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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing Honey's Evil Business Model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t expect a random non tech youtuber to review the code of a browser addon, and paypal just simply lied to them. Of course it lowers the even low reputation of tech channels like ltt and mkbhd, I would expect that they have at least someone in their team with a basic front end knowledge. But again, paypal is a big, old, trusted name (at least it’s used to be), it paid them good money why would they expect it’s a scam?

  My most important takes:

  • people don’t understand what browser addons can do
  • if a product is heavily advertised by youtubers/influencers it’s probably a scam. Exhibit b: vpns
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop paying with your card⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also set up a daily spending limit, so they can’t buy a car with your card. If you need a bigger purchase raise the limit for a day, then lower it back to a reasonable amount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop paying with your card⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This were a thing for ages. Before NFC payment became common they added covers to ATM holes:

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  So when you retrieve your cash at a machine you could be already skimmed there. And if you pay with cash you can get counterfeit notes as change… If you see the world this way you can’t really do anything, bad guys are everywhere. Use a bit of common sense, check your balance frequently, and disable your card if you see something fishy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phineas explains nuclear power (and how fear mongering ruined it)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m totally pro nuclear, but this is a terrible video.

  They don’t speak about that the problem with nuclear waste is, it will remain radioactive for millions of years. How do you tell someone one million years in the future that they shouldn’t dig a hole where we just put our waste? How can you be sure there won’t be an earthquake there in the next 1000000 years?

  For reference, our ancestors learned the control of fire about a million years ago, just to see what timescale we are speaking about.

  The point is the handling of nuclear waste is still an unsolved problem, the current solution of putting it sealed underground is a temporary solution, until we can figure out something better.

  Ars has some nice articles on the topic: arstechnica.com/…/solving-the-rock-hard-problem-o…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cellebrite, not celebrity. Cellebrite is a digital forensics company from Israel, they are creating controversial spy tools for law enforcement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet standards body proposes new header field disclosing AI — will make it easier for machines to determine if AI was used on a site⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Piracy is also illegal in most of the countries of the world. The new id requirement for porn is also working well in some countries as I heard. And eu cookie law and gdpr were intended to be a popup on every website.

  I’m really happy lawmakers thinking about the internet, I’m sure it will be better executed this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice video, though

  spoiler

  It’s a bit annoying that he doesn’t fully succeed at the end. It seems he is really close to a working home made floppy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Native English speaker noticies the every day life of most people outside the anglosphere.

  This is a very surface level video on character encodings. He speaks about winxp, but doesn’t mention utf16

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucified...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Original horizontal without emojies and with credits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvePuYGQ6s

  Also !cyanideandhappiness@discuss.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It now takes Microsoft’s browser less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website for users,

  I use edge only if I set up computers for others, and I don’t want to install firefox for just downloading an installer or something. You have 3 unskippable consent dialogs before you can even type the url, and the no button is on a different position on the dialogs, so you can’t click it through quickly. But I’m really happy these dialogs load more quickly, thank you microsoft for your hard work on making linux a viable alternative to more and more people.