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by handrous 5y ago
I use them for support for various SaaS I manage at work. Really convenient for that. Use one or another maybe once every 2 or 3 months. I don't think I've ever used one on a site where I wasn't logged in, though. I could may
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by handrous 5y ago
Someone might MitM the hacking 'zine's site to display a Google login prompt, and the user will obviously trust an apropos-nothing Google login prompt on a hacking 'zine's site, and so have their Google credentials stole
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by handrous 5y ago
True. And some of the US founders seem to have genuinely believed that having money was a nice, legible, reasonably accurate proxy for merit & general fitness, and so, that they were founding a meritocracy. It's not as if everyone
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by handrous 5y ago
Sorry y'all. I am prone to thinking technological determinism's more right than not, and to seeing the stable outcome of "games" as inevitable unless the terms of the games themselves can be altered, and there's u
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by handrous 5y ago
> You're equivocating a sample of a person's internet behavior with an actual person. Either way, it's tracking what someone's doing. That the visibility isn't absolute in either case—though, thanks to phones and
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by handrous 5y ago
Make spying on people illegal, even when a computer does it to billions of people rather than one creep doing it to one person. If you have to collect info about people to provide a product or service, make it strictly illegal to transfer
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by handrous 5y ago
> Yes; another way of looking at it is that the US government represents the "dictatorship of Capital". When you consider that the driving question of the conflict behind the American War for Independence, and so essentially th
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by handrous 5y ago
> redefining terms and norms. AKA rhetoric and persuasive language. Likening something that looks an awful lot like a literally-against-the-law crime, to that same crime, is about as mild as that sort of thing can possibly be, and I don&
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by handrous 5y ago
> A crime is something that violates existing statutes of law, period What are you trying to communicate here? You're really stretching to defend your poor reading. [EDIT] rather, you're really digging in—"my poor reading
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by handrous 5y ago
> Zuckerberg is fighting them so adamantly, for now, because he still views Facebook as his. He's doing it because he's new money. His children's children will be properly socialized to wield money and power without becomi
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by handrous 5y ago
Notably, it's not even clear how much less "free shit" we'd get without spying-funded "free" services ruling the Web landscape. Those services don't just compete with paid alternatives, they compete with
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by handrous 5y ago
> Could you point me to a law that codifies this as crime? The other posts that I meant "should be" aren't entirely wrong, but "crime", like most words, has more than one meaning, so that interpretation isn'
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by handrous 5y ago
What do folks use to ensure integrity? I messed around with CRC32 in the filename for a while, but that's a pain to keep up with. Lots of fiddly custom scripts involved. It's dead-simple if everything is on ZFS all the time, of co
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by handrous 5y ago
Oh, I know. Which is why it'll never happen, and why the "message" (as in McLuhan) of the medium of the Internet is authoritarianism.
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by handrous 5y ago
About 80% of my Siri use is setting kitchen timers, 15% setting alarms, 5% setting reminders. It's really good at the first two things and adequate for the last. I don't trust it for anything else.
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by handrous 5y ago
> I don't want Facebook fixed and I do want Facebook harmed. I don't want the government to meddle with what types of things people can say online, I want them to ban the business model of stalking people online and selling int
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by handrous 5y ago
My journey from FF to Safari started back in 2012 or 2013 when I noticed Chrome didn't make my whole system slow, like FF did, so I switched to Chrome. Then I realized that I'd gain like 2+hrs of battery life if I used Safari, and
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by handrous 5y ago
Correctly and safely serializing to CSV and JSON is more overhead than spitting out bytes. It's also easier to spit or ingest bytes as a stream—yes, there are tools that understand streams of json objects, but you still have to have al
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by handrous 5y ago
That's cool, but I'm on an M1. Everything is fast. How's it do on battery life? How often does it turn out to be the culprit behind system-wide performance problems, if you've just got it sitting open in the background w
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by handrous 5y ago
> Severely limited by the I/O they possess My iPhone 11 and iPad Pro have more, and more varied, I/O devices available than any of the ~6 computers and dozen or so video game consoles in my house. Like, I could buy more for the
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by handrous 5y ago
> We should consider that maybe Apple has been also optimizing software to be more performant. They absolutely do. You can see it in all their bundled programs, too (except Xcode... sigh). Safari, Pages/Numbers/Keynote, Preview
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by handrous 5y ago
> I used to think like that - until I analyzed all my PC builds over the last 12 years and realized with Intel changing sockets every generation the whole incremental upgrade thing was fond memories from the 80's, 90's and earl
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by handrous 5y ago
It took me way too long to realize the other-device-battery-indicators weren't four days from four different calendars (which, before I realized what they really were, I figured you could tap to go see the full calendar)
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by handrous 5y ago
When you have enough designers and "UX experts" on staff to create an entire OS + productivity suite's design every year, you're going to get an entire OS + productivity suite's design every year.
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by handrous 5y ago
IIRC K-Mart ran a TV ad that played on "shipped" sounding kinda like "shit", promoting their ability to ship stuff you bought. "I shipped my pants!" "I shipped the bed!"
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by handrous 5y ago
Quite a few people average one or two normal-person-defined "drinks" of alcohol per day. However, one normal-person drink of alcohol is very probably two or more scientists'/regulators' "drinks", because
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by handrous 5y ago
You're already gonna be encouraged to move to an Enterprise ($5k+) account if you use too many resources, and/or if too much of your traffic is from non-browser clients, and probably for a bunch of other reasons I don't kno
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by handrous 5y ago
Why hello my old friend, economy of scale . We meet again.
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by handrous 5y ago
Police in the US don't investigate any but very expensive property crime against individuals, either. And I don't actually know that they investigate very expensive property crime—I just assume they do. Certainly mid-five-figu
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by handrous 5y ago
Like the rest of the Web, there's still a lot there—Google just won't help you find it.

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