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by bjord 1y ago
current malicious compliance by websites aside, would this not put the onus on browser devs to, site by site, identify which cookies are actually "necessary"? side note: ublock origin has optional filter lists for blocking these b
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by bjord 1y ago
because they'll be trained on karpathy's implementation
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by bjord 1y ago
what exactly is entertaining about what's going on with H1Bs right now?
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by bjord 1y ago
sounds like Firefox OS would've been right up your alley(?)
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by bjord 1y ago
check out the XCover line, though apparently this year's model makes you choose between fingerprint and headphone jack (XCover7 vs XCover7 Pro) you do give up a lot camera-wise, though
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by bjord 1y ago
you're just speaking of the Galaxy S line, there are at least four other Galaxy lines, some of which dropped these features only this year and one of which has all of them (XCover), though it looks like this year's release makes
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by bjord 1y ago
samsung is the only smartphone manufacturer that still makes phones (though not many) with all the features I want: microSD slot, dual physical sim, side-mounted fingerprint reader, headphone jack, nfc, and regular (long-lasting) security u
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by bjord 1y ago
it's clear in the thread that he got permission to do so it's also reasonable to assume he had more information about the state of the location given his access as an employee, particularly given that it was a full two months befo
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by bjord 1y ago
except this is a vc-funded american company stealing from an indian solo dev
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by bjord 1y ago
no, I think you're right—there's definitely something missing right now but more likely it's going on and we're just not seeing it in general, though, I think once a certain amount of money is involved, people just start
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by bjord 1y ago
throwback to that brief period where people would mine bitcoin (ineffectively) using ASICs in their USB ports
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by bjord 1y ago
That doesn't necessarily change the overall mission of the organization, but definitely does give them more flexibility to offer paid options to help sustain development, should they see an opening in the future. This is more or less
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by bjord 1y ago
I don't actually think there was (or needed to be) one...keep in mind they're a non-profit. I think they just wanted to make the internet a safer place, but semi-extraneous (particularly unprofitable) projects sadly need to be c
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by bjord 1y ago
are you paying for any of them or only using the free versions? and which models specifically are you using?
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by bjord 1y ago
it's the name of the company
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by bjord 1y ago
In theory, that sounds great, but in practice, why should we trust manufacturers to reliably test their own products?
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by bjord 2y ago
definitely
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by bjord 2y ago
if that were truly (sustainably) possible, I'd support it, but imo that'd just be signing ff's death warrant side note, thunderbird is already independent and democratically-managed by the community (as of a few years ago).
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by bjord 2y ago
I agree completely that something needs to change procedurally—this can't be allowed to happen again
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by bjord 2y ago
well, yeah...if mozilla's been selling all our data, then screw firing leadership—they as an organization are rotten to the core and should burn but I honestly think that's a totally unreasonable conclusion to draw based on this k
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by bjord 2y ago
it sounds like you and I have completely different understandings of the world, so I'm genuinely not sure I can convince you otherwise, but let me give it a shot to oversimplify into a couple points: * people make mistakes, especially
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by bjord 2y ago
and no, a decent manager shouldn't have to literally review every little thing every single one of their employees does obviously something needs to change here procedurally, but micromanagement across the entire board is not the answe
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by bjord 2y ago
yes, this was a big screw-up all things considered, but crucifying people for a (relatively straightforward, imo) comms issue just seems...borderline violent? > For instance, Mozilla said it may have removed blanket claims that it never
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by bjord 2y ago
that seems wildly excessive
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by bjord 2y ago
either way, the ants are more fun
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by bjord 2y ago
is this just weird religious adherence to the belief that a multi-language codebase will be harder to maintain? what's the rationale, exactly?
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by bjord 2y ago
it's a cool setup, though I wonder if it might be more compact if one designed a new case for the framework (laptop), given that the built-in keyboard and trackpad will go unused one complaint: I initially had no idea what a "hook
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by bjord 2y ago
out of curiosity, how do you feel about cold emails asking for a conversation? I am currently looking for a new job (potentially in a new industry), so I'm doing cold outreach to people whose experience seems relevant and/or inter
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by bjord 2y ago
oh, wow, same! this comment just made me realize that some of my older projects will no longer work after this
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by bjord 2y ago
it's also the name of egypt's authoritarian leader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi

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