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by x0x0 10mo ago
if they're going to just crap on their software, I'd be far happier with just neglect. They did desperately need a distraction from the complete bedshitting mess they've made of AI though. Regardless of whether you think AI
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by x0x0 10mo ago
This writeup is great, particularly the discussion of how Mehmet worked through understanding the system. That said, Logpoint sell a siem product w/o a vulnerability intake process and that can't manage to rapidly patch pre-auth R
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by x0x0 10mo ago
Reddit chose this, unfortunately. When you let google read your site, let alone sign deals with them, you create commercial incentives to rank/post on reddit. Everything that follows is inevitable and obvious. They have now positioned
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by x0x0 10mo ago
It reminds me of python 3. Basically, a huge chunk of people (in my case, scientific programming) get an enormous mess and nothing at all of value until... 3.6 maybe (the infix matrix mult operator). Stunningly, people weren't enthus
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by x0x0 10mo ago
Well, this is the company that builds Teams. One axis is if they even want to make parental controls work, which they may well not want to but rather wish to just check some checkboxes. But the company that builds Teams and Windows 11: I th
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by x0x0 10mo ago
We tried these AI-produced ads. They produced gibberish. Random mutations of our existing ads with nonsensical words and the desired actions just permutated.
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by x0x0 10mo ago
I have a colleague who runs growth for a big consumer company driving value through their apps. They spend over $100m/year on install ads. And the fact they price smbs out should be unsurprising: they're better at making money fr
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by x0x0 10mo ago
I occasionally buy travel data, and 3 of probably 8-ish instances had me on the phone with support for at least 20 minutes (and once an hour) to make an esim work. Perhaps the problem is android. But I've never had that experience wi
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by x0x0 10mo ago
It's definitely pushed as not needing an engineer. My colleague now understands why unit tests, after watching subsequent development regularly break previous work. Lovable doesn't support them. And I don't want to touch th
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by x0x0 10mo ago
My experience is watching a colleague use lovable which will mostly ignore security. Sure, if you prompt it the system will do something which seems correct, but it will also happily undo that as well. eg I was trying to help her set up a
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by x0x0 10mo ago
I have it too. If you leave firefox running for weeks at a go, it is really bad at returning memory to the OS. m3.
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by x0x0 10mo ago
I dunno, clearly not. I keep trying to use it. vs chrome: 1 - bad at returning memory to the OS; do they expect you to regularly restart the whole browser? 2 - shit at managing cpu usage: I'll regularly find the browser sitting at 20-
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by x0x0 10mo ago
> There apparently is no way to cleanly divide purchases in a Divorce or separation, even if the person was fleeing an abusive situation Believe it or not, google is even more stunningly incompetent than that. If you have someone in yo
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by x0x0 10mo ago
Making giving that away for free instead cost millions of dollars has an obvious and inevitable outcome.
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by x0x0 10mo ago
> Also, if most of your endpoints require auth, this is not typically a problem. Many systems are not sparse, and separately, that's simply wrong. Unguessable names is not a primary security measure, but a passive remediation for b
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by x0x0 10mo ago
It's not leaking that's the concern. It's that not having the names of objects be easily enumerable is a strongly security-enhancing feature of a system. Yes of course everyone should check and unit test that every object is
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by x0x0 10mo ago
a roomba, in a perfect world where it could avoid cat/dog toys scattered around the living room floor, makes pet ownership much more pleasant
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by x0x0 10mo ago
The bit about building an internal app for eg marketing or sales is super fun. Getting calls starting at 8am EST because they then (reasonably!) expect it to work less so. Software still has an enormous ktlo tax and until that changes, I&
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by x0x0 10mo ago
We require review on PRs before they can be merged.
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by x0x0 10mo ago
Google Photos deliberately broke all backup tools in March, so there's that. Yes you can still mostly do Takeout, but it's garbage. (not incremental. Requires me to remember. duplicates files for every album (total incompetenc
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by x0x0 10mo ago
Or compare the nasty surprises lurking in Whatsapp. We'll see it intentionally backdoored this decade. Signal can afford to, eg, tell the UK or EU to go fuck themselves. Meta won't.
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by x0x0 10mo ago
The US court order still remains in effect afaik, so not in the US. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
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by x0x0 10mo ago
How does AI assisted shopping create more economic activity? Even assuming you can do it, and people do find it helpful, it likely just shifts who people buy from, not how much?
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by x0x0 10mo ago
Still a lie though. If you don't know / aren't familiar with a ranker, the author is priming you through the entire article to believe google is doing something wrong or malicious by ranking the results. Rather than the sam
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by x0x0 10mo ago
You clearly didn't read it. A direct quote: > At minimum, ranking algorithms with this much economic consequence should be auditable. "At minimum". Immediately preceded by a paragraph starting by "For policy",
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by x0x0 10mo ago
Useless but also stupid. A1 steak house. AAA1 steak house. 00AAA000 steak house.
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by x0x0 10mo ago
It's the feigned surprise and sort of attitude that google is doing something malicious or it's a subterfuge. Starting with a bolded "Google Maps Is Not a Directory. It’s a Market Maker." and inishing with eg > the m
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by x0x0 10mo ago
Interesting work, but ultimately silly: of course google maps ranks results. No one (yes, yes, I'm sure like 3 people) want a list of all results, unordered or ordered by something useless like name, when they type in restaurant. And
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by x0x0 10mo ago
The same example shared upthread. So two mentions in 5 years?
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by x0x0 10mo ago
It's extra special awesome how downloading the files regularly breaks too. And how your albums, instead of being metadata, are folders, into which files are duplicated. It's literally shittily coded malicious compliance so they c

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