inetknght

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by inetknght 6mo ago
> will they encourage struggling kiddos to make the leap and ask for support from an actual person? Where's the profit in that?
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by inetknght 6mo ago
"Can't"?
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> chiming in to say I don't care at all about accessibility I hope you remember that well into your adult life. Your hearing may be lost. Even if you could still read, the website doesn't offer an accurate transcription. You
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by inetknght 6mo ago
Yes, that's exactly what pseudoanonymous means. It's fake-anonymous. It can be trivially de-anonymized.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
So you're perfectly okay with repeatedly paying for a shit product, getting shat on by the company in the form of being tested for feedback, and "maybe" getting a better product in the future. Mind you, that "better&quot
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> So you're saying software should never change Generally, yes. Make your software better first before releasing it and you won't need to make changes to it. Want a new feature that you didn't have before? That's a
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by inetknght 6mo ago
What do you think of things you purchased changing over time into something you didn't purchase?
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> Depends entirely on the stakes and whether personal data is involved Sure. Let me just A/B test whether or not you'll respond positively or negatively to having your news delivered via push notification or delayed by 10 min
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by inetknght 6mo ago
Solution: don't A/B test your users. A/B testing people without their informed consent is immoral, unethical, and should be illegal.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> it definitely revealed a side of humanity I might not have otherwise seen It definitely revealed a lot of falsehoods and stereotypes.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
Hah, nice!
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by inetknght 6mo ago
Something as expensive as dessert toppings would only be used as floor polish by the people who truly were high... and only if they could do it without the boss knowing what they were doing.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> This just moves the problem to support. Boo-hoo. Support should exist. Support should be trained. Support should help educate the customer. If your business isn't doing that then your business is trashy anyway. Many companies do
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by inetknght 6mo ago
While you're right, I'll be happy with just empty data for now. Generating statistically-likely false data is only recently available generally and turns out to be rather expensive.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> It must not be both a floor polish and a dessert topping. I worked as a janitor for four years near a restaurant, so I know a little bit about floor polishing and dessert toppings. This law might be a little less universal than you t
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> *Nine of them have Google Workspace OAuth permissions that include reading all emails and accessing all Drive files. Nine. I authorized every one of them without reading the permissions because the onboarding flow asked and I was in a
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> I wonder how it is that we, as the users, allow it It's not like we have a choice. Either allow it or... what? Buy a different computer? With what money? Spend time installing a new OS? With what time? And for most users: with w
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by inetknght 6mo ago
What, you mean like real engineers? Nah. Give us the money, but not the responsibility!
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by inetknght 6mo ago
These things aren't mutually exclusive. Once upon a time, batteries were generic and fit some standard form-factor. You could swap batteries between devices and often did! You could even connect your device to a pack of batteries, and
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> I would have found overkill to install a "hard App" for Hope you enjoy that same sentiment is 20 years when the website to control/manage your device doesn't exist/was bought out/whatever.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
Why stop there?
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> just how tiny the Earth is in the grand scheme of things In the grand scheme of things: humans are doing the granding, the scheming, and the things. Earth has a tiny bit of something to do with that.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
Concert tickets will still remain very hot though.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> essentially none of them have the ability to apply their knowledge to identify vulnerabilities in arbitrary systems. I've found it to be the opposite. Many of them do have the ability to apply their knowledge in that fashion.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
Better to turn every warning into an error.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> Nobody is saying cops should be writing software I disagree. Businesses have their own internal software development teams. Why shouldn't cops?
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by inetknght 6mo ago
You can regain that benefit by building an actual website instead of a shitty single-page "application"
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by inetknght 6mo ago
Not only that, but it should be illegal (eg: fines for the company and potential jail time for executives) for tying consent to use/purchase of services or products. Consent should be _voluntary_, not mandatory.
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> So police departments should have to develop and host all their administrative software also? Yes. We're in an high technology and information age. Police should be well-versed and capable of understanding the technologies and i
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by inetknght 6mo ago
> If I see a flash on a speed camera operated by a business on behalf of a police department, your argument states I should be able to use CCPA to force the business to delete my picture and the record of me speeding If I can get the re

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