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by nikanj 8d ago
Remember realizing it’s 0x777, one better than 666?
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by nikanj 8d ago
I always thought FXP was a much more common tool, as you could move releases between beefy servers without having to download them first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol
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by nikanj 8d ago
And at what point does a company start to care about performance? 100TB of RAM is expensive as hell, but getting products to market faster was worth the cost
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by nikanj 10d ago
All of my stuff updated to the 27 versions today. During indoor cycling class, I kept getting health alerts on my watch about high heart rate while stationary. Despite currently having the very same apple watch tracking my indoor cycling wo
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by nikanj 14d ago
I learned of the 7 Up from the case of Jason Arday, an unexpexted silver lining in an otherwise dismal affair
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by nikanj 14d ago
I host a page, put google ads on it, hire you to generate bot clicks on said ads. Google pays me, I pay you. Some poor sucker somewhere pays google.
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by nikanj 14d ago
Smart people everywhere are convinced that neither propaganda nor advertisement works on them. Wrong on both counts
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by nikanj 14d ago
Without the fraud prevention, it would be 99.9998%. Pushing it to 17% is impressive, even if not sufficient
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by nikanj 14d ago
Still can’t believe the german voters were successfully convinced that replacing german nuclear with russian fossil was a green choice
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by nikanj 14d ago
It was a great idea* *if you’re a seller of fossil fuels
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by nikanj 16d ago
Sally, obviously. Todd is much more likely to have a perfect haircut and immaculate fluency in corpotalk
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by nikanj 17d ago
By most Android vendors too?
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by nikanj 17d ago
Enough to justify major manufacturers to go through the trouble
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by nikanj 17d ago
Apple usually gets heat for not being the first to a feature, even when they’re the first with an implementation that’s actually good, not just a gimmick
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by nikanj 17d ago
They released a number of small iphones over the years, and those always failed to reach meaningful sales numbers. Stated vs revealed preference I guess? People keep picking the larger model, so the models keep getting larger
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by nikanj 19d ago
Readily available isn't what it used to be, with optical media going extinct and licenses being in endless churn
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by nikanj 20d ago
Or their AI chatbot decides you smell funny and bans you forever with 0 chance of appealing to a human
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by nikanj 21d ago
Doesn’t any <script> tag let you run arbitrary code inside a sandbox anyway?
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by nikanj 21d ago
ICE has killed US citizens too, they don’t limit themselves to immigrants
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by nikanj 21d ago
The democrats will gain a paper-thin majority, but one politician from Bumshart, Nebrahoma will block every important vote and nothing will change. Feels like I’ve seen this movie before
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by nikanj 23d ago
And what do you do when VeriSign just decides that they don't like hosting your domain anymore? You just lost access to password recovery for every account you have https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/0
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by nikanj 23d ago
Everyone Google cares about, anyway.
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by nikanj 23d ago
My youtube student account was blocked this week. Google offers a student discount if you register with your school email, so I created a new youtube account for that. Flagged as a potential bot, gotta tread really carefully or they'll
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by nikanj 23d ago
Anything can get Google account suspended. Someone in your school was being a shit and registered troll accounts? Google's mighty hammer smites every account that ever logged in from that external IP. If you're lucky or famous, yo
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by nikanj 23d ago
I wrote to ICANN support and got a template-AI answer wholly unrelated to my complaint about this: ”Greetings from ICANN Global Support. I am sorry to hear you are experiencing this domain access issue after your registrar's transfer.
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by nikanj 23d ago
The best way to solve this is to deny the motion.
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by nikanj 23d ago
Did you already contact ICANN? I just did.
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by nikanj 24d ago
Assuming I have more money for lawyers than Verisign does
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by nikanj 24d ago
"2.1. What effect, if any, will the proposed service have on the life cycle of domain names? None. There will not be any effect on the life cycle of domain names." Well, aside from deleting all of them. But no other effect on the
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by nikanj 24d ago
As someone cruising under something like silly.domain.name, I'm very stressed if they delete existing domains. I've had mine for over 20 year, so the number of services I've registered under that email are endless

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