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Jleagle··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
You say nothing is free, but Amazon, Discord, Dropbox, Facebook, GitHub, Google, Instagram, Microsoft, Paypal, Reddit, Slack, Steam, TikTok, Twitter etc all offer it for free.

Plus, it's not for the dev, it's for the users of the website.

Jleagle··on Go: Support for Generic Methods
Sounds like you want this feature, and you just got it. Not sure how that's wrong. You don't add in every feature from the start.
Jleagle··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
You only download it when some JS requests it for the first time, most people will never have it.
Jleagle··on Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
Isn't your prediction a good thing? People prefer humans currently as they are better but if AI is just as good, doesn't that just mean more good PRs?
Jleagle··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
I think you're misunderstanding how small the chance of creating the same wallet as someone else is.

There are 2^256 wallets. There are 2^72 grains of sand on earth.

The chance of your bank screwing up is a lot higher, by trillions.

Jleagle··on Imgur's community was in revolt
I don't think any of the porn on Reddit is illegal.
Jleagle··on Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative
AI's scrape data from web pages just like anything else does. I don't think their existence makes a difference.
Jleagle··on Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative
So it's the same as a sleep()
Jleagle··on Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative
Can someone explain why a robot would not be able to calculate the PoW?
Jleagle··on Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll
I see a preview on the linked page, but still odd instructions can only be emailed to you.
Jleagle··on Mozilla Firefox Removes "Do Not Track" Feature Support
As a web developer i don't think i have ever supported this feature, but only because i never remembered to. It's a pretty easy feature to add, but unless browsers can force it, you're better off with uBLock.
Jleagle··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
How about not getting a bonus? Last year he got around $1M in bonuses.
Jleagle··on Show HN: qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code
While I do agree, one can be done almost instantly in your browser, one takes hours of rendering.
Jleagle··on Show HN: Cronexpr, a Rust library to parse and iter crontab expression
This sounds great, if i could trust it to get it right 100% of the time.
Jleagle··on Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7
You need a quick reaction time for lots of games, many people have high ping times because of their internet provider or rubbish wifi.

Ad for owning games, if you buy the game on disc, you can sell it, if you download it, you cant, that's on you.

Jleagle··on Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
I think this was supposed to be a reply to one of the Home Assistant threads
Jleagle··on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says
You can already do this, when you buy a car you own it and manufacturers don't stop you changing the car however you like.
Jleagle··on Pornhub Blocked in Texas
What would a version without adult content contain?
Jleagle··on Crypto 'mixer' convicted of money laundering on Bitcoin Fog
Similar argument to bittorrent. Using it is perfectly legal, using it to download movies is illegal.
Jleagle··on Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine?
Wikipedia: `Rebecca Smethurst, also known as Dr. Becky, is a British astrophysicist, author, and YouTuber who is a junior research fellow at the University of Oxford. She was the recipient of the 2020 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society, as well as the 2020 Mary Somerville Medal and Prize, awarded by the Institute of Physics. In 2022, she won the Royal Astronomical Society's Winton Award "for research by a post-doctoral fellow in Astronomy whose career has shown the most promising development".`
Jleagle··on The hovercraft's time might have arrived
Living in Portsmouth UK, I see a huge hovercraft all the time, maybe the largest in the world for passengers, taking people to the Isle of Wight. I sometimes forgot that they are pretty rare. They are great for kids as they really feel like an experience.
Jleagle··on Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
Must be bad compression if the files are getting larger?
Jleagle··on A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks
It's an Electron app, they also have a native one in beta you can download
Jleagle··on Paying Netflix $0.53/H, etc.
You would just need 1 api connection to your bank, which there are many options for these days.
Jleagle··on Robinhood launches crypto trading in the European Union
I was indeed thinking of the proof of reserves audits (attestations).
Jleagle··on Robinhood launches crypto trading in the European Union
This is not true
Jleagle··on Google News is shutting down purchased magazine content, offering refunds
You can download it and you get a refund.
Jleagle··on Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)
Presumably you don't have to give it an existing website, you could give it a screenshot/design.
Jleagle··on Website hosted on ESP32
https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
Jleagle··on Metric Time
Don't forget 10, 12, 15, 20, 30
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