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by jabbany 4y ago
Scrolling through my 2FA SMS's, it does seem like every service is putting their name in the SMS and it usually comes before the code ("Your [service name] security code is ..."). A bunch also write "[service name] won&#
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by jabbany 4y ago
> "I was suspicious, but the bank’s systems could easily be a wasteland archipelago of isolated micro-services that used different phone lines." Anecdotally, I've found that the frustrating thing is that real banks/fi
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by jabbany 4y ago
> The source page already has all the tracking data This is a lie. The source page does not have any access to referral data. Without things like JS supporting it, it does not and cannot know that a user has clicked on any of its links.
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by jabbany 4y ago
> I really think you overestimate how likely users are to notice a redirect URL appearing in the address bar for a fraction of a second. Anecdotally, it's how I learned how Google tracked click-throughs. I used to (when I was very y
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by jabbany 4y ago
It is completely different from a CDN and the proposal itself elicits the difference thusly (to quote): > There has been discussion of allowing a publisher to restrict the set of distributors that can host its signed content. If that&#x2
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by jabbany 4y ago
This is not true though? It is immensely different for privacy. There is only a single way that the source[+] can guarantee[*] knowledge of a click through: Linking to their own domain with a unique identifying tag[**] and subsequently redi
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by jabbany 4y ago
> It makes no difference at that point what is shown in the address bar, as the page has already been served. If this were truly the case (that it didn't matter), the argument can be made that there is no reason to change the host -
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by jabbany 4y ago
Google modifying the content is not really the threat model most people care that much about though (similar concerns exist with other caches/cdns)... Google redirecting traffic to servers they control to mine interaction and interest
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by jabbany 5y ago
I mean this is exactly what you'd expect a capitalist company like TikTok (Bytedance) to do: cave to any local regulations in order to make more money, even if that means bowing to pressure of a dictatorship. What's truly unsettli
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by jabbany 5y ago
The Internet has never been a "democratizing" force. Even now there are hardly any large services and/or platforms that use anything even close to a real _democratic_ process when it comes to dealing with content and moderati
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by jabbany 5y ago
Steps seems like a reasonable measure though? It seems reasonable that each step results in similar exertion for any person. Distance, OTOH, would be affected by the length of your stride (-> your height), so it might be a worse measure.
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by jabbany 5y ago
Kind of curious about this (and this is something mentioned in the study itself). It seems that the observations about step count are just correlational and not causal. I wonder if the step count thing correlates with some other factors tha
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by jabbany 5y ago
They are, but there has always been a contention between local admin vs domain admin (managed accounts) and usually the case has been that the domain admin overrules the local but the local admin can un-join the domain. This is not that dif
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by jabbany 5y ago
This. The devs and designers are all using 4k, 5k displays these days. Trying to use modern apps etc. on just "FHD" (1080p) displays is painful.
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by jabbany 5y ago
The idea is that they think of themselves as a labor monopsony. They are foreseeing an increase in supply (due to higher living costs forcing more people into the labor market, either those not previously working or those who are now taking
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by jabbany 5y ago
With all the ads they shove in your face you'd think they'd just make the OS free at this point.
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by jabbany 5y ago
There doesn't seem to be a lot of research done for these kinds of text-based browsers (mostly due to their negligible user base) but I would guess that there could be a possibility to design pages with weird control sequences that tri
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by jabbany 5y ago
Hah, I still remember that promo. Even on Windows, the tool was super flaky and often did not detect the hardware.
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by jabbany 5y ago
Actually, since Win 10 you can run the OS indefinitely without a license. It just doesn't allow you to customize stuff like the wallpaper etc. Ref: https://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you-dont-need-a-product-key...
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by jabbany 5y ago
> Luckily there seems to be a push for fully native. Really? I thought there was a push for Electron/Chromium everywhere (which seems comparable or worse than desktop Java...)
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by jabbany 5y ago
A lot of those are getting HTML5/Canvas based implementations and most of the old AST BMCs can get it through upgraded firmware.
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by jabbany 5y ago
Huh, reading the first half I almost expected them to have a debugging system where the cats on the fence were composited by each layer drawing only part of the scene on top of things below (fence, then one cat, then the other etc.) so you&
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by jabbany 5y ago
Ports are kind of special though... They require extra engineering so it seems unreasonable to require transferable license. Mandating transferable licenses across platforms means that a PC player who has no intention of ever owning a conso
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by jabbany 5y ago
Doesn't explain why _only_ phone numbers are (currently) supported. Having phone numbers as the default or even asking permission to import your contacts would have been fine-ish if it was also possible to register using another anonym
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by jabbany 5y ago
2080s? With only 8GB of VRAM that's not even ECC backed? Even for ML model training back then, 8GB was on the small side (a lot of the research repos even had special parameter sets to allow running on consumer level VRAM GPUs). Also,
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by jabbany 5y ago
Interesting question. Press article aside, GPGPU applications like scientific compute, ML etc. have all mostly gravitated to Nvidia / CUDA. Not working in this space, I'm curious why this is the case. Is there something inherently
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by jabbany 5y ago
This argument makes no sense. Consumer GPU pricing (which I'm assuming is what you're referring to) has very little to do with the pro market (industry, research etc.) The researchers are using things like the DGX or RTX A-series.
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by jabbany 5y ago
Quite true. Which really says a lot about what we don't want in transportation --- more degrees of freedom. Teleportation tubes on the other hand...
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by jabbany 5y ago
Right, and that was the point of the Orwellian dystopia. Even if a single person sees the dystopia for what it is, they cannot get the masses to act.
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by jabbany 5y ago
Couldn't a cloud service just get a team to do some clean room reverse engineering to make a similar or even compatible tool without violating copyright? IIRC software licenses are copyright licenses (you can't use the code /

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