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rsstack··on Are We Modules Yet?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet
rsstack··on WhatsApp Outage
"Status and outages of Meta business products"

This is for their business products, not consumer "products" (where _we_ are the product). However, they tend to go down and up together, as they're tied to the same data and servers.

rsstack··on Google to delete records from Incognito tracking
> If there's a giant friggin' third-party endpoint feeding your engine a firehose of data that the firm's whole business relies on, everyone will know about it.

But they won't know where that third-party's data came from.

rsstack··on Google to delete records from Incognito tracking
Points 1 & 3 & 4 are less important when you know you're in the process of negotiating a settlement for a class action suit where you will likely lose access the the data.

And yes, I worked in AdTech. People really overestimate how many people need to know these things, and how likely people are to whistleblow when the "crimes" are morally grey.

rsstack··on Google to delete records from Incognito tracking
I'm sure everything was already sold to a third-party that will lease it back to Google for "research purposes".
rsstack··on Nine writers on their Adderall use and experiences
What's amazing, to me, about Adderall is how much of a magic solution it is to some people who have real ADD (and not self-diagnosed similar symptoms). My girlfriend didn't get diagnosed until the age of 30 but clearly has ADD. I assumed she knew when we met each other, my therapist "diagnosed" her from my stories, and yet one day she asked me "Do you think I have ADD?" and I answered "I assumed you knew.". She then got diagnosed and started taking Adderall once a day on week days. It totally changed the way she's able to complete uninteresting work. She no longer works until 2-3am and is able to end her day while the sun is still up. Total game changer, and no negative side effects for her. I know many people abuse it, and maybe people suffer from side effects, but as a medication it truly has a reason to be prescribed (by doctors).
rsstack··on Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
The company Redis only adopted the Redis project (and changed its name) a few years ago. Redis started as a community project and was run that way for almost a decade.
rsstack··on Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
Thanks to MBA CEOs taking over companies that adopted (not even developed) Open Source projects...
rsstack··on Google Pay app will no longer be available
"While in-store and online payments via Google Pay remain unchanged"

Subway payments should keep working.

rsstack··on A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K
> handling showings

Sometimes, especially in peak season when they do open houses for a whole afternoon. Many times the broker told me to pick up a key from the doorman and let myself in and let them know if I was interested.

rsstack··on Show HN: USD 0.99/TB/month cloud storage
It is. Per TB per month, per seat per year, etc.
rsstack··on NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's surface due to fuel leak
We can't figure out how the Egyptians built the pyramids (although there are theories), but we definitely know how to build pyramids. It's fairly easy if anyone wants to pay for one.
rsstack··on Change of Name: Coq –> The Rocq Prover
The discussions page notes the potential conflict:

Note: There exists an unreleased, under development programming language called Roc (named after the mythical bird) - https://roc-lang.org

rsstack··on A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven
Screenshot says Ford.
rsstack··on StyleX – Meta's styling library
How does this compare to https://griffel.js.org/ ?
rsstack··on The anatomy of a Godot API call
Are you using call_deferred from your signal handlers?
rsstack··on The anatomy of a Godot API call
You have to make sure you opt into the type-safe GDScript. It's not easy. There's an IDE feature that highlights lines that are not type-safe but the default color is a hard-to-see grey. I changed it to be red ("Line Number Color" is the one for untyped lines), and then fixed all typing issues. Then, autocomplete works as does cmd+click to go to definition.
rsstack··on When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished
> The caller claimed to be one of the members of the IT team, and deepfaked our employee’s actual voice. The voice was familiar with the floor plan of the office, coworkers, and internal processes of the company. Throughout the conversation, the employee grew more and more suspicious, but unfortunately did provide the attacker one additional multi-factor authentication (MFA) code.

> The additional OTP token shared over the call was critical, because it allowed the attacker to add their own personal device to the employee’s Okta account, which allowed them to produce their own Okta MFA from that point forward.

They needed to have a couple of minutes to set things up from their end, and then ask for the second OTP code. A phone call works well for that.

rsstack··on Calculate the difference and intersection of any two regexes
Sure, I use that when authoring and editing a RegEx. That's not the same as entry validation.
rsstack··on Calculate the difference and intersection of any two regexes
The odds of the sample addresses matching is essentially zero, and adding work to the user is counterproductive.
rsstack··on Calculate the difference and intersection of any two regexes
I used this concept once to write the validation logic for an "IP RegEx filter" setting. The goal was to let users configure an IP filter using RegEx (no, marketing people don't get CIDRs, and they knew RegEx's from Google Analytics). How could I define a valid RegEx for this? The intersection with the RegEx of "all IPv4 addresses" is not empty, and not equal to the RegEx of "all IPv4 addresses". Prevented many complaints about the filter not doing anything, but of course didn't prevent wrong filters from being entered.
rsstack··on 11,196 Years Jail Sentence for Faruk Özer, CEO of Turkish Crypto Exchange Thodex
Double or triple life sentences matter in most jurisdictions. First, "life sentence" in many places means something like "life sentence, or 20 years with good behavior or parole", so a double life sentence makes release less likely. Second, multiple life sentences usually come from different instances of the offense, so it reduces the chance that a single appeal or reversal will release the convict (for example, someone who gets 4 life sentences for killing four people and then it's discovered that one of the victims actually died of something else, the convict would still have 3 life sentences to serve).
rsstack··on Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam
Sim Earth had the same thing! It would ask you a question like "How many moons does Saturn have?" and the manual had some fact sheets at the end with all the numbers. Wikipedia was not around yet, and their fact sheets having slightly different numbers than encyclopedias due to different sources and publish date (moon counts change often, and measurements in meters for anything astronomical have randomness due to imprecisions).
rsstack··on Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software
> saying no to spreadsheets in 2023

Normalize spreadsheets as evergreen technology. Say no to weeb3 in 2023.

rsstack··on Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul
Well, even more useless :)
rsstack··on Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul
Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio are separate products. Only Visual Studio is leaving macOS, while VS Code will remain available (at least, until there's a separate announcement for VS Code).
rsstack··on Launch HN: GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs
But they're not offering Silicon Valley developers, the comparison is moot.
rsstack··on Launch HN: GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs
To be honest, I didn't until now. The first six comments are automated, and I stopped scrolling fairly quickly. My bad, and I'll quietly be mad at the state of the GitHub PR "discussion" tab that has just too much spam in it.

I'm glad you wrote your last paragraph! I did wonder how much of the credits cost was just overhead as the costs of small/medium/large are fairly close to each other. It makes sense to me.

rsstack··on Launch HN: GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs
I'm confused about the pricing. The pricing page shows this PR as an example of a "small" PR of 15 "credits". I have a hard time agreeing that this change is worth $150: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/pull/8218/files

When seeing $10/credit, I thought a PR this small would be just one or two credits. I'd totally pay $150 to fix 10-15 such small bugs, but only one? Am I missing something?

rsstack··on Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock
As if it would even reach a vote. (Some) Senators (plan) to _propose_ ban ...
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