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by jiayo 4y ago
My (big5 .ca) bank does this too. The absolute worst. 3:42am, me still up for some reason Notification: A withdrawal was made Me: What? At this hour? <clicks> Bank app: Face ID and/or secret question dance Bank app: Spinner Bank
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by jiayo 4y ago
Didn't the author sunset this project to become a web3 advocate and pivot to a new project where some dubious NFT would be exchanged for package installations? I guess 2022 came and went since then...
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by jiayo 4y ago
"Double ticketing" (presenting one price to attract consumers and another price at checkout) is illegal in Canada. Airbnb lost a class action lawsuit in Canada over this. [0] https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/ai
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by jiayo 4y ago
Great writeup!
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by jiayo 4y ago
Ransomware (or at least a breach) is exceedingly likely. > #Rackspace’s managed Exchange documentation points to Exchange clusters which are all offline. When viewed on Shodan, a few days ago they have the Exchange build number from Augu
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by jiayo 4y ago
MythTV commercial skipping was absolutely magical. I understand at a high level how they did it; there are lots of obvious heuristics you can use for this (black detection, silence detection, observing the CBS logo/bug going away, etc.
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by jiayo 4y ago
Can you elaborate on some of the lessons of Bazel? I've only just heard of it recently, and while I'm intrigued, my impression is this is similar to Facebook writing their own source control: different problems at massive scale. C
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by jiayo 4y ago
> Both environments are identical. Except for, you know, the real user data and continuous traffic.
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by jiayo 4y ago
Yes, one of the earliest archive.org snapshots from 14 years ago shows this: https://web.archive.org/web/20080906001759/http://github.com...
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by jiayo 4y ago
I have the same problem; I've been trying for over 25 years to find a game I vaguely remember from my childhood. It's unclear if what I'm looking for was ever formally published. To be honest as soon as I saw @textfiles tweet
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by jiayo 4y ago
Have you looked at what the UX is for invalid certificates in 2022? It's not like ten years ago where you just click enough times and "visit anyway". Here, try this link in Chrome: https://untrusted-root.badssl.com
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by jiayo 4y ago
In France, providers will require you to provide KYC information within 14-30 days of obtaining the SIM, or it will be deactivated. Suitable for a short-term travel use case.
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by jiayo 4y ago
From the article: > To distinguish where employees receive high pay versus low pay, Company X organized the locations into three bins: discount, national, and premium. New York City, naturally, is a premium location. Detroit is a discoun
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by jiayo 4y ago
Intermittent loads for me. (Eastern Canada)
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by jiayo 4y ago
CBC Radio has a weekly program called Podcast Playlist: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastplaylist
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Big hit in store for Canadian tech sector as wave of layoffs looms(theglobeandmail.com)
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by jiayo 4y ago
Tokened shovelware, as in they shoveled as much onto a CDROM as they could. Sometimes, they'd accidentally include not just shareware but licensed software... oops. The "Shovelware Diggers" YouTube series does a great job doc
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by jiayo 5y ago
In Canada, Airbnb recently settled[^1] a class-action lawsuit for their illegal practice of "double-ticketing"[^2], that is, showing one price on their marketing page and another significantly marked up price at checkout time. [1]
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by jiayo 5y ago
Another thing to consider is malicious packages being published. In the Node ecosystem, the last few times this has happened, the community reacts quickly with a speedy (<12h) un-publish, and the whole incident might be over before your
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by jiayo 11y ago
In Canada, certain demagogues have started to use the word "taxpayers" instead of "citizens".
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by jiayo 11y ago
Fixed, thanks!
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by jiayo 11y ago
I am using KeePass Password Safe v2 (while on Windows), and KeePassX on linux and OS X. I use a strong password, and a key file, which is just a blob of random bytes. The encrypted password database (.kdbx) is published to Dropbox, which ha
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by jiayo 11y ago
> "Hi. Welcome to Frizbee. We don't censor or track you." If you're so concerned about tracking, then why is Ghostery blocking "Facebook Connect" and "Facebook Custom Audience"? Frizbee's &quo
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by jiayo 13y ago
This never used to bother me either, but there are certain things that once you've seen, you can't unsee. Smiling people is one of them. If your marketing site has pictures of smiling people on it, I am immediately turned off. Loo
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by jiayo 13y ago
You'd be surprised how much code out there "uses SSL" but to get it to "just work", it outright ignores things like DN checking, certificate expiry, even chain verification. It's on the faulty premise that encr
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by jiayo 13y ago
This reminds me of TheDraw, back in the BBS days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
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by jiayo 14y ago
Looks like DHH is channeling his inner Sancho Panza.
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by jiayo 14y ago
They already split off "programmers" from the main StackOverflow site to address this exact issue, and history is repeating itself. Now it seems we need individual sites for programmers-offtopic, programmers-trivia, programmers-history. M
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by jiayo 14y ago
It probably has to do with being located in Canada.
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by jiayo 14y ago
I see Expedia as no different from traditional middle-men (travel agents). If I search a flight+hotel deal on Expedia, I can always get the exact same price by booking directly with the airline and hotel, and without the potential hassles

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