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NOWHERE_··on Synctify – Sync a music drop with a time in the real world
Honestly, drop is the better word. I read the title with drop and understood what it meant, but I wouldn’t have if you called it moment.
NOWHERE_··on Preparedness Framework
:(

I’m glad that there are so many written resources though.

NOWHERE_··on Preparedness Framework
I recently wanted to use OpenAI‘s ChatGPT for teaching me reverse engineering and how to use IDA to deepen my understanding of programming. Well, all it said was that reverse engineering can be used to write hacks and something something intellectual property, then declined to help me.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NOWHERE_··on Beeper Mini is now open-source
RCS works over wi-fi too.
NOWHERE_··on Gemini AI
I would rather build with OpenAI products rather than with Google products because if I use a Google product, I know that it will shut down in two years tops.
NOWHERE_··on Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
Because LLMs from competitors already have real use? Ex. kagi.com uses claude by anthropic [1].

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html

NOWHERE_··on Altman sought billions for AI chip venture before OpenAI ouster
How is this violating OpenAI‘s charter?

If they really want to ensure that ensure that AI benefits all of humanity they have to keep it affordable to everyone.

Scaling out of expensive GPUs, and making the service cheap and therefore generally available to more humans sounds sensible.

NOWHERE_··on Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021)
I do, that’s why I use firefox.
NOWHERE_··on De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon
First: just look into your session store, which lists all people which are in your store (hah!).

Second: You can have analytics AND be GDPR compliant without a cookie banner. There are even companies built around this: https://plausible.io/

NOWHERE_··on Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
Funnily it’s vice versa for me. I don’t give out my phone number to random people, but instead give them my telegram handle of a throwaway account.
NOWHERE_··on Volkswagen tracking firm sued for refusing to find stolen SUV with kidnapped boy
There are people who register domains like polizei-dortmund.nrw, set up a reverse proxy to a real police site, and set up a email server. Then, they send an official looking mail to discord.com‘s support with some made up emergency, like the person behind account X is a suicidal, depressive teen and one of their online-only friends reported to us (the police) that he intents to end his life. Then, discord instantly gives us the IP and even address (if they had purchased nitro), and we got that person doxxed.

This is a service available on the obvious scene boards. It’s classic social engineering, and I bet it works for these car tracking services too.

NOWHERE_··on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
If signal adds username only accounts it makes sense to relay calls if users don’t want their IP leaked to the other person.
NOWHERE_··on Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials
Without google translate (german): https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten...
NOWHERE_··on Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teen mental health
I honestly relate to Zuckerberg‘s decision here:

- there isn’t any data which suggests that beauty filters on insta hurt mental health

- if insta disabled such filters, people will simply move to snap or tiktok to use such filters

From the business perspective his veto makes absolute sense. But it’s was to point fingers at him as if he is the boogeyman.

NOWHERE_··on Tutanota is now Tuta
From what I understand OvO Systems runs a VPS host (cockbox.org) and after Krautchan shut down, Bernd rented a VPS on cockbox (since they allow anonymous payments) to host a Krautchan successor named Kolchan. So yes, OvO Systems hosts it, but the admin is not actively involved, similar to how the Hetzner admins aren’t involved in Plex movie warez services being hosted on Hetzner dedis.

Cock.li on the other hand is run by the OvO systems owner himself.

NOWHERE_··on Tutanota is now Tuta
Where can I read more about the sketchy boards hosted by the admin?
NOWHERE_··on Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell
it’s not mastercard but your bank. there are plenty of banks which implement mastercards 3ds via app (eg N26).