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by sp0rk 4y ago
The limitations page for the Google Photos backend [1] is something to behold. I can't imagine very many people would view this as a viable alternative to Takeout with the current limitations. This bolded one seems like it would be a d
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by sp0rk 4y ago
I think this trend of trading in good will towards your brand for a quick buck has been growing powerfully over the last decade or so. It seems like a lot of brands (that make physical products, specifically) have decided to start making &q
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by sp0rk 4y ago
It's still producing a metered dose that's probably comparable to other doses from the same cart. I don't think anybody expects doses between carts/strains/batches to be consistent, because the pen would have to kno
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by sp0rk 4y ago
This project looks cool and its video is really well-made. The segment with Frank works perfectly to explain how to play the game, while still managing to be entertaining. Honestly, from the title screen shown at the start of the video, I w
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by sp0rk 5y ago
This opinion piece casually makes the very bold claim that the Steele Dossier has been disproven now, though the only evidence they seem to provide is that one of the informants has been arrested for lying to the FBI. I have not heard of an
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by sp0rk 5y ago
> We don't hear about Wal-mart deciding to place Procter & Gamble's laundry detergent on the fourth row down and their private label at eye level in the store, do we? Because that's not at all how Walmart operates. All
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by sp0rk 5y ago
Waiting for victims to run your malware is not an active process. It requires no resources on the attacker's part beyond maintaining a server. Maybe it will connect to a server that has been dead for five years or maybe it's point
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by sp0rk 5y ago
If you load outside data into the program, it has the potential to be exploited. There is no shortage of exploits for editors, media players, etc. that only require the victim to open a specially crafted file.
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by sp0rk 6y ago
Bots have long been designed to account for these types of checks by having scheduled hours and jittered breaks. Private messages and name mentions can alert the bot owner so they can respond manually. I've even seen bots that will pip
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by sp0rk 6y ago
> Where did he get the binary from? VirusTotal doesn't allow arbitrary people to download binaries which someone else uploaded, does it? Only the people that pay them.
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by sp0rk 6y ago
> So how why did it suddenly show up? If Avira has a pay-per-install program, I would say it's pretty likely that you're part of a botnet.
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by sp0rk 6y ago
> "I disagree with what you say, but will defend your right to say it" I'm not sure somebody's "right to say [something]" is directly equivalent to being able to tweet something on a privately owned platform
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by sp0rk 6y ago
> a step beyond fascism into a new brand of totalitarianism. Social pressure is being exerted on businesses to enact change. How does this have anything to do with fascism or totalitarianism when the government isn't even involved?
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by sp0rk 6y ago
> I often hear about bots and their influence on the internet, but I don't seem to see them that often. The type of bots that are most concerning are the ones that you would not be able to readily identify as bots.
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by sp0rk 6y ago
> I wish my bank did it You can just use something like Privacy.com to accomplish the same thing.
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by sp0rk 7y ago
> I've been keeping my groceries in the bag, sticking the entire thing in the refrigerator, and then not touching it for at least 24 hours. Unfortunately, this won't do anything to kill/remove the virus, and may potentiall
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by sp0rk 7y ago
One of the most memorable things I've come across on Hacker News was a link to this article about avoiding trolls: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Avoiding_Tr... Even as somebody th
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by sp0rk 7y ago
> Yes, I might have phrased it better, but the intention was that at a younger age, you perhaps didn't yet have to upgrade a legacy projects with semi-obscure tooling where the original developers have long left; or have had to hack
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by sp0rk 7y ago
> Sorry if offensive or presumptuous, I assume you are max. 30 years old? This line added absolutely no value to your comment (try reading your comment without the opening line and tell me it's any different) and resulted in a lot
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by sp0rk 7y ago
Threads like that are typically linked because people might be interested in the previous discussions. This is especially true for this one, because people will inevitably suggest their own preferences for programming music in the comments.
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by sp0rk 7y ago
> You almost never see these lying around the Internet. This may have been true 15 years ago when GitHub didn't exist and people hoarded their code, but I would say it's the exact opposite now. You'd be hard-pressed now to
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by sp0rk 7y ago
You're confusing performance with efficiency.
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by sp0rk 7y ago
> I'm guessing he's a rich kid from India, with rich parents who are bankrolling his education. What is this guess based on?
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by sp0rk 7y ago
> Samsung told Quartz that the Fold is supposed to be durable enough to withstand being folded at least 200,000 times, which would equate to about 300 unfolds every day for two years. (The average person checks their phone between 80 and
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by sp0rk 8y ago
> A doctor could be in the room and give the same message in a cold manner as many do each day and the family would have felt the same. So you think we should systematically bring this poor experience to everyone via robots because some
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by sp0rk 8y ago
Who would want to read a list of things that are already working well, except maybe somebody already considering switching to Linux?
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by sp0rk 8y ago
> I use a chat service that has this feature on by default (for real-time chat customer support, not for general messaging), and never in the history of its usage has a person complained about it. How would most people know to complain a
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by sp0rk 8y ago
You should probably add screenshots (even if it's mostly text-based) and a sign-up process that doesn't involve Facebook. Also, I doubt you've been granted the rights to use that DigitalBlasphemy wallpaper, so you might want
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by sp0rk 8y ago
They are saying that most people use temperature to talk about outdoor weather.
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by sp0rk 8y ago
> Now what they do is that they bring the servers down when it happens. That's a pretty bold allegation. Do you have any evidence that this is the case.

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