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mgiampapa··on Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
Missed opportunity for it to be 1.21 GW. I'm sure they can add another reactor.
mgiampapa··on Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
I feel like the obvious thing to check here is that all chrome processes have terminated between tests. If it's still running some zombie process of course the data would persist.
mgiampapa··on What Happened to HackerOne?
Usually money.
mgiampapa··on Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
IDK, sounds like it has brute forced my password already.
mgiampapa··on Verizon is About to Break our Watches
I feel like this is an edge case where it's less expensive for Verizon to issue a refund than it is to actually fix the problem. Sometimes paying for the problem to go away is the best solution and you get a new thing that works better.
mgiampapa··on I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
Because using Amazon, one of the most popular e-commerce sites and an example of an app that doesn't expose a URL of content makes a great example of a wide class of applications and conveys the message I was trying to express.

Why do you, as someone with enough technical sophistication to be posting on HN, not understand the words? This is sarcasm, you don't need to answer.

mgiampapa··on I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
I use share buttons all the time on social platforms, and apps like Amazon that don't have any other way of deep linking.

Lot's of people use apps that don't expose a link, share buttons are great and even better when they use standards like your OS's share functionality.

mgiampapa··on A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
I get more calls from Google Security than any other thing. Oddly the Pixel's built in scam detection and call screening lets them through without fail. I normally don't have my phone even ring unless it's in my contacts, but saying you are calling from Google is like a magic code.
mgiampapa··on Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
I think the zim flow was perfect for offline use. I know I will be making use of it as soon as I can figure out how to pass chrome the cookies so I can be signed into the site. Didn't see it in the page, but I didn't look closely yet.
mgiampapa··on Internet traffic in Iran increasing
The US Government can own and nationalize it in a heartbeat if they want to. Even other Billionaires hate Musk.
mgiampapa··on Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died
7/11 Japan has been running the stores in Hawaii for ages, just look there.
mgiampapa··on DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
Why do you think they have to?
mgiampapa··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
No one said encryption was perfect, but it is how you make mass surveillance ineffective. Targeted attacks are very different than wide nets.
mgiampapa··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
Encrypt everything, all the time, everywhere, use quantum hardened encryption wherever possible.
mgiampapa··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
It's been a while so I don't remember the specifics, but the I think the request came from someone working at Accenture from one of the FinTech teams? At the time the proposal had both technical limitations and performance implications on top of the privacy issues. To do it right would have meant standing up a new set of client exchange endpoints and permissions that were far too permissive so the task just got ignored for a long time and I think that manager behind it went away eventually or they settled for public data inside the company.

The only report chain based permissions were around distribution lists which were just some powershell scripts that walked AD every night. These also got used for security groups to gate access to some things. Be default, calendars were visible to all authenticated users unless you made them private or individual events private. The meeting tool leveraged this for example.

I was working on corp email (among other things) there from 2009 to 2016, so I can't speak for now.

mgiampapa··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
Many many moons ago I refused to implement a calendar event scraping system at Meta where it would look at all of your meetings on the calendar and do "analysis". IDK what ever happened to that task, I assume it died a death of no one else being willing to do it. This was probably 2011 or so, I can only imagine it has gotten so much worse.
mgiampapa··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Actually, the date was 29 June 2007. This is when GPLv3 was released and Apple could no long continue using the fruits of open source labor without giving anything back. That's when MacOS X's UNIX underlying began to ossify. Sure Apple kept backporting important security things, but it froze in time all of the GNU utilities that made UNIX on MacOS X good.
mgiampapa··on New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims
I order from Amazon because of their logistics. For some reason Amazon can ship for free at the same price as the producer's Shopify page that wants to charge me insane shipping because I live in a remote location.

Yes, I understand the price fixing is why they aren't selling for less on their own site, but Amazon's superpower is logistics, not years of goodwill and brand loyalty.

mgiampapa··on Facebook is cooked
I am both strongly pro 2A, and extremely liberal. Sometimes it gets things wrong, but I just use the feedback buttons and snooze content I don't agree with and it remarkably stays mostly on track for me.
mgiampapa··on Facebook is cooked
IDK, I still find my Facebook and Instagram feeds very topical and useful to me, so I keep using them. I also curate aggressively, have a wide variety of interests and a few hundred close connections. It could be that I am just fitting into what the algo is steering to, but I don't get the low quality stuff that OP is complaining about.
mgiampapa··on Facebook is cooked
Social media is mostly about what you make of it and how you interact to find value. This is the same in Twitter, TikTok, FB, Instagram, even LinkedIn.

If you don't interact with the product, you get lowest denominator crap.

mgiampapa··on 99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds
If I learned anything at Buy N Large University, AR screens in eyeware may be huge.
mgiampapa··on 99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds
The issue with those inclined pillows with the arm hole in them is that they can be a really hard angle for a side sleeper to be at. It makes my back and hips hurt way worse than my shoulder.
mgiampapa··on Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
You clearly did not live in the world of watching two teens on computers in the same room hold two entirely different conversations out-loud and over AIM.
mgiampapa··on Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
56k was also unidirectional, you had to have special hardware on the other side to send at 56k downstream. The upstream was 33.6kbps I think, and that was in ideal conditions.
mgiampapa··on The Myth of the ThinkPad
Trackpad != trackpoint. The track point is the little eraser nub pointer embedded into the keyboard. Many thinkpad enthusiasts disable the trackpad entirely.
mgiampapa··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
Being medically stupid isn't a protected class. You can refuse service to anyone you want to otherwise. It's not an ER, it's a Pediatrician, and they value not endangering their other patients who actually follow medical advice.
mgiampapa··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
The doctors offices want none of it. It's all FoodTV and HGN.

There is no utility in pissing off 75% of your customers. I'm thrilled that my kid's doctor doesn't even allow patients that aren't vaccine schedule compliant.

mgiampapa··on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
I firewall my TV from my Printer just so they don't get any ideas.
mgiampapa··on Venezuela's Navy Begins Escorting Ships as U.S. Threatens Blockade
If its not in the middle east it's just a sparkling police action.
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