uncletammy

Tell that to all the shitty companies who require 2FA and only offer it by phone/sms

EDIT: and by "shitty" I mean my bank among many other equally important service providers.

> I have a feeling that Meta has some kind of internal system for slurping up everyone's contact info

Yes. It's called Facebook Messenger. All your friends have it installed on their phone and it has access to all the data in their phone's contact list, including anyone who might have saved it in the email field of their contact entry for you.

Right? Isn't this the oldest criticism of Facebook Messenger?

> higher-privilege co-processors running code outside the main OS' control is becoming (or already is) the norm everywhere

There may be good arguments for allowing these types of "features" but this is not one of them. I'm so tired of seeing "it's fine because everyone else is doing it too"

I feel like I've been asking this question for 15 years.

I've looked everywhere for this but can't find it. I'm on Brave Desktop v1.44.112

As a Texan, it's nice seeing Ken Paxton, our crook of an attorney general who has been under indictment for multiple years for multiple crimes, finally do something positive for the people.

I still won't vote for the fascist criminal but I'm glad he's finally doing his job.

Pop-unders still exist. The only difference is that it's now new tabs instead of windows.

> Also, I love the useful little features they include like redirecting all http requests from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com.

I use Brave daily and have never heard of this feature. How do I turn this on?

Can you elaborate or give some context? I know nothing about this sub or it's history.

> The discourse in many subreddits is invisibly dictated by the moderators.

In the case of r/bitcoin, the largely invisible reddit censorship allowed for the effective capture of the coin's community and development. It was used to silence and remove those who believed BTC's primary use case should be cash. It was incredibly effective too.

For further reading:

https://medium.com/@johnblocke/a-brief-and-incomplete-histor...

https://medium.com/@johnblocke/r-bitcoin-censorship-revisite...

Paypal has been doing this crap for at least 15 years now. Anyone still using them at this point has it coming.

I absolutely adore this project. I can't wait to see how it grows :)

Because Tether would be (probably already is) an incredibly valuable honeypot

Care to objectively articulate the arguments against switching to proof-of-stake? Why is it controversial?

Could be a time intensive exploit. Maybe they didn't have enough time to mine the other 455M.

Smells like class action damage control to me

Its not about cheap vs expensive. It's about overall incentives within the system. A read should be as valuable as a write. At the very least, a read shouldn't be completely free.

> At this rate, in a few months we'll find out how much backing Tether really has, because it is being paid out.

As someone who's been watching Tether since it's inception, I say don't count on it. They've managed to continuously escape the consequences of running a dangerous fractional reserve system.

The main beneficiaries of this system are now companies with incredibly deep pockets who aren't afraid of deploying that capital to keep the system afloat.

I used to think Tether would fall apart with a long enough bear market. Now I think it will stay afloat until it's captured by the US government. Or until it's acquired by a U.S. company that's willing to turn over customer trade data to a "5 eyes" nation in exchange for their help and leniency in restructuring it so it can continue to operate with the government's blessing.

"Own the exchange"

Don't forget that you can use new.reddit.com while logged in with your account that is configured to show you the old layout.

This skews the numbers on how many people will bail once they drop support for the old layout. I'll definitely be part of that exodus and it will surely be bigger than 2%.

After hearing the tone, I immediately thought the same thing! Such a great song.

Do you have a source for that claim? I wasn't aware that was necessarily true.

What ended up being the actual problem with it?

The effect on Jstore's revenue would have been negligible.

I'm surprised to see someone so cold and unfeeling about Aaron Swartz. Especially considering the massive injustice with regards to application of the law and sentencing.

> Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.

There is no magic in the mechanism behind ETH's inflation/deflation. If an equilibrium is found, it will be because the appropriate levers are pulled until the desired ratio is reached.

It's also worth keeping in mind that the levers needed may not exist within the system. ETH is still a massively ambitious and risky experiment. Anyone who says otherwise is naive or trying to sell you something. That being said, ETH is absolutely the most interesting thing happening in both tech and finance. I hope it works out.

You see no value in having a currency that can't be inflated on a whim by your government? As in, the printing of money that reduces the purchasing power of the money sitting in your bank account. Really?

> At the same time, cryptocurrencies still haven't provided a killer app that shuts everyone up.

I disagree. The killer app is cash and that use case was intentionally killed by the bitcoin maximalists.

Well I read the word sexting and spit out my coffee.

This is wonderful!

For me, accessibility has always been kind of an afterthought. Not because I don't think it's important but because I don't really have the knowledge of best practices. I hope someone creates a generator for it because I would easily make this my standard front-end for all new projects.

You can check out the code at https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend

The offerings in this space change so quickly and it results in these threads having a pretty short shelf life. Getting a super current solution to arguably one of the greatest privacy problem facing our world right now is probably worth a little redundancy and clutter. Right?