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saintfire··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Google maps makes money through its API as well as accepting sponsored results to appear before correct results.

I'd agree you have a choice with 3rd party stores but they're working on limiting/killing those tiny markets, already.

saintfire··on Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server
Or... Just buy indie games. They're usually better and not a law firm with a small games company attached.
saintfire··on Anthropic is in regulatory-capture financial loop
Really is for the best.

XCancel is a nice QOL but sends the message that using Twitter is fine. The more people that give up at the login screen the better.

saintfire··on Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
Well I knew someone who did this ritual and they would send black photos of their leg so close to the camera. So I'd imagine nothing and its classic number go up social media.
saintfire··on The Silo · interactive 3D cutaway
What's going on in mechanical? Given this is based on the show that's painfully wrong. The generator seems to be in the wrong place AND the drill is upside down and an alien shuttle.

The scale of the silo is pretty cool to see, though.

saintfire··on I built a forgetting curve for an agent with one user
Or when slop wastes everyone's time with nearly every submission, which is now.
saintfire··on 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online
In a linked article it said something like 77% of cases were deliberate consumption of mad honey for thereputic qualities.
saintfire··on A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
Popping into a TUI from an existing terminal session to quickly do something without lifting my hand is the only reason I use and prefer a TUI.

If I have to open a browser which has, frankly mediocre, kb nav, then I'd rather it just be a GUI.

I guess I'm a browser detractor, though, because unless its a webserver used for quick configs then I dread using them.

saintfire··on Stopping the smart TV from being used against you
The best thing about fibre rollout in my region is that the ONT appears to act as the modem so I don't need to set the modem/router into bridge mode any more.

I'm sure that'll end.

saintfire··on Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
Assuming you mean RCS, to which Google built a proprietary E2EE extension, remains the only client with no API to build off of and if I recall requires play attestation.

Hardly a complete solution, it devolved into a Google power grab, in my opinion.

For once I half agree with apple when they say its less secure, as apple-to-google comms are not E2EE like they are for google-to-google. While that is fixable with a hack its still a hack, not part of the protocol.

saintfire··on VoxWork: Anonymous employer reviews before accepting a job offer
So it costs money per company and users submitting have no incentives? There's no network effect like the honestly terrible glassdoor.

Vague notions of moderation filtering "disgruntled employees" and HR teams. How is that proposed to work?

How do you separate a genuine 2 star review between a 2 star review of someone who got fired with cause. How do you filter HR teams without undue burdon on volunteered info from former/current employees.

Etc.. Etc..

saintfire··on AdNauseam – Clicking ads so you don't have to
Not to speak to the effectiveness, but I think the idea is to discredit advertising by invalidating the concept of paying for clicks.
saintfire··on Why some people mow a lawn better than others
To be fair, equipment is pretty enjoyable to run, especially if you aren't burned out of it as a job.

I miss running an excavator, all the time.

saintfire··on That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
This was the real riddle all along.
saintfire··on A Discord Alternative – Echoed
Nah, everyone I know isn't a fan of discord's UI.

I stand to gain nothing and I don't even think it's popular sentiment.

For a new user it's completely alien. Trying to get a coworker to try discord for the first time is a nightmare.

It tries to solve so much in such a condensed bar on the side. Why are DM listed "as" a server. I hate the notification system for transient server joins. I have no opinion of the channel system. Why can't you read discord threads of a public discord without joining the server and accepting the posting rules? They're trying to emulate forums but it's a huge PITA to just read (in a RO state, even).

Idk lots of complaints, network effect is a bitch.

saintfire··on TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
How is that true if:

This project is not associated with Tailscale Inc.

However, one of the active maintainers for Headscale is employed by Tailscale and he is allowed to spend work hours contributing to the project. Contributions from this maintainer are reviewed by other maintainers.

saintfire··on A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]
I read that exact preface on his site before learning and adopting it (the secure knot, specifically, but the preface is on both).

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknottech.htm

saintfire··on Espionage Against the European Parliament
I mean his device was pwnd completely. Its not a stretch that attempts to warn are suppressed.

That or he didn't notice or could have assumed the notice itself was one of many phishing attempts against large orgs.

If I saw a notification that my account was compromised by Pegasus I'd personally assume phishing.

saintfire··on Immich 3.0
Maybe I'm missing something but the linked discussion has a link to a closed issue that links a PR that added the feature you say is missing.
saintfire··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
You presumably need to convict the conspirator on evidence that doesn't consist of having published documents on your person.
saintfire··on What is a Lithium-ion capacitor?
Limited by material. They store electric charge by using thin layers of insulating material and pooling negative charge on one side and positive on the other. You can puncture the material and release energy as a typical conductor, it's not stored chemically.
saintfire··on FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
The nags that you could just click "I bought a license" to remove without actually buying one?

Or you know, also buy the license and click it honestly.

saintfire··on I hate compilers
It chooses the challenge weight based on signals. If your phone looks like a phone from a residential IP you get a simple challenge.

If you then spam requests you might get another, harder, hallenge appear.

If you have a data center IP and look like bot traffic you get a hard challenge out the gate.

AFAIU after looking at their docs several months ago.

saintfire··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
Push based, sure. Allowing SMS, I still hold, undermines all of this.

They "secure" this behind password which you entered to trigger the SMS push in the first place.

Offering an "out" to a more secure flow means your secure flow may as well not exist.

Additionally, phishing a pushed OTP is not really much harder since you can trigger the push and then just have the user finish off the flow for you, provided they don't read the IP or whatever you display them (they won't, they think they're signing in), effectively the same as a TOTP.

saintfire··on US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
I can't tell if this is satire.

DeepSeek did the same thing the american companies did on a much smaller scale.

They took the output of one company and trained a model.

American companies took the output of all IP they could illegally* acquire and trained a model.

The world does need protection from abusers, you're right.

EDIT: illegal in some cases (see 82TB of torrented ebooks), immoral in most.

saintfire··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
Anecdotally, I don't know anyone who picks up random tools, unrelated to AI, because AI is advertised.

Usually when I see people see a pop-off for Try our AI assistant I hear "Fuck off" or "leave me alone" while they close it. It's like everything has a modern Clippy.

Personally I do see it as a VC signal, as if they gave up on making a good tool and started working on slopifying it.

60% is lower than I imagined, tbh. Most people aren't doing agentic workflows and AI is likely not a selling point.

saintfire··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
I use a basic OTP password instead of Microsoft's ironically less secure (see SMS as 2FA) with my work MS account. Perhaps your org disabled it but it is definitely something a Microsoft account can do.
saintfire··on A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
And yet, I incessantly get spoofed numbers calling me from the same "central office code". Also resulting in people with the same code "returning my calls" and then getting angry that I say I didn't call them.

Preventing number spoofing would help significantly with spam calling. At least the ones from local numbers.

saintfire··on Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
I see everyone coming up with an arbitrary date of when Google lost their moral compass that aligns with their own moral compass. In that vein, I feel like when Brin and Page released a paper stating how PageRank could never be beneficial to a consumer with ads and then launched an ad company powered by page rank is when Google became evil.
saintfire··on Siri AI
Nor have they been keen on letting users OR devs customize the ui.
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