abider's comments

I loved this write-up, thanks for submitting/authoring it!

Just wanted to point out you have a minor typo in there: > In recent months, everyone has been pouring over the US Bank Secrecy Act

(should be "poring over")

Oh yeah, sure. I think we're on the same page here. It's literally no different than an XSS vulnerability (done on purpose or otherwise), which basically boils down to: yeah, don't do that.

This is just how the web (e.g. iframes, XSS) works in general.

This feels like some bizarrely confused clickbait for pseudo-technical people. I'm glad they at least mentioned:

> Of course, websites often collect and store visitors’ IP addresses in virtue of how the sites function.

Because, uh, yeah. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Oh wow, the fond memories I have of playing my brother in SuperMelee. I can't believe that after 10 years of being largely dormant an update was released a few months back. I'm excited to try this out! If ever I can muster the spare time, I'd love to work on an extension/framework to allow this game to be network playable.

Ahhh thanks for the trip down memory lane!

I grew up on the Atari 800 and it has a special place in my heart. It's hard to overstate the prevalence and impact of the 8502, as well.

I am thinking of getting another one (my parents gave mine away when I moved out) and seeing about how far I can push it as a pseudo-dumb terminal. What lightweight protocol can be leveraged with most "pre-rendering" done via a special proxy? I wonder if it could ever get close to practical.

This seems like the way it should be. Why should new music connect to newer audiences better than the best of breed from days past?

Of course freshness will always need to be there but there's a lot of back catalog to consume that will be "new to you" and it will only get deeper as time marches on.

Streaming services have made it easier to have nearly everything at your fingertips.

If you look at Google's messaging products timeline, it's an embarrassing mess. If you viewed it in reverse-chronological order, it actually looks like progress.

I've never seen such a careless disregard for a user base combined with the cognitive dissonance of new product releases. Hangouts, Duo, etc aren't circling the drain, they're already in the sewer.

May the original Gchat (with open APIs) rest in peace.

> Needless to say, I will never again use gmail for critically important things.

That's a hot take. If it was critically important, you'd have 2FA and a recovery phone number associated with it - which would have prevented you from getting stuck in a trust-fail situation to begin with.

Use whatever service you want, but your takeaway from this situation is a bit absurd.

Edit to add: I'm not saying Google's algorithm is perfect here, but relying on heuristic voodoo ("I use the same IP, so I should be fine") for "critically important things" instead of using well-established means of securing access to critically important things (e.g. 2FA, backup mobile number) is a bit insane.

While failures are often worth celebrating (don't fear failure, learn from your mistakes, etc) there's a line there somewhere where this type of "toast to the rejects" can cross over into something else. Sour grapes? "I didn't want that stupid grant anyway!"

I think it would greatly help to better understand what it is you are looking to manage here (or what your concerns are). Is there really perennially sensitive information your SMS messages? In my experience, most of them are ephemeral in utility (e.g. an OTP or a reminder).

So two immediate questions arise:

1. Do you have a perceived sense of risk/vulnerability to not deleting SMS messages? Why?

2. Assuming there's something more to cover other than #1, what is the problem you are actually trying to solve here?

have you thoughts about offering this as software service for something like the Remarkable?

While energy storage is a huge problem wrt renewable energy, I'd really like to see us get better at teasing out the difference between what's needed for a solar panel, wind farm, hydroelectric dam, etc. as distinct from the myriad of ways to store that energy.

Mechanical storage - i.e. pushing loaded freight cars up a hill while the sun is shining and letting their weight pull a chain which turns a crank (like a cuckoo clock) when it's dark out - is not all that common right now, but not completely unheard of. It could grow in popularity as we develop more clever techniques that are more space efficient. Either way, it's only meant to highlight the differences in mechanisms for energy capture (e.g. solar panel, wind turbine) vs energy storage (e.g. batteries).

This article seems to be primarily around materials for energy storage.