alickz

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by alickz 3y ago
nor bikes
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by alickz 3y ago
Throw in bragibooks for parsing the audiobooks from readarr and adding metadata for audiobookshelf like chapters etc
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by alickz 3y ago
i thought they _were_ losing money?
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by alickz 3y ago
Your code was production ready for millions of users, that's all that matters Do you think Christian would be willing to open source the app (under a non-commercial license) and allow us to build it with our own Reddit API keys? That w
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by alickz 3y ago
We don't understand cat facial expressions as intuitively as dogs For example, what we would traditionally see as a grumpy or angry face (eyebrows down, eyes narrowed slightly) is the relaxed face of a cat An angry cat's face on t
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by alickz 3y ago
To throw another hat in the ring I'd recommend Sean Seanson for long form calm gaming content Here he is looking at EVERY SquareSoft PS1 game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh9tc-UMnT0
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by alickz 3y ago
Apple TV are showing ads now, at least in my country
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by alickz 4y ago
Off topic but that site has some awful contrast issues on the text
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by alickz 4y ago
As does iOS, but the user has no control over the device so can't do anything about it
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by alickz 4y ago
I believe current browsers ask for authentication before filling in credit card details. Whenever I focus on a CC field and autocomplete Chrome throws up a biometric auth before it will fill out the textfields
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by alickz 4y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to blacklist the most popular VCS website used among developers. It's a competition for devs, they _should_ be using version control. All it would take is a cursory glance by another dev to know
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by alickz 4y ago
>We don't have a solution for the problem. We have some ideas for minimizing it, but the problem isn't going away. Detectors are unreliable. Pay-to-submit sacrifices too many legit authors. *Print submissions are not viable for
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by alickz 4y ago
The joke goes that biology is just applied chemistry, and chemistry is just applied physics, with physics just being applied maths.
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by alickz 4y ago
Fully agree with ya there, but is it _immoral_? I would say no
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by alickz 4y ago
>Curation is key and there need to be better tools. It's annoying that Youtube, a flagship product for a massive multinational company, has worse curation and discovery than even a low tier porn site. Whoever is in charge of design&
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by alickz 4y ago
What if I photoshop my crush's face onto a naked body? Wouldn't that be similar to having a personal deepfake? I agree with the person you're replying to, you can't stop people doing these things in the privacy of their
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by alickz 4y ago
They say as much in the article >"We all agree that stuff should be illegal, let's make it illegal," she told BBC News, adding that the government had already pledged to make the promotion of self harm unlawful. How they i
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by alickz 4y ago
Why? Not being rhetorical, genuinely curious to the reasoning.
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by alickz 4y ago
>But more diversity in trash collectors is unlikely to result in more diversity in CEOs. The opposite is much more true. You think more diversity in CEOs will result in more diversity for trash collectors?
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by alickz 4y ago
Actually upon further looking at the docs I don't think they can collect any information in the background . Like the app has to register as being allowed in background mode, upon which if a push notification is sent to it the OS wakes
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by alickz 4y ago
Why is that possible in native apps but not websites?
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by alickz 4y ago
Apps cannot run constantly in the background, they're very much at the whim of the Operating System and must register background operations and complete them usually in ~30s before being killed. They also can't collect any informa
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by alickz 4y ago
> Device and user IDs Apps don't have access to device IDs other than IDFA, which can be reset at any time by the user. > wake/sleep/network events, etc Apps can't tell if the device has been woken up or put to sle
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by alickz 4y ago
>The webbrowser limits their ability to spy on you dramatically. In what way? What information can a native app get from a user that a website couldn't?
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by alickz 4y ago
What information can a native app get that a website can't?
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by alickz 4y ago
I purposely look away when YouTube starts playing ads. It's silly I know, but I get a tiny amount of satisfaction from not letting them advertise to me.
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by alickz 4y ago
For me 9 times out of 10 when I manually restart my device I want a fresh start anyway.
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by alickz 4y ago
I think this is more like putting a lock on your door. It won't deter a locksmith or a dedicated attacker, it just filters out the low effort attackers.
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by alickz 4y ago
>I do agree that SFSafariViewController should use the newer style of sheet that can be pulled down on to be be dismissed. SFSafariViewController can be presented in the newer sheet modal style, it would seem Twitter specifically chose n
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by alickz 4y ago
From the tech emails it seems they're more concerned about lockin than security. https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1463558823109660677?la... >short version - don't make mail, calendar, iMessage wo

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