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3-cheese-sundae commented on 'Phased Out'–Google Confirms Bad News for All 3B Chrome Users   forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/RupertWiser
jauntywundrkind · 2 months ago
Google genuinely built an attempt to make the web tracking free. To everyone but browsers. It's a neat attempt & I pour out libations to the attempt.

If the commentariat hadn't been so persistently snipey about Google throughout (assuming only worst faiths), maybe the broader advertising industry might not have achieved the obstructionist regulatory capture that really slammed on the brakes for doing anything different and maybe perhaps possibly better.

Instead we all get tracked forever.

3-cheese-sundae · 2 months ago
Can you help me understand how Privacy Sandbox was going to make the web tracking-free?
3-cheese-sundae commented on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search   anycrap.shop/... · Posted by u/kafked
srcoder · 3 months ago
3-cheese-sundae · 3 months ago
I sure feel like I've been involved with some projects that had an atomic BOM.
3-cheese-sundae commented on When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you   theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
y0eswddl · 4 months ago
The questions and info you ask friends doesn't end up in a massive data profile on you stored in somebody's cloud to be used for future manipulation/marketing/profiling...
3-cheese-sundae · 4 months ago
They do, if they're asked over one of the many popular non-secure chat platforms.

I feel like most people don't wait until their friends are in the room to ask them questions or exchange info.

3-cheese-sundae commented on Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network   techno-fandom.org/~hobbit... · Posted by u/pilingual
dwattttt · 5 months ago
Plus they're fun to say. Spudger!
3-cheese-sundae · 5 months ago
Yes. I, too, shall spudge.
3-cheese-sundae commented on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?    · Posted by u/paulwilsonn
galad87 · 5 months ago
I wrote a small app to display a bitrate graph of video files, and posted the code on GitHub with the GPL2 license. A few weeks later someone uploaded it to the Mac App Store and sold it for 7$, the only difference was the name.
3-cheese-sundae · 5 months ago
That stings, but how many purchases do you think it's getting?
3-cheese-sundae commented on A Logo on a Prosthesis Is Like a Tattoo You Didn't Ask For   theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
UniverseHacker · a year ago
Ahhh… yeah I would not tolerate that either, but I don’t buy cars from dealerships- they are middlemen in the business of ripping you off. They already had to buy it at a market rate and added no value, so can’t make anything unless they overcharge you.
3-cheese-sundae · a year ago
I think that's an oversimplification. The market rates for wholesale, private sale, and retail are different. Selling a vehicle to a private party always nets the seller more cash than selling the same to a dealer. As a private buyer, you would have a very difficult time trying to buy a vehicle direct from most manufacturers.

As another said, this is due to lobbying, but that doesn't change the fact that the markets are different.

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3-cheese-sundae commented on TSAC: Low Bitrate Audio Compression   bellard.org/tsac/... · Posted by u/ajitk
XMPPwocky · 2 years ago
if you patch out the CRC check in the binary with

echo -ne "\x90\x90" | dd if=/dev/stdin of=tsac bs=1 seek=23914 conv=notrunc

you can corrupt the compressed files with very interesting results: https://meow.social/@mimir/112238998609778334

the fast mode (you don't have to patch the binary for this one, it seems to not do the CRC check?) and the normal (non-fast) mode sound different, but both quite interesting

3-cheese-sundae · 2 years ago
The first track's corruption sounds to me a bit like the intro to "Knuckles" by The Presets.
3-cheese-sundae commented on Anonymous public voicemail inbox   afterthebeep.tel/... · Posted by u/unixispower
3-cheese-sundae · 2 years ago
What audio codec and parameters are used for the recordings? You've really nailed the 90s landline sound.

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