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isjamesalive··on iPhone Pocket
I think they meant in the sense of it being worn away and destroyed as an intended use.

Adjective definition 3 from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ablative

isjamesalive··on A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans
I'm assuming the cure for paracetamol-related autism is equal parts bleach, ivermectin paste and hot sauce.
isjamesalive··on Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver
The user’s password would protect the disk’s key, but would not necessarily derive it, I think.
isjamesalive··on Apple squandered the Holy Grail
> No good music players for MacOS for instance

Slightly OT but Doppler is quite good in my opinion.

isjamesalive··on How to Fix the Crowdstrike Thing
My physical workstation (a Precision laptop) was affected and a single reboot fixed it. Most of my colleagues weren’t as lucky.
isjamesalive··on Open Source Python ETL
To be fair, the only place the words ‘open’ and ‘source‘ appear in the readme are once in a sub-heading, where it’s phrased ‘open-source’. It’s clearly labelled ELv2.

Possibly more of a subtle miscommunication or misunderstanding than a deliberate lie.

isjamesalive··on Anonym Joins Mozilla
I don’t feel optimistic about this.
isjamesalive··on Ask HN: What are some privacy friendly domain and hosting services as of 2024?
I’ve been using NearlyFreeSpeech.NET since for 15 years or so and have never needed to consider moving.
isjamesalive··on Understanding QEMU Devices (2018)
> QEMU is a large project and doesn't have much formal design or API documentation.

This is bonkers to me considering how it’s used in industry.

isjamesalive··on Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
Which comments sounded entitled? I didn't get that from any quotes in TFA.
isjamesalive··on The theory versus the practice of “static websites”
> if you accept no input, you can't attack that system

But this is a side channel attack, right?

isjamesalive··on Microsoft subdomain takeover
Do you mean Truffle Security or Microsoft? Bonus points for any explanation (purely out of interest).
isjamesalive··on ffsend: A fully featured Firefox Send command line client
This looks cool, and thank you for using rust and not js/npm.
isjamesalive··on GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
100% agreed. I switched from Google to Fastmail about 8 years ago and it has been wonderful.

In that that time:

* I have not had to worry that I’ll inadvertently trigger an account ban and lose my email account/all my email with no recourse.

* UI updates have been gradual, subdued and useful.

* Support requests have been answered promptly and have been extremely helpful, including one case where the web UI wasn’t loading through the corporate proxy, we determined it was the proxy (not their service) and an engineer STILL helped me with a fix after the ticket was closed.

* No significant (if any) price changes.

* No significant outages (that I can remember).

isjamesalive··on Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password
+1 for bit/vaultwarden. Nice mobile apps, nice browser plugins, nice web interface. Regular updates, easy to install. Using it for a year + (two years?) no issues. Super grateful.
isjamesalive··on Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern
eBay forced its Australian users to pay with PayPal a few years ago: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/accc-probe-of-ebays-paypal...

I’m still annoyed about that.

isjamesalive··on Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
> This vulnerability was reported to Apple in Dec 2019, and it got patched somewhere in 2020. I don’t know why a CVE-2019 ID is given.

FYI: The year part of a CVE ID is either when the ID was assigned or when the issue was publicised: https://cve.mitre.org/about/faqs.html#year_portion_of_cve_id

Not (as I had assumed) when the vulnerable software was first published.

isjamesalive··on Do You Love Me? [video]
Really scary. Whenever I see the latest Boston Dynamics video, I’m always thinking ‘and now imagine it’s hunting you’.
isjamesalive··on Jonathan Blow on Windows Terminal (video)
TL;DR: What is wrong with the world that software that prints text to the screen has/needs a special project by a megacorp to make it perform/operate acceptably.

But you could say the same thing of browsers.

isjamesalive··on Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
Isn't this kinda what Brave/Brendan are doing?
isjamesalive··on Humble Bundle Books: Artificial Intelligence
Does IGN review books now? I genuinely don't see any conflict here.
isjamesalive··on Firefox bullshit removal
Where did you get that idea? His stance on SSM aside, Brendan Eich is not a guy I typically associate with evil.

The whole raison d'être of Brave is to restore privacy to consumers of advertisements while being fair to publishers.

The codebase is all MPL2 on Github. Nothing stopping you or anyone forking it, yada yada.

isjamesalive··on Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have killed Berkeley couple
Deep condolences to you and to their friends and families. x