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mattcoles commented on The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them   shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/... · Posted by u/edent
niknetniko · 3 years ago
Am I missing something here? I understand the "The IAB loves tracking users." part of the title, but where is the part about "But it hates users tracking them."? Based on the title, I would have expected an exception in their standard for themselves, or a story about how their own user tracking technology was used against them.

However, there is none of that. Just that the IAB does not want to make it easier for users to escape their tracking (which, given their purpose, is unfortunately entirely expected). What justifies "But it hates users tracking them."?

mattcoles · 3 years ago
Let’s say you use a “plus” formatted email, I.e foo+github@gmail.com

Then when you receive spam/unsolicited marketing emails, you can see to which email the spam was sent, and therefore which company sold your data.

This suggests the only way to keep this behaviour is to have your own email hosted and use a truly different email per service.

mattcoles commented on The UK is wasting a lot of wind power   archy.deberker.com/the-uk... · Posted by u/RobinL
ZeroGravitas · 3 years ago
Curtailment, like negative prices, seems like something that it is hard for people to have constructive conversations about.

Probably the cheapest and best option is to build more wind and not care too much if it increases curtailment.

Yes, all the things mentioned should be looked into and done when it makes financial sense but "wasting wind" is much less a thing to worry about than "burning gas", and I'd rather waste wind than waste money.

mattcoles · 3 years ago
I understand that curtailment is needed to incentivise private businesses to invest in wind when the output and demand can’t be correlated, but if the government owned the wind farms then it wouldn’t matter if we wasted right? We could just always be overproducing and wouldn’t have to pay for it.
mattcoles commented on Cracking encrypted LastPass vaults   markuta.com/cracking-last... · Posted by u/markuta
agilob · 3 years ago
2,000,000+ H/s on macbook. I heard GPU clusters built purposely for quick hashing got cheaper recently.
mattcoles · 3 years ago
He didn’t achieve 2MH/s on his MacBook. That was the authors estimate of what you could achieve on a multi-GPU setup, it was only around ~1KH/s on the MacBook.
mattcoles commented on Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client   apple.com/newsroom/2019/0... · Posted by u/briandear
ohazi · 6 years ago
You do realize that ports are holes right? They make your laptop lighter.

The amount of metal removed from the case is heavier than the connector and PCB traces.

Don't carry around the cables if you don't want to, but your argument is ridiculous.

mattcoles · 6 years ago
They do have stuff inside them though, so I'm not suggesting they make it heavier but having the required electronics does take up space that can be otherwise utilised.
mattcoles commented on Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (2017)   theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/kombinat
Causality1 · 7 years ago
>I call them iGen.

Everyone else on planet earth calls them Generation Z or Zoomers. Dammit this is that author who makes up her own words for things that already have well-established monikers isn't it. I knew she'd make it back on here at some point.

mattcoles · 7 years ago
iGeneration is a long established term for Gen Z. This author among many others claims to have coined the moniker but has done so since at least 2006.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Generation_Z

mattcoles commented on Show HN: Nullboard – Simple, light, locally-stored to-do lists   nullboard.io/preview... · Posted by u/apankrat
mattcoles · 7 years ago
I don't know if it's just me but hamburger menus that appear/disappear on hover seems very frustrating to use for me, it's especially obvious on this where the font size is so small.

I find it fiddly to delete/mark as completed as the slightest missed movement means I have to start again.

mattcoles commented on How Many Type Parameters Can a Java Method Have?   justinblank.com/experimen... · Posted by u/pplonski86
Rebelgecko · 7 years ago
An auspicious and possibly immature number
mattcoles · 7 years ago
70?
mattcoles commented on Why don't we have Wayland on Raspberry Pi yet? (2018)   joshondesign.com/2018/03/... · Posted by u/bpierre
miloignis · 7 years ago
Do note that the article is mainly about Wayland on the raspberry pi. Of course Wayland isn't the default most places yet (Fedora being the big exception, I think), though you can install it on most distros.

I've been Wayland/Sway on NixOS for a while, and I really like it.

One question though - the article seems to say that wlroots is a Rust project, but it seems to very much be a pure C project? (https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots)

mattcoles · 7 years ago
What do you like about it?

For general use it seems as if it'll be something that makes no difference to my day-to-day usage of my computer other than a warm fuzzy feeling that the underlying protocol is "right".

mattcoles commented on “Be yourself” is terrible advice   theoutline.com/post/7142/... · Posted by u/paulpauper
mattcoles · 7 years ago
Highly recommend the book 'Wisdom of Insecurity' by Alan Watts. This article touches on the search for an immutable self but it doesn't quite make the leap that there isn't one and that the advice to "be yourself" is never going to bring any psychological satisfaction.
mattcoles commented on JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google   security.googleblog.com/2... · Posted by u/amaccuish
mattcoles · 7 years ago
To keep your account secure, turn on Javascript?? If anything is making your web browsing less secure, it's JS.

I don't particularly care that Google isn't letting you sign in without JS, but the message is just plain wrong..

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