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by coldpie 1y ago
The government sites are the first result for both searches on Google for me. https://smokingonabike.com/images/upload/kagi_20250717_1.png https://smokingonabike.com/images/upload/kagi_20
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by coldpie 1y ago
> In almost all cases, the search results are as good as or better than Google Could you (or someone) share some specific search terms that you feel are better than Google? I've tried Kagi a few times and felt no significant differe
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by coldpie 1y ago
It's clunky and stupid, but if you "swipe down" off the bottom of the screen, it will bring the top half down into the reachable area. That's the fix they chose, instead of making phones that fit in a human's hand.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I actually had a brief email conversation with the folks running the project in the OP. Basically they said they can't get a reasonable-quality screen in that size. No one makes it. They would have to spin up a whole new manufacturing
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Even if was a small % of the Apple lineup, the iPhone mini was one the best selling smartphones all brands considered Correct. To back this up a little bit with numbers, the iPhone 13 Mini all by itself sold about the half of the rate
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by coldpie 1y ago
Universities do a ton of research supporting rural areas, especially farming. It's about half of the country's population, not to mention the country's food source, so it makes sense that they would spend a lot of research in
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by coldpie 1y ago
Who creates the test? Who administers the test? When? Under what conditions? Who grades the test?
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah, a test is a terrible idea, for a ton of reasons. Courts would rightly strike it down. Just set a simple age cap. You are ineligible for election if you will be 65 or older on the day of the election. Done. It's simple, it's
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Rehousing the Library of Congress's Rare Globes(blogs.loc.gov)
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by coldpie 1y ago
COM, buddy! Publish your interface with a known UUID, anyone can claim support for your interface in the system registry, there's a standard way to initialize libraries and pull objects supporting the interface out of it, so now you ca
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by coldpie 1y ago
That's an interesting question! Can you tell us what research you've done to try to answer it? It's public funds, so there's probably some documentation for what jobs were created to support the telescope.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yes. Despite what others are saying, the people making these decisions are not stupid. This is part of a decades-long, coordinated plan to sow distrust in experts, so people will vote against their own interests to ensure the wealthy &
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by coldpie 1y ago
> and nobody calls them on it This is so low on the long list of bad things in the world that it isn't worth the calories burned to type up a callout. > I took out my comment calling it wish-cycling propaganda as a selling point,
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by coldpie 1y ago
No, haha, it took me a while, too. "Index" is operating as a verb here.
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by coldpie 1y ago
After 50 years of effectively zero activity, we had some glimmers of anti-trust enforcement under the Biden admin. But then eggs were expensive in the summer of 2024, so we decided it was actually no problem for these half-dozen companies t
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by coldpie 1y ago
Haha, no worries, you're good. But come on, you have to admit it's at least a little funny that the famous Sony/iOS/Android hacker geohotz ended up... working for Facebook and then Elon Musk's X, lol.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah, he got his fame in the mid-2000s when he found a vulnerability in the Playstation 3 OS and some idiot lawyers at Sony sued him for it. He parlayed that into a cool, anti-corporate hacker persona, and then got hired by the most powerfu
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by coldpie 1y ago
George Hotz has spent his career[1] being a "useful idiot" for a series of hypercapitalist techbros, including Zuckerberg in the 2010s and Musk as recently as 2022, so it's somewhat notable that the scales may be falling from
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by coldpie 1y ago
Update: After some email discussion with Matteo, it looks like my fears are unfounded. The EU regulations seem to require wallets to be open source[1]. Assuming that wallets do not need to pass any sensitive transaction data down to the OS
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by coldpie 1y ago
I don't want to get into a Passkey derail, but no. The Passkey spec requires clients to handle the user's own data in certain ways, and the Passkey spec authors threaten clients that allow users to manage their own data with clien
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by coldpie 1y ago
>> The DMV gets no information about what websites I use the DMV credential with and they get no information about when I use the credential even if the website and the DMV decide to cooperate? > You are correct. The property that
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by coldpie 1y ago
The document states: > Controlled by users: The EU Digital Identity Wallets will enable people to choose and keep track of their identity, data and certificates which they share with third parties. Anything which is not necessary to shar
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Even if the bigtechs don't "officially" make the passkey standards require bigtech involvement, it seems very likely to me that conservative businesses like banks will only accept bigtech implementations. Indeed. It&#x27
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by coldpie 1y ago
> This is great. Do you still feel that way knowing that it introduces a hard requirement for all users to have their private data managed by one of Apple, Google, or Microsoft[1]? I want to be excited about this, and about Passkeys, but
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah, Passkeys are doing the same thing, expecting users to just blindly trust American Big Tech companies. It's distressing that no one working on these protocols considers the developers of the software that implements the protocol t
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by coldpie 1y ago
Another approach could be for a component in the protocol that I do trust (eg an open source web browser) to serve as an intermediary, providing only the information required to each of the components that I don't trust (wallet, websit
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by coldpie 1y ago
That's too bad :( I wish the protocol had been designed with that in mind. Requiring users to trust proprietary software from Google & Apple to be in complete control over their digital identities is a pretty crummy direction to go
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by coldpie 1y ago
Well, that's not great. My phone is closed-source and its software is provided by an ad company. I do not trust it to always behave in my interests.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Hmm. This introduces a third party to the protocol, right? Specifically the developer of the wallet. So we now have three parties: the user, the wallet developer, and the relying party. Does this zk protocol protect the user's privacy
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by coldpie 1y ago
Thanks for the reply. So in theory, I could get this MDOC file and store it on my desktop computer, and use an open-source library whose behavior I can verify, to provide the proof to the website via my web browser. Yeah? This sounds good

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