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Verizon silently opted everyone into sharing their browser history (based on DNS I guess) with advertisers: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/veriz... I have to imagine that the other com
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I don't think anyone's surprised by that. Our emails have literally been used to target ads at us since like 2006. Cell phone carriers are happy to mine voicemail, call logs, SMS, etc. in the hopes of finding a revenue stream th
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This must be consumer vs. enterprise. For consumers, they're going to buy the item that is $1 less at the time of purchase, even if it costs them hundreds of dollars over the lifetime of the printer. For enterprises, they have accoun
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I've been down that road before. Blocking Outlook and Protonmail filters out 0% of legitimate users and 75% of bots. You do what you can so you're not always 1 step behind.
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2.5Gbps is selected for price reasons. Not only is the NIC cheap, but so is the networking hardware. But yeah, if you want fast storage just stick the SSD in your workstation, not on a mini PC hanging off your 2.5Gbps network.
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Only in their own ecosystem, though, right? I use Windows and an iPhone; nothing syncs. I use 1password instead.
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Yeah, I think people will lose their passkeys a lot. I think companies are happy to provide another service ("passkey syncing") that you will pay for for life. Back In The Day you could be a freeloader by remembering your passwo
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This is a neat feature when it's your own device that you control, but not so great when they "disclose information generated by WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice to you." I wanted to talk about how responsi
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A lot of these ARM boards use custom (read: outdated) kernels and proprietary boot methods, so I'm not really sure how applicable they are to people developing Linux distributions that work everywhere. NixOS, for example, is only supp
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I'm glad that people are mad about this. I got the ad, went on here to see if 1000 people were complaining, and nobody was. I was kind of surprised. For me it's like "oh, I didn't know Wallet was an advertising app&quo
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This kind of exposes how valuable reviews actually are -- likely not very. People like reviews, but some person you don't know using some unknown set of criteria to evaluate a product turns out to not actually offer any value. Taki
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I don't think there is any desire to find a legitimate buyer. The bill wants to say "throw them into a landfill" but the architects are trying to sound thrifty. Stated reasoning: "Stop wasting the government's mon
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I agree with you. The dinosaur game in Chrome is the classic example; turned off because schools threatened to not buy Chromebooks if kids could play a game in the browser. At least it seems to be a setting now, so your individual localit
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I think this is pretty well stated. I'll add that while nixpkgs isn't nix, nixpkgs is kind of the good part. I use NixOS and for the first time in my life, I'm using the latest version of the Linux kernel on release day. T
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I agree with that. Modern Unix is a 6-of-one-half-dozen-of-another type situation. Yes, terminal emulators and the termcap database are improved. But now, the traditional Unix user might be surprised at how things are done. I have accep
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They use hujson: https://github.com/tailscale/hujson But it doesn't accept things like the example that omits an intermediate comma: { "foo": 42 "bar": 123 } > hujson:
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You can still call NIST and get the time via "at the tone...": https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-di...
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Where there's a will there's a way, though. I'm sure that the early days of inviting wolves into our homes went wrong occasionally, but now it's a pretty popular thing. We bent them to our will.
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Honestly, both are pretty good for prototyping. I haven't found AI helpful with big picture stuff (design) or nuts and bolts stuff (large refactorings), but it's good at some tedium that I definitely know how to do but guess that
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I think the reputation is fair. Why is flakes still experimental, for example? That's a subtle bit of encouragement to do things the old way and as a result, documentation is always mixed and you end up "but how do I do that in
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I liked the "friends" and "foes" system that Slashdot had, though I would say generally the "foes" here just get banned which is convenient. I also thought Slashdot's moderation system was kind of fun. I
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As far as I went with linting this sort of thing was to check that "gofmt -s" yields the code that's checked in. https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm/blob/master/src/inter... It do
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I feel like JetBrains' competing product is DataGrip, which even though I'm an Emacs user, I've happily paid for forever. I believe that if you just use the combined suite (IntelliJ?) then you get SQL completion based on you
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I assumed because you didn't say what you meant. Like, what's your proposal?
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The government could be more efficient, but you have to look at the exact choices being made by the current administration. Why are we heavily taxing trade and the flow of ideas? Why are we dismantling our military with 2 major wars going
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Yeah, the more I read through actual package definitions in nixpkgs, the more questions I have about selling this as some security thing. nixpkgs is very convenient, I'll give it that. But a lot of packages have A LOT of unreviewed (
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The predictability of the process was not particularly amazing. I just didn't set my expectations very high; with Python and Java... getting readability was on my first quarter OKRs and I accomplished those (my Java readability review
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Java-- is an interesting comparison. I used Dart when I was at Google like a decade ago and my impression as I was learning the language was that it was like a scripting language variant of Java. I'd have called it "JavaScript&q
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I also really enjoyed the Go readability process. It made me a much better programmer. I did Python readability at Google and "take this one massive CL and if they make it good by the end of the process they're done" never f
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Substack is kind of a weird site, but this newsletter in particular is worth subscribing to and getting in your email.

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