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by janc_ 22d ago
In the rest of the world CC processing uses a PIN code + online revocation check (when the card is present) or a redirect through your bank (which hopefully uses some type of 2FA). Works a lot better & safer, and you should wonder why t
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by janc_ 22d ago
Collision only detectable when you have both messages. Detecting a forgery seems more likely.
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by janc_ 2mo ago
The Oscar-winning animated feature movie “Flow” was made with Blender.
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by janc_ 3mo ago
Why would anyone entrust money to a company like eBay if they are this incompetent at something as simple as e-mail?
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by janc_ 3mo ago
Should have registered as rei-are-incompetent-idiots@ instead…
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by janc_ 3mo ago
Most RBLs are scams. No competent mail admin uses them to block mail ever.
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by janc_ 3mo ago
Oh yes, so many websites are incompetent like that. And of course after registering with foo+bar@example.com they will happily send invoices to bar@example.com
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by janc_ 3mo ago
The + has no special meaning in the standards, and thus removing it will just result in invalid addresses in many cases…
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by janc_ 3mo ago
It's well-known that all commercial models are based on stolen content. That doesn't mean there is no filtering/censoring, just that the censoring likely depends on where it's happening…
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by janc_ 4mo ago
In many countries it is mandatory to mark any form of compensated advertising as such. If your claim is true they might be breaking some laws here & there…
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by janc_ 5mo ago
Using OCR you could reduce that to seconds.
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by janc_ 5mo ago
While I do get a lot of mail, including a lot of spam, it’s not that bad. And the real problem is that most commercial companies make their legitimate administrative/legal mails look more & more like spam or phishing mails, not the
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by janc_ 5mo ago
I get those too, and I don’t even have any Microsoft accounts. So I assume at least some of them are not real. ;)
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by janc_ 5mo ago
And for a company, not having to train people on all new applications at once might be what makes it _practically_ possible at all.
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by janc_ 5mo ago
How can you _prove_ (“demonstrate”) that your software doesn’t contain malware or any vulnerabilities? They can’t do that for any of their own software for sure…
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by janc_ 5mo ago
Not all "hostname lookups" by applications happen over DNS (or the DNS is done by something like systemd-resolved, which is often using encrypted lookups), so in many cases, depending on NSS configuration (e.g. 'file', &
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by janc_ 5mo ago
WiFi works fine if there are drivers for whatever WiFi chip you have. Unfortunately there are no standards for OS to talk to WiFi devices like exist for many other types of hardware, so it’s not possible to make generic drivers.
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by janc_ 5mo ago
It seems like this was implemented as a way to insert tips, and then abused to insert ads, so the developers involved might not have been aware of that part until later?
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by janc_ 8mo ago
They reduce accidents in general, but bring us some “entertaining” new ones where a (usually) drunk driver crashes into the statue/fountain/whatever in the middle or uses the little “hill” in the middle as a jump ramp…
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by janc_ 8mo ago
Before people believe the Tesla robot hype they should probably consider that Toyota has been making cars AND robots for longer than Tesla exists.
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by janc_ 8mo ago
More importantly: it seems like Austin is mostly a typical US city grid of wide streets. Nothing comparable with an average old inner city, or narrow countryside roads with a ditch or cliff or quay on one or both sides. Probably not many
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by janc_ 8mo ago
“Pump & Dump” has a very specific meaning here, something that is essentially a scam to cheat people out of their money, and not an actual honest attempt to create something new…
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by janc_ 8mo ago
These AI crawlers already steal residential user connections to do their scraping. They'll happily steal your trust tokens too…
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by janc_ 9mo ago
I know where the nuclear waste is stored here. Its storage is funded by the government for now (not included in electricity prices) and nobody can actually prove it will be safe for the centuries it will be dangerous.
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by janc_ 9mo ago
There is a Belgian company that can use temperarure & other fluctuations in underseas power & cimmunication cables to detect nearby objects etc. I'm sure they are willing to help the US navy if they can convince them the US is
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by janc_ 9mo ago
They are not (necessarily) invisible, that depends on size & many other variables. Also, hypersonic missiles are perfectly vusible on radar.
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by janc_ 9mo ago
Economic sense depends on individual/local circumstances also.
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by janc_ 9mo ago
The weirdest part was that it increased share value, when realistically it should have decreased it…
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by janc_ 9mo ago
Venezuelan oil is more about US refineries that can only use very heavy oil, and US wells for such oil running out. Those refineries decided it is cheaper to bribe Trump than to invest into converting their factories. They are using US tax
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by janc_ 9mo ago
There is also a significant cost to moving electricity production from a relatively small number of centralised plants to almost everywhere. Once the infrastructure is adapted to that, costs should normalise again.

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