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Both cookies and localStorage are usually stored in an SQLite db…

localStorage is totally accessible to any JavaScript running on the page, so your session can be completely hijacked and used later.

It’s annoying but it’s definitely possible. You have to keep harassing the Microsoft’s support email, eventually someone will deign to read it and whitelist your specific IP address.

It took me a week of back and forth but I was eventually able to get them to allow my IP address in one of OVH’s banned blocks.

In what crazy fucked up world is it piracy to not watch an ad?

Also, enable the SIM lock on your SIM! This will help prevent someone from receiving verification codes if they stole your SIM card.

Let me guess, the AIs are learning they can refuse to work?

> Video creators also get hurt by ad blockers

I don’t have any kind of business relationship or agreement with content creators. This is their problem and YouTube’s problem.

I only deal with YouTube, which sends video streams to my computer for free, and I’m exercising my right to decide what I want to play on my own computer that I own.

More and more content creators are getting their income through sponsorships and referrals, anyways, as they feel the squeeze of YouTube’s exploitative and predatory behaviour.

> What's your issue with having to watch ads if you watch less than 1 hour of video content a month?

Why should I be forced to watch something I don’t want to watch? Google sends my computer a stream of “[ad][ad][content]”. It’s my own damn choice which parts of that to watch.

Google freely sends a bunch of video content to my computer. Why don’t I have the right to decide which parts of that content I want to watch? Which parts are permitted to execute on my computer?

My computer, my home, my rules. Google has their policies, I have mine. It’s none of Google’s business whether I watched the ads or not.

Then he wouldn’t be giving a shit, he’d be selling some shit.

Difficult and complicated to get funding, insanely high rent, Canadian banks and telcos are stuck in the Stone Age, and the government bureaucracy is impotent and moves at a snail’s pace.

Or we move to America and earn twice as much money.

Hilariously, YT has disabled the homepage feed if you have search history disabled. They think this will make people turn search history on… So now I always come to a nice clean homepage before I go looking for through my subscriptions.

If Google wanted people to pay to watch their videos, then they shouldn’t make them available to stream without paying.

I have the right to skip whatever content I don’t want to watch. That’s not piracy and frankly it’s ridiculous to suggest that it is.

Most people have _extremely_ weak device security. 0000, 1234, DDMM of their birthdate, etc, you probably cover the majority of people.

And none of that helps you when someone robs you of your phone and says tell them your unlock code or they’ll stab you. Now they’ve got all your passkeys too.

Great so now people need to be rich enough to own multiple phones? Really. The solution can’t be “buy multiple devices” when the average person can barely afford to maintain one working device.

That doesn’t mean it does any “reasoning”. It generates a response text that looks like a response to the input text. The whole point is that it generates responses that aren’t in the training set. But the fact that the response is actually a correct one is just coincidence.

> dems made small value crimes not felony

Are you seriously blaming the Democrats for the invention of misdemeanour crimes? Or for adjusting the threshold between misdemeanour and felony according to inflation?

Texas has misdemeanour theft to a far higher threshold than California… oops.

Stop watching Fox News.

I think you meant this version ;) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8

Housing is obscenely expensive everywhere, not just America. I didnt think Hong Kong, Taipei, London, etc, suffer from America’s zoning issues?

It’s difficult to provide proof when the act of doing so is either illegal, or gets you targeted by a major nation state. We may never get proof. We may only get proof decades after the fact when it becomes irrelevant.

In cases like this we have to weigh the likelihood and risk regardless, and proactively protect ourselves.

The fact is that worker productivity has tremendously increased, but worker income/wealth is stagnant. Only the owning class is reaping the benefits of increasing worker productivity.

Working hours will continue to fall as you say, but inequality will only get worse. Working 30 hours instead of 40 hours won’t change how poor everyone is.

Of course they can and should be compared. They’re human beings, and I don’t care how much additional “value” you brought to the company (you know that’s BS they tell to justify being overpaid) or how many late hours you worked, in my eyes you’re not deserving to earn 1000x more money than your ordinary workers.

Totally agree. I love my iPhone but autocorrect is absolutely the most painful and most infuriating part of the experience. I am constantly fighting with the autocorrect… sometimes repeating the same word 3 times because I’ve typed it correctly but iPhone really wants to change it.

Same with proper nouns. If I deliberately start a word with a capital letter it’s probably a proper noun and I know how it’s spelled, don’t correct me.

Fix this shit, Apple, it’s the one part of iPhone I really hate.

Here in Taipei I get pretty close to gigabit download speeds in good conditions. Upload only around 150Mbit though.

It’s not just Toronto, housing prices and overall CoL are soaring all over Canada, and wages are stagnant.

The major issue isn’t that the absolute cost of living is high, it’s that the difference between cost of living and wages is increasing too fast. A median wage earner literally can’t save a down payment for a house because the amount they need is too growing too fast.

But you’re right that other major world cities even worse... in Taipei where I’m living now, home ownership is simply out of the question for most people unless they have family support to get a mortgage.

It’s a global problem.

I don’t understand what that 220k mortgage actually bought… a broom closet? A parking space? A tiny house in a countryside town far from anywhere?

The UK is also a pretty good example. For the vast majority of people paid through PAYE, their tax reporting, withholdings and refunds are completely automatic.

You only start having to file a tax return when you earn above £100k, and even then you can do it online for free at the government’s website.

Intuit as a business should not exist. Congress needs to make tax filing free and as automated as possible. I’ll be happy to see Sasan run out of business.

> On one hand, people should have the ability to do what they want with properties they own.

Hard disagree. Society did indeed already decide otherwise, hence why short term rentals are regulated in the first place. Airbnb has made its money helping people circumvent those laws… the Uber of housing. I’m surprised it’s taking so long for cities to react.

I too have used several languages and for me Haskell’s is the worst I’ve had the displeasure of using. It could be forgivable if the language itself wasn’t so unfathomable to newcomers.

JavaScript’s situation isn’t great, but it’s still easier to work with than Haskell, in terms of hours of frustration.

For me it’s Rust that has really raised the bar for what quality tooling looks like.

This sounds like a urban legend or an isolated incident portrayed to make the issue sound big and scary.

Prisons should be evaluating whether the person was genuinely living as a woman (and possibly taking hormone treatments, etc) before putting them into a women’s prison, and not just because they declared “I’m a woman now” after being convicted and sentenced.

Nobody making a fuss about trans people causing problems in prisons seems to give a single fuck about all the sexual assaults and rapes that happen between men or between women in prisons. It’s only when trans people come into the picture then all of a sudden prison rape becomes a big issue.

That’s the point. You’re employed locally and do work for the remote company.

If you don’t want to work as an employee, then you can enter into a contracting relationship, but employers tend to avoid this because there’s always the risk that the local government determines the contractor is actually an employee and taxes are owed.