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by deanishe 3y ago
> We don’t blame the telephone company A phone company should have no idea what its customers say during calls. Blogs are public.
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by deanishe 3y ago
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
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by deanishe 3y ago
They only need hi-res where the user is looking, don't they? We can't see what's in our peripheral vision clearly, so they should be able to get away with most of the FoV being blocky af, shouldn't they?
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by deanishe 3y ago
I don't see how EVs are any more viable than ICEs if they continue to be as crassly oversized and overpowered. A 20 KG e-bike can get a person around with 0.3 BHP, so 200 KG and 30 BHP is already pushing the boat out. But people want a
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by deanishe 3y ago
> Why this isn't applied to software engineering is a whole nother story, but i think it probably should. Money, for one thing. Actually building the thing IRL is the expensive bit, but it's effectively free for software. So e
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by deanishe 3y ago
You do enter encryption info: your password. FF sync "splits" your password into an encryption key and the service password on the client side. The service never sees the key (or real password). Bitwarden works in a similar way.
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by deanishe 3y ago
For the life of me, I don't understand why they do this. It's not 2003. I don't have a separate bunch of WAP bookmarks for my phone.
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by deanishe 6y ago
> They just need a signature. And you need to pay Apple for the certificate to sign them. And never piss them off lest they revoke it.
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by deanishe 6y ago
Can’t you just ask the client which timezone it’s in? Every browser knows, and it will be a more accurate answer: the user might be on a foreign VPN or temporarily in another TZ, but not working on that timezone.
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by deanishe 7y ago
> but we certainly care a lot about fixing issues like this when we hear about them. What then should we make of the fact that Google practically ensures that they won't hear about such issues by making it next to impossible to repo
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by deanishe 8y ago
It's explained in more depth here: https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wik... Essentially, git is designed for the "bazaar" development model, while Fossil is designed
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by deanishe 9y ago
Isn’t this misuse of DNA data literally called the “prosecutor‘s fallacy”? The DA says, “there’s a million-to-one chance it wasn’t this dude.” Without any other evidence linking the purported perp to the crime, the reality is that the DNA o
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by deanishe 9y ago
This blog post explains it a bit: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/16/falling-...
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by deanishe 10y ago
Did you read the articles? The suspect tweeted "I know he has epilepsy" and "I hope he dies." But sure, a judge and jury could only possibly conjecture about intent…
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by deanishe 10y ago
There's an API, but I'd rather not have to write my own script to export the data. Which I'll be doing lickety split. Not a fan of Pinterest (the company), not one bit.