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901.
by varenc 5y ago
Apple and Firefox brought this on by killing 3rd party cookies. The reason why client send requests to the 3rd party domain directly is that the cookies attached to that domain are sent and which can track you better! With a server-side req
902.
by varenc 5y ago
Fair point. It would certainly be a better world. Though constantly self-updating browsers are a relatively new thing and the legislators probably wanted to "protect" all those people stuck on IE11? And legal precedence wise, laws
903.
by varenc 5y ago
That’s just absurd. Browsers, or User -Agents, should be where this is implemented. “This site would like to fetch external resources. Allow or Block?”. Same goes for all those cookie prompts. Then the consent question would actually be p
904.
by varenc 5y ago
Totally agree there are many other frustrating things with 1P. I’m still self-hosting my vault locally and I hate that someday they’re going to force me to switch to their cloud based options. Just on my list of issues lack of multiline sup
905.
by varenc 5y ago
As one datapoint: I’ve used 1P for 11+ years, have over 1200 items in it, and I’ve literally never lamented the lack of multiline fields.
906.
by varenc 5y ago
> including provisions that prevent them from being remotely disabled From the article, none of these implants were remotely disabled. The article's first paragraph is deceptively written to make it seem like that though. Further d
907.
by varenc 5y ago
I tried to find a counterexample and I couldn't! I believe you that quotes really are working. What's confusing though is that a quoted word or phrase often doesn't show up in the Google results snippets. This is certainly t
908.
by varenc 5y ago
> they're simply training users to click on "I agree" buttons Are macros at all common? My perception is they're very very rarely used, especially in file downloaded from the internet. In that context, a file asking f
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by varenc 5y ago
> would enable people in abusive relationships to be stalked I can see that concern, but family sharing ALREADY lets you share iDevice locations at all time. That's a superior form of stalking compared to AirTags... So I just don&#x
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by varenc 5y ago
I believe an AirTag stops randomizing some broadcast identifier when it’s separated from its owner. The AirTag by itself has no location awareness. But when an iDevice sees the same separated AirTag at multiple locations it fires the alert
911.
by varenc 5y ago
Apple released an Android app that lets you check for AirTags separated from their owner near you: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac... Of course you have to know about it and it only pr
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by varenc 5y ago
Apple just needs to add shared AirTags to iClould family sharing. I think that’d solve your issue and ~90% of other unwanted stalking alerts. They already allow shared “Find My iDevice” and just need to add AirTags to the mix.
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by varenc 5y ago
Have any of the AirTag stalking mitigations actually been defeated by hackers? Besides physically removing the speaker. The “an AirTag is traveling with you” alerts haven’t been defeated as far as I can tell. Apple tweaked some of the time
914.
by varenc 5y ago
You could send your DNS queries over a VPN to your home network... but that’s pretty roundabout and will have a big performance hit. Instead you can just run a pihole-like DNS resolver on iOS directly. I like DNSCloak, which just runs dnsc
915.
by varenc 5y ago
As a pihole alternative, I highly recommend using dnscrypt-proxy. It can provide the same system/network level DNS ad blocking but it also ensures all your outgoing queries are encrypted and spread across different resolvers so no one
916.
by varenc 5y ago
Like Op, I also have been tinkering with USB-C PD and found another hobbyist tool on Tindie that does exactly like you describe! You can specify the voltage and current needed, and it'll then make sure you get that power from a compati
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by varenc 5y ago
My understanding is that for a long time now modern sockets don't use the holes for detent and instead just rely on friction. The current ANSI/NEMA standard says that: "The hole in flat blade is optional, and it is intended
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by varenc 5y ago
Thank you! I recalled that story but wasn't sure on the details.
919.
by varenc 5y ago
We could say the same thing about phishing attacks. “Any company that hires idiots so dumb they’ll type their password into a random site without confirming the certificate deserves what’s coming to them”. Except we know that at scale very
920.
by varenc 5y ago
My understanding is that there’s such a vast amount of mantle and it’s generally a liquid so that after the waste “dissolves” in the mantle only a very tiny fraction of it would be brought back to the surface in future eruptions.
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by varenc 5y ago
There's also security updates for the two older versions of macOS - Big Sur: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213055 - Catalina: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213056 Though the Monterey
922.
by varenc 5y ago
While insect population decline seems the primary cause, windshields are also more sloped and aerodynamic now. I suspect more bugs bounce off these instead of being splattered. My one data point is that on a 2-hour rural drive with a friend
923.
by varenc 5y ago
As a counterpoint, I had no problem using a printed cell phone bill as evidence of residency at a California DMV.
924.
by varenc 5y ago
Not at all! Like many CLI tools, it turns off the formatting when it detects you're not outputting to a terminal. Here's where it checks: https://github.com/Textualize/rich/blob/5a457bfbc662ab8701dc
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by varenc 5y ago
I think 100% irreversible purely online/digital transactions are a bit of a new problem? If you wire transferred money to a scammer's bank account it won't be easy getting it back, but if you realize your mistake soon enough
926.
by varenc 5y ago
I think there’ll be a decent amount of home interest, particularly for home security. Linksys is already doing WiFi sensing as part of their various smart home products: https://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articl
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by varenc 5y ago
I’m 99.999% sure that Goldman Sachs SWE interns are highly paid. Even when compared to other top tier tech internships.
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by varenc 5y ago
No angle or point with that comment. Just interesting! I like looking at exif data. And I think there should be more awareness around what it often leaks.
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by varenc 5y ago
Check if an ad blocker might be interfering? I finished my CCPA request in ~2 minutes and it only required that I do SMS verification. Presumably because the name, phone, address, and email all matched records they had on file for me...
930.
by varenc 5y ago
Wow placing a freeze requires filling out a PDF form, attaching a scan of your ID, and then sending it in over email, mail, or fax. The PDF lacks built in form fields you can type in. The extra friction is probably a feature: https:/&

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