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by grues-dinner 1y ago
If the key remains on the users device but under the control of the app, does that count as out of control of the app? Maybe you'd have to force the user to export the key to an external file (and forget the path) or encrypt it with so
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Nice deal for Amazon because they get to double-dip as the same device served ads for some time for the first owner and then they still get the ad-free uplift eventually. Maybe one day they'll turn it into an yearly thing to avoid ads.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
It's also used as a gamma source for metallurgical testing. Which is what the sources that caused the recent Thai and Russian incidents were used for.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
To be fair, economists can only guess in this situation. If you want them to be confident why they were wrong today about what happened yesterday, you must wait for tomorrow.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
No I mean it's better that they give you the option to come back later than not allowing it and you wasting one in (failed) pursuit of the "good deal", but overall they've engineered a few million in a distributed free l
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Multiplied by all customers, it could be quite a bit. It's may be better than having to take both items home and wasting one, but I bet the accountants are quite happy about their little free money fund. It's also quite a "sa
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
So an interest-free loan to the store, plus a penalty if you don't make a return visit. Then again, is food is inflating faster than the interest rates, then you could still come out ahead!
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Indeed, it's possible. It's probably a mutual thing, and the existing rail-centrism of London would certainly have helped fuel the financialisation of the UK economy. You couldn't build Canary Wharf if no one could get to it.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
I agree privatisation did indeed cause a massive revamp of train usage, and I feel like the nostalgia is sometimes rose-tinted and misplaced because 80s BR by all accounts was pretty bad even in the context of the UK in the 80s. On the othe
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
In theory for something like a CE marked power adapter, a manufacturer should be prepared to be challenged on why they feel able to certify it. For example, they could present their testing certificates from some testing lab and show that t
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
The protagonists are libertarians with teenage harems, who fake an election and team up with with a sex pest. That's extremely reductive to the point of parody, but that will likely be the media coverage of it then moment someone reads
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
These days they're more likely to a splitting groups up on purpose to encourage juicy "known seat" upgrades. A 20 euro-plus per seat each-way tax on people with insecure partners.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
There's already AI poisoning spam. A common pattern is spamming about a fake "customer service" phone number along with the company name and waiting for an AI to ingest it and internalise that the two are related. Then what s
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
> It's just a self declaration. Without registering every minute product variation with a testing certificate, how else would you handle this though? As much as I think regulators should be swinging the axe more than they do, from a
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
> If the manufacturers are not held accountable How does a customer of a retailer hold a manufacturer accountable when they have no relationship with said manufacturer? > But most of the time, retailers are just selling products they
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Because retailers take the legal responsibility for what they sell to the public. In the same way statutory returns go to the retailer, not the manufacturer (unless the manufacturer has volunteered an extra warranty to use on top). They can
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Kind of crazy that retailers of these things don't get absolutely hammered into the ground by national testing agencies. It's called a CE mark or equivalent, there is already a system, penalties and tests.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
> By design Android/iOS does not enable users to deny internet access to specific apps. It does seem like the number one permission you might wish to choose not to grant, doesn't it? In a privacy-first design there could also
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
> Can you believe that? They’ll buy anything we tell them to. Sounds very much like "doing a Ratner": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
> Well, that's hyperbolic It's also a bit misleading because if you included every company that holds onto pre-paid customer money as the denominator, Starbucks may be be way lower down. My energy company at some point managed
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
I have opened several cards over time. I assume they also correlate with the payment card ID (and maybe facial recognition these days). I also hope my use of random names and emails for captive portal logins is annoying someone somewhere. T
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Reducing companies to a stock price has always seemed similar to me. Especially when they so often jump about by big percentages in a day. There's 10,000 people and 200 facilities in 32 countries and suddenly that's all worth 10%
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Best I can do is this very old card I found for a Mr von Braun, I think it is. It's in a very, um, spiky font.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
> how in your face it is due to the hype cycle, I'm really struggling with this one. I think AI (generative and not) is surely fascinating. I should by rights be all up in it. I could definitely get it, I don't think I'm s
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
It just goes to show how little information there really is about what will happen here. Literally no one knows. It's uncharted territory, but it's filled with map-sellers. Another good example is railways in the US. That was an h
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
It's a spectrum of possibilities upon which, as yet, no one is sure where it will land. Invested proponents say it will eat the world. Sceptics say it's all a crock of shit. Anyone who says they know the answer, doesn't. The
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
I'm not saying they won't (the "if" is an important word in the sentence), it's just that datacentre growth is not the same as AI growth. It's related, but it is, by definition, temporary as datacentres are soo
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Building the datacentres may be massively "productive" in GDP terms (servers! GPU! Power plants! Electrical inspection!), but when they're completed, that activity will cease. Datacentres don't employ many people directl
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
I often think of them as a tax on people who don't want to carefully tailor their shopping to line up with shifting "deals" across supermarket chains and over time and those who don't have enough storage-times-consumptio
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Fair enough, it was pedantic. But the distinction is exactly where conspiracists come unstuck.

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