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- Comment on Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand 4 hours ago:
Usually NYT sets a cookie to track how many free articles you read and once you exceed that, you get the paywall. The bots probably don’t set/send the cookies, so NYT doesn’t block them. Also, I’d imagine the bots are coming from various different IPs so even server side blocking based on IP wouldn’t block everything and eventually the bot would get to the article. User Agents can also be spoofed.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 4 hours ago:
How is this different from Factorio?
- Comment on Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley 1 month ago:
I thought $0.50 was low for this math to work out, but turns out 30 million copies of Stardew Valley have been sold, so that’s $15 million, which over 60 years is $250k/year.
Still though I have no clue if $0.50 is normal take home per copy sold for a self published game (it seems low), but I’m very happy he’s doing well for himself and hopes he makes more per copy sold. I’ve bought the game 4 times, so I’m doing my part!
- Comment on Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle 1 month ago:
Why use JustWatch.com when you can follow this guide to know where to watch King Kong vs. Godzilla (1968)
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 1 month ago:
Exactly, with Nintendo’s existing IP and old gamers dying, they need a way to get younger generation exposed to what kids in the 80s and 90s grew up with and make sure that it’s plastered on all the streaming websites to get maximum exposure.
- Comment on If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it? 1 month ago:
I have the worst f***ing attorneys
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 1 month ago:
What’s wrong with Authy?
- Comment on If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it? 1 month ago:
What was the scam if he was reimbursing her? Was it to generate Amazon reviews?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve been on flights where they have announced to the cabin about someone with a severe nut allergy, and based on anecdotal evidence of a sample size of 3 or 4, nothing bad happened on the flight.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 1 month ago:
No need to guess, it’s all outlined in the bill:
- ByteDance has 270 days (+90 days at president discretion) to divest of TikTok and sell to an entity not affiliated with an “adversary country” (China, Iran, Russia, N. Korea).
- If they don’t sell, hosting providers of TikTok application (servers, storage, app store, etc) will be fined up to $500 times the number of users in the US if they continue to host the application
So basically, the law will impose a fine of US hosting providers of the app. If the app moves all services overseas to foreign entities, then the app presumably will continue to work even if banned if already installed (plus the website if hosted overseas).
ISPs and search engines are explicitly exempt from the bill so there is no mechanism to ban connections to TilTok servers or links to TikTok.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 1 month ago:
Say what you will about Apple, they are masters of spinning their shortcomings as groundbreaking achievements. When they refused to unlock the iPhone of the san bernardino terrorist attack, it was framed as an act of preserving user privacy, but brushed over how willing they were to hand over the iCloud backups if the police would have brought the iPhone to a known WiFi network for the backup to be uploaded.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 months ago:
Right they define internet hosting service as:
(5) INTERNET HOSTING SERVICE.—The term “internet hosting service” means a service through which storage and computing resources are provided to an individual or organization for the accommodation and maintenance of 1 or more websites or online services, and which may include file hosting, domain name server hosting, cloud hosting, and virtual private server hosting.
So this would prevent a US organization like AWS, Oracle, etc from hosting the TikTok user data as long as TikTok is owned or a subsidiary of ByteDance or another “foreign adversary”.
Elsewhere in the text, they exclude “service providers” from restrictions, so it seems like ISPs are not going to block requests to TikTok.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 months ago:
Does is specify ISP blocking directly in the bill?? It was my understanding that it would just prevent US based app stores (Apple, Google) from distributing the app in their stores.
I’m not even sure how ISP blocking would work, unless it was to just blackhole DNS queries to tiktok.com. Having attempted to block DNS lookups for TikTok on my own home router via PiHole, I can say that the app either hard codes IP addresses, or resolves DNS over HTTPS independently of the system DNS settings, so I doubt a DNS based ISP block would be feasible.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
Seriously, going through these comments, it’s clear most people didn’t read the article or didn’t learn how calendars work in school (or are part of the Russian Internet Research Agency and trying to sow doubt in Biden).
