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Flammy commented on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/dnsbty

rastignack · 7 months ago

> undermining democratic structures

Democratic structures like fatah and hamas ?

Flammy · 7 months ago

I assume OP is referring to internal-to-isreal structures such as the independence of the supreme court.

Flammy commented on Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative Cap.so... · Posted by u/mcilroy

RileyJames · a year ago

Reasons I use Loom: - Social features, users can comment & engage with my video to provide feedback

- Analytics, I get notifications when a user views a video (useful for demos/sales)

- Post-capture editing

- Set 1.X speed by default on videos (significantly reduces video length)

I don't find the capturing element of loom very good. Their chrome integration is pretty bad, seems to not handle clicking/changing pages when capturing a tab.

I recently started using Screen Studio and have really liked it.

Flammy · a year ago

I've found some of Loom's auto-descriptions (including previews in Slack) to be pretty solid use case for AI.

Flammy commented on Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions androidauthority.com/andr... · Posted by u/thunderbong

Flammy · a year ago

From the article and comments, I'm assuming this will operate similarly to how Windows makes it slightly harder to run applications that aren't signed by a known trusted source.

If so, I don't have a problem with that.

Flammy commented on Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions androidauthority.com/andr... · Posted by u/thunderbong

izacus · a year ago

Which EU law would that violate? Especially since EU is lately very sensitive about digital abuse.

Flammy · a year ago

Presumably gets close to

> Digital Markets Act, a 2022 law that requires Apple to open iPhones in the bloc to competing app marketplaces and alternative payment systems for in-app sales.

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wslh · a year ago

Retaliation for the retaliation of the retaliation and the retaliation... that makes retaliation a void meaning.

Flammy · a year ago

Sure, but not all retaliation is equal and nation states know what constitutes escalation vs retaliation without escalating.

I'm failing to find it, but after the recent Israel <> Gaza war kicked off, there was an interesting article about the types of military actions between Israel <> Hezbollah and what constituted "not escalating" vs "escalating." The different attack options for each side were asymmetric, but basically both sides had "ramp up the conflict" and "ramp down the conflict without losing face for not responding" options.

Unless this is a prelude to more attacks, this feels like a "de-escalation" option to me: Iran gets headlines, gets to negotiate, gets to show its strength domestically, but if this is the extent of it probably no one dies and the damage will be limited to shipping insurance costs and the like. Big $ numbers, but not blood.

That isn't to say some terror group or 3rd party (Saudi, Houthis, etc) isn't going to take this moment to take a swing at one of the parties involved, it's always possible.

Flammy commented on · Posted by u/wslh

Flammy · a year ago

I'm glad that so far there haven't been any reported injuries, and I'd rather have ship hijackings than missiles or car bombs.

Hopefully this is the extent of the retaliation, but who knows.

Flammy commented on Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website notepad-plus-plus.org/new... · Posted by u/croes

mirekrusin · a year ago

It may redirect for 99.99% of users for example. Or only for ip ranges that are not relevant targets.

Flammy · a year ago

Yeah my thought was similar: One day in the future its current behavior changes once it has built up enough traffic...

Flammy commented on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison cnn.com/business/live-new... · Posted by u/misiti3780

menomatter · a year ago

I have not been following any crypto news POST mtgx and pulling all my crypto to local storage. What did this guy actually do? Did he mismanage funds or literally took money from poeple and stashed it away?

Flammy · a year ago

He let his private equity / investment company (Alameda) borrow unlimited customer funds via a software backdoor for various investments.

Flammy commented on Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients fda.gov/inspections-compl... · Posted by u/mkmk

MarCylinder · 2 years ago

Looks like a lot of uninformed opinions in here.

As someone who has made a career consulting for supplement companies selling on Amazon, this does not surprise me. When Amazon first instituted testing requirements for supplements (something that already exists under federal law) they required all sellers to provide testing for all of their products. Failure to do so resulted in removal of your products from the marketplace.

Since then, two things have changed. Certain supplement categories have additional testing requirements outside of what is expected by the FDA. Companies have to prove the absence of certain illegal ingredients. But, Amazon has switched to random testing requirements. In the last 3 years, Amazon has not asked a single one of my clients to provide any COAs. I have seen other brands have to provide some, but the requirements are very limited. It is for this reason, unsurprising that illegal products are making it into customer hands.

It is my understanding that the individual who drove the campaign to get COAs, GMP certificates, etc for all supplement listings is no longer with Amazon, and nobody has filled that role since. That should be changed.

But Amazon has always been aggressive over enforcement of marketing claims, and some claims will always instantly flag a COA requirement. Sellers use careful wording to avoid these flags. The solution is to make a COA required for the creation of these listings.

I mean, let's take this one further. Most supplement companies are just marketing companies. They don't formulate the product, they don't manufacture the ingredients, and they don't even blend the powder. They make a brand. But, the FDA doesn't care. As a brand receiving product from a manufacturer, you are still required to test it. The manufacturer is also required to test the raw materials as well as the finished product. Yet, most companies I speak to are not testing product received. They rely solely on the manufacturer testing.

So we should be requiring these brands to do their due diligence. Show me the COA you are supposed to have for every lot you send in. It's already required by the FDA.

As is always the case with supplements, regulation is not the issue. It's enforcement

Flammy · 2 years ago

This is a really high quality comment you've written here, thank you for posting your perspective.

For those of us who don't know about testing, can you explain COA/GMP and how robust the testing process is?

The reason I ask I'm a little concerned about Amazon's incentives not being aligned with consumers priority for high quality and safe product and is letting suppliers choose which product(s) to submit for testing rather than doing periodic random testing which I fear is too much to hope/ask for...

Flammy commented on Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops social.hackerspace.pl/@q3... · Posted by u/miki123211

fnimick · 2 years ago

Exactly. This is a company initiative to increase company profits. It's smart business, as long as it's not illegal or the fine is insufficiently high.

Flammy · 2 years ago

Yup that is how I read it as well. Product decision.