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by paultopia 3y ago
“ Many companies, particularly tech ones, are deliberately trading trust for short-term profits.” This is a general level dynamic. Leaders of all kinds of organizations, from companies to governments, need to build methods of self-control t
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by paultopia 3y ago
But also, how have we not figured out how to stop caller ID spoofing yet? What the fuck?
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by paultopia 3y ago
yes, that would be awesome. Also, I want a bioluminescent cat[1] [1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-glow-in-th...
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by paultopia 3y ago
given the eugenic flavor of all this, sort of feels less kk.org and more kkk.org
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by paultopia 3y ago
LOL, it's gonna be like: USER: "hey siri [equivalent], please renew my CD for another twelve month term." PHONE: "Did you say "transfer the contents of your entire bank account to the yakuza?" USER: "fuck!
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by paultopia 3y ago
Is there any reason to think that this would work for political party donation spam? Do the telecom carriers that provide services for all those horrific text messages about how the other party is going to install a dictator unless you don
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by paultopia 3y ago
Actually, it may already be too late. I just searched amazon for brother printers, and it looks like they've rolled out an ink subscription.[1] This is clearly the harbinger of doom---remember when HP did theirs and immediately made
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by paultopia 3y ago
If only there were companies with similar philosophies toward basically every other consumer product. Imagine, just imagine: - TVs not stuffed with spyware and "smart" features that stop working randomly! - Appliances, ditto - Ca
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Ask HN: Why no user-side filters in messaging apps?
2 points by paultopia 3y ago|0 comments
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by paultopia 3y ago
OH MY GOD YES THANK YOU Pasting is particularly hellish because of what essentially amounts to a zero-width tap target. Then add in poorly designed third party apps changing the interface (looking at you microsoft) and it's a nightmare
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by paultopia 3y ago
Interesting! I would have thought that the ego depletion idea would be the only plausible bit from the entire school of research that the author (aptly) criticizes. (Who among us has not forced themselves to go to the gym and thereby been
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by paultopia 3y ago
The street name thing is maddening with Apple Maps as well. I can never figure out how to find, for example, the name of the street before my intended turn.
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Show HN: Open-access book on platform governance(networked-leviathan.com)
2 points by paultopia 3y ago|0 comments
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by paultopia 3y ago
FWIW, I love you, Netlify CEO. I've got a bunch of different static-ish websites hosted with you---my personal site, the sites for three different books, etc., etc. Everything is build using the CI, with a different frameworks and&#x
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by paultopia 3y ago
OTOH threads is kinda slow as shit right now
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by paultopia 3y ago
The implementation detail with the infinite document size is surprising! I remember the HTML chatrooms from that era on other sites, and IIRC a lot of them worked via a meta tag that just told the browser to refresh the page every so often
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by paultopia 3y ago
Frankly, it's a crappy landscape: 1. The main competitor everyone knows about, 1Password, has its own problems. (I gave up on it a couple years ago after learning that you can't quit the goddamn MacOS application when it's
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by paultopia 3y ago
the blame the user responses reported in this story are just hopeless. Also, as far as I can tell, untrue: I cancelled my lastpass subscription after the last horrific breach and migrated to a new password manager while changing my critica
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by paultopia 3y ago
Or just getting rid of marketing/sales/promotion/update/announcement emails. I regret not having used disposable emails (and phone numbers) for essentially everything ever touching anything involving politics, for exa
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by paultopia 3y ago
How could we stop them?
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by paultopia 3y ago
Now do gyms
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by paultopia 4y ago
It is mindblowing that anyone still uses that garbage platform. Much respect to Musk for figuring out a productive use of his money (making other people miserable out of spite).
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by paultopia 4y ago
This brings back memories. 20 years ago, I was managing a band in New Orleans (by an amazing coincidence I'm in New Orleans for a 2 day trip now), and I decided to make them a website. It being 2003, I did the website in flash, and w
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by paultopia 4y ago
Just FYI, at least on the mobile version of the website there doesn't seem to be any way outside of signing up to tell what it actually does.
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by paultopia 4y ago
Ugh, bad time to read that as I’m about to go to an office lunch where Italian sandwiches are being served.
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by paultopia 4y ago
TBH, I don't really think that the author of this post screwed up. There's a lot of self-flagellation, but, ultimately, Chase offered accounts. The company used the services written on the tin. It's far from obvious that one
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by paultopia 4y ago
I would sell my soul for proper emacs on my iPad Pro
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by paultopia 4y ago
Forgot step 6, layoffs.
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by paultopia 4y ago
You'd think that they'd have a non-domain-based way to do it, like cryptographically signing their own damn emails with a key embedded in outlook or something.
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by paultopia 4y ago
Works for me. If some hacker with a few hours and an LLM can force employers to eliminate pointless and irrational pain points that only exist out of habit from their processes then we ought to give that person a medal

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