Based on the timeline, it’s clear the intention wasn’t to protect against the 2024 election, since the potential ban would go in place after the election happens.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
Not who you were replying to, and not an interview, but here’s an NPR article that explains that the content-recommendation algorithms would be difficult to sell
Chinese officials have placed content-recommendation algorithms on what is known as an export-control list, meaning the government has additional say over how the technology is ever sold.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
If ByteDance doesn’t divest of TikTok 9 months, then it will be blocked from being distributed from App Stores. Nothing will be blocked before the election, so it’s not really something which will affect the typical voter who isn’t following the news, causing them to change their vote.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
What happened on July 10th, 2023?
- Comment on Quick video demonstrating that lemmy.world sends every activity out twice 2 months ago:
Are you able to include the HTTP Method being called and the amount of data transferred per request? It’s possible that the first request is an OPTION request and then the second request is a POST.
If you can see the amount of data transferred, then you can have some more indication that double the requests are being sent and quantity the bandwidth impact at least.
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 3 months ago:
Oh, so buy, buy lower, buy higher? That’s the strategy? I guess someone’s gotta be on the bottom of the pyramid.
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 3 months ago:
Buy high, sell low
- Comment on Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits 3 months ago:
Apple always does that. After iAds failed, they pivoted into advertising a privacy focused ad campaign to counter Google. Had iAds succeeded, they’d be perfectly fine into getting into that business.
- Comment on Is there a word for the phenomena where everyone benefits from design decisions made to help vulnerable populations? 3 months ago:
They won’t be able bodied for long if they shoot themselves in the foot! Seriously though, some people refer to abled body people as TABs, which stands for Temporarily Able-Bodied, to drive the point that advocating against or ignoring issues which negatively impact people who are disabled may include themselves in the future.
- Comment on Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men 4 months ago:
Except when the ID3 tags get all messed up and you spend a whole Saturday afternoon fixing your entire library. Granted that’s how I taught myself how to program, so it’s a win/win I guess.
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 4 months ago:
Less $3.5k and more 3.5mm headphone jack Apple
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Neat, I don’t see your comment though in Mastodon. I assume only first and second level threaded comments are sync’d? I’m not too familiar with Mastodon, so maybe this is expected?
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Are comments visible in mastodon? Would mastodon comments show up in Lemmy?
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 4 months ago:
As long as it’s not two children with cups attached to a shoestring, that’s the absolute worst.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I haven’t used windows in ages, but I do remember compatibility mode, and you could select the OS a program should be compatible with. Why couldn’t they have had Windows 9, and for apps with issues, you could run in compatibility mode for XP?
- Comment on The probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing daily 4 months ago:
Regarding electric scooters, I’m not really sure what bits there are to be flipped, which could cause issues. My understanding is that when you hit the brakes for example, that electrical signal is sent directly to the brakes, and there’s not a digital buffer of inputs which are stored to memory to be read, which is where a bit flip could happen. I assume braking and acceleration are analog voltages on the wire, so a brief cosmic ray would be miniscule and probably not noticeable.
- Comment on It's not DNS 4 months ago:
This. For example, if you have a DNS entry for your DB and the TTL is set to 1 hour, an hour before you intend to make the changes, just lower the TTL of the record to a minute. This allows all clients to be told to only cache for a minute and to do lookups every minute. Then after an hour, make the necessary changes to the record. Within a minute of the changes, the clients should all be using the new record. Once you’ve confirmed that everything is good, you can then raise TTL to 1 hour again.
This approach does require some more planning and two or three updates to DNS, but minimizes downtime. The reason you may need to keep TTL high is if you have thousands of clients and you know the DNS won’t be updated often. Since most providers charge per thousand or million lookups, that adds up quickly when you have thousands of clients who would be doing unnecessary lookups often. Also a larger TTL would minimize the impact of a loss of DNS servers.