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llacb47··on LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer
This title should be changed as no court found this is illegal, and this is pretty standard, if extensive, browser fingerprinting, however disagreeable it is
llacb47··on Text-Based Google Directions
Gmaps api is pricy, hopefully this doesn’t go super viral or the dev will have a big bill to pay
llacb47··on Bugs Apple loves
Quite a lot probably. I wasn’t able to use the health app on two different iPhones - it would crash after tapping “get started” consistently - and apple told me to just start from scratch instead of restoring from backup and there was no other way to fix it. Not a very satisfying answer
llacb47··on North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names
Do you have any content blocker extensions?
llacb47··on White House releases health report written by LLM, with hallucinated citations
Technically, this is title editorializing, since WH denied using AI… but they are probably lying.
llacb47··on Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
It doesn't work with yandex.kz. Someone call Kazakhstan.

> No registry RDAP server was identified for this domain. Attempting lookup using WHOIS service.

> Failed to perform lookup using WHOIS service: TLD_NOT_SUPPORTED.

llacb47··on Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
Likely cached tiles either on your end or Google's servers
llacb47··on The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Records Reveal How Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
(2021)
llacb47··on AI slop is already invading Oregon's local journalism
The people who think AI will replace good journalism are the same people who think "X" is revolutionizing citizen journalism
llacb47··on Bop Spotter
2 live crew is a W
llacb47··on Why an Oregon small utility is among the biggest polluters: Amazon data centers
The issue has been fixed.
llacb47··on Why an Oregon small utility is among the biggest polluters: Amazon data centers
uBlock Origin causing an issue. Should be fixed soon.
llacb47··on Investors Have Sky-High Hopes for AI. Can the Tech Deliver?
Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-05/podcast-a...
llacb47··on We made an animated movie in 8kB
My laptop's integrated graphics card did not enjoy that.
llacb47··on British man appears in court over bomb joke sent in private message
Perhaps the GCHQ have a backdoor in snapchat then, which is comforting
llacb47··on FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising
That is… unsettling.
llacb47··on British man appears in court over bomb joke sent in private message
Probably a root certificate that you need to install to browse on the airport wifi.
llacb47··on Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
I solved this by memorizing my library card number.
llacb47··on NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2
extra > on 2nd line
llacb47··on Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
Terrible article. They linked to another product named Threads’ privacy policy.
llacb47··on Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
Well, two were over remote parts of Alaska. And this one just happened like an hour ago, so maybe pics will come out from people on the ground. In any case, the best pics from the first one over Montana were shot with telephoto lenses, so it’s not like anybody with a phone can snap a close up shot
llacb47··on 43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
It’s been corrected by the author
llacb47··on The enduring mystery of an aggressive FBI raid near Area 51
Which is not illegal. If I take a very high res picture of your house from the street, that’s not illegal either, although you probably wouldn’t like it
llacb47··on Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation
Don’t think that’s what vm means there. The m is likely “maliva”, which is tiktok’s overseas (US/europe) CDN.
llacb47··on ElonJet Is Now Suspended
The FAA requires that most planes transmit ADSB-out. ADSBexchange aggregrates those transmitted signals and displays them online.
llacb47··on Draft policy proposal would authorize SF Police to use deadly force with robots
Fake site with scraped content.
llacb47··on Fake musicians: a million-dollar Instagram verification scheme
It already is..
llacb47··on Fake musicians: a million-dollar Instagram verification scheme
Your song LISP in space is a classic!
llacb47··on Chrome allows websites to write to the clipboard without the user’s permission
New tab page google doodle
llacb47··on Server-Sent Events: an alternative to WebSockets
Google uses SSE for hangouts/gchat.
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