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by cowsup 3y ago
The best way to counter this is by asking a few questions, and seeing how they rate things across the board. If you see a perfect 5 stars for Location, Convenience, Value, Cleanliness, and Customer Service, you’ll know that the experience w
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by cowsup 3y ago
I think by paying the tax, it opens up other governments (especially individual states) to introduce similar legislation for that effortless tax revenue. In the US alone, California could charge, Texas could charge, Alabama could, each havi
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by cowsup 3y ago
That opinion becomes the majority when they increase the cost as well. Similar services have emailed me over the years, saying that, since they're continuing to grow and provide more benefits, they have to raise the price as well. It&#
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by cowsup 3y ago
Good point. I wish they included more details about how they performed their searches, but I understand not wanting to feed tips and tricks to the bad guys...
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by cowsup 3y ago
No. This checks public GitHub commits that contain secret credentials; in 2022, over 33% were specific to known APIs, such as AWS access keys or MongoDB credentials, while the remaining 67% were deemed "generic." According to the
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by cowsup 3y ago
Correct. Story seems to be, Wistron was screwing over employees to save costs, and used those low-costs to secure a deal with Apple. Then they got caught by the government, and now have to play by the rules. Because of this, they asked Appl
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by cowsup 3y ago
If OpenAI promises to use your data one way — and, in fact, upsells you on that promise — and then gets caught using it another way, that’s a huge lawsuit, not to mention immediate violation of EU privacy laws. Given the size of OpenAI, the
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by cowsup 3y ago
> Would it be easier if I just built this service in-house (SMS and phone number validation)? If you have to ask, probably not. Ultimately when you’re dealing with large companies like this, you’re constantly being watched by algorithms
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by cowsup 3y ago
In August of 2022, Visa was facing a lawsuit that alleged they were assisting PornHub of profiting off of child porn [0]. This likely caused the card companies, as well as affiliated banks, to re-evaluate their customers and get any adult s
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by cowsup 3y ago
I remember when we had computer companies like Apple & Microsoft, and web companies like Google & Facebook, and we liked it that way. Now, everyone is expected to all compete and do the same thing. Google and Microsoft are competing
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by cowsup 3y ago
We are talking about the MS crap, actually.
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by cowsup 3y ago
I'm not so sure that's true. I simultaneously see people say: > Nintendo needs to stop hurting ROM sites for games older than 20 years. There's little profit to be made from such old titles. As well as: > Why did Ninten
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by cowsup 4y ago
"Never make the text color of labels grey," Honestly surprised GitHub did this. I've worked with software where a user picks a color for something that renders text atop it. Never once did I think to allow for an in-between c
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by cowsup 4y ago
But when the prompt is: > add .gitignore commit with msg adding ignore and push That's not very compelling. The main selling point of AI is using simple inputs to achieve advanced outputs that match what the user wanted. If I can sa
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by cowsup 4y ago
You’re effectively relying on two computers to be up and running 24/7. It’d be twice as better of an idea (which is still a very low number) to just store that data in RAM on a single device, rather than rely on two.
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by cowsup 4y ago
Because most investors are investing in more than one company. If someone has a stake in Google, Microsoft, and Confluent, and their ROI for the first two are great this quarter, but Confluent is lukewarm or even in the red, they're g
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by cowsup 4y ago
You’re correct. I live near DC and travel there for photography (much like the novice pilot in the OP). If you’re flying near DC, or anywhere really, you should at least have a broad understanding of where you cannot fly. That is your respo
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by cowsup 4y ago
Nowhere near as large, or influential, as the Secret Service. If you’ve ever had to commute near airport, and the POTUS is flying in or out, you’re essentially screwed, for potentially hours. Musk or Bezos could request a place deny entry t
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by cowsup 4y ago
I guess if you really want to get technical, they aren’t explicitly drawing that conclusion. They’re simply saying that Apple announced they’d scan files for CSAM, and now Apple is scanning files for “some reason.” Draw your own conclusion.
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by cowsup 4y ago
Enforcement is not the job of the politicians. They just write the "Save the Children" laws and then go out and pat themselves on the back to their constituents.
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by cowsup 4y ago
The shady part to me is Pixelfed vaguely mentions that Meta is "threatening legal action," and then they ask for money immediately after. This paints a David and Goliath tale, where Instagram sees a small startup taking away their
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by cowsup 4y ago
I don't doubt it. I just wanted to specify that I've had no prior bias one way or another with regard to the service.
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by cowsup 4y ago
Never heard of Pixelfed, but it's sort of shady that, the moment they received notice that they shouldn't be copying a trillion-dollar company's product 1:1, they immediately cry that they need more donations. Just rename the
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by cowsup 4y ago
Very impressive and very clean. I’ve set up many user scripts for websites I browse for all of my devices. User scripts are indispensable to me. Two quirks: 1. In Safari on my iPad, “add comment” is invisible, since it still uses the white
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by cowsup 4y ago
Strange thing is that photo albums re relatively new. Imgur was the go-to host for Reddit, and then they made their own uploader a looong time later. The "albums" functionality only came out in July of 2020, according to a Google
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by cowsup 4y ago
Like the post said, this isn’t the first time Elon has acted this way. He posted the same sort of stuff years ago, also on Twitter. People who ignored him then can ignore him now. But, just like when certain Twitter users enter public offic
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by cowsup 4y ago
I can theoretically leave my home with just my smartphone. I can use it to pay fare at the local train station, get directions to restaurants, read the news, pay for food and coffee, and even lock / unlock my apartment. I do still brin
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by cowsup 4y ago
Seems fun on the surface, but they're offering folks to write in to their "careers" email (see the Info icon). They also really seem to be pushing you to create an account, or use the QR code, to save your information for lat
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by cowsup 4y ago
Another factor is that cost of screwing up is far worse than any other setup. I'm always happy to tinker with computer software, since, if I mess it up, I can just delete it and start over (or just never re-download it). I even sideloa
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Remoting into vehicles, knowing only the VIN number of the car(twitter.com)
44 points by cowsup 4y ago|4 comments

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