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xenic commented on Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads   timsh.org/tracking-myself... · Posted by u/apokryptein
baggy_trough · a year ago
Probably from IP address geolocation.
xenic · a year ago
Doing that on the client side sounds pointless though, if you are already transmitting the ip.
xenic commented on One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic inspection in 2024   fdm.dk/nyheder/bilist/202... · Posted by u/asp1
MaKey · a year ago
I'd guess the majority of those issues are rusted brake disks. You don't need the regular disc brake very often in an electric car.
xenic · a year ago
For other electric cars the rate was 9% according to the study so your guess is likely wrong as the same would apply to all electric cars.
xenic commented on Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15   lapcatsoftware.com/articl... · Posted by u/latexr
naruhodo · a year ago
I would love to evaluate the privacy of these technologies.

Someone reply with a link to the source code so I can see exactly what it is doing, without having to take an internet rando's word for it.

Better yet, let me compile it myself.

xenic · a year ago
You can start with this https://github.com/apple/swift-homomorphic-encryption

Of course it is not the whole technology stack, but it is something at least. If your evaluation leads to potential problems, you can create issues right there on the github project!

xenic commented on NYC Subway Station Layouts   projectsubwaynyc.com/gall... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
Anduia · a year ago
The drawings are nice, but like other SPAs, it is useless as a resource because it does not use bookmarkable URLs
xenic · a year ago
This isn’t something inherent to SPAs, though sadly many (most?) do omit the history api and don’t provide usable URLs nor back/forward navigation.
xenic commented on How I Experience Web Today (2021)   how-i-experience-web-toda... · Posted by u/airstrike
max_ · a year ago
Here is another funny illustration — https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/
xenic · a year ago
This is glorious, and made me think; is there a reverse-adblock addon that would “click” on all ads it finds on a page and would load them silently in the background..?
xenic commented on Artificial intelligence is losing hype   economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/bx376
fuzztester · 2 years ago
>when they replied almost immediately after with a video of the relevant workflow

Wow. Such wrong claims.

I had already replied to you in a sibling comment, refuting your points, but will give one more proof (not that I really need to):

_acco, the top level commenter relevant to this discussion, commented at some time, say x.

layer8 commented, replying to _acco, 7 hours ago (as can be seen on the page at the time of my writing this comment, i.e. right now).

I then replied to layer8, 6 hours ago.

_acco replied back to layer8 5 hours ago.

All this is visible right now on the page; and if people check it a few hours later, the relative time deltas will remain the same, obviously. (But not if they check after 24 hours, in which case all comments will show as one day ago.)

So there was a 1 hour gap between layer8's comment and mine, and a 2 hour gap between layer8's comment and _acco's reply.

If you think 2 hours is the same as "almost immediately", as you said above, I have nothing more to say to you, except that our perceptions of time are highly different.

xenic · 2 years ago
2 hours in a discussion forum, where the discussion spans days or sometimes weeks is certainly an ”almost immediate” response.

Perception of time is subjective.

xenic commented on Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes   ryan-schachte.com/blog/ha... · Posted by u/siamese_puff
xenic · 2 years ago
”Zalando is a Postgres operator that facilitates the deployment of a highly available (HA) Postgres cluster.”

Zalando is the company. ”Postgres Operator” is the software.

Happy user here, not much complaints about the operator come to mind.

xenic commented on How to Become a Great Software Engineer   newsletter.techworld-with... · Posted by u/milanm081
xenic · 2 years ago
Japan,New Zealand,South Korea,Singapore,Taiwan,Canada…?
xenic commented on Use Timestamps   jankremer.eu/micro/timest... · Posted by u/jankremer
mat0 · 2 years ago
That wouldn't be considered a timestamp in my book. For starters, it doesn't have time information, only date information. Quickly asking ChatGPT it gives this answer: In computing, timestamps are commonly expressed in formats like "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss" (year-month-day hour:minute:second).

When pressed about this particular time detail, ChatGPT elaborates: While "YYYY-MM-DD" is a common date format, it's not complete for a timestamp, which typically includes both date and time information. A complete timestamp might look like "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss" to include hours, minutes, and seconds.

So, no, this post doesn't contain a timestamp, and it already fails in its own advice.

xenic · 2 years ago
the post contains not one but two timestamps;

  <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2023-11-15T13:40:37+01:00">
  <meta property="article:published_time" content="2023-11-15T10:12:30+01:00">

xenic commented on France is fighting to save your iPhone from an early death   wired.com/story/right-to-... · Posted by u/netfortius
andromeduck · 3 years ago
Which one?
xenic · 3 years ago
The iPhone “I made this story up” is my guess.

Certainly major software updates can break things, but that is why you can (though not always quite easily) downgrade for a while after an update.

u/xenic

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