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Yes

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-th...

https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/the-problem-of-the-llm-crawl...

It is a cat and mouse game, it is whether the service provider do or not. I remember AWS WAF can block VPN ages ago, according to this announcement, it is 2020.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/03/aws-waf-a...

QR Code is too cheap to produce, it is easy for scammer to just print a fake one and take your money.

https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/can-i-trust-this-qr-code-c....

QR Code base system is slow, have security risk and will not work without smartphone.

Proliferation of hundred of QR Code based payments system is not a good thing, you need one that works across all countries.

Outside Visa and Mastercard, we have Amex, Diner, JCB, even China has UnionPay, but unfortunately they are not as popular as a contender of the duopoly.

I thought the argument point is letting it die is OK, but letting wrongfully translated text, becoming the source of AI to chuck out wrongfully translated text is not OK.

As ex-Smart TV app developer, I would stay with Sony's Android TV. Reason being

- Samsung Tizen is sluggish. - LG webOS is fiddly and don't feel it gets enough attention and care from LG. - Other brand is just slow. - On hackability, Android is far easier to handle than any other brand.

Mind you Sony has a few line and some run Android, some run something else.

Why not? Code is liability. Less code to maintain also enhance engineer's ability to reason the code and implement better website.

If using LLM can shorten the time reporter needs to rewrite the whole article again in the language the reporter is fluent but take effort to write, why not?

This will give the reporter more time to work on more articles, and we as a foreigner to Korea, getting more authentic Korean news that is reviewed by Korean and not be Google Translate.

Vega is FireTV new OS. LG TV run webOS, which is totally different.

As an adult, you probably need to authenticate yourself in the following situation.

opening a bank account, getting a credit card, getting a mortgage or a loan, buying a flight ticket, signing up for internet service, signing for mobile services, buying a concert ticket and the list goes on.

What's common here is the service provider need to know you are actually the person say it is you and not someone else.

Back in the old days where we apply the service in person, you can take your driving license or passport to authenticate yourself, but with myriad of services now moving online, we need a centralised system that mimic the physical ID.

Maybe it is me, but I wouldn't take whatever advice provided by someone who is only known by pseudonym.

I googled, and it seems Kobo can? But I don't own a Kobo to test it.

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019527954-Downloa...

This works, until you want to print the page (dead tree format or PDF format) and breaks everything.

Some people think dealing with the following are fun.

Handling massive amount of video ingestion from content creator; Transcoding to various format that is optimal for various devices, Live streaming with Live to VOD, Geo restriction, Live Commenting, Ad insertion and penalise adblocker, Recommendation engine.

There are many features and challenges that are unique to OTT streaming applications and running at YouTube scales makes it even more challanging, or fun to some, to handle.

Anything can disappear in this modern era. Thankfully YouTube is not DRM protected yet and you can do something about it. Any media company can take any video offline and your access to it will be gone. Same for ebooks, not only those tied to your account, but I was thinking, what if Overdrive/Libby terminate the access to particular library.

Wikipedia can be bad because it is edited by human. And because it is edited by human, the side that has more people will win.

For example, Wikipedia has a Chinese issue. [1]

Because both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese both live under the Chinese language in Wiki (And we have a dropdown within Chinese wiki to choose what regional variants we want to read). There's a constant wiki edit war. This is not only happened to the political topic, but also how something should be phased. Even though Chinese officially ban access to Wikipedia by the Great Firewall, enough people VPN and manage to edit wiki pages by pages, and more annoyingly, there are more wiki admin coming from PRC than Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau etc.

So you cannot assume Wikipedia is neutral.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59081611

Hong Kong has a similar system in the CBD area, but instead of going underground. They built foot bridges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Elevated_Walkway

Sorry, should have said "Current Cable Outage" instead.

It is not a burst but a consistent sabotage action happening in the background [1]. To make the matter worse, those vessels that commit the crime will be merchant ship flying flags of convenience. [2]

[1] https://globaltaiwan.org/2025/03/countering-chinas-subsea-ca.... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3zy9jvd4o

Simply looking at check out you can see that customer obsession is false. Littering with tiny text and checkbox trying to trick you to subscribe to Amazon Prime.

Not to mention they can randomly ban account for no reason given.

Side note: some people may not be able access it outside of specific area.

What interesting is, the implementation is completely simple multi pages HTML5/CSS/Vanilla JavaScript. No framework. And it just, works.

Why not recycle it? I thought Apple in general can trade in old device?

It won't get you from where you are to China though.

At first I thought it is tiddlywiki but it is not.

Because APT will use any devices to infiltrate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSaix1C-UMI

But we have more than one OS in the world, how would you think your one framework approach is going to fit in all platform?

We have seen all these framework claimed to be cross platforms and none of them are not able to make it to the top framework being used.

Web is the only "platforms" with some kind of success by abstract everything away so most of the browser display roughly the same things to all users on all OS.

> There should be a singlular framework for creating desktop apps.

Why?

So this is like a more rigorously version of Mythbusters' No Pain, No Gain test then.

i18n and l10n are something that I have seen a company done right. It is easy developer to assume:

If your IP is coming from country X, you must want the content to be served in language X.

No, there are tourist from country Z, long term resident who prefer language A and people from country X want to learn language B.

- If your browser Accept-Language say X,Y, then you must want all the content to be served in X.

No, I want my search result to be predominantly in X, but when I search for things about Y, show me language Y, and when I search for this band from country Z, please show me in language X.

As a hongkonger (zh_hk + en_gb), living in Singapore (zh_cn + en?), following JPOP. This is the daily fight I have with browser.

I would rather all application, including web app just give me the option to choose and say, interface language, english, content language, follow origin.