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NazakiAid··on Data exfiltration in Keepa Price Tracker
I would do that but it's very helpful to also see how often the price changes and goes on sale to know if I am getting "ripped off".
NazakiAid··on Data exfiltration in Keepa Price Tracker
I use Keepa basic and it has saved me a ton of money. I always just assumed it was scraping the prices from pages I visit, but I didn't know it would automatically fetch Amazon pages in the background. Might just sign out of Amazon, and use a separate browser to purchase from it.

Either way, I have some thinking to do on if I should "keepa" it or not (sorry really bad joke). Maybe I should purposely turn a blind eye and just trust they aren't going to do anything evil nor have some privacy risk due to how useful it is.

NazakiAid··on JPG vs. RAW: Get it right the first time (2009)
Now days, professional photos should be RAW as SD cards can fit a hell of a lot of storage on, and RAW provides so much flexability to change things like the white balance etc so I always shoot in RAW with a DSLR then post process the images. It takes time but the images look better then they would have then before. RAW is not for everyone though.
NazakiAid··on Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – a Sad but True Story (2020)
Had the same problem as well when sending an email to a client of mine who used Hotmail. Had had successful communications with them in the past 1.5 years then suddenly, bam. Was put on the "S3140 block list". Had to use my personal Gmail to send emails to them. Never emailed another person who used Microsoft email services.

Was told my email server was sending spam by them (as people had reported emails from the IP as unwanted), so I did a full security check (using logs, trying to find holes, etc), and upgraded software. No problems that I could find.

After lots of back and forth, they said my IP was blocked as it was "suspicious" and they unblocked it (how kind of them). The process took a long time, which I could imagine could be devastating to a small business (luckily my client understood as I made sure to tell them how bad Microsoft is).

NazakiAid··on Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request
Never heard of this but will definitely give it a go now thats for sure. Amazons full of fakes
NazakiAid··on Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube
Quite funny that this ends up making the video more popular because of the Streisand effect. Would be scary if police always had this technique though when recording as maybe it would end up becoming more normalised so the Streisand effect wouldn't happen.
NazakiAid··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
True. I just assumed people (or most likely companies) who are doing these types of things generally will be buying the latest GPU new as they have more money to spend (and want to get a good life out of the card).
NazakiAid··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
Used graphics card were/are a big market (even though new cards depeciate massively when used). Usually crypto cards still last a decent amount of time (and might even have been thrashed while water cooled to keep them healthy). The price of them make up for the fact they have been ran constantly. And the price makes up for the fact of being outdated in-terms of performance. They are great for budget PC's. Many people still buy GTX 970's etc.
NazakiAid··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
A major bad point with this is when the mining cards become obsolete, they won't be able to be used as a graphics card in a computer due to it not being able to output to a display. So realistically it will decrease avaliable graphic card supply to gamers in the future who are maybe looking for a cheap used graphics card (therefore pushing people to buy a new card instead). Short term fix, long term problem.

I was thinking they could maybe get a second use in industry however they mostly buy new cards (from my limited knowledge on it).

Nvidia knows the strats to make $$$ in the long term under the guise of the good guy.

NazakiAid··on Microsoft Authenticator Chrome Extention is not from MS and is phishing
That top link screams scam. Replies from the "Product team at Microsoft Autofill" on a personal account, reviews about it taking up to 30% CPU all the time (possible crypto miner), and not using assets from the Microsoft brand.
NazakiAid··on Introverts can make great leaders (2018)
I would have throught this would be the case because introverts are more likely not needing to look far due to staying indoors most the time (and in my case, staring at monitors). Which means the eyes won't be getting "exercised" to look far.
NazakiAid··on Audacity: Actions we propose to take on PR 835
I think more people would if the telemetry was not using Google and Yandex to get the analytics and instead used their own servers and API that no third-parties have access to. Also if there had been more discussion in the first place before implementing this opt-in telemetry.
NazakiAid··on Show HN: Lofi.cafe
I like the different stations, though would be cool to know how many people are listening to the same station.

Song names would be good as well and the option to disable to background image/animation to save CPU.

Overall I like it.

NazakiAid··on NSFW Server Designation
Was thinking of maybe giving an iPhone (ideally jailbroken) a go in the future because of all the work they are doing for privacy, and then they pull this. Definately too controlling for my liking (not that I use Discord NSFW servers but it's a slippery slope).

Will stick to Android and hopefully root to add privacy instead.

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