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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Advertising doesn't inherently imply wastefulness or even being spyware or a malware & scam vector. If all the negative externalities were properly priced in, a lot of bottom-feeding crap at all layers of the stack will die off, bu
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Why? He didn't kill anyone in the end. It's doubtful that sentences longer than some minimal amount actually contribute to deterrence. He committed these crimes because he thought he wouldn't get any sentence - which is tru
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
eSIMs all need to have a chain of trust all the way back to some GSMA gatekeepers. As usual with all kinds of mobile telco stuff, it's never open and really doesn't like people messing around (partly because people messing around
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Voting with your wallet only works in competitive markets. The vast majority of what you use day-to-day have been monopolized so you don't really have a choice.
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Every single company out there uses fingerprinting and breaches the GDPR in one way or another - it's normal business practice. It's effectively impossible to run a business nowadays complying with the GDPR when your competition d
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
I absolutely agree that the enforcement is significantly lacking and this "regulator" is useless, but I'm wondering why you are angry that someone got a fine for SMS spam? Some enforcement is still better than no enforcemen
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> What makes you think the UK ICO won’t bring legal cases against individuals or companies applying fingerprinting? The vast majority of consent flows ("cookie banners") out there are not compliant and they do absolutely nothin
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Problem is that a significant chunk of the technology industry still relies on "engagement" as its business model. The objective of slapping an overzealous bot protection system isn't to protect high-risk endpoints like log
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Lookup what's the email host of the destination address. Get a local account on it. If the provider supports scheduled sending, use that, otherwise use Telnet or automate the HTTP request to the webmail. Being on the same provider will
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Problem is that passkeys aren't resilient enough to loss of the authenticator device, which means a fallback flow is always made available, that is vulnerable to phishing/MITM/social engineering. This is even more pronounced
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Out of curiosity, why wouldn't a hostile power also put a transponder on their drone (maybe one even replaying a nearby plane's code)? Surely that could help it blend in and avoid defenses
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> Interfering would be the insurance companies using money to buy public opinion. Which is very likely happening. I read that there are two manifestos going around, one real and one fake. The real one is much easier to get behind and sym
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> threats against CEOs and other powerful people being used as a pretext to give them special protection by the state Isn't this already the case? Crimes affecting high profile people get prioritized. In some places police doesn&#x2
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
The problem I see here isn't that the space has been poisoned by scammers. It's that bridging on-chain state with real world state is fundamentally impossible without sacrificing a lot of the blockchain's guarantees (you need
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> The essence of the complaint that one has to have the knowledge of something before that something can be used My point was to disprove that "cloud" is simpler than conventional sysadmin - it is not, and it involves similar e
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> Look at the EuroStar for a glimpse into the future This bullshit also happens in Barcelona Sants for the long-distance trains.
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
At least French trains actually work most of the time. UK is just as bad pricing wise but the service is so much worse.
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Also, see the visit to one of the last CRT refurbishing facilities out there: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YqGaEM9sjVg
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Is there actually a fundamental physical limit in modern (O)LED displays not being able to emulate that “flicker”, or is merely that all established display driver boards are unable to do it because it isn’t a mainstream requirement? If so,
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Counterpoint (as someone who watched the 30 mins video originally): some people may not have time to watch said video and can read the AI-generated summary quicker and then decide if the video is worth watching.
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
It's an actually really good system, as the origin (aka the domain displayed in your URL bar) changes during the redirect. The problem is the lack of user education as to what an "origin" is. But assuming there is good user e
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Consumer and small-office print is declining, so there is not enough money to be made making non-shit printers from scratch. Making shit printers (those that are sold below cost with the profits recouped from cartridge sales and other user-
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Correlation != causation. Furthermore, the business models of a phone manufacturer are much different from a social media platform. Most phone manufacturers still make the bulk of their money directly from the end-user paying them cash (eit
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> what would it bring them other than change if everything already works fine? IMAP is absolutely terrible on unreliable connections. A connectionless protocol based on HTTP would do much better in those conditions.
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> When the incentive is that when you develop features to distinguish yourself from the competition The value of a networked feature goes up with the number of nodes implementing it. A product that is able to send files/stream med
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> let any device use AirDrop and AirPlay What's the problem with that? That's a win for everyone involved. Maybe finally we'll have an open, universal file transfer and proximity screen casting protocol, thanks to it alrea
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Can it be just an ad loaded in the browser?
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Illegality matters only if you get caught - and when it comes to the GDPR it turns out even "getting caught" isn't actually a problem, as the continued existence of Facebook, Google, the data broker industry, etc demonstrates
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
The complexity of scaling out an application to be closer to the users has never been about getting the hardware closer. It's always about how do you get the data there and dealing with the CAP theorem, which requires hard tradeoffs to
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
If I remember right, the attacker’s AWS employment is irrelevant - no privileged AWS access was used in that case. The attacker working for AWS was a pure coincidence, it could’ve been anyone.

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