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by planb 7y ago
"We have had a legion of volunteers... who review uploads in exchange for in-site rewards, as well as the health of the community." ...or in exchange to see the stuff they can't get to see anywhere else? I wonder for how many
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by planb 7y ago
Google and Facebook do not sell peoples data. They sell their eyeballs. That‘s where money is to be made.
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by planb 7y ago
You restaurant analogy fails, because restaurants are at a fixed physical location and the seats are constrained. I find Ben Thompson's "Aggregation Theory" quite insightful on this topic: https://stratechery.com&#
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by planb 8y ago
This. It's a bit baffling to me that even the HN audience doesn't come to this conclusion immediately - maybe people want to assume the worst because it's Facebook?
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by planb 8y ago
> Everyone I know can handle email just fine. Then you don't know "normal" people. Try managing a school mailing list for a while to learn all the different ways email fails for the average user.
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by planb 8y ago
I came here to write that exact comment. If I don't trust my computer to not be infected, I should not use it at all. Having someone watch me picking my nose is far less privacy-invading than someone accessing my photo library for exam
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by planb 8y ago
That's not really implied. I'm also on Whatsapp (to communicate with Android users) but I agree with every word in that comment.
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by planb 8y ago
Might also be that newer versions of macOS need more RAM than Snow Leopard and therefore less is available for filesystem caches.
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by planb 8y ago
> Now that violent attacks against the police and emergency services, stabbings, rape, murder and generally a complete refusal to accept the law become more common [...] Citation needed.
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Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry(twitter.com)
2 points by planb 8y ago|0 comments
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by planb 8y ago
This is overblown, isn't it? That thing can't do anything that a public wifi couldn't, and yet everyone connects their laptops to those without hassle. SSL is nearly everywhere now...
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by planb 8y ago
Again, this is not Apple using his work in their own software. This is Apple providing the downloadable source code (because a workflow inside Shortcuts is exactly that) to a program that accesses an image URL from his site. Most people c
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by planb 8y ago
Apple did not create this. It originates in the "Workflow Gallery", which Apple rebranded when taking over the service. I think the question is: Are these downloadable workflows an integral part of the Apple software or are they j
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by planb 8y ago
The more I think about this topic, the more I come to the conclusion there is one simple solution to all the targeted-ad related problems - at least from the platforms point of view: Make all data about ads public. Who is targeted, how many
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by planb 8y ago
Really interesting story. Was she a "good" manager, or just the "right" manager for that dysfunctional team?
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by planb 8y ago
This is really critical. ImageMagick's convert uses Ghostscript by default if it detects PDF content, so there are lots of webapps vulnerable now. Is some cases, uploading a test.jpeg with the following text content might be sufficient
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Ghostscript: multiple critical vulnerabilities inc. remote command execution(bugs.chromium.org)
5 points by planb 8y ago|1 comments
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by planb 8y ago
I'd think so, too. The iOS app still hasn't been updated for the iPhone X screen...
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Amazon Alexa Skill Blueprints(blueprints.amazon.com)
2 points by planb 8y ago|0 comments
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Why does OpenCV use BGR color format?(learnopencv.com)
1 points by planb 9y ago|0 comments
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by planb 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/1958/
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by planb 9y ago
I usually do this by hand with surprisingly good results: I use calibre to convert the ePub to txt and then fix some common problems (i.e. remove line breaks and page numbers) using regular expressions. Then I convert it to an audio file us
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by planb 9y ago
Probably your friend did. And Facebook knows you were in the same location. That seems more reasonable than eavesdropping on your conversation...
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by planb 9y ago
If you long-press the refresh button in mobile safari, you will get the option to reload the current page without content blockers.
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by planb 9y ago
I can’t remember a single phone with a replaceable battery that did not need tape to fix it after a year of usage... and I never bought a replacement battery.
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by planb 9y ago
Look at those responses he got from upset readers of the book. They are polite and articulate their point. Nowadays, he would get death threats.
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by planb 9y ago
Did you check and compile every line of code that runs on your phone? If not, than that's also smoke and mirrors. I guess it's easier to get evil patches into any open source component on a "free" phone than to get them
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by planb 9y ago
No, it does not if the Wifi Chipset is disabled, because it uses wifi for location services (GPS would use way too much battery). That's exactly the problem: The wifi chipset is used for much more than just connecting to the internet.
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by planb 9y ago
That's a setting - though I don't know the default.
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by planb 9y ago
It needs to because having a different number on the watch would make no sense.

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