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by ve55 6y ago
Very interesting story, it really does sound like a scifi thriller to me. It also makes me wonder what type of legal battle would ensue if a blackhat were to have taken all of these funds instead, I'm not sure I've seen any public
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The Longevity FAQ(nintil.com)
2 points by ve55 6y ago|0 comments
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Proctoring Apps Subject Students to Unnecessary Surveillance(eff.org)
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A new wave of student surveillance is being driven by Covid-19(washingtonpost.com)
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by ve55 6y ago
I just quoted the article, so the source is the OP link. They just hide it at the bottom and then make the headline a lie to get your click.
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by ve55 6y ago
Save a vice click by reading: “Facebook is not threatening to withdraw from Europe,” a Facebook spokesperson said, adding that the court filing simply lays out how “Facebook, and many other businesses, organisations and services, rely on da
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by ve55 6y ago
I've enjoyed them myself too, and I still use things like IRC on a daily basis. The two impluses I see to get federation to a larger market share are A) to 'save' people from the platforms they're currently stuck on, but
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by ve55 6y ago
Federated and decentralized solutions have significant UX issues compared to leading products in the area. They're not only harder to use and slower, but are much worse at converting and keeping users to begin with, since they're
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by ve55 6y ago
GoDaddy has enough similar bad practices that this typo of behavior wasn't surprising to many of their past users, it would seem, based on their responses. If they had instead had an upstanding reputation, more people would have argued
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by ve55 6y ago
GoDaddy is imo the literal worst registrar. It's unfortunate how often they're a go-to name for people, but hopefully it won't last forever.
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by ve55 6y ago
Given how low my prior would be that life currently exists on Venus compared to all the other possible explanations for this, I wouldn't count on it at this point Surprised this comment has a negative score, I'd be willing to bet
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by ve55 6y ago
Gambling (in its many forms) has been getting out-of-hand for so many demographics recently. Not just loot boxes and in-game casinos, but cryptocurrency gambling, sports betting, options and stock gambling, and much more. It seems like ever
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by ve55 6y ago
What makes this rule universal? Why is the cutoff at a billion dollars? What is the largest amount of money I can have before I'm, as a universal rule, a terrible person? You should put more reasoning and less insults into your respons
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by ve55 6y ago
>Why is the attack called "Raccoon"? >Raccoon is not an acronym. Raccoons are just cute animals, and it is well past time that an attack will be named after them :) Better naming and mascot than the last five TLS security bu
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by ve55 6y ago
Stripe checkout has existed for awhile, which might not be obvious seeing it on the frontpage of HN. It does make Stripe integration much quicker, which usually takes quite awhile especially when many users only need basic functionality whe
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by ve55 6y ago
I disagree that Discord is niche at this point. They're already worth several billion and it's still growing significantly, with perhaps several hundred million users and very high user-retention, usage, network effects, and propr
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by ve55 6y ago
This is pretty far from what would be needed to say 'Email registration is dead'. Users may be annoyed by it and it may help in niche cases to exclude email requirements, but for most webapps this will not be possible as users wil
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by ve55 6y ago
I view one of the largest reasons for this as trying to ensure they keep user retention for younger demographics for live chat, which they've been lagging behind quite a bit compared to e.g. Discord. If Facebook completely loses their
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by ve55 6y ago
The journalist definitely cannot access the information in the detail we'd want them to, that's true. My issue is more with their phrasing, because never would an article provide basic nuance like "This problem might not be c
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by ve55 6y ago
>So you're saying articles aren't allowed to Nope, I said nothing of what is allowed, and the majority of reports like this will never contain useful statistics regardless. I just said it's not helpful to consumers, becaus
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by ve55 6y ago
Articles like this aren't helpful because they pick and exhibit a few case studies instead of attempting to estimate base rates and risk proportions - of course some Amazon products have caught on fire, Amazon has sold a billion of th
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by ve55 6y ago
I'm not sure there is a Google-free future for any major part of the Internet, so likely no
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by ve55 6y ago
Unfortunately it becomes near-impossible to say no to nonfree software such as zoom, skype, discord, slack, gmail, etc. You will often end up with no job and perhaps even no friends or no communication whatsoever by declining to use the wor
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by ve55 6y ago
That's good, at least if they're not too skilled sometimes the ratio of time spent playing cat vs. mouse with them isn't too bad, since it takes them a long time to bypass measures. You could also look into things on other la
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by ve55 6y ago
I mentioned quite a few alternatives to ReCAPTCHA that often work in situations like yours here: https://nearcyan.com/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/ Some of the best solutions include very minimal/quick captcha
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by ve55 6y ago
The worst part about this is that it's not an honest mistake, but rather a dishonest one: Google embeds as many 'answers' into their SRP as possible so that users do not leave their website. If Google just displayed links to
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TikTok has reportedly chosen a buyer(businessinsider.com)
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by ve55 6y ago
I appreciate the quality response. A lot of the focus here seems to be 'prevent other consumers from finding things out about our users', which is good and important. I usually think more about it from Google's perspective, w
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by ve55 6y ago
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/21/google-tracks-online-purchase... As far as I know things like this have been public knowledge for awhile, I didn't just make something up randomly
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by ve55 6y ago
These seem to be cases where Google might be collecting less data in one area, but where they can easily supplement or cross-reference the data from another area to not actually lose any information. For example, they mention Rapor for Chro

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