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by falcolas 3y ago
> Who knows what other apps on their other device are up to... Probably the same things. That data's worth a lot of money for advertisers, both corporate and political.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Ironically enough, sponsored content quite cleanly omits all this complexity and lets content makers earn money.
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by falcolas 3y ago
So, sponsored content then? That’s basically what it is - ads without tracking, that don’t block or lock away content.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Google’s board has spoken, and the price of their stock today matters more than the company’s future. If I was an employee who cared about Google’s vision, or what other services they could offer the world, the I’d probably be angry at the
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by falcolas 3y ago
Tangentially related, Musk now wants NPR to tweet again, under the threat of giving away NPR's handle for disuse, contrary to Twitter's inactive account guidelines. To preempt "musk hate" arguments, I'm attributing
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by falcolas 3y ago
Or, more broadly, crabs. Carcinisation for all!
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by falcolas 3y ago
Frankly I haven’t really seen evidence supporting the phrase “needed to downsize”. The only need I’ve seen demonstrated was the “need” to bump stock price at any cost to the company. Doesn’t really matter, though. The board has cast its die
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by falcolas 3y ago
It has been upheld in court that one of the duties of a company to its shareholders is ensuring the continuation of the company. Of course courts have also upheld the duty to increase stock value too, but still…
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by falcolas 3y ago
I guess one bonus is that no companies will survive intact to become Cyberpunkesque monopolies with such shortsighted planning. Instead the stock market and its adherents will be (are now?) our overlord.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Certainly should be a great comfort for the 12,000 people they laid off.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Worth more now that they’re doing 70 billion in stock buybacks.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Yeah, I’d complain if I were a Google employee too. 70B in wasted potential for new and improved products, plus a CEO who admitted to overhiring getting a big stock grant (in addition to a bonus, err, stock price bump from buybacks). It fee
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by falcolas 3y ago
When I first heard of this practice - soaking - I would have sworn someone was making a joke. Nope. Real. Right up there with abstinence only sex ed.
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by falcolas 4y ago
> They're expensive, Living is expensive. Housing is an order of magnitude more expensive on a monthly basis than cars are. Food is around the same as a car payment. EDIT: And in a pinch, a car can be used as housing. Sucks that thi
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by falcolas 4y ago
> other browsers don't use the native icloud passkeys, chrome has its own secret store > but caBLE requires Bluetooth to facilitate proximity passkey connections if you want to use wireless webauthn. And that's the problem.
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by falcolas 4y ago
Changing out passwords for passkeys does not improve security in anything but a theoretical manner. Good passwords (stored on the backend with a password-optimized hash) are pretty close to bulletproof, and all browsers that I've used
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by falcolas 4y ago
In a way, thank you for highlighting how opaque NY's public transportation is. 7 train is wut? All I could easily find out about (including via Google Maps) was the subway and bus. And a 20m walk in the heat. At least all the skyscrape
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by falcolas 4y ago
I have... doubts. Already webauthn isn't prompting for passkeys on Apple. Chrome wants a bluetooth connection out of the box, and firefox does its own internal auth path that doesn't involve the OS. Chrome and Edge on Windows are
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by falcolas 4y ago
> that doesn't imply I might as well share the same password across all my accounts Irrelevant to the argument I made. My argument already assumes you're using unique passwords, since it's made quite simple these days.
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by falcolas 4y ago
The time I was there, there was no subway connection within a mile of Javits. At least, not one that was open. I needed to connect from a subway to a bus to get there. > the vast majority of people that live in NYC seem to do perfectly w
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by falcolas 4y ago
Cars are awesome. I'm protected (from people, vehicles, and weather), I can go where I need to on demand and on my own schedule. My car is personalized to me, and my car is beholden to nobody else. I can't imagine not having a car
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by falcolas 4y ago
I went to NYC for work, and the transit system absolutely did not hit all the marks. I had to get to the Jacob Javits conference center, and ended up walking a couple of miles through just-shy-of-sketchy neighborhoods because the single bus
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by falcolas 4y ago
Auth is as secure as the weakest link - in the case of this it's your email and/or customer service To put it another way, it's not really any more secure than passwords. Sure, there's a lower risk of password breaches,
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by falcolas 4y ago
All this while remembering that you will probably only get 4 hours a day to dedicate to the project. Between responding to emails and chats, paperwork, training, meetings, and context switching - your day will be half gone before you can ev
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by falcolas 4y ago
Another option are dip pens. They do not offer the same writing time as a regular fountain pen, but they are easier to clean and so let you experiment with exotic inks (such as those with particulate in them). I'm particularly fond of
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by falcolas 4y ago
I'd go one step further and suggest a Pilot disposable fountain pen. Their nibs are remarkably good, and you're only out around $2 if you dislike them. And if you like them, well then, have fun with your new hobby!
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by falcolas 4y ago
This is probably getting pedantic, but dismissing a risk as "nonsense" is how the general population forgets that certain risks exist. And this risk absolutely exists. If you're a non-tech savvy but high-risk user who travels
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by falcolas 4y ago
The company I work for uses Requests for Discussion (RFD) where they really mean RFPs. Drives me batty. And yes, all the documentation just said RFD as well. :)
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by falcolas 4y ago
That makes sense. I forget sometimes that we got vacation and sick days munged together into PTO. "You'll get more time off!†" † assuming you never get sick. Thanks!
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by falcolas 4y ago
Huh. Is that not common vernacular where you're from?

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