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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> I own Linux Does idevicebackup/idevicerestore not work anymore? But agreed, there's no technical reason why the phone can't just accept normal USB-connected storage and store a file in there (in whatever proprietary&#x2F
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
This is not limited to FramaSoft. A lot of free-software-adjacent developers/organizations suffer from this attitude.
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> Why doesn’t your team train people? It's not a matter of training, it's a matter of lack of rewards and mismatched incentives. The reward for good work is generally more work and a "token" raise at best that is neve
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
I found that access to the LLMs alone make it worthwhile, even if you completely ignored search. Access to all commercial LLMs for barely above the price of a single one.
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
On the other hand, the red tape is the problem, not the $10. The amount of effort to get anything paid approved is often similar whether it's $1 or $100. Above that, it probably gets exponentially harder but that's fair. I think
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> We still enforce the GDPR No we don't, and we never did. The whole "GDPR" thing is a sham - unfortunately this is the case in many countries, but especially so in the UK. The ICO is one of the most useless "regulato
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
There's nothing immoral about scraping a website. Best of luck to you!
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
The percentage of captchas used to deter spam is probably a minority these days. A lot of captchas nowadays are used to prevent adversarial interoperability or the free flow of information. If you want to spam, you don't actually need
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
What about the spammers that already destroyed the internet by steering it entirely towards advertising & surveillance capitalism? It's like the pot calling the kettle black. We're all complicit in the enshittification of th
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
There's plenty of mischief potential with "deepfakes".
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Just because you can technically crack them doesn't mean they're useless. There's a significant amount of time, skill and effort that went into the solution from this post, and the end result doesn't generalize well (you
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Perfectly rational when becoming an "influencer" is an easier decision to make with little/no downside if it doesn't work out, where as becoming an engineer requires a significant time and money (tuition fees) investment
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
The problem (or the solution, depending on which side you're on) is that innocent people are in jail or dead. The people that knowingly allowed this to happen are still free and wealthy. So I'm not particularly sure this is a
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> there isn’t an alignment of incentives that fixes this problem "Microservices" itself is often a symptom of this problem. Everyone and their dog wants to introduce a network boundary in between function calls for no good reas
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
When it comes to the UK DPA they will only even consider your complaint if you have evidence of trying to resolve the issue with the offending company directly, so it will not have the desired outcome because most companies will opt you out
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Only problem with GDPR is that while the spirit/intention of the law is great (and it even prohibits malicious compliance such as consent prompts that make it more difficult to decline than accept), enforcement is significantly lacking
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
I've set up multiple times a phone-to-Slack proxy for this exact reason. In my case it was a VoIP number, but if that's blocked, Android has many SMS-to-webhook apps and even entry-level industrial LTE routers generally have this
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
I’m pretty convinced this will result in a loss. People savvy enough to use a VPN and pull this trick are also savvy enough to use ad blockers and most likely do use them already. So now instead of Google getting $2/month (or whatever
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Ironically, iPhones for the China market actually allow you to restrict not just cellular data but also Wi-Fi.
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
It's rarely about growth per se. Inferring someone's social graph and reidentifying them based on that would allow you to link them to their other accounts/shadow profiles and better target ads for them and their friends. Sim
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
They use underhanded tactics such as showing a pixel-perfect recreation of the address book permission dialog with only the "accept" button functional, and upon clicking that the real one pops up - most people would think it was j
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> its taking copies of public information Yet the same companies will be first to tell you that scraping their public information is against ToS or even illegal. See the whole drama about LinkedIn scraping, etc.
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
It doesn't have to be specific to private group chats. The same model worked well on public forums. The only reason it doesn't work on mainstream social media is that "assholes" not only still "engage" with the
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
The problem is that so much of our popular culture and social fabric has now been consumed and locked within such a disgusting business model.
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Problem is that things like "manifest V3" may make this technically impossible (or you'll get a "manifest V4" to address this), and even then, software distribution is now controlled by a handful of gatekeepers who
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
They already have (had?) a rule against spam notifications. They never enforced it (there's no way for a user to complain/flag notifications as spam) and their own apps breach it nowadays. There's no reason to believe they wo
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
> We ran on stable low bandwidth connections Are you talking about the general "we" or your situation in particular? For the former, yes sure we started with dial-up, then DSL, etc, but back then software was built with these l
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
To be fair, actual ads can be disabled in most of these apps. Uber has a setting for this, I had it disabled all this time and don't ever recall a single ad. The next problem however is the "feedback" plague. Every company
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
Are there really many situations where a 10kbps connection would actually be stable enough to be usable? Usually when you get these kinds of speeds it means the underlying connection is well and truly compromised, and any kind of real-tim
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by noprocrasted 2y ago
I stick to 1Password 7 for that reason - thankfully it still works for the time being.

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