I think it's even realistic to say that dotfiles are vulnerable to being used as a fingerprint mechanism by nefarious packages. One could easily create an inventory of github profiles <> dotfiles; then read local dotfiles when their package gets installed on a developer laptop.
Readit Newssuperzamp commented on Dotfiles feel too personal to share hamatti.org/posts/dotfile... · Posted by u/speckx
This has been happening regularly over the course of decades on the West Bank but no-one is willing to call it "Terrorism" and therefore respond appropriately.
Well, France just took a stance and officially qualified this as terrorism [1] for the first time.
[1] https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/israel-terri...
not a game on Steam? :(
If you want to treat yourself with an accounting game night, there's this one built by @patio11: https://keshikomisimulator.com/
superzamp commented on Precious Plastic is in trouble preciousplastic.com//news... · Posted by u/diggan
PS: it's not highly visible in the link but this post is 6 months old [1]. Wondering where they are now, given that they seemed to have less than that in runway.
[1] https://community.preciousplastic.com/questions/questions-on...
superzamp commented on Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law ca.finance.yahoo.com/news... · Posted by u/Aldipower
>the most easily agreeable part of what the EU has been after
It's also probably the most dangerous for Apple. It creates a cash incentive to push people outside of Apple's walled garden and show them what's outside.
I really really hope Apple gets its act together, they are the greatest "the user experience comes first" company and they actually have great hard tech but they show signs of rent seeking behavior which can destroy them.
If Apple just play nice with EU, open up and focus on bringing the greatest experience possible they will keep winning. If not, they will have blunders and they will lose Europe since people are willing to look for alternatives as USA gets increasingly unpopular among the Europeans due to politics.
The Apple's AI blunder is mostly a blunder only because they insist to do it all by themselves so to have higher margins on the services revenues. IMHO those blunders will be more damaging as the Americans no longer have the higher moral grounds than Koreans or Chinese.
I hope Apple is treading carefully.
I would imagine that getting the user out of the in-app purchase payment screen and attempt to redirect them at the website for payment, have them figure out how to enter credit card details etc would result in a drastically decreased conversion rate though.
superzamp commented on Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’ bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/SirLJ
Instead of demanding that your counterparty be uninformed, why not do a market open/close auction every minute?
Attempts at doing this are effectively already existing, the IEX [1] exchange being an example, albeit on a less ambitious scale than your idea:
> It's a simple technology: 38 miles of coiled cable that incoming orders and messages must traverse before arriving at the exchange’s matching engine. This physical distance results in a 350-microsecond delay, giving the exchange time to take in market data from other venues—which is not delayed—and update prices before executing trades
superzamp commented on EU to impose counter tariffs on $28 billion of US goods reuters.com/markets/europ... · Posted by u/adam__smith
Uncertainty has a cost. The stupid daily changing trade war with Canada is causing a lot of Canadian companies to make medium or long term decisions to decouple from the US.
Oh I definitely agree with that. I’m just wondering here if having something mechanical, predictable, deterministic (instead of whatever the hell that is that we have right now) wouldn’t be an interesting way to align incentives.
superzamp commented on EU to impose counter tariffs on $28 billion of US goods reuters.com/markets/europ... · Posted by u/adam__smith
The EU would already prefer that people buy European.
The problem with anti-import schemes is that they inevitably hit exports. Trade has to have something in both directions, eventually.
If that's the goal, one might wonder why are tariffs implemented in such a static way. Why not having your own tariffs importing from XYZ be updated on a monthly basis based on what XYZ imported from you last month.
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