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Comment · 5 months ago
Arc may still be around, but it’s pretty clear where the future is being built. And while we’re hoping more of Arc’s magic finds its way into Dia, one thing we couldn’t wait for was single-window profile switching. So we made Diarc: a small way to bring back a workflow we weren’t ready to lose.
Comment · 9 months ago
Machado genuinely cares about dethroning the Venezuelan regime to give way to a more democratic administration. She'll go to any lengths to support that transition, including stroking Trump's massive ego.
Comment · 11 months ago
how does showing that someone use a VPN "out" them or compromise their privacy. Another biased Vice piece.
Comment · 1 year ago
A piece with no sources by McCullough. How unexpected.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's the same on Android.
Comment · 1 year ago
WeChat. And let me explain why. I'll stick with technology and usability and leave politics aside.

They've integrated literally everything with wc. Going to an event? Amusement park? Metro ride? Flight? Restaurant booking? The hospital? You guessed it. WeChat. Every place has a QR code (they've also have a custom QR code format they support) and any business/individual can set up to receive payments, reservations, form data, or literally anything else that can be built as a web app. There's no secret sauce to how it's done; WeChat allows you to "install" web based apps inside wechat and integrates your profile and payment abilities with it.

If you want to set up a point-of-sale device to receive payments here you have to get something like Square, and set up an account, and you often need special equipment, etc. Not a great UX. With WeChat, everybody already has their payment profile linked up, so you just show your QR code, people pay, you get notified, and you're all set.

It's not the best built app, though. It's glitchy, and the web-based stuff is slow. The Chinese are great at many things, but UI design/UX isn't one of them haha. It seems to work, though, and I can only imagine the gargantuan amount of payment events their infra handles. Probably many millions per second.

Comment · 1 year ago
That's good, but at ~7nm production it is still a bit away from what ASML can do already. ASML's High-NA EUV technology is capable of pushing semiconductor manufacturing below 2nm, potentially reaching 1.4nm or even 1.0nm in the future. Their current low-NA EUV machines (like the NXE:3600D and NXE:3800E) are used for 3nm and 5nm production.
Comment · 1 year ago
Using Grok would have been more in-line with this theme.
Comment · 2 years ago
Remember the “SSL added and removed here” thing? That’s basically CloudFlare hahaha
Comment · 2 years ago
bingo.. reads like a non-story. Not too different from any other public wifi, really.
Comment · 2 years ago
this
Comment · 2 years ago
It's not just my IP.. There's a whole lot of HTML barf around it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Those are some interesting pieces. It'd be fun to create a game where players need to guess between "Art Installation or Random Pile of Trash"
Comment · 2 years ago
No reasonable citizen anywhere in the world wants WW3. It's irresponsible to talk about this like it's some sport.

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