jimmydorry

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by jimmydorry 5mo ago
I disagree! There very much is a distinction and every age verification process will have the same failure mode. If there is something wrong with your account or ID, the user will have to go via the manual support proccess, which necessitat
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by jimmydorry 5mo ago
>Discord lost thousands of them, despite promising to delete them after age verification occurred (and then not doing so) This is misleading, yet everyone seems to repeat it. Discord's implementation of ID verification did not retai
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by jimmydorry 5mo ago
I don't want to touch their greasy in-store touch screens that thousands of other people touch. And those "deals" are way cheaper per user than large marketing campaigns, and probably more effective too. I wonder how slow you
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by jimmydorry 5mo ago
Yet the Maccas app in Australia is atrocious for me. Takes >30secs to load the huge ad that pops-up before you can get to the menu. Close the ad and the menu takes another eternity, then inside each sub menu, you wait another eternity fo
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by jimmydorry 6mo ago
Cloudflare has a stranglehold on the internet, but its marketshare is much lower than the incumbant email giants. Aprroximately 70-90% of all email goes through Google & Microsoft. You're trading one benevolant toll keeper for anot
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by jimmydorry 7mo ago
>transactional emails from various services that you’ve signed up for These are one of the main culprits of unwanted emails... and a toll system would make them all the more valuable for the even worse actors to take advantage of.
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by jimmydorry 7mo ago
>At least yet, no one can stop their top scientist to move to another country with the knowledge and just pick up their work in the new conutry. They can and do do this routinely. Many individuals get marked and regularly go through addi
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by jimmydorry 9mo ago
Good luck finding a modern car that doesn't have a stereo. And continuing the analogy, good luck finding jeans without a zipper. When the only affordable and available options spy on you, it's simple enough to keep them air gapped
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by jimmydorry 9mo ago
Yes? I use my Windows 11 with a local account, no microsoft account involved.
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by jimmydorry 10mo ago
Just telling you the options I was presented with, having to go through the process. I'm not sure what the alternative is for false positive identifaction as a minor.
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by jimmydorry 10mo ago
The platforms all seem to have a fallback "support a ticket with your government ID, and we pinky promise to delete the ID after verifying you".
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by jimmydorry 10mo ago
While you're taking your break, exploits gain traction in the wild and one of the value propositions for using a service provider like CloudFlare is catching and mitigating theses exploits as fast as possible. From the OP, this outage
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by jimmydorry 10mo ago
Depending on the host, you may get charged a big bill for traffic. If you're hosting at home, your ISP may blackhole all traffic to your residence (affecting your day job and being a nightmare). When it comes to DDoS, most providers ar
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by jimmydorry 11mo ago
Why would we change the way we respect those? None of those nations engage in the same uncompetitive practices that the Chinese do with respect to patents and IP.
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by jimmydorry 11mo ago
I don't particularly subscribe to any ideology that puts companies above people, but it isn't hard to see things from GP's point of view. Before shooting the messenger, it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to enterta
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by jimmydorry 11mo ago
> Streit indicated his work was worth $150K but was also informed there was no ‘bug bounty’ program at the baseball league. Sounds like a bug that would have been better off anonymously leaked for the other IPTV providers to pick up, aft
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by jimmydorry 11mo ago
And close to 0% of children have credit cards to buy these virtual lootboxes. These mechanisms prey on getting children to beg their parents to spend money.
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
I can't be the only one that will reach for ChatGPT first over Google for most of my search needs. Stuff like looking for recipes, guides on how to do certain things. From a user perspective, ChatGPT is 100% a Google killer. Search eng
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
Email is decentralised if you ignore that 99% of email must go through the gatekeepers known as Microsoft and Google. Sure, anyone can spin up an email server, but either one of the gatekeepers can arbitrarily decide to reject all email com
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
> IMO a fine of 100x the value of a copy of the pirated work is more than sufficient as a punishment for piracy. Anti-piracy groups use scare letters on pirates where they threaten to sue for tens of thousands of dollars per instance of
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
I haven't read this particular case, but typically judges will keep the judgement as narrow as possible... so it may entirely be the case that these IP owners or in similar future cases may also have legal right to protection from it.
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
Copyright protects you from market substitutions (e.g. someone taking your IP, and offering an alternative to your work). Being trained on your IP, it could certainly be argued that users would no longer need to purchase your book. "Fu
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
> Power usage spikes during the day. Well guess what? That's when solar power production happens. So adding significant solar power production to your electricity mix will decrease the baseline power needed from other sources Wrong,
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
>Strong claim. How are you quantifying this? We could start with the article [1]: >"Hubble... produced a record 1,073 peer-reviewed publications last year... JWST is performing better than NASA expected, has produced around 1,200
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
Except this isn't the case. GP talks about how removing the incentives is "going to have a big negative impact on the economy" due to all these green projects no longer being viable. Indeed, whether they were subsidised or no
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
>Nobody but the 3rd world is increasing investments in coal/oil This was the assertion. It is demonstratably false.
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
>But if something cheaper exists today, and nobody invests in the expensive thing I think you are talking past me. The green bodies have constantly touted how we already reached the inflection point where renewables are cheaper than coal
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
China "won solar panels" because they subsidised the production to the point that their companies could sell panels cheaper than they cost to make, and then these companies were allowed to dump them below cost into the western mar
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
The largest competitor to US renewables, would be China. They have been rolling back their subsidies for years. [1] China, India, Russia, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia (off the top of my head, and a quick google to add a few I m
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by jimmydorry 1y ago
Yes this is being pushed on everyone, including grandma's and the tech illiterate. If the "best" solution is clunky at best, what chance to the tech luddites have?

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