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How landline telephones became a must-have in old San Francisco(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by zacwest 4y ago|0 comments
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The Road to 6G(cacm.acm.org)
4 points by zacwest 4y ago|0 comments
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Power, Corruption and Lies (or how I became a typographer, pt. 1)(matthewbutterick.com)
2 points by zacwest 4y ago|0 comments
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New Jersey Cops Are Using DNA Drawn from Newborns in Criminal Investigations(techdirt.com)
28 points by zacwest 4y ago|1 comments
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How Safe Is Your Fiber Network?(circleid.com)
2 points by zacwest 4y ago|0 comments
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At $15M, nfts.com becomes second-biggest domain sale ever(domainincite.com)
3 points by zacwest 4y ago|0 comments
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The Proliferation of Microtrenching(circleid.com)
3 points by zacwest 4y ago|0 comments
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by zacwest 4y ago
Vine also limited you to a very small video at 6 seconds. There's not a lot of breathing room for creativity in such a tiny window of time.
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by zacwest 4y ago
> In the large, I don’t think the problems open-source authors have with AI training are that different from the problems everyone will have. We’re just encountering them sooner. Call me a pessimist but it seems really unlikely that A
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What Copilot means for open source(matthewbutterick.com)
107 points by zacwest 4y ago|137 comments
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by zacwest 4y ago
Before they shut down, Shyp was going this direction. Given your username another person could send you packages without sharing your address.
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More Mysterious DNS Root Query Traffic from a Large Cloud/DNS Operator(circleid.com)
5 points by zacwest 4y ago|0 comments
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by zacwest 4y ago
Fork is the only GUI in Mac performant enough to handle my work monorepo. That alone would be sufficient, but it's also a stellar client with great support for things like interactively rebasing and handling merges. I can do roughly ev
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by zacwest 4y ago
The part that stands out to me, as someone who writes software for a living: > Tech companies: Do you want to help put your users behind bars by handing over the data you hold about them in response to legal demands by law enforcement? D
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The end of Roe will bring about a sea change in the encryption debate(cyberlaw.stanford.edu)
113 points by zacwest 4y ago|232 comments
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Justice Stevens reads the fine print(matthewbutterick.com)
272 points by zacwest 5y ago|219 comments
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The Keys to the Kingdom(queue.acm.org)
45 points by zacwest 5y ago|18 comments
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Another DNSSEC screw-up takes down thousands of .au domains(domainincite.com)
1 points by zacwest 5y ago|0 comments
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by zacwest 5y ago
Burned CDs degrade because their method of writing is a chemical change. Pressed CDs do not suffer the same problem.
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by zacwest 5y ago
I purchased a few albums from Ghost Mice, who deleted the albums or their account (and made a new one?). They are no longer downloadable. In the entry in my purchases history, it says: > Deleted Artist > Sorry, Strays by Ghost Mice is
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by zacwest 5y ago
I do something similar, it's been fun journey of issues over the years. One company gave me a free version of their paid offering because my email address was me@them.my.domain, which triggered their "is an employee?" check.
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IPv6 in a home environment(zacwe.st)
29 points by zacwest 5y ago|0 comments
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by zacwest 5y ago
Yes. The toggle in Privacy will make the app not initialize Firebase. The library will still be in memory, but I don't believe it does anything. I also do not want Google to receive anything, which is why it's going to be removed
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by zacwest 5y ago
The privacy labels are larger buckets than what I went into, and they err on the side of being more inclusive. For example, Firebase collects usage data on notifications (when they are received, opened, etc.) by virtue of being used, so tha
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by zacwest 5y ago
I'm the maintainer of the iOS/macOS app these days. I'm not paid by Nabu Casa and I do it in my free time (if anything, Nabu Casa has avoided doing things which may inadvertently monetize my work to not my benefit, which I ap
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by zacwest 5y ago
iPhones on T-Mobile do not use 464XLAT, they use native IPv6 only. Some system frameworks like URLSession can do the NAT64 translation of hard-coded IPv4 addresses but it still goes over IPv6. In the video linked above: https://y
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Observations on Resolver Behavior During DNS Outages(circleid.com)
8 points by zacwest 5y ago|0 comments
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by zacwest 5y ago
They do, in fact, have this option now. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387146/amazon-display-c...
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by zacwest 5y ago
Is the implication here that Apple doesn't value memory-safety? Why would you say that? Apple have created and embraced an entire language (Swift) around the idea that things like memory safety are important, but you cannot just rewrit
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by zacwest 5y ago
It used to but shady developers were able to use it as a side channel communication mechanism, so Apple dropped the shared cookies (and made the view controller not super useful) in iOS 11. Apps can prompt (using Authentication Services) to

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