In jsonl a modified chunk will lose you at most the removed lines and the two adjacent ones (unless the noise is randomly valid json), in particular a single byte edit can destry at most 2 lines. utf-8 is also similarly self-correcting and
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by afiori 2y ago
application/jsonl+table
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by afiori 2y ago
Actually even whitespace-separated json would be a valid format and if you forbid json documents to be a single integer or float then even just concatenating json gives a valid format as JSON is a prefix free language. That is[0] if a strin
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by afiori 2y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8695118/what-are-the-fil... I am pretty sure you shifted the meaning, the decimal separator is part of the atomic data it does not need a control character. You would use 1F ins
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by afiori 2y ago
CSV -> text/csv Microsoft Excel -> application/vnd.ms-excel CSV is a text format, xls[x], json, and (mostly) xml are not.
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by afiori 2y ago
The browser are not a database (unlike excel). Modifying data before showing it is reversible, modifying it before storing it is not.

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