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mweberxyz··on Apple is reportedly relying on states to pay for digital ID rollouts
From the end of the article:

> Clear considered selling user data in the past, but instead uses that data to promote relevant ads to users.

Is there really a functional difference between these two?

mweberxyz··on Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money
Would the S3 inventory help here? That would allow you to get the list of all files (albeit on a delay similar to the lifecycle rule approach), which you could process offline to generate the DELETEs.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/storag...

mweberxyz··on Caution- These emoji mean different things in different countries
White supremacists took the 4chan meme and ran with it. Even if it started as a meme, it's now reality.
mweberxyz··on SEC Approves Bitcoin ETF, Opening Crypto to Wider Investor Base
Bitcoin Futures* ETF
mweberxyz··on Injecting environment variables into static websites using Nginx
I'd be interested in seeing what the performance difference between the NGINX SSI and <?php echo $_ENV['SIGN_OUT_URL'] ?> is. Just because PHP _can_ be slow, doesn't mean it _must_ be slow.
mweberxyz··on Injecting environment variables into static websites using Nginx
Correct me if I am wrong, but this all just sounds like we're inventing PHP again.
mweberxyz··on NYT Confirms Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist with a Robot Sniper
I took an ethics class in college taught by the computer science department. It definitely wasn't an ethical indoctrination, as much of "here is what ethics is, here are the basic frameworks, and here's why it matters to programming."
mweberxyz··on Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
If you want the ability to use a third party store, why not buy an Android phone instead? Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the market as affirmed by the outcome in TFA. Users choose to buy Apple devices for a reason.
mweberxyz··on How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
podman has no revenue model, it is an open source project managed by https://github.com/containers
mweberxyz··on Samsung Reveals DDR5-7200 512GB RAM
Latency will remain around the same levels as DDR4. The increase in clock speed will yield a hypothetical increase in maximum bandwidth. (via https://www.anandtech.com/show/16143/insights-into-ddr5-subt...)
mweberxyz··on Covid-19 lab leak theory a ‘probable hypothesis,’ WHO scientist says
Sounds like the NY Post is purposefully conflating a lab-leak with a researcher accidentally getting infected in the field.

"A lab employee infected in the field while collecting samples in a bat cave — such a scenario belongs both as a lab-leak hypothesis and as our first hypothesis of direct infection from bat to human. We’ve seen that hypothesis as a likely hypothesis," Ben Embarek said.

via https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/12/who-origins-...

mweberxyz··on Windows 96
This is snappier running in my browser than my actual OS shell. Ahh, I miss the simpler days of computing.
mweberxyz··on The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)
Say what you want about the stability of the npm ecosystem, but if this were JS, a new SemVer patch release could be cut, and it would be fixed in thousands of code bases essentially instantly.
mweberxyz··on 2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident
There is zero actual security impact.
mweberxyz··on Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)
Top-level await is very, very new and requires ES modules -- you can only use this feature without warnings recently in Node 15. For the foreseeable future, the final line should be replaced with:

    withAsync()
       .then(() => print("done")
       .catch((err) => console.error(err);
mweberxyz··on Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)
There would be no point in having two ways to do the exact same thing if function-style declaration and arrow-style declaration implementations were identical. Why would they add a new feature to the language if it was purely syntactic sugar?
mweberxyz··on Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely
Please send me $3.00 via Lightning Network and I will agree whole-heartedly.
mweberxyz··on Young Koreans are echoing r/WallStreetBets in their war against short sellers
It's just normal selling.

If I borrow a game from my friend in order to sell it to GameStop, anticipating the re-sale price will be lower then the trade in price, so I can give the game back to my friend and take a profit -- would be like short selling.

mweberxyz··on California’s container-ship traffic jam
COVID probably won't _kill_ you if you are young and fit -- but it can certainly leave you sick in bed for a week or so.
mweberxyz··on Annoying website features I face as a blind person
Or potentially aria-role="presentation"

aria-hidden="true" will make the element completely invisible to the screen reader software, whereas setting aria-role will tell the screen reader "hey there is something here but it's job is purely aesthetic", and then the screen reader can determine what it wants to do with it.

mweberxyz··on Ask HN: Has anyone else seen TCP connection issues in AWS US East this week?
Perhaps related: our load tests this week showed an increase in 502s from the ALB. The app server request logs indicate those requests never made it from the ALB.
mweberxyz··on For the Love of Pipes
Node streams are excellent, but unfortunately don't get as much fanfare as Promises/async+await. A number of times I have gotten asked "how come my node script runs out of memory" -- due to the dev using await and storing the entirety of what is essentially streaming data in memory in between processing steps.