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by anticrymactic 8d ago
The audio option will be blocked if you use it too much. If you can reliably use it, you are not at the "deepest" bot detection level.
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by anticrymactic 13d ago
> Wow. @Meta settled for $18B, also agreeing to implement significant protections for teens. They'll of course choose the weakest / least effective implementation possible but even so - governments are beginning to force change
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by anticrymactic 1mo ago
> Video games of yore were actual games you could buy and play with friends. While this is _true_, it's hardly a good-faith interpretation. The original Mario Bros was around $40 on release. Mostly sold as a bundle with the NES itse
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by anticrymactic 1mo ago
In that case you can use the simple Mozilla API (all code in pwsh) irm https://product-details.mozilla.org/1.0/firefox_versions.json Will output a table of latests Firefox versions. (LATEST_FIREFOX_VERSION is the
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by anticrymactic 1mo ago
> maintaining a separate, hidden outline of DOM elements mirroring what’s on screen. Is there any analysis on the efficacy of this approach? This is always my first thought in these discussions. Performance of WASM with native text IO. B
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by anticrymactic 1mo ago
> I guess it still will be the best browser to download Firefox ```cmd winget install Mozilla.Firefox ``` Should always work out-of-the-box now.
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by anticrymactic 2mo ago
My bank sets the default to "Standard (1-3 Days). Many forget to click the checkbox. I have also heard: "I only do instant when I need it" implying some implicit cost/limit they fear. This is probably still worth it for
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by anticrymactic 2mo ago
While researching Wero initially, I was confused too that no APK is offered. Maybe we can change that.grbn
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by anticrymactic 2mo ago
> How would you even pronounce wero as a native English speaker? Thankfully, only about 2% of the EU population speaks English natively. [0] https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/ebsm/api/public/deliverable/dow
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by anticrymactic 2mo ago
Wero is such a valuable asset for Europe and couldn't have come at a better time. It's built on the excellent SEPA system, which standardized bank transfers and "Lastschrift" in Europe. SEPA itself got a huge upgrade las
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by anticrymactic 3mo ago
At face value: yes of course. The relevance of this story does not come from a obvious "wrong" in the support of political value X. Infact Mullvad is clearly politically active, supporting "individual-privacy" in legisla
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by anticrymactic 3mo ago
In my experience: Everything™ works, except Google pay unfortunately.
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by anticrymactic 5mo ago
> Crypto where the OS (or a website) can ask the card: "Is the holder of that card over X years old y/n?" and the card would just answer with a binary yes no question without exposing any other data while still checking th
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by anticrymactic 5mo ago
Like nixOS?
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by anticrymactic 5mo ago
While this would solve the technical problem at hand. It lacks any safeguard against a very simple workaround of sharing your certificate or even posting for everyone to use. Fullly anonymous + untraceable attestation --> unlimited certi
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by anticrymactic 6mo ago
Unsurprisingly this is also today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260404.html
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by anticrymactic 9mo ago
How so? Since when is slop-producing ad-machine social media the only access to speech, press and association?
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by anticrymactic 9mo ago
> Why is that problematic? They don't have your private keys and their "level of access" is equivalent to any other certificate authority that your browser trusts. Let's Encrypt could stop issuing certificates to you,
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by anticrymactic 9mo ago
> Just like C++ never killed C, despite being perfect replacement for it I think c++ didn't replace C because it is a bad language. It did not offer any improvements on the core advantages of C. Rust however does. It's not perf
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by anticrymactic 10mo ago
Let's encrypt supports ACME. Here are hundreds of ways to obtain a certificate: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/#other-client-op...
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by anticrymactic 10mo ago
> so that they don't have to do const $=document.getElementById, ``` const window.$ = (q)=>document.querySelector(q); ``` Emulates the behavior much better. This is already set on modern version of browsers[1] [1] https:/
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by anticrymactic 10mo ago
> Actually, for Robotics hardware is a solved problem. I understand the sentiment but this couldn't be further from the truth. There are no robotic hand models that get close to the fidelity of humans (or even other primates). The t
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by anticrymactic 11mo ago
PayPal and Apple pay take a significant cut of the transaction. CC is a lot less and bank is mostly free of TX fees. Most users don't know/don't care, so given the option, they will likely take it and funnel their donations t
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by anticrymactic 1y ago
You can use ReVanced on Android to block the ads in the YouTube app
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by anticrymactic 1y ago
> Be careful. It is trivial for others to take advantage of such selfless kindness. What harm does is do? Altruistic kindness is not affected by the response. That's the point. Being "exploited" for kindness is not possibl
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by anticrymactic 1y ago
> Which is why they’re so bad at maths for instance. I don't think LLMs currently are intelligent. But please show a GPT-5 chat where it gets any math problem wrong, that most "intelligent" people would get right.
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by anticrymactic 1y ago
Or they could just tell you. Imagine talking to someone over and over again. They would tell u to get on with wherever you promised them.
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by anticrymactic 1y ago
Most banking app work, either directly or with a settings change to allow Google Play Service emulation. [1] [1] https://grapheneos.org/usage#banking-apps
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by anticrymactic 1y ago
> Average users benefit greatly from their pocket appliance not being a full fledged computer. In what way? Seriously, what benefit is there? (And don't say security...)
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by anticrymactic 1y ago
A lot of discussion is about the security of these devices (resistance to false open states). But most of the time the safety (false closed states) has even higher stakes associated to it. Having to wait because some api server is slow is a

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