HeavyFeather

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by HeavyFeather 2y ago
> The signs also collect IP addresses. Uh, false? What IP address? This sentence is meaningless, users don’t connect to the sign, so there’s no IP to it. This article is just scaremongering by people who don’t know technology.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
> in remote villages > the ease with which I was able to make payments I find it hard to believe that handing cash was "hard" in any way.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
> there is free WiFi almost everywhere Unless you're one of those people who don't need internet to survive, then this is nonsense. Wifi is far from everywhere and I'm not going to manually connect to wifi just to check if
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
Same. I described my dizziness and pointed me to BPPV and 4 others that were quickly filtered out. I also asked how to further diagnose the issue and pointed me to some maneuvers. I then searched them on YouTube and I was fine 3 days later
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
> passively enforce speeding by using toll booth data Some EU countries do that on tollways but don't keep them always-on because they generate too many tickets to handle.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
Idea: use a power bank that allows in/out at the same time. It should charge both at high speed while also acting as a firewall. This is also assuming that your powerbank can’t be hacked. In which case, god save us all.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
If you can connect your turned off phone to your computer and start a reset, then that’s never going to be enough. If you want data safety, you must skip the data pins. If you want current safety, you must skip public chargers.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
Indeed time to eliminate all those people I guess. /s I don’t think you can compare people’s carbon footprint because those people will exist regardless of jobs.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
I think that’s a Safari bug with activeTab, you just have to click twice. Regardless, with activeTab you can just inject script into the page itself through which you can open a regular popup. chrome.scripting.executeScript({ fu
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
Sounds like there should be a legally mandated escrow for this kind of hiring. The employer should guarantee 2/3 months of employment if they’re asking someone to move across the world. This really shouldn’t be an issue if companies ac
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
I don’t see any changes on the repo. The permissions in your case should just be activeTab and storage. That’s it. You can run the extension via chrome.browserAction.onClick and it will receive the URL. You also don’t need the tabs permissi
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
I assume that’s because a VPN doesn’t let the ISP do any traffic shaping, which isn’t the case for regular CDNs (unless the ISP itself “positively traffic shapes” for) Warp also regularly lets me escape public Wi-Fi’s where in-browser uploa
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
> GPS looks broken It’s a failure both on the app and Apple side to convey this information properly. Approximate location should be shown with a large circle and the user could be told explicitly about this. Some apps really need exact
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
> Potentially Unless CloudFlare cables are somehow shinier than the rest of the internet’s, adding one hop almost certainly adds latency. More hops more time. In some instances where the original server was closer than CF’s edge, I measu
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
And I love it, but it has two issues: - Apps can refuse to work with that, like Google Photos (it used to work during the beta and it was perfect for me) - Apps still offer their awful photo picker on top of your already-picked photos, so s
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
With that logic you really shouldn't use your computer.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
> For tax and reporting reasons alone, payments practically need to be bound to a given transaction/receipt number. Cash doesn't work like that, so some countries might not require this link even for some cashless payments. Hec
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
Nope, same, they also have one-person street food vendors
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
file:// can access any file on your computer, out of the box. Localhost cannot (unless you set it up that way, which requires user action) That’s why.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
I think people are generally concerned with “badly-designed” TVs and conflate “smart TV” with “bloated TV”. If Apple made an actual TV you bet nobody would bat an eye. In fact many advocate using Apple TV alongside their offline TV. I agree
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
Sounds like it’s VNC centered around a remote browser, that loads in your own browser. It has extra features and fewer limitations than a regular browser I suppose, but that’s what I gather.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
What's cheaper to program and produce: a speaker or a display and chip? I think that this device is super smart. It's a "cell phone" chip that "reads" the texts out loud when received from a hardcoded number. I
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
> it would never work Ask Thailand and their QR-code based payments, TrueMoney and "Thai QR", because that's exactly how they work. Maybe scammers are less prevalent in Thailand than in India so they go by trust, even in 7
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
If you think Alphabet is nearing “the end” I’m afraid you’re too deep into the AI bubble.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
Same exact thought. Imagine dropping 50-100k on a car and getting a UI that looks like pre-alpha. I suppose car owners are used to junk UIs, but this feels like a polished turd.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
Are you from 2010? What computer doesn’t have 4GB of ram? My phone has more than that
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
> the issue was deferred without acknowledging the reporter's concise suggestions of how to handle it, engineering-wise A day in my life at my last job. Basically a regular occurrence that it was “urgent” after a customer report.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
VirtuaGirl wasn’t nearly as bad as that quiet extension mining bitcoins and syphoning your dad’s passwords in the background. Flashy != dangerous. Heck today viruses don’t even limit themselves to restarting your computer, they encrypt your
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
Gotta hand it to them for not closing bugs after 2 months of inactivity as is the norm for large OS projects.
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by HeavyFeather 3y ago
Oof, what? Toolbars were painfully visible, but spam extensions are just as common today. The difference is that today you can get them straight from the comfort of the top search result for any innocuous term. The web today, without an ad

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