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loopdoend··on Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
That sounds amazing sign me up.
loopdoend··on Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of speech (2020)
If I wanted to manipulate public opinion and had infinite resources like the Chinese government does I certainly know how I'd go about it.
loopdoend··on Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
Not to mention the endless packaging these deliveries arrive in.
loopdoend··on Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location
I am assuming OP is using 555 as a stand-in for whatever number was there at the time, however long ago.
loopdoend··on Saskatoon Freezing Deaths
It seems like there's no winning.

Is there any conceivable way those chemicals could make their way into food? Should people use a watering can?

Is there any avoiding contaminants in food? Do we live in a post-contaminant society? Even our compost is contaminated.

loopdoend··on New Arizona law makes it illegal to film within 8 feet of police
Go try arresting one of them and let me know how that goes for you.
loopdoend··on Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm closures
Perhaps nuclear can still save us
loopdoend··on Are blockchains decentralized?
I was wondering how Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin is able to walk around without a security detail, going on extensive backpacking trips, what if someone steals his keys?

He’d just fork the entire blockchain.

Normal users don’t have that luxury.

loopdoend··on Now Monkeypox
Too bad it’s your first exposure to this publication/author.
loopdoend··on We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service
What a great system they devised for using these funds in an emergency. /s
loopdoend··on We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service
If Ty had come out with a Beanie Baby NFT project this whole thing would’ve come full circle. Do you think they’d have taken off or tanked at the height of the NFT Bubble?
loopdoend··on Engineer turns plastic into bricks that are reportedly stronger than concrete
This is where “new car smell” comes from too.
loopdoend··on Detailed Assemblies for an Airtight Small Home
If you have an exhaust fan on to remove shower steam, the air needs to come from somewhere. You don’t want it getting sucked in through the walls (bad air quality). Better to open a window.
loopdoend··on How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database
Let me save you a bunch of money: https://adamj.eu/tech/2021/04/13/reindexing-all-tables-after...
loopdoend··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
China is doing genocide against its Muslim population in Xinjiang.
loopdoend··on Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)
Best to buy ones packed in water. No idea as to the quality of the oil used.
loopdoend··on Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)
Butter and lard contain Neu5Gc which is another nutrition rabbit hole.
loopdoend··on The impact of hardware specifications on reaching quantum advantage
To spoil the joke, qubits presently operate at like 1 Kelvin or -273 degrees Celsius.
loopdoend··on Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
Your home ISP has 100% uptime? That's incredible.
loopdoend··on PostgreSQL 14
Bucardo is great for replication.
loopdoend··on FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent
That would not prevent this.
loopdoend··on Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
Yup. Good luck telling repressive regimes that the technology doesn’t exist. How is the hash list to be trusted, especially in foreign countries? Who will be reviewing the images in foreign countries?
loopdoend··on Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup
Yep this happened to me too and I came to exactly the same conclusions.

We have a list of completely separate “API domains” that our scripts talk to and which also host the cloudfront CDN.

We also cohort our customers by Sift score and keep trusted enterprise customers away from endpoints given to new signups. This way if someone new does something sketchy to get you flagged it won’t affect your core paying customers.

loopdoend··on FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify
Why yes, I do apply the same purity test in every aspect of my life.

Your analogy is intellectually dishonest and uninspired.

loopdoend··on FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify
Perfect, I have been wanting to get off of Spotify ever since they teamed up with Joe Rogan.
loopdoend··on AWS IAM is having issues again
Maybe your sarcasm detector is broken.
loopdoend··on Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address
If the dns lookup on a com1000 domain fails, the email won’t go anywhere.
loopdoend··on Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
Audit trail... see also companies like Jornaya that specialize in making any form interaction auditable for consent to receive marketing.
loopdoend··on Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate
Love your site and ethos. Very cool.
loopdoend··on Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
I’m a night owl and prefer day mode due to the wakeful effects you described, but I keep Night Shift on 24/7 to reduce blues.
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