jen20

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by jen20 4d ago
> We're going to have to get saavy in pulling apart the distinction between We probably shouldn't: doing any of this horseshit is a good reason to return a product. We should start doing that en mass until they get the idea.
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by jen20 6d ago
I just tried it. It works fine.
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by jen20 6d ago
If you really want to see what is doing what, you should install Little Snitch and Little Flocker. Many apps (from exactly the people you'd expect) are doing absolutely unhinged nonsense that no-one should put up with.
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by jen20 13d ago
Indeed, it would be a good idea for iOS to have a mode for the elderly that is almost exactly like that (similar to child mode, and for similar reasons).
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by jen20 14d ago
Good for her - MANY people fall for these scams, however.
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by jen20 14d ago
> is competent enough to go through several warning screens What about "is incompetent enough to press the buttons when the nice man from Microsoft calls about the viruses on her USB"?
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by jen20 16d ago
Personal data going to companies in the country one resides in is also not a good thing.
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by jen20 17d ago
Why does it matter that it’s a Korean company?
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by jen20 18d ago
It’s not supposed to. There is no light that can present anybody who voted for Brexit as anything other than a fuckwit.
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by jen20 18d ago
Absurd to suggest that anyone voting for Brexit knew what they were voting for - by design of the pro-Brexit shysters.
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by jen20 18d ago
Quite a stretch to call the browser and email client that ships with the OS “specialized”.
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by jen20 18d ago
Indeed so: the term “Brexit” was a comical extension of the original “Grexit” at that time.
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by jen20 19d ago
Games are the usual reason in an app. Being able to do it as a “drive by” on a website though: absolutely hell no.
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by jen20 19d ago
As an iPhone user: good. There is no good that can come from some dipshit website product manager being able to make my phone vibrate on a website. None at all.
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by jen20 20d ago
They would be in PST then, no?
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by jen20 20d ago
> Compare the US, where merchants can be surly about card payments. I rarely encounter this - I find it far more common to see places that won’t accept cash at all (even small businesses like food trucks).
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by jen20 20d ago
Is this different to Express Mode, which has been a thing for years for all kinds of cards (including car keys)?
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by jen20 21d ago
You can only do this if you own the copyright for all contributions.
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by jen20 22d ago
> it seems like it would be ever so much simpler to go live near your actual office This constrains the companies you can work at to ones with a local office, if you do not want to move house. If you want to live within walking distance
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by jen20 23d ago
I don’t really care what businesses want at this point: my default position is that they are trying to scam me in some way and must be handled appropriately. Credit cards are a must-have in this situation, since they provide a mechanism oth
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by jen20 24d ago
> It would be a good idea for young people to deeply know how these programs work. It would be a good idea for _everyone in the industry_ to deeply know how LLM training, inference and "agents" work, not least because it remove
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by jen20 24d ago
GitHub Enterprise means two things: - The cloud-hosted service presumably on slightly different infra, - The self-hosted version of GitHub that runs on hardware you own. The second definitely counts as "real" self-hosting.
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by jen20 27d ago
> bolting co-pilot on to github They already did this, no?
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by jen20 29d ago
Having worked at places with GitHub Enterprise, that isn’t much of an improvement. You could host something else, but almost everything in this space isn’t great at scale.
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by jen20 1mo ago
The answer is both things. Legislation should forbid misuse of data with company officers being personally liable in the same manner as Sarbanes-Oxley, and should be so strictly enforced that holding data about individuals becomes seen as a
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by jen20 1mo ago
> What is the actual concern with McDonalds having this data about you? That they will sell it to someone else, who will match it with other available data to derive a profile with which they can do bad or immoral things.
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by jen20 2mo ago
> but it was original New York Times building. It was the second New York Times building! The original was on Park Row.
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by jen20 2mo ago
In even more recent history, both were cleared by a court of wrongdoing [1]. Infantino is clearly worse in every respect. [1]: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/44397617/ex-fifa-chie...
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by jen20 2mo ago
Blatter was president of FIFA, not UEFA.
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by jen20 2mo ago
This would only be true if they did not allow the hydration breaks to be used as a group coaching opportunity.

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