thw0rted

11 ms·

61.
by thw0rted 6y ago
You wouldn't have to hit the server "thousands of times", do a binary search across frames to get the interesting (i.e. incriminating) bits, then flesh out detail. Security cameras often capture single-digit frames per secon
62.
by thw0rted 6y ago
One suggestion upthread was that videos that start public or unlisted can be made private without changing the ID. I haven't verified this myself, but if true it could be a way to get around someone sharing a video, then making it pri
63.
by thw0rted 6y ago
I've lived in Germany for years and I do feel like, if we're going to stereotype people by nationality, they're one of the most privacy-sensitive groups you'll find. This is the country where, by law, if somebody picks
64.
by thw0rted 6y ago
I don't actually use SMS but I don't think that most people get read/receipt confirmation. The little check-mark system in WA is a big step forward compared to plain texting. Of course, similar features exist in other chat
65.
by thw0rted 6y ago
The point is that you can tell everybody why you don't like WA, and even come up with a really good way of explaining the problems to non-technical people. This might even work in some cases. The problem is that WA has an enormous
66.
by thw0rted 6y ago
When this article went up, I realized that I'd allowed WA to access my Contacts, so I went in and revoked that permission. It immediately reformatted my whole conversation list as phone numbers instead of names. I can't rename t
67.
by thw0rted 6y ago
If you can afford to have a throwaway phone with a second phone line of service -- remember, WA must be tied to a phone number, and you don't want to give FB your real phone number, right? -- then you are probably doing better than t
68.
by thw0rted 6y ago
You can be as upset about the state of things as you want to be -- yes, it's wrong and broken and unfair -- but you can't change the state of things by just wishing hard enough. The GP's point stands, things are organize
69.
by thw0rted 6y ago
Marking "Server received message and is holding it for user" with the same icon as "server received message and determined there is no such user" is dumb and bad and wrong, and probably also a dark pattern in this case.
70.
by thw0rted 6y ago
I also didn't understand, because the article doesn't actually mention Google's "spying" or explain it at all. It does link to the NLRB complaint, though. It's a real slog to read through but I think the actua
71.
by thw0rted 6y ago
I don't have any knowledge of the matter but I can say with absolute confidence that yes, of course Google's legal department employees have corporate management software on their (corporate) devices, because Google's IT se
72.
by thw0rted 6y ago
This is why I'm so surprised that other commenters are surprised. If you've ever worked for a Big Serious Company (especially the defense sector, but increasingly just about everywhere), they have an IT Security department, and t
73.
by thw0rted 6y ago
Look up "warrant canary". IANAL, but my understanding is that you can be secretly compelled to not speak, but you cannot be legally compelled to actively tell a lie -- the Wikipedia page agrees with my interpretation. So, you
74.
by thw0rted 6y ago
"Video editors" are going to buy a machine with 8GB RAM? (Which, I assume, will be soldered to the motherboard, like all recent Apple products.) Good luck to them, I guess.
75.
by thw0rted 6y ago
So the choice is between running an older OS version that will go EOL sooner, or abandoning the ability to dual-boot? How is that OK?
76.
by thw0rted 6y ago
The ROI for battery life falls off at a certain point, right? For phones, it's probably about a day -- how often is it a problem to plug in your phone at some point in a 24-hour period? -- and for laptops it's often about a f
77.
by thw0rted 6y ago
#6 is the whole point. As is always the case with these fights, the fundamental fact is that the war is asymmetric. We have to be right all of the time, they have to be right once. We have to break all encryption everywhere forever, they
78.
by thw0rted 6y ago
This is also a great example of how you can follow what sounds like logical principles to a completely bonkers end-state. Knowledge is protected but your bodily autonomy is not? Eesh.
79.
by thw0rted 6y ago
Just to be totally clear, this is how tracking cookies work everywhere. The site you visit includes an iframe with an ID "X" that identifies itself, the iframe loads `trackingsite.com?id=X`, the request includes your cookies for t
80.
by thw0rted 6y ago
> something like sending a CSR from the new device and then using the first device to confirm that it's a legitimate request So I can only sign into my account from any new machine if I have access to a previously-signed-in device?
81.
by thw0rted 6y ago
Right, the point is not that poor families can afford a $100 computer, rather that the poor family's school can buy more $100 computers to hand out than they can $200 Chromebooks or $400 iPads.
82.
by thw0rted 6y ago
The education sector has already bought into Chromebooks, which means that most in-class technology solutions are going to target the browser. The only thing anyone will need to learn to move between OSes is: how do I turn it on, where&#x2
83.
by thw0rted 6y ago
Switching is easier than most people imagine, IMHO. I started to feel the beginnings of an RSI and went from right to left for half a year or so, no problems.
84.
by thw0rted 6y ago
If your choices are "disable all logins" or "anybody can log into my bank account and make whatever transfers they want", the correct choice is the former. (Obviously I would prefer a third option, where the company act
85.
by thw0rted 6y ago
The question of ownership comes down to whether you have a right to that renewal. As long as you keep paying the fee, you have a right to continue using that trademark, unless legal action is taken to challenge it. Can you say that about
86.
by thw0rted 6y ago
Forget about international, within a single country you can have identical trademarks in different areas of business [1]. That's why I think we're stuck with first-come, first-served as the only fair way to allocate shared namesp
87.
by thw0rted 6y ago
From the article: > This interaction, by the way, seems to affect all of the bitter citruses—the ones that inherited the telltale tang from the pomelo. Sour orange. Lime, too. But it’s unlikely that anyone would drink enough sour orange
88.
by thw0rted 6y ago
I've seen similar warnings about grapefruit before, but the article is the first time I've seen the specific mechanism discussed in this kind of depth. It's also the first time I've seen mention that all "bitter ci
89.
by thw0rted 6y ago
Per the article, the drug-interaction problem comes from furanocoumarins depleting your cytochrome P450. There's nothing in there to suggest that refined acid (as opposed to unprocessed juice) would include furanocoumarins.
90.
by thw0rted 6y ago
I was curious about this. The trick is moving the heat from the components (CPU/GPU/RAM/PSU/storage/etc) to the hull. It's full of nitrogen, but the heat would conduct much better via liquid (heat pipe) than g

More ›