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jabjq··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
I wonder how well-received this comment would be if it mentioned crime statistics regarding something else than gender.
jabjq··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
I think the screenshots are fake because I’ve been using the internet for very long and I know how publicity campaigns work.

For starters, men with hundreds of thousands of followers have no reason to post a screenshot that shows that women have used an app to report them as creeps. That the kind of thing that belongs in a police report, not in a public social network where you’re trying to build your brand.

jabjq··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
I’ve seen multiple posts online posted by guys showing screenshots. The screenshots would show texts sent to those guys by girls saying that they’ve seen the guys on Tea and that they won’t have any more dates because of what they’ve seen. It all stinks to high heaven.
jabjq··on Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instagram in the EU
The best, most successful political ads in social networks are not paid.
jabjq··on Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September
The best instant payment system is cash. It allows the merchant to skip the taxes too. Unbeatable.
jabjq··on Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
It's very easy to ask everyone else to support your financial decisions.
jabjq··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
No, it's not okay. I used google to look for a brownie recipe; I want a brownie recipe and nothing else.
jabjq··on When swiping supplants scissors: The hidden cost of touchscreens
Those who need fine motor skills can still learn them.
jabjq··on People's brains aged faster during the Covid pandemic – even the uninfected
That’s what happens when the elites create a mass trauma event for us proles - and this is just the first one.
jabjq··on AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it
This comparison is quite absurd.
jabjq··on Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)
Yep, doesn't work at all. This post is two years old and the methods they use have been updated.
jabjq··on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
I think it’s a cool and potentially useful feature as long as it stays local.
jabjq··on The United States withdraws from UNESCO
You can check the UNESCO website and see for yourself. They have a section with recent news of stuff they’ve been doing and promoting.
jabjq··on The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme
Same as wow. It makes more sense like this. Maybe the issue is that some interpret what look like decimal numbers but are not decimal numbers as decimal numbers.
jabjq··on Instant responsiveness in user interfaces is annoying
Or they are just lazy. Recently I had to implement text search and making it load the results instantaneously on every keystroke is easier than implementing a delay. I was hoping the client wouldn’t complain, and thus far he has not.
jabjq··on France launches criminal probe of X over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’
Friendly reminder that

> In France, a woman spent 23 hours in custody for giving French President Emmanuel Macron the middle finger. (She was acquitted after arguing she had pointed her finger in the air and not directly at the president.)

https://archive.is/MNgc6

jabjq··on Log by time, not by count
You shouldn’t use f-strings with logging.
jabjq··on Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men
Have you ever worked in a place full of women?
jabjq··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
I googled the author's name and from a cursory look at his linkedin he was a toddler in 2003. It’s therefore reasonable to conclude that he has no idea how a phone from 2003 worked. I mean, he could’ve used one for a bit, but definitely not as a daily driver.
jabjq··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
I bought some dark blue trousers at C&A and after a dozen washes they are noticeably losing their colouring.

Yes, I know, Cheap&Awful. I’m poor.

jabjq··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
Maybe you shouldn’t elect politicians who increase your public debt perennially by printing money like there’s no tomorrow. Perhaps that way the money you earn would be worth something and you would be able to afford quality products. It’s hard, I know.
jabjq··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
I have a solid wood table that I bought at Ikea a few years ago. I think it’s made of bamboo. Isn’t that hardwood? Even if it’s compressed I don’t think it’s made of grain. It definitely doesn’t have stickers.
jabjq··on Family loses 12k of Bitcoin to Elon Musk livestream YouTube scam
You didn’t even tap the link huh
jabjq··on Beyond Meat fights for survival
Bad cuts, like pork loins that are not fatty.
jabjq··on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
I feel the same but about the EU. After all, I have a choice whether to use Meta or not. There is no escaping the EU sort of leaving my current life.
jabjq··on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
What will happen, like every time a market is regulated in the EU, is that the market will move on without the EU.
jabjq··on Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page
If you use Google to find this string you will find very old references. (“Very old” is relative)
jabjq··on Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware
> We strongly encourage users that may have installed one of these packages […] to take the necessary measures in order to ensure they were not compromised.

How are they supposed to do that when you give them no information as to what the malware does?

jabjq··on Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know
I thought the position of HN was that tourism is bad.
jabjq··on Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know
Is it a fee if you always get it back? It’s more like a deposit.