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Comment · 3 months ago
Common names also seem retypeable, which is usually a bad idea because it is error prone, especially in certain fonts. Random jumbles make retyping untenable, so copy-paste is used, which can't make the same mistakes, but is still vulnerable to operator error with incomplete copies.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Is it right that the free-tier auth tokens expire in 24 hours (saw the JWT exp claim)? I would like to know this before investing too much time in migrating, even just to try it out. Trying to answer: is the free tier sustainable?
Comment · 8 months ago
These are hard to read if you have no intuition about what these cog shapes look like even without overlapping. But, everyone get ellipses.
Comment · 9 months ago
> We noticed that download graphs were showing a constant background level of downloads even for unpopular crates due to bots, scrapers, and mirrors. Download counts are now filtered to only include requests from Cargo, providing more accurate statistics.

As nice as it was to see some nonzero numbers in my work, I knew it couldn't be real usage.

Comment · 10 months ago
This has happened to me a couple of times with eBay sales.

Is it safe to transact with people who use freight forwarders in your experience? Do you lose any protections?

Out of fear, in my cases, I cancelled the auctions.

On second thought though, I wonder if it's actually the buyer using the service that is more at risk (introduction of 3rd party, more complex delivery, probably impossible to return, etc)

Comment · 10 months ago
By putting it on your router, all your traffic is tunneled through the VPN, right?

I ask this in comparison to applying it at a finer-grained level, such as just a particular machine, or to an application, or to even a browser tab or particular domain. I feel like I would never want all my traffic VPN-ed because it is slow, there are greater privacy concerns of VPN operators, and my needs for VPNs are a cleanly-separable small chunk of my online activities.

Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

> a video streaming service that serves consumers residing in the state shall not transmit the audio of commercial advertisements louder than the video content the advertisements accompany

I was hoping we'd find a more precise definition. Couldn't this be gamed by editing a short (1 second, for example) segment of the intended content to have loud audio to artificially set the upper bound?

Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Are you talking about Arch-announce? (https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-announce@list...)

I am new to Arch and would like the notifications that you are talking about.

Comment · 1 year ago
> OpenAI

> Verified via WebBotAuth: In Progress

Feels like Cloudflare are positioning themselves as the gatekeepers of "good bots". The fact there is an "In Progress" state at all is telling: for everyone else, the answer is "No", but for OpenAI, the answer is "we're not doing it yet, but we've told CF that we plan to".

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