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by olliej 2y ago
> He asks how it's possible, but avoids the obvious? He’s not asking “how does this cause corruption”, he’s asking “how is it possible that a bug like this can occur in a code base like this, and not be caught earlier”. He then enum
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by olliej 2y ago
Medical bills can easily exceed a million, especially if multiple people are involved.
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by olliej 2y ago
It doesn’t matter if someone else is legally required to cover the costs you incur in an accident. you are liable for the costs incurred. You sue the other entity to get the money to pay those bills, if they cannot afford it you still hav
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by olliej 2y ago
This sounds like a variation of “do not track”, a concept invented by ad networks like Google and Facebook to give the pretense of caring about privacy. DNT was then either ignored, or directly used as a tracking vector. Even the advertisin
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by olliej 2y ago
Ever since they banned most search engines from indexing them I basically never end up on Reddit - all the search results are old and not relevant to any current search I might have.
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by olliej 2y ago
I think the issue these days is that so many VC funded companies give away products for free to essentially capture the entire market so no non-VC funded can compete with that, or numerous "free" (ad supported) or in-app-purchases
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by olliej 2y ago
I really feel this isn't the devs fault, it's a product of the accursed App Store payment model. The issues I see: * Devs can't make paid upgrades: to make a paid upgrade the options are a new app, except the security model f
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by olliej 2y ago
I feel "banning" legacy admissions is not a reasonable approach (though it sounds like the penalty for legacy admissions is being put on a list of schools that do legacy admissions, but I'm not sure how that's a penalty?
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by olliej 2y ago
I re-read this title (which to be clear, is perfectly reasonable) and my brain read it as being about - in various stages of failing to read it correctly: * Commuting via parachute attached cars??? * Paraplegic motorists (a plausible subjec
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by olliej 2y ago
Updated it, but if your response to a study demonstrating racial bias in US law enforcement - where overt racial bias has been established for decades - is to say they're not comparing like-for-like, when even if the comparisons were d
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by olliej 2y ago
[edited to match comment guidelines] “I couldn't be bothered reading that source to see what was being compared, and instead I'm going to brush off yet another study showing racial bias in US law enforcement as it not comparing li
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by olliej 2y ago
From the article, that your automatic “well it can’t be racism it must be that black people are naturally bad in other ways” response implies you did not read: “Our findings show that when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proporti
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by olliej 2y ago
No it’s under pressure from people who go to the press saying “the FDA won’t let me use this drug to help me/my family” who ignore “because there’s no evidence it works” as the reason. The pharmaceutical just has to tell those people t
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by olliej 2y ago
While I do agree that the deal with ebooks vs libraries is utter bullshit, I also feel like the IA unnecessarily burned far too much money on that. The US courts have consistently supported copyright owners when they claim that ebooks are m
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by olliej 2y ago
> There are no such people, at least not in the numbers worth mentioning, in the US (there are in other countries, but curiously you don't care about that at all, do you?) That is literally a campaign point for multiple candidates.
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by olliej 2y ago
Wasn’t this posted the other day? Also it’s clear that they are (tbc not clear that it’s with ol muskys approval), the alternative is the dishes are growing out of nothing :D
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by olliej 2y ago
> However, publishing somebody's private information that can easily lead to deadly attack on him or his family is in entirely different class of speech. Got it, encouraging people to execute gay and trans people is completely fine,
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by olliej 2y ago
No, the issue people are having is musk claims he has to allow nazis, transphobes, homophobes, racism, sexism, fake pornography of people, etc because otherwise it would be censorious and an attack on free speech. But things that attack or
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by olliej 2y ago
I would rather they require the stores to sell the software not just change the wording for the existing BS. Changing the wording to “license” just encourages “seasonal” licenses and no single payment option.
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by olliej 2y ago
I read this as Samba and was super worried for a moment.
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by olliej 2y ago
You can't bypass "all iPhone security" - this is a restore path: the phone is already in a state where it cannot boot, and cannot access user data. Once an iPhone is in a restore state (restore mode or DFU which afaict are on
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by olliej 2y ago
I'm not sure? what is the threat you're concerned about here? My reading of this is that it's just removed the requirement to use a wired connection to a laptop to restore a phone that is already in DFU/restore mode - I&
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by olliej 2y ago
No, this is not adding a new version of resetting a device, it's just providing a mode where if your phone is bricked you don't need to find a computer and cable to get back to a working state if you're with someone else who
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by olliej 2y ago
It _sounds_ like this is just the standard restore path, only now it can be done wirelessly. Restore/DFU is an erase all content path - there are some cases where restore can avoid erasing the old data, but that path requires the devic
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by olliej 2y ago
As a header, there's clearly a liability problem in modern software, which I'll get to later. [pre-posting comment: I've moved the semi-rant portion to the bottom, because I realized I should start with the more direct issues
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by olliej 2y ago
Does that mean we’LL no longer need vaccines to get 5G at home? :D :D More seriously, the terrible nature of start up/project names meant I actually read this as being “Glass Antenna[software name] turns windows [operating System] in b
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by olliej 2y ago
So if someone killed or funded a bombing in the UK, the UK would be permitted to send a secret group to the US to execute them without a trial? (Just confirming your position here that executing people who fund terrorism without a trial - t
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by olliej 2y ago
Didn’t we find bin Laden by catastrophically undermining vaccination programs in Pakistan?
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by olliej 2y ago
yeah, that could have been "exciting" :-O
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by olliej 2y ago
Honestly given many of these stories, $500 seems to be getting off pretty lightly. It’s still absurd to me that many (most?) of these hosting/bandwidth providers don’t seems to allow automatic cut offs and such

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