jabbany

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by jabbany 10mo ago
I know this is supposed to be a joke but... businesses have pushed for this the other way around in the past, asking for a new coin to raise prices. > The Coca-Cola Company sought ways to increase the five cent price, even approaching th
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by jabbany 1y ago
I think it's just because supply-chain attacks are not common enough / their attack surfaces not large enough to be worth the dev time... yet... Sneak in a malicious browser extension that breaks the permissions sandbox, and you h
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by jabbany 1y ago
Operating systems are different though, since their whole purpose is to host _other_ applications. FWIW, MacOS isn't any better or worse for security than any other desktop OS tbh.... I mean, MacOS just had it's "UAC" ro
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by jabbany 1y ago
Browser extensions also have a relatively robust permissions-based system. If they wanted to, one would guess that browser-ish local apps based on stuff like Electron/node-webkit could probably figure out some way to limit extension pe
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by jabbany 2y ago
There's a chance that they might stall you and never actually pay (or chargeback the invoice). That way they'll get a free link for at least some amount of time, and if done at massive scales correctly, it could bump some site up
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by jabbany 2y ago
The article mentions having the OP send a PayPal invoice... Pretty sure the other side is not gonna pay it unless you follow through (i.e. they could always charge it back and claim you never delivered the invoiced service, heck they might
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by jabbany 2y ago
I'd say China doesn't have particularly tight_er_ information control than other places, they're using the same tools everyone else is using (keyword/hashtag bans, algorithmic content demotion, "shadowbans" of
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by jabbany 2y ago
Query by content reminds me of XPath, so I looked it up to see if there was a version for JSON... Turns out there is https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-goessner-dispatch-json...
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by jabbany 2y ago
Right to repair just means for those that do want to repair it, they can without any undue burden. If you don't want to repair it, nobody is forcing you to! Just throw it away like you would have done anyways. The point of right to rep
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by jabbany 2y ago
> But if you go to a shitty concert, you don't get your money back. If you buy a shitty album, you can't get your money back. And you can't get the band to "make it better" for you. The difference is whether &quo
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by jabbany 2y ago
It doesn't have to be though? The provider could reject further access to them (reads / writes) once the limit is reached. The cost of actually keeping objects as "cold" storage has a natural cap per billing cycle since
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by jabbany 2y ago
So, as someone who has lived in regions with pretty severe internet censorship in the past and built circumvention software back in the day, I've always pondered the idea of whether one could build a fax-based thing like this for brows
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by jabbany 2y ago
I wonder if OCR could be improved by adding a "language model" of sorts... Like, sure, maybe it's hard to tell apart a "1", "i", or "l" purely visually, but if you knew it was supposed to be code
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by jabbany 2y ago
PVP and leaderboards attract a different audience than normal gacha players which is why it tends to be rare-ish in gacha games. (Almost none of the popular ones focus on it). Most of the time, the social aspect of gacha is to show off your
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by jabbany 2y ago
Very perplexed about this too. The only reason I can come up with is to prevent people from copying the content? But that doesn't make much sense either TBH. The page's content is not obfuscated, so this does nothing to stop a con
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by jabbany 2y ago
Yeah, classic MTL. It should be closer to "*built-in* (support for) AI" (basically integrations for LLM prompting) and "*multi-purpose* by design" (basically a grab bag of support for modular code, functional and declara
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by jabbany 2y ago
I guess in a way? They learned from XP/7 that they'll never recoup it though licenses so now its ads and subscription upsells for everybody.
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by jabbany 2y ago
Not really, it skips over utility based shopping entirely. Everything in the article (after the bit about utility vs signalling) assumes the thing you're buying is primarily meant to increase social capital (as a gift or a display piec
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by jabbany 2y ago
Where do they imply that? The article literally shows two examples of ads for trucks, one advertising utility and one signalling... The fact that most ads _today_ focus on the signalling type speaks more about how consumer goals have change
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by jabbany 2y ago
destructively
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by jabbany 2y ago
Based on what's being described ("career criminals") it doesn't seem like that would be a good deterrence. A security guard is going to be looking out for their own safety and well-being before any property they're
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by jabbany 2y ago
The uConsole advertises support for pico-8 so it seems like they had this in mind :)
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by jabbany 3y ago
I agree with all the points on top. The proper instrument to do this would be banks setting up a system that lets people borrow against an illiquid asset, in this case would be CNY, but it's not anything new... (and is one proposal for
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by jabbany 3y ago
> You don't know. The paperwork's fraudulent. They don't offer these services to anyone. Because the paperwork is fraudulent, a lot of people involved are/will be personally implicated (could easily lose their job and
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by jabbany 3y ago
This is somewhat counterintuitive but... the fraudulent mortgages are not more risky, they are often times more stable than other local borrowers. I think what many people are imagining is the subprime mortgage situation of yore. But in thi
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by jabbany 3y ago
Yup. Hence the capital control (less money leaking out means an easier recovery after the bust). Of course, as is rational in capitalism, this just makes it even more urgent to skirt the capital control, lest you be caught with the burden o
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by jabbany 3y ago
> this behavior goes overboard and everything crashes Maybe... but you need to keep in mind most of these people are not really building a bubble. Unlike the subprime mortgage crisis, where things were built on inflated valuations, many
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by jabbany 3y ago
Foreigners are not fully exposed to the local market though, so there's no need to do capital controls. _Income_ is never an issue, as there are taxes to cover that. The main thing being cracked down on is people moving accumulated _w
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by jabbany 3y ago
You can label it however you want, if both the lender and borrower are willing participants, it will be difficult to prevent this from happening. Like mentioned in the article, often times the material is very obviously suspicious and banks
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by jabbany 3y ago
> But even Chinese citizens can also pool those $50k yearly allocations, it doesn’t take a lot of friends and family to do that. So as an observer of this, you will see money coming out of one place, spread to many accounts, wired overse

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