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by twhb 7mo ago
Apply the same logical test to freedom of speech, and you’ll get the same result. You’re not missing anything about what’s likely to happen to you personally. What you’re missing is the manner in which rights shape your life and your societ
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by twhb 8mo ago
This article is misinformed if not intentionally misleading about Apple Pay’s privacy status. It is technically true that Apple does not share your credit card number , but it does share its own unique, persistent identifier.
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by twhb 8mo ago
This is an iOS 26 regression. There are a bunch of soft hyphens in there, which is why it works on other browsers and in previous versions of iOS.
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by twhb 9mo ago
Sorry, fixed link: https://demo.fingerprint.com/playground . I agree on randomization, but there are other places where it doesn’t stick out like that. I’ll look up specifics if I find the time, but I think reading canvas da
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by twhb 9mo ago
This tool is deeply flawed. Fingerprinting protection is sometimes done by binning, which this tool rewards, and is sometimes done by randomizing, which this tool harshly punishes. The net result is it generally guides you away from the str
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by twhb 1y ago
Great post! Also check out oklch.com, I found it useful for building an intuition. Some stumbling blocks are that hues aren’t the same as HSL hues, and max chroma is different depending on hue and lightness. This isn’t a bug, but a reflecti
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by twhb 1y ago
> spacer gifs Hacker News actually still uses these for comment indentation, check this page’s source code.
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by twhb 1y ago
restic’s rest-server append-only mode unfortunately doesn’t prevent data deletion under normal usage. More here: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html#secu... . Their workaround is pretty weak, in
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by twhb 4y ago
This page seems designed to direct attention anywhere but the meat of the issue: are the moon details in Samsung photos derived from sensor data alone, or also external photos? To me, the answer is clear: Samsung can’t produce this result u
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by twhb 4y ago
Right, disappearing messages aren’t a safeguard against a malicious recipient, they’re a blast radius limiter on future device compromise on either end.
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by twhb 4y ago
The abandoned plan was perceptual hashing, which should return the same hash for very similar photos, while the new one is a checksum, which should return the same hash only for identical photos. I don’t think that invalidates the point, bu
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by twhb 4y ago
I felt this way for a while, but I’d like to offer another angle: maybe it’s like saying “Every company eventually hires tall people. Some have no tall people, but it’s just a matter of time. Tall people are really an unstoppable force.” Th
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by twhb 4y ago
The never-ending chain has bothered me too. I realized that if there is a theory of everything, it needs to prove itself. As far as I know, that’s a logical contradiction. Maybe resolving that contradiction is the door to moving forward. Is
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by twhb 4y ago
Don’t mistake this for victory. Google’s standard playbook when forcing things people don’t like is to spread the action out over a longer timeframe, exhausting the media and keeping the final blow mostly out of the news, and exhausting our
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by twhb 4y ago
I listened to a lot of mic testing a few months ago, frustrated by the AirPods Pro Gen 1 too. My conclusion was that all wireless earphone mics are pretty bad, and you’re not going to sound good unless you hold the phone up to your cheek or
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by twhb 4y ago
HN is overly dismissive of tech in Android devices. People should look up testing of Samsung’s current gen 108 MP sensor. It’s true that it doesn’t look sharper when displaying the whole image on a smartphone’s 3.5 MP screen or a 4K (8.3 MP
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by twhb 4y ago
After thinking about this for a minute, I think the point wasn’t that people shouldn’t have fallen for this in particular, but to give everything a tint of uncertainty. It’s a pretty clear cut example of “no matter how believable it was,
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by twhb 4y ago
My problem with this is that it conflicts with identity ownership. If I give every company someunqiueaddress@someservice.com, I no longer have the ability to switch email providers, especially if I only decide to switch after losing my some
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by twhb 4y ago
I got a memorable phone number a while ago. Websites like numberbarn.com make it relatively easy. A key realization I had is that repeating numbers aren’t the thing to look for, because they’re what everybody is depleting and marking up, an
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by twhb 4y ago
The article does say it’s “experimentally extremely well confirmed”.
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by twhb 4y ago
Who achieves more power, the guy who dedicates his life and soul to it, or the guy who wants it, but only if it’s ok with everybody, and only when his family doesn’t need him?
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by twhb 5y ago
Did you suggest they change their device settings? Yours was probably the right approach, I’m just curious whether we have actual data to support that people prefer this split configuration, and aren’t just suffering under bad defaults.
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by twhb 5y ago
I like this change. If a website misconfigures encoding and users have an encoding override menu, the result is 99% of users see a broken website, 1% know how to fix it. The menu doesn’t meaningfully improve the situation, but it does keep
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by twhb 5y ago
Interesting how somebody can be tripped up by 1.2 vs 1.18 yet not tripped up by 1/2 vs 1/18. It could just take time, but I think there’s also a factor of feeling that dates are worth learning while version numbers don’t deserve d
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by twhb 5y ago
Your comments and the email both are written like nobody really wants tracking off, at least not if they know what’s good for them. Is that what you believe?
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Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off
947 points by twhb 5y ago|430 comments
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by twhb 5y ago
How did the erosion affect the entire planet so thoroughly? Is it plausible we’ll someday find a place where the geological record of the missing years is still intact?
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by twhb 5y ago
An important gotcha is buried at the end: > The CAMELS collaboration cooks up its universes using two different recipes. A neural network trained on one of the recipes makes bad density guesses when given galaxies that were baked accordi
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by twhb 5y ago
Self host, use services for syndication only. Make that Medium and Facebook post, but just make it a link to your website, maybe with a preview. You get self hosting without needing to bring your own audience, you get Medium etc’s promotion
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by twhb 5y ago
This was inevitable. If you’re leaking the info that you’re using a proxy, it’ll eventually be used by people who want to. One solution is a traditional webmail provider being willing to reuse that primary user domain for forwarding address

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