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by lxgr 4mo ago
Even if you factor in all the ad bloat that uBlock lite can’t block?
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by lxgr 4mo ago
If you don't care about who you're talking to, why use certificates at all?
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by lxgr 4mo ago
> Do we also need to put all our letters into strongboxes before we send them? If it were as cheap and efficient as TLS these days, yes, absolutely > Maybe we should have solve the ISP snooping problem by making that illegal instead.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
What "backdoor" would Let's Encrypt even implement? That's not how a CA works. They might be compelled to issue a certificate to an unauthorized (by browser PKI policies, not local law) entity, but that would be very con
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Yes, this stuff is really annoying when it misfires. I've had all my subsequent ChatGPT conversations biohazard-contained for several days for the crime of asking it to explain a gene drive to me.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
It should be relatively clear at this point that the model will in turn also model you as somebody that shows unrestrained anger with subordinates and adapt its responses accordingly. This might or might not be what you want.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Does it really? I'd be surprised if abuse actually worked better than sternly worded warnings/instructions, and even if it did, it doesn't seem healthy to get used to that type of prompting.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Definitely, but both tone and forum of the complaints are generally pretty different.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Nothing usually gets fixed by making belligerent appeals to emotion in the court of public opinion (which, in the EU, isn't nearly rooting for Apple as much as they might imagine, fwiw). If you want to launch something in a market you
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by lxgr 4mo ago
It usually is, but I don't think it has to be. You can definitely manually assign link-local addresses.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
> That surprises me, I've never met someone that uses Debit cards as their primary method of payment. That in turn is not surprising – the split is very much correlated with socioeconomic status (to the point where quite a few of th
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Not if you have any balance or ongoing subscription, including an iCloud storage one. I would not exactly call this "easy". On Android you can just have two accounts logged in at the same time, so there's no need to switch re
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by lxgr 4mo ago
> [...] for not making it work with every Android and Kindle and digital pregnancy test [...] If only there were a way to design a system in a way that didn't even require you to know who's on the other side of an interface. So
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by lxgr 4mo ago
> I feel like this is nothing more than Apple being angry that they have to allow people to actually choose what AI they want on their phone. It's really just Apple being angry about the EU's DMA endangering their golden goose
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Their only remaining option after repeatedly being ignored by EU consumers, other than of course growing up and complying with regional market regulations.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
> According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI system nearly unlimited access > Given the serious risks to users, Apple designed a solution called Trusted System Agent — an intermediary that would allow virtual as
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by lxgr 4mo ago
> Can someone with DMA legal knowledge translate and separate the spin? Apple wants the DMA to be repealed because it endangers their App Store revenue and somehow still thinks they'll be able to co-opt their EU customers as a barga
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Does it at least store the old password for a while in some archive, like most competitors do?
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Most of them are, some are annoyingly missing. It’s possible to install apps from two different app store accounts, but it’s 10 times more annoying than on Android. Additionally, there are some EU only features, such as third-party NFC paym
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by lxgr 4mo ago
That might be true, but at least I started asking way more questions since we’ve had competent LLMs.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Reading this title made “The Miracle of Joey Ramone” by U2 play in my head.
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by lxgr 5mo ago
mDNS allows you to access a local HTTP service via IPv6 without IP-based URLs, so it seems pretty relevant.
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by lxgr 5mo ago
> the typical Merchant<->bank agreements all have clauses forcing them to absorb these fees and explicitly barring them from separately charging customer CC fee. These clauses would be illegal in many states and countries these day
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Roughly half of all card users in the US, and probably much more elsewhere.
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Third option: You have the money and like paying less than people paying with non-rewards cards.
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Interestingly, the EU did manage to cap interchange on US cards paid by EU merchants to pretty much the same rate as that paid for domestic/intra-EU cards, at least at the POS. Many things are possible with a regulator with teeth.
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Most blockchain systems are fairly or even extremely centralized as well and amount to little other than decentralization theater. Bitcoin and Ethereum are arguably more of an exception than the norm.
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by lxgr 5mo ago
> Why doesn't the US private ecosystem manage to lower costs similarly? Why would anybody willingly lower their own margin? > It is interesting that this has happened in more highly regulated countries It’s almost like regulation
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Are URLs of link local addresses a common thing with IPv6? I don’t think I’ve ever encountered one myself (but my home network supports ULAs and more importantly DNS).
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Oh, I don’t doubt that mile optimization/churning works or that it can be very lucrative. I do however very much doubt that it’s somehow core to the economics of airlines. I think that the real power of rewards programs is that they ex

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