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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
Sure, that's basically what services like AWS Lambda do. As a starting point, you'd want to run the code in a short-lived VM with little to no network access which is dedicated to just running untrusted code.
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
The M1 is a system-on-a-chip so AIUI there's a bunch of stuff on there that you wouldn't want two of.
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Three iOS 0-days revealed by researcher frustrated with Apple’s bug bounty(arstechnica.com)
5 points by lemoncucumber 5y ago|0 comments
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Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale(businessinsider.com)
506 points by lemoncucumber 5y ago|455 comments
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
The relevance is that Apple provides two independent services: * iMessage, which does use true E2E encryption in transit. * iCloud backup, which backs up the contents of your device (including your unencrypted at-rest iMessage data), and do
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
You keep posting strawman after strawman, and that's why you're getting downvoted. > newcomers are more entitled to live somewhere than the people who already live there Nobody said that besides you. > residents of an area a
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
My password manager only fills passwords on the domain they belong to, and it’s also my TOTP generator so the same applies there too.
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
Personally I wouldn’t be able to crisply render the font on a low-DPI screen without a hint
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
Put another way, the problem boils down to companies that only optimize for one variable (shareholder value) relying on algorithms that only optimize for one variable (engagement). Taken together, it results in a lot of negative externaliti
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
The ads are all encoded as animated Jifs™.
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
Nice blog post. I made a similar switch, but in the back of my mind I worry that I’ve introduced a new risk factor, since it’s much more likely for my custom domain to get hijacked than gmail.com. See for example this story of someone’s Twi
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
I’m not sure I agree. Here’s my interpretation of what you mean by semantic associativity: “Bi-” is another way of saying “two,” and the confusion with “biweekly” arises because it’s unclear if the “two” should be taken to mean “two occurre
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
I used to use Safari, until Big Sur came out and ruined its UI by making the contrast way too low -- I was having trouble even distinguishing where the page content ended and the browser chrome began at a glance. So I switched to Firefox a
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
> When you print a shipping label on eBay, our negotiated rates let you save money relative to what you would pay at the post office or to a carrier for most services, and you'll save time by not having to stand in line. The cost of
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
> SF doesn’t have local payroll tax, it has a local income tax that applies both to residents and to nonresidents on income earned in SF. This is false. There are some low-quality websites that have incorrect information about a nonexist
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
A similar example: As a reply to the question, “what’s the most expensive car on the market?” 1) “I’m guessing it’s some German supercar.” 2) “I would guess it’s some German supercar.” 3) “I guess it’s some German supercar.” As a native spe
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
Neoliberal propaganda has become so ubiquitous that we don’t even notice it unless someone calls it out, like this article does. It’s a thoroughly depressing state of affairs.
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
I'm pretty certain that the ATV remote beams good old fashioned infrared signals to change the volume on your TV/soundbar/receiver directly without involving the ATV itself.
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
“Over the past decade, automotive safety regulators in Europe have made pedestrian safety a priority. But their American counterparts have not adopted the same rules to protect people outside of vehicles. As pedestrian deaths rise alarmingl
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
I started a new job during the pandemic, and the experience has been much worse than I expected. There’s no opportunity to ask simple questions without always worrying that I’m interrupting. Whereas in an office it’s easy to see who’s on th
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
I just checked and it looks like they now recommend hitch-mounted ones as their top picks. And they have a whole section about the pros and cons of different types of racks. So it looks like they revisited the category and improved their re
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
A decent free option for reviews is Wirecutter from the New York Times. I've yet to buy anything that they recommended that was outright bad, and they have a surprising breadth of categories that they review. They make money through af
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
It should work on an iPhone 11 as long as you've upgraded to iOS 14. It's supported the iPhone 8 and newer: https://screenrant.com/apple-ios-14-back-tap-iphone-list/
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
There is no XUL, only Dana.
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
You're thinking of pull quotes, which can be confusingly similar to block quotes but are a different thing: > It seems that many people (myself included) confuse blockquotes and pull quotes. > The main purpose of a blockquote is
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
> Also, a public service announcement: if you were leading a project in the past, its "led", not "lead" :) I always wish there were verb form of "tech lead." You can say "led X" or "served as
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
For anyone wondering (since the linked article doesn't say): > The reported cause of death was a brain aneurysm. Source: https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Grant-Imahara-M...
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
Hindsight is 20/20, but Intel selling off their ARM division (XScale) almost exactly a year before the first iPhone was announced looks like a pretty bad call in retrospect.
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
Native apps have long been able to use TouchID/FaceID and have never been able to access the actual finger/face print data. There's no way that iOS exposes your actual finger or face print to websites.
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by lemoncucumber 6y ago
Excited to see this in ten years.

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