hirsin

11 ms·

151.
by hirsin 3y ago
"never allowed" seems to be a stretch, as I remember when Safari disabled them. ITP wasn't that long ago, was it?
152.
by hirsin 3y ago
That blog is something. Almost as deranged as the people it's profiling (doxxing?)
153.
by hirsin 3y ago
Cynical best guess - 1. It's not a direct payout to Vanderlande, as that's a Dutch company owned by Toyota. So it's not some MIC cash for contracts which is the usual guess. 2. But, it's got a single big location in the
154.
by hirsin 3y ago
I certainly believe it a user was upset by it. We've gotten support tickets before from users accusing of of "snooping on their local machine" to find passwords... Like no, it was just in a breach, relax. They're often n
155.
by hirsin 3y ago
Do you ship them extra computers too? Dual boot? There's gotta be a limit somewhere, and browser choice is a fair one. For engineers, absolutely, two browsers because some are liable to hit (self or team induced) bugs. But for sales? S
156.
by hirsin 3y ago
While I don't lend credence to it being that simple, it's worth noting that the people making that profit aren't the ones paying for it, and the ones paying for it aren't using their own money.
157.
by hirsin 3y ago
Given all the random, ish, folks leaving openAI at the same time, understanding the context immediately is beneficial. I assumed this was a flamey post by a rando, not dang.
158.
by hirsin 3y ago
I know it's small potatoes but those other CEOs have added hundreds of millions of dollars in ARR to their bottom lines on AI, in particular open ai. Microsoft doesn't think you're a real product line til a billion plus ARR b
159.
by hirsin 3y ago
"Customers would like to block it". That list frequently includes Microsoft services that a customer doesn't pay for, and therefore wants to eliminate. A lot of financial companies have an allowlist approach to their firewall
160.
Indian cellular providers claim national security risk over WhatsApp use for OTP(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
1 points by hirsin 3y ago|0 comments
161.
by hirsin 3y ago
No, it was an authorization internals upgrade we were testing, not the account switcher.
162.
by hirsin 3y ago
You're lucky. I've seen entire engineering orgs convinced of the opposite, and highly resistant to improvement.
163.
by hirsin 3y ago
Honestly doesn't get better in the reverse either. At Microsoft I'd sit in on calls with banks and other "big names", watching them pound the table and argue their way, usually involving something dangerous and borderlin
164.
by hirsin 3y ago
> Bad faith actors are looking for easy, plentiful targets Citation needed, especially when we know that spear phishing is the simplest of the known exceptions to this. I.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37720580
165.
by hirsin 3y ago
Yep, definitely American privilege making up for American bad assumptions. I have reliably gotten my visa requirements right the rest of the time across said global South.
166.
by hirsin 3y ago
Heck, airlines can do that just for dumb passengers. I was (attempting to) check in for my NZ to Australia flight on Emirates, and had totally forgotten Americans required a visa to enter Australia. They called ahead and got me a visa on ar
167.
by hirsin 3y ago
That's a lot of high def textures, yep. Every (base) gun, user model, map. If you'd asked me over/under on 90 gigs I'd have really struggled to guess right.
168.
by hirsin 3y ago
So it boils down to "we shouldn't attempt to build new security stuff because what it's built on could have vulnerabilities"? Time to go back to kernel mode everything I guess. Just run everything as root, get rid of sud
169.
by hirsin 3y ago
Which is weird since apple did that like three years ago? Just no one cared much since it was Safari. The linked document is about _replacing_ 3pc,not simply eliminating them, which seems a crucial distinction.
170.
by hirsin 3y ago
Context? That whole project was kind of a cluster when I was involved with it, how does this help? Or is it more, without a replacement for 3p cookie tracking they couldn't break it (useful uses of 3p cookies be damned)?
171.
by hirsin 3y ago
A million subscribers would barely make it noticeable in Microsoft's books. You don't count until you hit a billion in revenue there. But an AI on every desk ? That's worth it.
172.
by hirsin 3y ago
While yes, I have to assume that folks with disability related requirements will keep them, anecdotally I have one friend who was explicitly hired as remote at Amazon who's being told to RTO now.
173.
by hirsin 3y ago
With 8 billion in revenue it hit differently I guess, yeah.
174.
by hirsin 3y ago
So you're saying you can cut it out and increase profit by a percentage point? That's pretty huge. I recall finance going ballistic on my division at one point because our profit margin dropped by a tenth of a percentage point (an
175.
by hirsin 3y ago
Starbucks around Seattle commonly have giant bags of grounds that are free to take. I'd say half the time there's a bag in the basket
176.
by hirsin 3y ago
Thank you for that context! It's so glaringly obviously ASCII that I was unsure why it would have taken so long to decode.
177.
by hirsin 3y ago
It sounds like you were explaining it to people before it was confirmed - why did you do that? I don't really grok the emotional connection you seem to be talking about - how does someone pin their mental state so much on something lik
178.
by hirsin 3y ago
Children of Time/Ruin handles the "what are the living things for?" decently well, although does skate towards the "maybe nothing?" conclusion over time. Haven't gotten the third book so will see.
179.
by hirsin 3y ago
This is only for customers who have outsourced their SMS OTP systems to you, though, isn't it?
180.
by hirsin 3y ago
I think it's called "speed of money" or something similar, but I do wonder how much of which federal dollars end up as profit in an account versus circulating the economy. Wages to USPS employees - probably spent very quickly

More ›