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by benoau 5mo ago
Does "advertise" count as non-obvious? It seems like you've ignored the most effective way to get traffic: pay for it. Get ads on Mac-related blogs, subreddits, etc.
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Consumer groups file complaint against Meta, TikTok and Google running scam ads(beuc.eu)
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by benoau 5mo ago
Yes that's it.
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by benoau 5mo ago
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/27065 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77090044/github-actions-... https://www.praetorian.com/blog/pwn-request-
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by benoau 5mo ago
You also need to make sure you take care using PR titles and descriptions in your GHA because if they contain `text` it *may be executed lmfao. edited: not "will", may depending on your GHA
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by benoau 5mo ago
It's just missing some context - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/us-cybersecurity-agency-ci...
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by benoau 5mo ago
Because software is a massive house of cards and its bottom layers are poorly-funded people and volunteer groups who can't conceive every possible security issue, don't necessarily engage in every best practice to secure their acc
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by benoau 5mo ago
But they make way more money implementing the dark pattern playbook. It's hardly an accident when subscriptions are hard to cancel it's a deliberate optimization.
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by benoau 5mo ago
Plus on the new layout you're forced to use the mobile app now.
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by benoau 5mo ago
Musk is suing Apple/OpenAI for allegedly shutting out Grok in favour of exclusivity with OpenAI. OpenAI is reportedly going to sue Apple for that integration being poorly done. While Apple is reportedly preparing to use Gemini and offe
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by benoau 5mo ago
Yes but you're saying this guy needs to build his own house and trusting him to obey the fire and safety codes, when plenty of professionals exist that specialize in following those.
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by benoau 5mo ago
It's easy until the shit hits the fan... > In the fire, 384 battery packs were burnt, which took down 96 government systems. Whilst this is obviously still a huge loss, 95 of these had backups - but the G-drive system (government dr
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by benoau 5mo ago
In theory, but the last two years have also seen Zuckerburg, Musk and Cook openly defying the EU, one of the largest markets on the planet.
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by benoau 5mo ago
Unfortunately we live in a world where any attempt to regulate "big tech" is met by massive campaigns to prevent it.
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by benoau 5mo ago
They're reportedly already doing that, AI services will be able to publish "Extensions" that Siri will use and then those services can compete amongst themselves to power it. But this is contingent on the same services not be
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by benoau 5mo ago
Hate to be a downer but you're like a quarter-century too late on this idea...
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by benoau 5mo ago
Sounds pretty ambitious. It's basically the underlying premise of software like Playwright (and its predecessors like Puppeteer) that make any web site/app programmatically accessible, but when you dive into these tools they requi
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by benoau 5mo ago
It's amazing how much adversity it has faced, Meta openly refused compliance last year, Apple seems to have rejected compliance on multiple issues while demanding the law be repealed, Musk retaliated against the EC, the three of them l
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by benoau 5mo ago
> Engineers being unhappy when things change and when the slightest thing works differently is the least surprising thing I've ever heard. Gold.
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by benoau 5mo ago
I use calendar alerts to run `npm audit`, but the older the code is the less likely you have to worry. You can update dependencies on a similar schedule but you need a solid test suite to make sure nothing broke. When a vulnerable package
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by benoau 5mo ago
Freezing the versions in package.json and generally not revisiting unless they have vulnerabilities or there's a compelling reason to update a specific package (which is rare).
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by benoau 5mo ago
There are rumours OpenAI is making a smartphone - https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/openai-could-be-making-a-p...
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by benoau 5mo ago
And Hero's Quest, later known as Quest for Glory. This was arguably more fun because it added RPG traits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Glory%3A_So_You_Want...
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by benoau 5mo ago
It's interesting to watch big tech's gravy-train slowly coming to a halt, hiding behind section 230 immunity while spending as little as possible to prevent scams and fraud - in Zuckerburg's case cashing in on it. > Meta p
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by benoau 5mo ago
> The purpose of flagging is to indicate that a story does not belong on HN. Frivolous flagging—e.g. flagging a story that's clearly on-topic by the site guidelines just because one personally dislikes it—eventually gets an account&
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by benoau 5mo ago
I bet some anti-spam measure was inadvertently tripped that dampened the submission popularity, while a bug failed to conceal it.
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by benoau 5mo ago
There is source code available for it (although the repo's retired): https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake/blob/b3f6a3c6ca... Basically one big server had a number of threads each requesting the n
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by benoau 5mo ago
It sounds similar to Twitter's Snowflake? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID
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by benoau 5mo ago
I like how they argued AI was a massive threat to their search empire and subsequently advertising empire ... and then a few weeks after the judge issued their astonishingly light measures to address Google's monopoly abuse, they partn
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by benoau 5mo ago
It's probably possible to catch a lot more of them, but why look too hard when you can hide behind section 230 immunity and pocket ginormous profits instead of spending on this lol...

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