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Comment · 5 months ago
I've been playing this via Steam and having a lot of fun. It's very satisfying that you start simple and when you discover a new way you cleanly reset and do it better next run.
Comment · 5 months ago
It's like reading an article that drops in "moist" in every sentence, I'm literally uncomfortable trying to read this
Comment · 5 months ago
I've always found Whatsapp a terrible name, but its so established now that 'apping' is understood. If you're big enough it seems that a bad name hardly hold you back.
Comment · 5 months ago
I'm reading a book on Vim and the author mentioned the old "Google is your friend". That aged poorly as well :')
Comment · 5 months ago
> Thank you for joining the Be My Eyes community! Be My Eyes connects blind and low-vision users with volunteers who can provide visual interpretation of smartphone images, to companies that provide them with services or employ them, and to artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools that analyze and describe images submitted by our users.

I thought you were being cynical, but yeah the ToS basically says that as well.

Comment · 5 months ago
I see that makes sense, thank you!
Comment · 5 months ago
I'd love for more screenshots should anyone have and can share. I still don't get a great picture of how it's running in the browser and I find UI choices fascinating. But I imagine I'd need an NDA to see the settings/options :')
Comment · 5 months ago
Just because wages are high in SF, and your account was free to create, doesn't mean €1 isn't a barrier for someone in Kenya.

> As of 2026, the minimum wage in Kenya for general domestic workers in major cities is KSh 16,113.75 per month. > KSh 16,113.75 is approximately €106.67 based on the current exchange rate.

Comment · 5 months ago
> Though, not at places that have such a strong social mission as this one.

That's the shameful thing really. Yeah it's pretty common to have (GDPR violating) cookies and 'share all analytics' settings on by default with "privacy is very important to us" statements on the website. As "one of those guys" I see this all the time. For a commercial business it's just eye rolling, but these kinds of social good companies really should be held to a higher standard. With that standard just being "privacy by design please".

The websites' feedback form gave me a "try again in !minutes" error so frankly I think the dev team is malicious by incompetence. It's a very pretty site though, so at least there's that.

Comment · 6 months ago
That is basically how I understood the author and what makes the exploit novel, yes. Personally I don't think it's that simple or explicit, but there could be some truth to it?
Comment · 6 months ago
Could you elaborate? I can't tell with music and voice
Comment · 6 months ago
But they'd never optimize or loosen guardrails around helping people connect with grandma. It's an interesting hypothesis "use the guardrails to exploit the guardrails (Beat fire with fire)".

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