shuntress

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by shuntress 10mo ago
My extreme political opinion is that no one (including corporations) should be allowed to own more than one property in which they do not reside.
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by shuntress 10mo ago
Git
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by shuntress 11mo ago
Reading allegory is the way start building mental context.
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by shuntress 1y ago
The light bulb thing is actually the opposite of what you imply. It was an open agreement to avoid misleading marketing that would have (presumably) caused a "race to the bottom".
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by shuntress 1y ago
We tried to do that. It didn't work. Too much spam, scams, and abuse.
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by shuntress 2y ago
Git manages pretty much everything by using the `.git` folder created by `git init` and there is (as far as I am aware) nothing stopping you from going into that .git folder and running init again there to start using git to manage the inte
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by shuntress 2y ago
Well, it is all local until you push so you can do whatever you want. With that said, it obviously is not meaningless at a technical level because without the commit there is nothing to push or merge. On top of that, at a non-technical leve
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by shuntress 2y ago
It's actually pot7o and it means pot[random seven letter word or phrase]o
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by shuntress 2y ago
Since speed and expense are relatively important and collisions are relatively rare, this sounds more like "better is better".
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by shuntress 2y ago
> I have some sort of medium, copper, fiber whatever and I would like to send 10 bytes to the other side of it. What is the right foundations that would lead to an implementation which isn't overly complex. The bane of every project
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by shuntress 2y ago
You are wildly out of touch here. The labor cost for replacing parts on a car isn't just another ballpark. It's another planet. Obviously if you want to replace every part of the phone it is going to cost more altogether than a
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by shuntress 2y ago
> Surely my damaged 4 year old car will be easily repaired at a reasonable price by a skilled mechanic at the car dealership who have parts in stock and tools ready to go. It would be absolutely wild if their price for that service was b
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by shuntress 2y ago
> Almost every battery in a phone is a 'non-standard' shape The metaphor is not literal. > Making knockoff components using Apple's logo and such is not the same thing I think I was misremembering the lawsuit you are pr
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by shuntress 2y ago
It's not about the OEM charging "too much". It's about the OEM sandbagging the market. If that 10 year old car was designed with a non-standard shape battery, it would get a lower repairablity score. If additionally the
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by shuntress 2y ago
It also is not necessarily your actual ID. As far as the individual website needs to know, it could just be a random string of numbers and letters. As long as it's the same string each time they ask the authentication authority to conf
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by shuntress 2y ago
Trusting Google's OAuth not to vanish overnight is less stressful than managing your own username/password database. And that's pretty much my point. 2FA? Password Resets? Account Activation? Updating Email Address? No thanks
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by shuntress 2y ago
The first bullet point on the /partners page of login.gov (regarding who should use it) says: > You are part of a federal agency or a state, local, or territory government I'm talking about a more generic service that any rando
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by shuntress 2y ago
I'm not saying anyone should be disallowed to run their own authentication. I'm saying we need the digital equivalent of "show me your driver's license".
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by shuntress 2y ago
The problem is deeper and simpler than that. Authentication should not need to be re-implemented by every single organization. We should have official auth servers so that FlyCASS doesn't need to worry about identity management and can
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by shuntress 2y ago
I think it's reasonable to assume that google would favor the Ad Sense customer given two results that are otherwise of equal or near equal quality but the notion that google would exclude good results from domains that do not serve
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by shuntress 2y ago
> very little comedy is truly timeless This depends almost entirely on the type of comedy. Things like reference, satire, or shock are obviously dependent on the specific context of time in which they were made and of course become less
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by shuntress 2y ago
> They simply have a better product This is the key. I'm not saying Google couldn't be better. But if it were possible to build a better index of the Internet, Google would do it. Spam garbage overrunning the web is the underly
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by shuntress 2y ago
The issue is that there is no direct fix. It depends instead on the overall health of the Internet. We are moving away from open commerce and into walled gardens. Once Google makes deals similar to their Reddit deal with Meta and Bytedance,
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by shuntress 2y ago
My extreme political opinion is that no one should be allowed to own more than one property in which they do not reside.
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by shuntress 2y ago
> what would the dream free market implementation even look like here? Every company's dream: Free labor and captive audiences.
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by shuntress 2y ago
I would also point out that the backup plan (Radio and Binoculars) are not only effective but also extremely cheap & easy to keep ready in the control tower at all times. The same cannot be said for medical records.
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by shuntress 2y ago
Depends how big the cliff is and whats at the bottom.
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by shuntress 2y ago
The question we should actually be paying attention to is this: Why is there no meaningful competition in this space?
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by shuntress 2y ago
Obviously Microsoft isn't going to sell their profile of you to petty thieves. But they probably will sell it to at-scale-grifters looking for marks or fascists looking for dissidents.
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by shuntress 2y ago
> Storage and processing happens on your device and it is encrypted Microsoft controls this entire process. They could easily send copies back to "the mothership" like they probably already do with the processed results. > I

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