barotalomey's comments

It's called eSIM and has been around for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM

> when it turned out they were monitoring your watching habit

I think every single smart tv manufacturer does this today.

At least I know LG, Samsung, Sony, Amazon, Philips, Sharp and Vizio does.

Since your smart TV is on your same domestic IP, there's a market for getting data on your watching habits to combine with your browser habits collected elsewhere.

The advertisers know more about you by now than you do.

That's why AppleTV is the best option for the moment.

Correct. Parent is misinformed.

Yea, my first thought was this is a unrelated find because eyeballs since the recent focus.

Since I never heard of it before, I looked it up.

It's some website https://simplex.chat/ with some claims about privacy because they don't use user ID:s (uh).

Do explain to me why anyone should trust this sus russian project [1] over the well regarded Signal?

1: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/o... (proof of russian natinality of Evgeny Poberezkin)

I got a reaper license 10 years ago because I too insist on paying for good software, then I never used it.

I very much feel nostalgic now, thinking about the time when Twitch plays pokemon was something we all enjoyed.

I think Signal is the only usable option for trusted fully e2e-encrypted messaging today. Even the military is using it in some countries.

Haha, then my lua code is reaching LLM code quality...

> It feels all that tangent boils down to "not enough research" and their fault alone?

My comment wasnt very focused. I didnt mean to say author missed a google result. Rather, TODAY psd spec is readily available. I don't think it was as easy to be found when author wrote that comment in 2008 or whatever.

> Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this,

> I had to apply to them for permission to apply to them to have them consider sending

> me this sacred tome. This would have involved faxing them a copy of some document or

> other, probably signed in blood.

“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

(FWIW, the format is publicly available https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml...)

1 or 0-based index...

I recently picked up Lua for a toy project and I got to say that decades of training with 0-based indexes makes it hard for me to write correct lua code on the first try.

I suppose 1-based index is more logical, but decades of programming languages choosing 0-based index is hard to ignore.

Woot, blast from the past!

One thing I did early in my career was to set up a issue tracker, and I happened to chose Redmine from what was available back then.

While I was at that company I did a bunch of upgrades, had 0 downtime and no issues with the software. I heard a few years ago their infra is still running.

10/10 would recommend.

I feel that's assuming a whole lot of unrelated things, such as machines and humans having anything at all in common.

I get that your take qualifies as stoner philosophy, so I won't push too far, but really. Do give some concrete examples to support your ideas rather than GPT fluff.

> Is it surprising that silicon does too?

Given that human brains and silicon has nothing in common, then yes, it is surprising. What makes you think otherwise?

If you're not smart enough to make use of a optimal or even acceptable solution, the quality of the LLM answer doesn't matter.

When software is feature complete, fast and working correctly, what is it exactly you expect to change?

> people just shouldn't be browsing the web on mobile

While you might be right, it's a pointless advice given most internet users since the last decade or more only owns a single internet capable device, which is their mobile.

Suggesting we all stay on Chrome forks is indeed advocating for Chrome when options exist.

> Unfortunately, moving to Firefox may not be a viable option for her, especially given Mozilla’s recent behavior.

This is such an unfair comparison, where Google made billions on your user data and Mozilla is barely living off the scraps.

Clearly we should support Mozilla and not Google here.