robhlt

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by robhlt 7d ago
Your Microsoft example is only equivalent if Microsoft was also scanning hotmail and MSN messenger for threats against the company.
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by robhlt 14d ago
The social security administration does have a central database of essentially everyone born in the US after 1986, when a law was passed that required you to provide the SSN of anyone you claimed as a dependent on your taxes. As a result es
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by robhlt 16d ago
This kind of thing has come up before with "murder for hire" advertisements [1]. The publishers were only found liable when the advertisement was very explicit. Seems like the bar is quite high and courts are currently unwilling t
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by robhlt 27d ago
Just denying write access outside the build directory and denying network access would go a long way and won't break pretty much any well-behaved build systems. Any C library that's also packaged by debian supports being built und
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by robhlt 29d ago
I do disagree. They've funded macOS R&D for decades without charging developers anything. Why should iOS be any different?
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by robhlt 29d ago
The OP article is also wrong on multiple counts. "Customer behavior" data like call recordings and email addresses/activity is specifically not included in Google's purchase. See page 18 of the court document they link,
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by robhlt 29d ago
None of that customer data is included in the purchase. Page 18 of the linked court document is the source of these record counts, and on the right is a "Google's Data Purchase Request" column that lists all of this "Cus
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by robhlt 3mo ago
It's not really the same unless the human cleaner also wears a gopro to record and archive their entire cleaning session for later review (and potential sale to data brokers when the cleaning company wants more money).
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by robhlt 3mo ago
This is still a thing on Android if your work account is a Google account and uses the Work profile feature. You can pause all apps in the Work profile on a schedule (or on demand), so it includes any work apps you might have in addition to
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by robhlt 3mo ago
Microsoft is not a GPU manufacturer, Apple is. The 3rd parties Microsoft left it up to are the GPU manufacturers.
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by robhlt 3mo ago
Air conditioners don't need to use fossil fuels. Solar power and AC work really well together because peak solar energy is exactly when you need AC the most. No heat is created either, that would explicitly violate the first law of the
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by robhlt 3mo ago
For HDMI CEC they've already published their user-space daemon: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/holo/linux-cec
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by robhlt 3mo ago
It's a bit niche, but Steam can download games from another PC running Steam on your local network. 2.5GbE on both PCs makes that a lot faster.
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by robhlt 3mo ago
Your coop building is on the unfair side of the "eclectic sometimes regressive" property tax calculation the parent comment mentions. Large (10+) multi-family rental properties are taxed at a much higher rate than single-family an
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by robhlt 4mo ago
That's not how it works. Probability of precipitation means exactly what it sounds like: the probability that precipitation will fall in a specific forecast area. Here's the definition from the NWS: https://forecast.wea
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by robhlt 4mo ago
My problems are mostly with the language servers. I've always found them to be slower, consume more resources, and provide worse results compared to the equivalent JetBrains IDE. I've tried Python, Rust, and Go within the last few
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by robhlt 4mo ago
Tech as a whole may not have too many employees, it's just Big Tech that has too many. If those employees were distributed among many more smaller companies the tech market as a whole would be much more competitive.
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by robhlt 4mo ago
Plaid's login flow also requires a 2FA code if your bank requires it. The same 2FA code that banks say to never provide to anyone else. They're literally proxying the bank's login page just like a phishing site would, and I a
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by robhlt 4mo ago
Plaid requires your bank username and password, so they have full read-write access to your account. They can do anything you can do when logged in to the bank's website, and so can anyone else who gains access to Plaid's database
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by robhlt 4mo ago
The same metrics any site uses to identify bot behavior. It's a closely guarded secret because if the attackers knew what metrics they used the attackers would know how to not get caught. Another reply pointed out that AdNauseam just m
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by robhlt 4mo ago
Basically zero ads are just static images with a link, they're dynamically loaded by JS when you open the page. The JS collects as much tracking data about you as it can, sends that off to the ad network servers which run a live auctio
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by robhlt 4mo ago
These "clicks" are likely identified as fraudulent and dropped by the ad network. So you still pay the cost of downloading and running all the advertising JS and you still get tracked by the ad networks, all for nothing.
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by robhlt 5mo ago
Thankfully the Great Lakes Compact prohibits water from being diverted outside the great lakes drainage basin, with very limited exceptions. https://www.glslcompactcouncil.org/program-areas/water-diver...
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by robhlt 5mo ago
The Dangerous Vehicle Abatement Program was meant to deal with drivers like this, but it was allowed to expire in 2023 after the NYC DOT failed to actually implement it. The program allowed the DOT to make drivers with more than 15 speed ca
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by robhlt 6mo ago
The timer on copyright starts once a work is published, not when the work is first started. So works that spend a decade or more in development would be unaffected by this.
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by robhlt 6mo ago
What leads you to believe $12B includes normal things that would be spent regardless? The source of that quote makes no such claim. They have every incentive to quote as low a price as they can reasonably defend, and it would be very easy t
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by robhlt 6mo ago
I don't think we even need to go that far. Just remove protection for paid advertisements. It's absurd that Meta cannot be held liable for the ads they promote when a newspaper can be held liable if they were to publish the same a
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by robhlt 6mo ago
How does that test suite get built and validated? A comprehensive and high quality test suite is usually much larger than the codebase it tests. For example, the sqlite test suite is 590x [1] the size of the library itself 1. https:/&
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by robhlt 6mo ago
More like signaling that a specific human wrote it themselves instead of one of their human assistants. The article is mostly about emails from the Epstein files so non-human authorship wasn't really a possibility at the time they were
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by robhlt 6mo ago
The legal standard that must be met for this kind of discrimination is called "Bona fide occupational qualification" [1] Generally customer demand is not enough use this defense. Airlines tried using it to defend hiring only femal

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