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by varenc 3y ago
note: Even if the dispute is settled out of court in arbitration, I think arbitration would likely be successful based on the available info. Honestly, if you can open a dispute for arbitration that seems cheaper than going to court and it
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by varenc 3y ago
Agreed! I didn't mean for my comment to imply otherwise. (even Apple's refusal to allow other browsers, which would require JIT to be performant, illustrates Apple is aware the risk)
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by varenc 4y ago
I can see Google's rationale for keeping them seperate. It is supposed to be the 2nd factor after all, and if your 2FA secrets are stored and synced right along with your passwords that really makes it not much of a second factor. The
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by varenc 4y ago
> "If you keep all your passwords synced in Chrome, for instance, none of them are behind E2EE either." Correction : You can enable E2EE on your Chrome passwords by setting up a passphrase! This enables E2EE for most other syn
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by varenc 4y ago
I believe nowadays most of Dropbox's revenue comes from their Dropbox Business customers. Or at the very least they see growth in business customer revenue as much more promising. (from my glancing over their SEC filings) So while as a
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by varenc 4y ago
In my experience, disabling the JIT on iOS (via Lockdown mode) results in slow performance and greatly increased battery drain on JS heavy websites and web views. The battery drain being the worst part. But of course with a site like HN the
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by varenc 4y ago
This is the big one that I think people don’t fully appreciate! Without using JIT (just-in-time compilation), your browser’s JavaScript will be terribly slow. But allowing JIT compilation (allowing an app to mark memory pages as executable,
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by varenc 4y ago
I think "professionals" just avoid a car chases in the first place? My take is that most people trying to outrun the cops aren't going to be so highly technical and well prepared. (as a digression: GPS jamming might not be t
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by varenc 4y ago
Oh I absolutely agree! That's some sketchy stuff. Didn't mean to sound like I was discounting the rest of your experience.
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by varenc 4y ago
One nit of the author's analysis: The Strava javascript file used for speed tests is 1.68MB uncompressed. But in a browser and most all other situations it should be requested with `Accept-Encoding: ...`. In Chrome, Strava responds wit
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by varenc 4y ago
I noticed that the KLAX audio feed is in stereo and isolates the voice chatter to either the left or the right channel. Which might be confusing on headphones. I'm not sure how it's determined what audio goes to each channel but i
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by varenc 4y ago
The letsencrypt root CA is included in this. If you trust only a device’s default trusted CA all letsencrypt certs will work. Also they don’t have their own root CA: https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/
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by varenc 4y ago
Ehh, I don't think it'd be that hard to implement cert pinning against OpenAI's APIs. You just need some very permissive pinning, where you require any publicly trusted CA, to prevent MITM attacks. Basically only trust the ro
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by varenc 4y ago
This is getting off topic, but IMHO the HN default behavior here is reasonable. There's certainly situations where removing the leading "Here's How" makes the title worse, but I think those instances are rare and in gene
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by varenc 4y ago
Isn't Roku itself full of telemetry, content tracking, and ads? Used to have some housemates with a Roku and it was painful. As far as HDMI over TCP/IP, I actually tried to get a TV online once via a Roku and Ethernet over HDMI bu
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by varenc 4y ago
Agreed! But just pointing out they did this prior to the 2019 hype the parent poster mentioned
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by varenc 4y ago
On my Mojave machine the files modtime is “ Mon Aug 20 2018”! (Which seems to be straight from macOS, not the date of my install, since the modtime on other macOS system files varies widely)
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by varenc 4y ago
What is the close association you’re referring to?
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by varenc 4y ago
Is there any indication if iOS’s Lockdown Mode[0] would have stopped these exploit chains? [0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212650
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by varenc 4y ago
See my other comment, but I just read that when you use Apple Card + Apple Pay together they give you 2% cash back. To me this really seems like more evidence that the fraud prevention of Apple Card + Apple Pay works well enough they can ma
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by varenc 4y ago
Apple Card does offer 2% cash back on all purchases! But only when you pay use an Apple Card via Apple Pay, not when you pay with the physical card. I suspect this is because when Apple Pay is used they have particularly good fraud preventi
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by varenc 4y ago
My take is that the real business opportunity for Apple here is fraud reduction, not just the Apple branding. The biggest cost to any credit card provider is fraud, which they have to cover. Credit card fraud is $100B+/year. The Apple
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by varenc 4y ago
I totally agree. I use ffmpeg's dynaudnorm[0] filter in mpv/IINA when watching media to better normalize sound volume. It's the best audio normalizer I’ve used. No loss of dynamic range within the target window duration. (~1
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by varenc 4y ago
Safari Passwords and 3rd party apps can and do use the Apple Keychain on macOS/iOS to store sensitive data. Though 3rd parties can't integrate with Safari's password manager. If you use Chrome Sync with passwords on macOS, Ch
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by varenc 4y ago
This seems to now be fixed.
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by varenc 4y ago
For this particular case, the use of PDFs seems irrelevant. Photos were just taken of each polling unit’s results. These photos happened to then be embedded into PDFs for distribution, but the core underlying data is just an image embedded
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by varenc 4y ago
Can anyone explain the connection between Justin Sun, his companies, and the BitTorrent protocol? Wikipedia is a little light on details. It sounds like BitTorrent Inc was renamed to Rainberry and was then sold to Justin Sun/TRON, and
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by varenc 4y ago
I initially felt the same way and found it cluttered. Though I still left fzf-history around and bound it Ctrl+Alt+R so Ctrl+R could still be the default. In zsh I just did this with `bindkey '^[^R' fzf-history-widget`. Over time
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by varenc 4y ago
.tex files work fine in VSCode with the Copilot AI integration. Haven’t tried actually writing LaTeX with it but some cursory investigation shows that it seems to be working well. I suspect it’ll perform decently for basic modifications! (S
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by varenc 4y ago
Riffing on that a bit, I just don't get the sense OpenAI wants to be in the business of hosting mission critical APIs for Fortune 500 companies. To your point, running AWS level services is an entirely different business that doesn&#x2

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