eternalny1
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Comment · 5 years ago
> Now they're doing away with the web interface. They don't say why, so the reason has to be pretty shady.
The article explains why.
> Just like with Google Allo, SMS-based authentication means there's no desktop support at all. The Google Pay website is being stripped of all its useful functionality because a browser does not have a carrier SIM card and therefore can't be authenticated by the SMS-reliant system.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Of course we don't even know whether this sense of self is really purely attached to the brain. That brain is still connected to the rest of your body, and who knows what the body chemistry of the body donor will do to the new brain?
Imagine just one aspect of this. A thyroid disorder.
If the donor body was hyperthyroid, the head transplant would result in someone with the symptoms of hyperthyroidism. Angry, irritable, racing pulse, etc. If they had hypothyroidism, they would be depressed, lethargic, etc.
And that's just one organ in the body. It could radically alter the "person" who they are presuming lives only in the head.
Comment · 5 years ago
Fascinating that using a 0 (zero) instead of an O let them backdoor this.
function _setAdmin(address newAdmin) internal { bytes32 slot = ADMIN_SL0T;
assembly {
sstore(slot, newAdmin)
}
}
Comment · 5 years ago
> Firefox will surely come with a way to disable it
What's interesting is that since these "FLoC cohort" identifiers are generated by the browser itself, it's even easier than "disabling" it.
They just won't implement it in the first place.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is not true, they say they are switching from third-party cookies to FLoC.
The EFF calls FLoC "bad for privacy". More information here:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/dont-play-googles-priv...
Comment · 5 years ago
This is a different paper.
The linked one is: received 1 Mar 2021
The PDF is: work in progress 31.10.2019
Comment · 5 years ago
> Am I missing something? Is there some sort of heuristic to when it actually disables that I just got on the good side of by pure luck?
Yep, you are.
Chrome will fill in fields by not just looking at the autocomplete attribute, but also by trying to magically infer it based off the name attribute (and other heuristics).
For example, if you have a text entry box for a filename, and happen to set "name='name'" on it, even with autocomplete off you will get a pick list of people's names.
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ux...
Comment · 5 years ago
Check out MUD1, which eventually became British Legends on CompuServe and was rather popular in the late 80s.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've been using Firefox since the Phoenix/Firebird days, and I fear the day that Google ends their search funding to the project.
They are absolutely on the right track with Mozilla improving the actual -browser- with all of these new privacy features and core improvements. This could put them in a position to create a revenue stream independent of Google, where people would actually be willing to pay to have a browser wholly decoupled from these ad companies.
Comment · 5 years ago
> I don't know if it's jet fuel or what, but I am certain we will one day discover that the fumes cause all sorts of maladies.
A lot of it is oil and jet fuel. This is a known hazard, even to the flight crew.
In the industry these are referred to as "fume events" or "contaminated air quality events" (CAQE).
Comment · 5 years ago
> I think with Windows 10 being the last version of Windows, ReactOS will eventually catch up.
Windows 10 certainly isn't the "last version" of Windows in the sense you are thinking.
Even if there is no new version number, they could likely just drop that and call it "Windows" from now on. I haven't heard of any plans to discontinue desktop development.
It will just be constantly updated, as we are seeing it now.
Like the major UI revamp in the works codenamed 'Sun Valley', due later in 2021.
https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-sun-valley-ui-octo...
Comment · 5 years ago
> The reason Mozilla has not text-to-speech is because the guy behind RNNoise and LPCSpeech (JM Valin) has been bought by Amazon
That is part of the problem.
With smaller projects you are at risk of the "hit by a bus" problem, where major/complex technology is dependent on a single individual or a very small team.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Saw a movie back in I think the seventies that involved a time traveler coming back to present day America. He's happily eating what was regarded at the time as a very unhealthy diet and is horrified at all the people eating what we all thought was the healthy choice. It was a comedic punchline throughout the movie.
You are probably talking about Woody Allen's "Sleeper".
Comment · 5 years ago
I fail to see how this is different than a Wordpress private blog.
> Private. Select this option to make your site private. If you want specific people to be able to view it (and add comments, if you’ve enabled them), you’ll need to invite them to be a viewer.
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