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by cowsup 14d ago
The idea is: * .name is open for everybody * a company called "Global Name Registry" scooped up a BUNCH of common last names, including fraser.name * Global Name Registry then sold access to neil.fraser.name for far cheaper than t
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by cowsup 20d ago
The very first graph you cited shows that we've had such a low number of natural disasters in the 21st century outside of Earthquakes, and now we're starting to tick back up with non-Earthquake deaths. You would think, with all of
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by cowsup 3mo ago
I remember poking around at the Wii U browser. Nintendo had examples of fetching the current state of buttons, analog sticks, and the touch screen to monitor for input. While cool on paper, there wasn't a preventDefault() solution. So
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by cowsup 5mo ago
I think there's a difference between music that people will cherish for decades to come, and music that will sell in the short-term. This isn't even me being an "old man yelling at cloud," you can look at what was charti
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by cowsup 5mo ago
I don't think Twitter/X know for sure who the bots are, since Elon has been pretty vocal about trying to stop them for ages, yet I still get lots of spam DMs (as do others with far fewer followers/reach). Even if 95% of the s
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by cowsup 5mo ago
> Still no email blast from Vercel alerting users, which is concerning. On the one hand, I get that it's a Sunday, and the CEO can't just write a mass email without approval from legal or other comms teams. But on the other han
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by cowsup 5mo ago
Such has been the case with many technological advancements. You can change the date on this to 1999 and complain that the Internet has accomplished this; suddenly everyone can get information on car repairs, recipes, and the like, without
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by cowsup 5mo ago
Great piece. I thought the same of Cal's announcement; it basically boiled down to "we're willing to shift our entire business to a security-through-obscurity approach." It won't be long until systems are sophistica
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by cowsup 1y ago
I was experiencing something similar over the weekend. Just happened to see this post. Lots of hours spent digging over the weekend!!!
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by cowsup 1y ago
I think it also helps them figure out which videos keep people on YouTube longer. If I scroll to a section of the page that has 6 videos, and I stare at them for 10 seconds, then scroll down, they'll know that one or two of those video
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by cowsup 2y ago
Advertisements have helped finance the web for decades. AI could be no different. What type of advertisers would want to advertise next to an AI chat window? How often would ads show? Would the users still enjoy using the platform if you sh
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by cowsup 2y ago
Good software can be art. And like all art, we have hit the stage in which code can also be cranked out en masse, thoughtlessly, for a quick buck. It was only inevitable.
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by cowsup 2y ago
The lack of domain re-verification seems important. The other things listed are the case for any social media platform, but they bear repeating. I hope domain re-verification is fairly automatic once implemented. If I remove my Bluesky info
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by cowsup 2y ago
I find such thoughts exciting. In the future, children will be taught basic facts that, to us in the first half of the 21st century, are some of the most complicated questions of the universe.
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by cowsup 2y ago
> how does bluesky solve the problem of building your castle in another man's kingdom? Bluesky (the platform) doesn't, and they acknowledge that. It's centrally owned, and is prone to all of the risks that any other centra
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by cowsup 2y ago
Nope. Almost everybody has more than one device (laptop, phone, and maybe a tablet) with more than one IP (both home wifi and phone data). Everyone has multiple email addresses. You could get by with requiring a unique phone number, but tha
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by cowsup 2y ago
Fun! I played this without sound, and got all of them correct. I think part of the problem is that I knew that some videos were fake, so I was looking to see if their lips matched other movements. If somebody is talking fast, but their body
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by cowsup 2y ago
Given what you wrote, it's hard to tell one way or another what they think about you personally. Was the code stored on your personal device, or a company-issued one? If it's company-issued, it's probably nothing to worry abo
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by cowsup 2y ago
> I run YouTube revanced not even for the Adblock but just to remove shorts. [...] I might feel differently about this one day and turn off the algorithm completely on YouTube, but I have not done so yet. Turn off your YouTube history&#
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by cowsup 2y ago
They seem against any nay-sayers, so I’ll respect that and bite my tongue. The silver lining is that, their idea (which they later reveal that they “forgot to mention” will also include full banking support and the issuance of cards) is ve
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by cowsup 2y ago
The core facts are: Brazil demanded information regarding Brazilian users, and believed it was in their right to do so. X believed that the requests did not comply with Brazilian laws, and refused. Neither side yielded, so X closed up shop
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by cowsup 2y ago
There are many small things you can do right now — avoid buying food or drink that is in plastic, avoid storing leftovers in plastic, avoid plastic cutlery and plates. Never heat up food in the aforementioned plastic. But the 80% number may
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by cowsup 2y ago
.com is not a full word either (company), or .org (organization), .net (internet), .gov (government), ...
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by cowsup 2y ago
I feel like there's an unwritten "recently" in there. If you were to speak ill of Colonel Sanders, nobody would berate you for speaking ill of the dead. But when a CEO like Wojcicki, who made changes that were unpopular to th
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by cowsup 2y ago
To explain CHIPS very simply: In the Internet of yore, if you loaded example.com and it had facebook.com embedded, then facebook.com would be able to access all of the facebook.com cookies. This is fine on paper, but Facebook encouraged wel
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by cowsup 2y ago
I’d give the same advice to someone wanting to start a career in web design, mobile app development, or video editing — it’s like any other software-focused field. First, find a problem that you personally encounter that could be solved, an
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by cowsup 2y ago
Definitely convenient, but I question the need for an ever-changing API for this sort of thing. If you reload the endpoint (which can be done directly in the browser, which I like) the order of the markdown and paragraphs change. So, if I&#
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by cowsup 2y ago
I’m surprised they didn’t touch on the Internet as a factor. Before, dinner parties were the best way for friends to catch up and talk, and fill one another in on their lives. Everybody would gather around for hours, and talk about new thin
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by cowsup 2y ago
Based on what the homepage says, it seems you're handling this by allowing the recipient to get the decryption keys right away, and then also your system will handle the 3-day period. Is that correct? If so, your entire promise about i
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by cowsup 2y ago
Some of these UI decisions are more technical versus tyrannical. I use Linux every day, yet I can understand why Google doesn’t have such detailed progress reports: If you are using Google Docs, and you want to convert a file to Google Shee

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