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by ulyssys 4d ago
Disclaimer: I haven’t yet watched the video, but on the point of security: yes, when data is collected without my clear approval and full understanding, and is not done in a secure way, it matters all the more. It’s of little concern to m
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by ulyssys 19d ago
> “Just log into your bank account on the mobile web browser” is a pretty clunky way to see why your card declined. But that's because the user experience as designed is more hostile or not otherwise accounting for mobile use--right
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by ulyssys 19d ago
The most painful part of this is that, at a certain point in mobile app development, many of them switched to using web frameworks instead of native. We're literally figuratively building web apps to replace native apps that replaced w
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by ulyssys 1mo ago
Apple Maps suggests “your preferred route” as an option when you frequently travel an alternative path. In addition, all maps apps I know of have options to configure use of toll roads and highways.
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The One Meaningless Word That We All Say Too Much (2016)(time.com)
2 points by ulyssys 3mo ago|2 comments
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by ulyssys 7mo ago
Specific numbers aside, one possible reason is they want to increase adoption to gain user volume, in order to have an effect on the larger ecosystem. Once you have non-trivial network effects, you could continue to influence the ecosystem
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by ulyssys 2y ago
I think we need to rethink the whole "advertising as a way to support creators" model. Support comes in many forms, and decoupling knowledge of a thing from being paid for good work would likely result in higher quality outcomes.
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by ulyssys 2y ago
In this example, assuming sequential steps, if step 2 must be performed before step 4, then it is step 2 which is the bottleneck. After step 2 has been optimized, step 4 becomes the new bottleneck—assuming that optimization of step 2 is sat
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by ulyssys 2y ago
It's not necessarily an either-or situation. It can be privacy, annoyance, and a general lack of effectiveness. Advertising isn't just the art of selling a product, it's the art of getting past our normal social defense that
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by ulyssys 2y ago
The objection to soldered RAM isn’t the RAM.
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by ulyssys 2y ago
Unrelated to the article itself, but is it possible for this website to have worse ads on mobile? It starts automatically playing with music, and if I pause it to stop the music/sound then scroll down it pops up again as a floating ad
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by ulyssys 2y ago
> Figuratively, it's nuts. …and literally, it may or may not be nuts.
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by ulyssys 3y ago
I'd like to use this without a Google account, and at most using only sandboxed Google Play services. Is that an option? It doesn't seem to work.
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by ulyssys 3y ago
There are non-ligatured variants included in the download.
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House Passes Bill to Ban Pre-Dispute Employment Arbitration Pacts (2022)(shrm.org)
67 points by ulyssys 4y ago|21 comments
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Tim Cook’s Solution to Green Bubbles Is to Just Buy an iPhone(extremetech.com)
4 points by ulyssys 4y ago|1 comments
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by ulyssys 4y ago
Not if you log all terminal input to the production log server.