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by darren_ 5y ago
What We Do In The Shadows (disclaimer of bias: NZer)
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by darren_ 5y ago
Assuming it's 11 years old (late 2010 model), it can run up to High Sierra, which both the most recent Chrome and Firefox will support. If it's the Mid-2009 model (the next older model), it can still run El Capitan and therefore t
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by darren_ 5y ago
It was, shouldn't be any more (IIRC it got enabled about 2 years ago?)
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by darren_ 5y ago
So this appears to be a distributed network of random people's devices, and the 'blockchain' aspect is entirely unrelated to the actually useful parts of how the tech works. It's just how people are paid for contributing
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by darren_ 5y ago
I do actually feel safe getting in public transit while covid’s ongoing, and I’m in Tokyo (and taking two of the busiest lines in the world as part of my commute - Chuo and Yamanote). At this point it seems obvious to me that having windows
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by darren_ 5y ago
Just a guess but maybe they want to detect domains people are looking up that don't exist so they can squat them.
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by darren_ 5y ago
> AND AND - this is truly outrageous mafia-like behavior - you can't sell your services for less outside of the App Store. That's right, if your monthly photo backup service is $9.99/mo on the App Store, you have to sell i
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by darren_ 5y ago
> I've heard stories that at Google, the non-engineering workers at campus may not socialize with engineers at all. What kind of society is this that Google is building? This isn't true at all.
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by darren_ 5y ago
Nitpick but you've repeated it in another comment so maybe worth correcting - 1 million yen is about $9k. 'Super salaryman' would probably be 10 million yen, I'd guess (haven't heard the term, but that doesn't
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by darren_ 5y ago
I see a lot of comments about other book series but not many about the specific bossfightbooks ones. Has anyone read any of them other than the Spelunky one? I read the Spelunky one and enjoyed it, and grabbed the Baldur's Gate II one
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by darren_ 5y ago
> A really simple step in the right direction would be mandated labeling showing how many years of software updates the device will get and statistical expected lifetime. This isn't that simple because it depends on _which_ software
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by darren_ 6y ago
Counterpoint: Boot time is basically irrelevant once you have a reliable sleep/hibernate/whatever mode. My PC only reboots for windows updates or if I'm troubleshooting some inexplicable behaviour. For the actual practical us
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by darren_ 6y ago
this isn't by a google engineering director, it quotes ray kurzweil at one point and then puts 'google director' in the title presumably for clicks.
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by darren_ 6y ago
Or you could read DTP site instead of axe-grinding "DTP is an open source project centered around the idea that less-resourced companies can use and build on the common models and codebase developed by the community of contributors. Al
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by darren_ 6y ago
Yes: https://github.com/WICG/floc > "Whether the browser sends a real FLoC or a random one is user controllable." FLoC stuff is client side. You can send nil FLoC IDs. You can randomize them on every reque
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by darren_ 6y ago
How do you know people haven't moved on? Have you got Genshin Impact analytics that the rest of us don't? It's free and getting lots of installs as you'd expect - how do you know if people are sticking with it? It's
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by darren_ 6y ago
Genshin Impact is an example of a game where the gameplay is intrinsically designed to facilitate the monetization though - it's taking what would be perfectly alright gameplay, and making it _really shitty_, so they can monetize. A Ge
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by darren_ 6y ago
I think the expectation is other browsers will implement by default - the intention incidentally is that FLoC isn’t a google specific tech, it enables private targeting by any ad vendor. The proposal seems to mostly to be by googlers but th
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by darren_ 6y ago
> Make no mistake - as far as I can tell, this preserves Google's ability to track that you are, say, a new parent because you've searched for baby clothes. What it won't know is which new parent you are. If you've se
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by darren_ 6y ago
> Does anyone actually prefer the experience of an integrated Smart TV compared to a separate device? If these users exist, they probably wouldn't be found around these parts. Sure, I've got a Sony TV with built-in netflix&#x2F
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by darren_ 6y ago
“Did you ever wonder what life would have been like if you’d said yes?” said Ridcully. “No.” “I suppose we’d have settled down, had children, grandchildren, that sort of thing…” “What about the fire?” she said. “What fire?” “Swept through o
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by darren_ 6y ago
Over here it's either LINE (does support adding by number but can't remember the last time I used that, literally years) or FB/Instagram.
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by darren_ 6y ago
> How many people can you reach with SMS? Essentially no-one as we've all stopped trading actual phone numbers years ago.
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by darren_ 6y ago
Yes, reading some more of the discussions it seems like the answer is that (roughly) the same amount of memory is used, but hitting swap is no longer a major problem, at least for user-facing apps. Seems like the original quote is reading t
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by darren_ 6y ago
This quote doesn’t really cover why M1 macs are more efficient with less ram than intel macs? You’ve got a memory budget, it’s likely broadly the same on both platforms, the speed at which your retains/releases happen isn’t going to be
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by darren_ 6y ago
This is one place where apple’s ban on alternative browser engines really hurts users, IMO. I’d be pretty comfy using an old iPad that was out of security support, _if_ it had an up to date browser. But since browser engine updates are tied
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by darren_ 6y ago
Ah, OK. I don't really find that too compelling, to be honest - what's your NAT buying you if you don't have many users to mix your traffic with? I live alone and as far as I can see, all my NAT does for my privacy is a smidg
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by darren_ 6y ago
Can you explain what privacy you think it offers over IPv6+privacy addresses? As far as I can see it offers that activities behind the NAT get grouped behind one IP to the outside world, and I guess harder host discovery. Is there more?
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by darren_ 6y ago
I'd argue that NAT provides negative security in the long term. Two reasons: 1) This attack is mostly built off the complexity that NAT requires. STUN, TURN, ICE, ALG all exist because of NAT. More complexity == harder to secure. 2) Th
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Tokyo: Two men arrested over deepfake pornography videos(japantimes.co.jp)
4 points by darren_ 6y ago|0 comments

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