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jtrek

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  • LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

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  • I don't know a lot about how fingerprinting works, but some of what i've read is pretty insidious. Some things could probably be obfuscated, but some of what the trackers use has legitimate purposes as well. Your application may serve different content based on the screen size, or fall back to an older library if such-and-such API isn't supported.

    Personally I'd rather make targeting advertising and tracking illegal, and gut the whole thing to avoid the arms race.

  • LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

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  • So you're going to make it illegal to call getBoundingClientRect and then pass that information to fetch through any mechanism?

  • LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

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  • You'd have to kill a lot of JavaScript and CSS for that to work, and then a lot of legitimate function goes away.

    Done much web development work?

  • LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

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  • I'm pretty sure for fonts they can tell because they have different widths, which affects page layout, which can be measured.

    There's a lot of stuff like that.

    Best would be make it illegal and give the law teeth. Solving it technically will always be an arms race.

  • 5.9/10

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  • I learned in my youth not to read reviews of things I like. It's unpleasant and pointless to read someone savaging your favorite albums or books.

    (More critical analysis can be fine, but regular Internet reviews are not so worthwhile)

  • I made a synthwave flying game you can play in a browser

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  • Oh, I left it for a while and it loaded. There wasn't a moving progress bar or animation, so I thought it was frozen.

    https://postimg.cc/ZWThhRVw

    Played a bit. Hard on the phone !

  • I made a synthwave flying game you can play in a browser

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  • Doesn't seem to work on Firefox android. Just a still image on clicking the link

  • lelz: Part Duex

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  • In-group to protect, out-group to bind. That's all.

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    NY Post: Mamdani’s rude ‘welcome’ to King Charles shows exactly how illiberal he really is

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  • Fuck is with these conservative losers jumping on the kings dick like pathetic fangirls?

    The only thing driving conservatives is "in-group good, out-group bad". There is no internal consistency beyond that. They're the worst sort of people.

  • Utter trash newspaper

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  • Tacocat were great, but I'm pretty sure one of them is a dude. Sad the band is on indefinite hiatus last I heard.

  • Supreme Court rejects bid to punish school for respecting trans student’s identity

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  • The parents sued, calling it a “secret gender transition plan” and arguing the school violated their constitutional rights by withholding information about their child’s gender identity.

    These parents are bad. If they were reasonable people their child would feel comfortable talking to them.

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    So true.

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  • Many people take the idea that "everyone is entitled to their opinion" too far, and it turns into "everyone is entitled to their facts"

    Humans are feelings driven, so they're more likely to go with what their friend says than some mean scientist who makes them feel bad. The inability of people to put aside their feelings is part of why we're in this mess.

  • What are some words where the "opposite" one means the same thing?

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  • Sanction can mean a punishment or an authorization.

    Came up in a DND game where a devil's contract said the players crossing the region would be sanctioned, or something like that. Players thought it meant they had permission, fine print said they would be punished.

  • ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job | Jonathan Ross is still avoiding accountability months after he shot and killed Renee Good.

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  • I'm really surprised no italian plumbers visited Ross after it became clear there would be no official justice.

  • OpenAI's Revolutionary AI Gadget Is... a Phone? A Stinkin' Phone?

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  • Instead of a grid of apps on your home screen that you tap to open, and then tap and swipe and tap some more, you’d simply tell an AI agent to do something, and then it’d do it for you.

    I don't understand why you would want an "Agent" to do stuff for you. This whole thing is just built on the assumption that people are helpless idiots. Which, maybe has some truth to it, but I'd rather spend billions on education than this slop.

  • Violence

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  • People (all of us) are emotional creatures. Logic and reasoning is a hacky patch on top of that, and some people seem to be running older versions.

  • The redcoats are coming

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  • Being ruled by the UK would probably be an improvement

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    So true.

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  • The "all authority is illegitimate" might generate some friction with some people who might overwise be an ally. They might stop listening and lose any nuance.

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    White House considering bulletproof vest for Trump after third assassination attempt on president: report

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  • Reminded of when Thanos says "you should have gone for the head"