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I know this is supposed to be a joke but... businesses have pushed for this the other way around in the past, asking for a new coin to raise prices. > The Coca-Cola Company sought …

I think it's just because supply-chain attacks are not common enough / their attack surfaces not large enough to be worth the dev time... yet... Sneak in a malicious browser extens…

Operating systems are different though, since their whole purpose is to host _other_ applications. FWIW, MacOS isn't any better or worse for security than any other desktop OS tbh.…

Browser extensions also have a relatively robust permissions-based system. If they wanted to, one would guess that browser-ish local apps based on stuff like Electron/node-webkit c…

There's a chance that they might stall you and never actually pay (or chargeback the invoice). That way they'll get a free link for at least some amount of time, and if done at mas…

The article mentions having the OP send a PayPal invoice... Pretty sure the other side is not gonna pay it unless you follow through (i.e. they could always charge it back and clai…

I'd say China doesn't have particularly tight_er_ information control than other places, they're using the same tools everyone else is using (keyword/hashtag bans, algorithmic cont…

Query by content reminds me of XPath, so I looked it up to see if there was a version for JSON... Turns out there is https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-goessner-dispatch-json...…

Right to repair just means for those that do want to repair it, they can without any undue burden. If you don't want to repair it, nobody is forcing you to! Just throw it away like…

> But if you go to a shitty concert, you don't get your money back. If you buy a shitty album, you can't get your money back. And you can't get the band to "make it better" for you…

It doesn't have to be though? The provider could reject further access to them (reads / writes) once the limit is reached. The cost of actually keeping objects as "cold" storage ha…

So, as someone who has lived in regions with pretty severe internet censorship in the past and built circumvention software back in the day, I've always pondered the idea of whethe…

I wonder if OCR could be improved by adding a "language model" of sorts... Like, sure, maybe it's hard to tell apart a "1", "i", or "l" purely visually, but if you knew it was supp…

PVP and leaderboards attract a different audience than normal gacha players which is why it tends to be rare-ish in gacha games. (Almost none of the popular ones focus on it). Most…

Very perplexed about this too. The only reason I can come up with is to prevent people from copying the content? But that doesn't make much sense either TBH. The page's content is …

Yeah, classic MTL. It should be closer to "*built-in* (support for) AI" (basically integrations for LLM prompting) and "*multi-purpose* by design" (basically a grab bag of support …

I guess in a way? They learned from XP/7 that they'll never recoup it though licenses so now its ads and subscription upsells for everybody.

Not really, it skips over utility based shopping entirely. Everything in the article (after the bit about utility vs signalling) assumes the thing you're buying is primarily meant …

Where do they imply that? The article literally shows two examples of ads for trucks, one advertising utility and one signalling... The fact that most ads _today_ focus on the sign…

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Based on what's being described ("career criminals") it doesn't seem like that would be a good deterrence. A security guard is going to be looking out for their own safety and well…

The uConsole advertises support for pico-8 so it seems like they had this in mind :)

I agree with all the points on top. The proper instrument to do this would be banks setting up a system that lets people borrow against an illiquid asset, in this case would be CNY…

> You don't know. The paperwork's fraudulent. They don't offer these services to anyone. Because the paperwork is fraudulent, a lot of people involved are/will be personally implic…

This is somewhat counterintuitive but... the fraudulent mortgages are not more risky, they are often times more stable than other local borrowers. I think what many people are imag…