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by nativeit 10mo ago
It runs a hashing algorithm locally, I believe, rather than transmitting the entire image. pHash or something similar would work.
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by nativeit 10mo ago
I’m not sure what relevance there is to other providers? I work with a lot of small medical offices, and they do use consumer Smart TVs in some contexts. I typically limit their network access for other reasons, and displaying X-rays isn’t
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by nativeit 10mo ago
This is called a “replacement excuse”. It’s a hallmark of nihilists and utilitarians, but I tend to prefer the more prosaic group noun, “jerks”.
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by nativeit 10mo ago
I’ve never understood why Firefox doesn’t just make an extension with first-party support, instead of bloating their browser with gimmicks that a large cohort of users don’t want, and that probably shouldn’t be included by default at this p
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by nativeit 10mo ago
The proportion of people you write off as “layabouts” is always conveniently ambiguous…of the number of unemployed/underemployed, how many are you suggesting are simply too lazy to work for a living?
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by nativeit 10mo ago
The Toshiba (!?) laptops that got sold to one of my clients at nearly $1100/ea are pathetic. Basically the same kit you can get for $600-700 at Best Buy. The equivalent MacBook would have been miles better, in terms of build quality an
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by nativeit 10mo ago
Thanks for reposting this. I missed it last year, and as an EE with a misspent youth (I originally got a BA in media), I have frequently struggled with the calculus. One of the few regrets is that I didn’t learn advanced math back when my b
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by nativeit 11mo ago
They can’t afford Trump’s pardons. You don’t just give something like that away for free. Art of the deal.
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by nativeit 11mo ago
Also, honestly, the build. That “genuine concern” they ignored was that the build was critically flawed. I don’t think anyone here would have these takes if a small group of curious engineers tried their hand at a composite submersible, it
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by nativeit 11mo ago
There’s not much to break, honestly, and cable TV is still fairly popular outside of techy circles, but mostly it’s still the only option for broadband in a large portion of the US. I’ve been on Spectrum for several years, and it’s been lar
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by nativeit 11mo ago
I’ve dealt with this at least twice on behalf of clients. In both cases, another provider entering the market was the only thing that made a difference. By that point, they’d already burned all the good will they had in the area, so maybe t
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by nativeit 11mo ago
I don’t think it was the author’s intent to shock us by the state of CATV infrastructure.
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by nativeit 11mo ago
How to scream, “I’m living a life of unalloyed privilege.”
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by nativeit 11mo ago
Most privacy-thumping browsers do this, to some degree, but it’s not a panacea. The article gets into it.
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by nativeit 11mo ago
The problem we’re falling into under this (ostensibly accurate) point is when we start making this a game, where fingerprinting is either “100% effective and insidious”, or “can’t be 100% certain 100% of the time, so it’s ineffective and no
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by nativeit 11mo ago
Give each of them $0.25/mo, and you’ll probably 10x-100x what they’re currently getting from you watching ads.
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by nativeit 11mo ago
Beyond the notion that no org should be trusted implicitly, why would the EFF specifically be untrustworthy?
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by nativeit 11mo ago
Is this before or after ICE became a $150B secret paramilitary beholden to a corrupt authoritarian with a large cohort of sycophantic tech billionaires?
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by nativeit 11mo ago
This is also covered in the article. I appreciated the analogy they used: You can put on a ski mask when you go to the mall, and it will conceal your identity, but you will also be instantly suspicious to everyone around you, and will likel
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by nativeit 11mo ago
I guess it’s fortunate that this quote only includes a portion of the assertion they’re making. What happens when you include the rest?
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by nativeit 11mo ago
As near as I can tell, it’s always been owned by Cliqz, who produced some privacy-focused browsers (named Dawn or Lumen) and a search engine (Tailcat) that was ultimately purchased by Brave. The whole thing is majority owned by a German med
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by nativeit 11mo ago
Has anyone wrote software that automatically surfaces the relevant XKCD comic for every article this happens under? I’d like a feature in my HN reader that sticks a red button at the bottom anytime XKCD has already made the points I’m readi
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by nativeit 11mo ago
You said it better than I did.
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by nativeit 11mo ago
The article also mentions this, and suggests the UA is not a silver bullet. That said, they didn’t go into specifics. I’m assuming there are other details that correlate to particular browsers that will betray a false UA. Plus, having a UA
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by nativeit 11mo ago
Key word there is “current”. It’s quickly moving the other way.
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The Electron Model of Williamson and Van Der Mark(youtube.com)
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by nativeit 11mo ago
How about it leaving it disabled and letting me enable it immediately if/when I choose.
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by nativeit 11mo ago
I do, but I also benefit from the fact that Chrome is basically everywhere already, so I use Firefox as my primary browser, and just break out Chrome when I need to flash some devices with ESPHome or something.
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by nativeit 11mo ago
I can’t figure out why they couldn’t just fund a first-party extension to add AI features.
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by nativeit 11mo ago
Forks exist

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