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uncletammy
4y ago
Tell that to all the shitty companies who require 2FA and only offer it by phone/sms EDIT: and by "shitty" I mean my bank among many other equally important service providers.
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uncletammy
4y ago
> I have a feeling that Meta has some kind of internal system for slurping up everyone's contact info Yes. It's called Facebook Messenger. All your friends have it installed on their phone and it has access to all the data in
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uncletammy
4y ago
> higher-privilege co-processors running code outside the main OS' control is becoming (or already is) the norm everywhere There may be good arguments for allowing these types of "features" but this is not one of them. I&
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uncletammy
4y ago
I feel like I've been asking this question for 15 years.
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uncletammy
4y ago
I've looked everywhere for this but can't find it. I'm on Brave Desktop v1.44.112
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uncletammy
4y ago
As a Texan, it's nice seeing Ken Paxton, our crook of an attorney general who has been under indictment for multiple years for multiple crimes, finally do something positive for the people. I still won't vote for the fascist crimi
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uncletammy
4y ago
Pop-unders still exist. The only difference is that it's now new tabs instead of windows.
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4y ago
> Also, I love the useful little features they include like redirecting all http requests from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com. I use Brave daily and have never heard of this feature. How do I turn this on?
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uncletammy
4y ago
Can you elaborate or give some context? I know nothing about this sub or it's history.
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uncletammy
4y ago
> The discourse in many subreddits is invisibly dictated by the moderators. In the case of r/bitcoin, the largely invisible reddit censorship allowed for the effective capture of the coin's community and development. It was us
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uncletammy
4y ago
Paypal has been doing this crap for at least 15 years now. Anyone still using them at this point has it coming.
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uncletammy
4y ago
I absolutely adore this project. I can't wait to see how it grows :)
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uncletammy
4y ago
Because Tether would be (probably already is) an incredibly valuable honeypot
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uncletammy
4y ago
Care to objectively articulate the arguments against switching to proof-of-stake? Why is it controversial?
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uncletammy
4y ago
Could be a time intensive exploit. Maybe they didn't have enough time to mine the other 455M.
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uncletammy
4y ago
Smells like class action damage control to me
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4y ago
Its not about cheap vs expensive. It's about overall incentives within the system. A read should be as valuable as a write. At the very least, a read shouldn't be completely free.
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4y ago
> At this rate, in a few months we'll find out how much backing Tether really has, because it is being paid out. As someone who's been watching Tether since it's inception, I say don't count on it. They've manage
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uncletammy
4y ago
"Own the exchange"
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uncletammy
4y ago
Don't forget that you can use new.reddit.com while logged in with your account that is configured to show you the old layout. This skews the numbers on how many people will bail once they drop support for the old layout. I'll defi
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uncletammy
4y ago
After hearing the tone, I immediately thought the same thing! Such a great song.
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uncletammy
4y ago
Do you have a source for that claim? I wasn't aware that was necessarily true.
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4y ago
What ended up being the actual problem with it?
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uncletammy
4y ago
The effect on Jstore's revenue would have been negligible. I'm surprised to see someone so cold and unfeeling about Aaron Swartz. Especially considering the massive injustice with regards to application of the law and sentencing.
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uncletammy
4y ago
There is no magic in the mechanism behind ETH's inflation/deflation. If an equilibrium is found, it will be because the appropriate levers are pulled until the desired ratio is reached. It's also worth keeping in mind that th
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uncletammy
5y ago
You see no value in having a currency that can't be inflated on a whim by your government? As in, the printing of money that reduces the purchasing power of the money sitting in your bank account. Really?
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5y ago
> At the same time, cryptocurrencies still haven't provided a killer app that shuts everyone up. I disagree. The killer app is cash and that use case was intentionally killed by the bitcoin maximalists.
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5y ago
Well I read the word sexting and spit out my coffee.
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5y ago
This is wonderful! For me, accessibility has always been kind of an afterthought. Not because I don't think it's important but because I don't really have the knowledge of best practices. I hope someone creates a generator
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uncletammy
5y ago
The offerings in this space change so quickly and it results in these threads having a pretty short shelf life. Getting a super current solution to arguably one of the greatest privacy problem facing our world right now is probably worth a
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