theelous3 (u/theelous3)

theelous3 commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau

jasode · 4 days ago

>It's just insane that a gift card redemption can trigger this.

It's also the buying of gift cards that can get Apple accounts locked: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/r8b1lu/apple_will_pe...

If enough of these horror stories are publicized, people will learn to never buy/redeem Apple gift cards because of the real possibility of account bans.

- Don't give Apple gift cards to family and friends: You're potentially ruining the recipient's digital life if they redeem it.

- Don't buy Apple gift cards: You risk ruining your own digital life.

If you've been given an Apple gc for Christmas -- and you have paranoia of the risks -- don't buy anything online that's tied to your Apple ID. Instead, go to the physical Apple store to redeem it. And don't buy an iPhone with it because that will eventually get assigned to an Apple ID. Instead, get a non-AppleID item such as the $249 ISSEY MIYAKE knit sock.

I have thousands of credit-card reward points that could be traded in for Apple gift cards but I don't do it because Apple's over-aggressive fraud tracking means Apple's store currency is too dangerous to use.

theelous3 · 3 days ago

"we sell gift cards :)"

"and we ban you for buying or redeeming them"

is just top tier comedy honestly.

As soon as I heard the first one of these stories about a guy getting google broad-spectrum banned because a junkbot AI thought his completely normal youtube comment was a nazi rant or whatever else it hallucinated - I bailed on the whole shebang. Hosting your own stuff is, if you're a reader of this site, easy enough and cheap enough there's little reason not to.

theelous3 commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84

theelous3 · 9 days ago

All of this was obvious 8 or so years ago during the first real boom when cryptos pants fell down. All hype no usecase. Here we are now how far along in (20 odd years?) with how many smart people making a genuine concerted effort to build something useful (literally millions over the years?) - and still the only useful thing anyone has ever done with blockchain is buy drugs and have a good time.

As I say, crypto is only useful if the whole world is already on the chain. Until then you need to trust outside sources which undermines the entire deal in trustlessness and undermines it in performance.

theelous3 commented on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business investors.micron.com/news... · Posted by u/simlevesque

httpz · 14 days ago

The brand aware "consumers" are really just DIY PC builders, which is relatively a small number. Enterprise DRAM business is doing so great that Micron just doesn't see the consumer market is worth chasing.

This is bad for consumers though since DRAM prices are skyrocketing and now we have one less company making consumer DRAM.

theelous3 · 14 days ago

The people who occupy the b2b ram buying kind of jobs are not aliens from another planet. Brand awareness in consumer markets, especially ones that are so closely tied to people's jobs (nerds gonna nerd) is going to have a knock on effect. It's not like a clothing brand or something.

theelous3 commented on German government comes out against Chat Control xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/... · Posted by u/SolonIslandus

JoshTriplett · 2 months ago

> So, something has got to give.

Something does have to give: the constant demands for interception capabilities on end-to-end encrypted protocols. Those demands must be thoroughly destroyed every time they rear their head again.

theelous3 · 2 months ago

I haven't seen anything that suggests chat control would do anything to e2e. I am genuinely curious. It seems to be an often parroted point but... ?

It's just local image hashing and matching? Or is this only one implementation idea?

theelous3 commented on Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc7... · Posted by u/tosh

CommPhD · 4 months ago

As a Communication PhD, this video is better than an intro to public speaking course I taught as a graduate student at a top public university.

theelous3 · 3 months ago

Famous communications lecturer at most prestigious school on earth beats grad student from public college at teaching. Wow wa we wa high praise indeed.

theelous3 commented on Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc7... · Posted by u/tosh

OutOfHere · 4 months ago

The statement completely overlooks the importance of the ability to listen, to seek clarification. Speaking is important, but listening, soliciting opinion, and incorporating varied perspectives are underrated.

theelous3 · 3 months ago

Look around you. How many of the prominent people you know got there by listening and humbly soliciting opinions? lol

theelous3 commented on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file hyperclay.com/... · Posted by u/pil0u

regularfry · 4 months ago

I think you're underestimating the market here. It's not just extremely technically proficient people, it's the glitch people, the "custom myspace theme" people, possibly even the jsfiddle people.

The `/save` endpoint looks almost trivial. Knocking up a mimic wouldn't take much. The client libs will be interesting, but from the looks of things they're not quite there yet.

theelous3 · 4 months ago

> the glitch people

poor art students?

> the "custom myspace theme" people

they stopped existing a decade or more ago?

> possibly even the jsfiddle people

These aren't even a real group?

lol

theelous3 commented on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file hyperclay.com/... · Posted by u/pil0u

zahlman · 4 months ago

> You gotta eat, I know, but I'm wondering who it is that is ok paying for someone else to do the easiest part what they do for a living.

I don't think that hosting is necessarily "part of what they do for a living" for people who write the code.

theelous3 · 4 months ago

I mean, if you can't host a box, hang up the gloves.

theelous3 commented on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file hyperclay.com/... · Posted by u/pil0u

panphora · 4 months ago

There is an open source, local app version by the same author (me) here: https://hyperclay.com/hyperclay-local

theelous3 · 4 months ago

fwiw, for this kind of tech - personal level projects - there is not a snowball's first summer outing in hell's chance I'm going to pay for someone else to host my thing remotely. I would like to just self host, and if it was good I would buy a license for it so I can self host - but I think you have a customer in mind that doesn't exist.

Your ideal customer a) is extremely technically proficient, such that they are even capable of finding this in the first place, and their brain doesn't glaze over at "jQuery is Your Starting Point" - the opening line of your docs. b) They for some reason would rather pay for someone else to do the world's easiest hosting job and deal with whatever baggage and limitations come with this.

Or am I misunderstanding? Like it's a nodejs server on some aws box. Charging people for this is fine, but not allowing them to do it themselves seems... ridiculous?

You gotta eat, I know, but I'm wondering who it is that is ok paying for someone else to do the easiest part what they do for a living.

theelous3 commented on Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video] youtube.com/watch?v=xwuRU... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood

raffael_de · 4 months ago

The final segment starting at 6:00 makes me think that he can wear as much leather as he wants protecting his body while sliding over asphalt when he's anyway intent on braking with his face and chin.

  “There are many things you can point to as proof that the human is not smart. But my personal favorite would have to be that we needed to invent the helmet. What was happening, apparently, was that we were involved in a lot of activities that were cracking our heads. We chose not to avoid doing those activities but, instead, to come up with some sort of device to help us enjoy our head-cracking lifestyles. And even that didn’t work because not enough people were wearing them so we had to come up with the helmet law. Which is even stupider, the idea behind the helmet law being to preserve a brain whose judgment is so poor, it does not even try to avoid the cracking of the head it’s in.”

– Gerry Sinefield

theelous3 · 4 months ago

Internet comment safety policing, when you have no idea what went in to making the content, is one of the more tiresome things a person could ever do.