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by deprave 10mo ago
To me, there’s a difference between ads that help me learn about brands or products, or make me laugh or have some positive emotion (Super Bowl ads, billboard signs, and movie previews come to mind) and ads that take over search results, in
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by deprave 1y ago
That’s the important question. Someone else on the thread suggested it was to divert attention from one failure (AI) and now they have two. I wonder how Steve Jobs would react to this mess. Maybe he’d say he would not have been in such a me
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by deprave 1y ago
I thought the same thing. Some of the commenters said this move might be related to stock price or appeasing shareholders, so I wonder if that, too, was directed at them, as in “we’re big and we plan on getting even bigger”
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by deprave 1y ago
My hypothesis is that this is government response (own stake in Intel) to another government’s action (hint take over of Taiwan) and as such is outside the free market. But I have no evidence to support it, it’s just an opinion and it could
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by deprave 1y ago
I agree, and I think the government’s incentive might also be a having strategic production capability in the US. Maybe they’re concerned about TSMC’s future with the tension between China and Taiwan?
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by deprave 1y ago
What would be a superhuman result for booking a flight?
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by deprave 2y ago
Encryption at Rest makes it easy to reason about data hygiene, since access to the data is gated through access to the keys. You want to delete data? Toss the keys. You want to confidentially process data? Make the keys available to a TEE o
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by deprave 3y ago
I learned that from The Office :D
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by deprave 4y ago
I have been a member of and donated to the EFF since 1998. After reading this article, I have decided to not renew my membership and not donate again. My criticism isn’t about right or wrong. It’s about priorities and weaponizing the corpor
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by deprave 4y ago
Interviews are more thorough because firing became harder. It used to be that if you hired an employee and found out they aren’t good at their job you could fire them. Today it is complicated and can backfire if the employee believes they
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by deprave 5y ago
So I can pay my utility company $100 a month for energy I consume, or pay $40000 for a bitcoin representing energy someone else consumed? Got it.
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by deprave 8y ago
This was only expected. Why would an advertising company care about web experience, security, or privacy?
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by deprave 9y ago
Google is known to be against new and safe technologies. Google Finance still uses Flash, and Android has the worst IPv6 support despite it being based on Linux. What's your point?
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by deprave 9y ago
It's simple. There is no way Firefox can guarantee anywhere near the level of stability and security Chrome offers without a process per tab. OS primitives operate in terms of processes (scheduling, memory, sandboxing, and so on) and F
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by deprave 9y ago
Please DO process-per-tab. I have a lot of memory. I want you to use it. If it's not enough, I will buy more memory or a stronger device. But please, whatever you do, don't make security or stability trade offs for me. The M:N thr
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by deprave 9y ago
Some of the times they're harmed, some of the times they're not. There's no correlation, ruling out the slightest possibility of causation. Is it risk management, then? No, because a product with a well known and trusted bran
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by deprave 9y ago
The premise that visible business failure harms brands is false. It's your opinion and it sounds like it makes sense, but it's not supported by any data.
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by deprave 9y ago
That has already happened. One of the reasons Goole renamed itself "Alphabet" and started using different brand names (e.g. "Waymo") for other products is to confuse consumers about their source. The "Google" b
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by deprave 9y ago
Mark my words: This will be the basis for legitimizing out-of-band popups from publishers on Chrome asking you to disable your non-Chrome ad blocker.
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by deprave 9y ago
He dumped the pile of insecure garbage called Android on us and now he's moving on to reinvent iOS. Got it.
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by deprave 9y ago
People must remember that Google is first and foremost an advertising company. 90% of its revenue comes directly from advertising. Anyone who thinks they will prioritize anything over ad revenue is either very naive or very stupid. Google&#
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by deprave 9y ago
I see pfSense playing two possible roles the SD-WAN. The first is customer-centric, and will allow pfSense edge devices to connect to a third-party SD-WAN service or one provided by Netgate itself. The other is vendor-centric, and will allo
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by deprave 9y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say Netgate is working on an SD-WAN service of sorts. Many players in this market are displacing the edge firewall, and offering a built-in service of their own or in partnership with a third-party might be a sma
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by deprave 9y ago
People working at Facebook and Google lie to themselves that they're doing something important while working for a "cool" tech company. They're ignorant to the fact that these companies make their entire revenue from adv
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by deprave 9y ago
Kite feels a lot like malware. It sends your code to the cloud. You have not addressed people's concerns who asked about keys embedded in source code, not entire files to ignore. The uninstall process looks and feels a lot like stoppin
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by deprave 10y ago
I think you're spot on with the observation that 2012 refers to when VCs discovered machine learning. Anyone who has recently interacted with VCs will tell you that they look for anything to do with machine learning (and VR/AR&#x2
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by deprave 10y ago
Correct, and top universities do that through investment in research and publication rather than populist fads. Every once in a while people call into question the value of higher education and ask whether MOOCs mark the end of traditional
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by deprave 10y ago
I'm sorry, who's "we"? You replied to a comment that presented fact. The fact is that Windows use is mostly limited to desktops. As far as you're concerned, I could be entirely illiterate and my argument would still
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by deprave 10y ago
Oh, wow, you're right. My brain completely ignored that "Ex-" at the beginning.
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by deprave 10y ago
Edit: Disregard this comment, my mistake. Mozilla is such a disappointment. Instead of focusing on their raison d'etre they're busy branching out to one unsuccessful venture after another.

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