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by rezonant 3y ago
Can you elaborate on how group messaging gets broken (assuming your third point is not the elaboration)?
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by rezonant 3y ago
Invoking the CFAA for messaging interoperability is a pretty dystopian take. If it were as open and shut as you think it is, then why didn't AOL use the CFAA against Microsoft for doing exactly what Beeper is doing in MSN Messenger?
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by rezonant 3y ago
Because the market we're talking about is not the broader messaging ecosphere, it's "texting". To the US consumer, Whatsapp and the like are not texting. Frankly it makes total sense that this is the way it is in the US,
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by rezonant 3y ago
This is conflating two issues identified with Microsoft's practices during this time. Both of which got them in trouble. Microsoft abused it's dominant position in the PC OS market to (A) lock out competition in the OS market and
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by rezonant 3y ago
iPhone alone is used by about 60% of the population, which is about 198 million people out of the 331 million who live here. This is assuming every person has a phone, which they don't. Looks like that metric is about 85% of the popula
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by rezonant 3y ago
They own half of a market sure, but that is not in question in your statements. In the market of music streaming services available for iOS phones, they used their platform owner position as the manufacturer of iPhones to give themselves
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by rezonant 3y ago
Do you have a source that says it's 4th in the US? Because from my research that is not the case by almost any metric. And if you consider "texting" as understood by most consumers (grouping SMS, RCS, and iMessage usage toget
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by rezonant 3y ago
Couldn't you just make a dedicated account for that device? Wouldn't that be preferable anyway? You could still use family controls.
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by rezonant 3y ago
Fancy, custom editor or something that's out there?
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by rezonant 3y ago
Another strategy is just to step into the method call in pry/byebug. I've done that for particularly tricky cases. At that point it's pretty easy to walk it up to the mechanism that does the metaprogramming.
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by rezonant 3y ago
> also becomes† a minefield if you steer away from The Way Reminds me of Angular vs React-- In my opinion it's much easier to get immediately productive in React, but it's very easy to produce a rats nest over time if you aren&
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by rezonant 3y ago
I often find the sort of over-the-top implementations you describe in gems that were written by Rails users. Since other frameworks and vanilla are not super uncommon, it's fairly normal to make your gem that you envisioned being used
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by rezonant 3y ago
Well, it would probably be 2-3 layers deep in a concern, really. Concerns are just fancy modules, and modules are just reusable parts of a class. In Rails basically everything is a concern. To a concerning degree actually, as a professional
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by rezonant 3y ago
They explain elsewhere that they use an external editor, though they do sometimes use pry's builtin shortcuts and EDITOR convention integration to perform quick edits.
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by rezonant 3y ago
Indeed, the live interactivity of Ruby is it's strongest asset, and the best part of it's Smalltalk legacy. I think it's the thing non-Ruby devs understand the least. For instance in good Rails apps, your models don't ju
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by rezonant 3y ago
> Their ecosystem of devices, even just sticking to the Google-branded hardware, are inconsistent crap. Take a simple, first part app like Google Calendar and look at how sloppily and poorly it works across Pixel phones, Android Wear dev
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by rezonant 3y ago
oh whoops
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by rezonant 3y ago
> The supports_feature-method is probably defined somewhere 5 abstractions deep. Yes, but pro tip: you can do object.method(:supports_feature).source_location to inspect where it comes from. It may be a module included into the class, th
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by rezonant 3y ago
I'm curious how Talkback/Narrator handles this same content, but as a standard text file. I suspect it's still bad, but something about the weird HTML shenanigans being played might be messing up the screen readers.
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by rezonant 3y ago
I only clicked this story because I was worried someone was just using canvas and JS and ignoring the fact that it's entirely invisible to accessibility features. I heard there is ongoing work to introduce a direct accessibility tree A
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by rezonant 3y ago
Dirty energy is (often) cheap, so that's the energy the bad actors will use. I don't know that incentivizing bad actors to waste energy in a climate crisis is the best way to fight this problem. You might correctly claim clean ene
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by rezonant 3y ago
Seems like folks just want to discuss CAPTCHAs generally more ad-hoc, that's cool too, but given how AI has evolved this year, far too many people see this headline and will walk away assuming that the recent AI innovations have made C
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by rezonant 3y ago
Thank you. The data in that table (for reCAPTCHA, citation 63) is from another paper from 2016 which is focused on solving the actual user-presented problems. It doesn't (directly at least) say they achieved a reliable automation of ca
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by rezonant 3y ago
Well it's not like there's a self driving car system in operation today that does not require a human in the driver seat at all. Waymo has so much catching up to do.
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by rezonant 3y ago
Seems like we already have those amongst the Tesla FSD proselytizers.
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by rezonant 3y ago
A dystopian future we can all agree is more plausible than it should be
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by rezonant 3y ago
This doesn't make sense. reCAPTCHA certainly does what it says on the tin. But the way it does it has almost nothing to do with the challenge the human sees. It's all behavioral analytics, including leveraging Google's collec
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by rezonant 3y ago
I guess it depends on how you're scraping. For general web crawling, simply implementing a response time based crawl back off per origin and identifying yourself appropriately in User Agent goes a long way. If you are instead automatin
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by rezonant 3y ago
Unless something changed, it's just the one server.
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by rezonant 3y ago
I'm also wondering this. I don't think it has anything to do with AI solves.

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