In a single given website, accepting cookies look innocuous.
But to me, what is mind blowing, is when one day you accept the cookies on random e-commerce or review website about vacuum cleaner, and then later when you browse news or look at videos, there is suddenly a constant stream of advertisement for vacuum cleaners, everywhere.
Privacy policies and usage terms are like the magic wand of the industry. Whatever totally bad they want to do and however they want to abuse of you and of your data, they just have to add a few unreadable lines in a 40 pages document and that's it.
No one will read it, but even if you do, most of the time the FOMO or sunk cost fallacy effect will make you go on anyway.
And then it is a free pass for them.
I'm not to fire people usually but this long report shows that there are probably too many persons too well paid with nothing to do at Cloud flare.
Because that is a lot of energy spent too have done advance research for an UI that is basic (just a checkbox), not particularly great and common before and after cloudflare...
And a personal rant, I don't understand how they can be proud of themselves when you see the wasted time and energy supported by users to browse the pages that are being Cloudflare.
Imagine this billions of "click-wait" uselessely done by users everyday worldwide
Not specifically for the Mac light, but nowadays I find it very annoying that everything as a small led light for sleep or just indicate power, or power plugged.
At night it is very hard to have a dark room to sleep in small apartments or bedrooms when you have so many of them. Tv sleep lights, set top box, computers sleep and power plugged lights, small electronic devices and appliances like the one displaying time. Power multipliers that often have a safety power on light, ...
It blows my mind that nowadays, some random tools on internet tells you to do "curl -fsSL https://.... | bash" to install some "binary" things and a lot of people will do it without hesitation.
It probably explains why there is so many data leaks recently but it is like we did a 20 years jump back in time in terms of security in just a few years.
I get the hesitation :D But the code is open and the install.sh is as minimal as it gets tbh. Still, as said, I get the hesitation. What a time to be alive.
It does not install binaries, it builds the binary by checking out the project basically. You can also do the process manually and use the tool.
One day folks who live inside commandlines and TUIs all day will realize that there's nothing particular about webapps or the sandboxes that they execute in that requires we build exclusively graphical runtimes around them, instead of taking advantage of the same security and distribution model for programs accessible and usable from within terminal emulator.
How else are you going to get your openclaw to run blazingly fast??
But seriously, I think there's a bit of overzealousness/misalignment in security lately with a disregard for usability and privacy, making people less tolerant of dealing with inconveniences.
> Not adding the domain to Google Search Console immediately. I don't need their analytics and wasn't really planning on having any content on the domain, so I thought, why bother? Big, big mistake.
That should be enough to trigger an antitrust case against Google and a split of its activities. When despite unrelated, it becomes the gatekeeper of your presence in internet.
A registrar using Google's signal to deactivate your service isn't Google's fault.
Safe Browsing itself has an appeal process so I think legally they're covered. Users and governments surely appreciate someone filtering bad actors online, even if casualties don't.
It is the moment like that where it looks obvious for third parties to use it and only it to vet customers. To the point where you are forced to deal with Google because parties "can't do anything about it".
The moment that 80%+ users go to internet through their browser but at the same time control which we site can be accessed with their safe list.
The moment that you need to create an account and start using their services and accept their terms and conditions to be removed from wrongfully added "list" impacting someone.
Well for an expats, it's really a gamechanger not having to play three card monte selecting the correct card to use for each transaction. You would be surprised how many transactions are (accidentally?) geofenced based on where your card is issued from, and Paypal pretty much solves these.
I'm an Indian with a few US subscriptions and Paypal was indispensable for years. When they set a KYC deadline involving some dude in a video call suddenly asking me to produce my Aadhar (national ID), I then discovered those services work with my debit cards perfectly. BTW autonomous charging of arbitrary amounts is not allowed in India, AFAIK.
As a buyer PayPal saved me after being scammed. It was a breeze to claim my money back, once I filed a police report.
Stripe and other normal card processors make it impossible. And before someone says to "charge back" with my bank, my card is from a country where that is almost impossible. In fact I think maybe only in the US that's actually practical, because in Germany I don't remember "charge backs" being a thing when i lived there.
Might work for some countries (like US). But if you are from country with their own currency PayPal will only allow payout to account with that native currency. You get payed in USD you can't payout to USD account if your nation uses different currency. And of course they will also exchange that USD to your currency with their exchange rate that's 5-8% above services like Wise.
Basically you either keep money in your Paypal and use it there or pay their cut. It's simply usury.
Similar same happened to me, but in my country. I got a virtual stripe card to pay for the conference I was supposed to attend to and the fixing of problems took like five business days
When you think about it, it is crazy to think that the world is spending thousands of billions on AI stuffs, but still we haven't yet any affordable big size epaper display.
It could change a lot of things in the world, especially regarding the power consumption of most commonly used screens for a lot of signage everywhere. But not that much company looks like to be interested in developing the field.
I think that a few years a go, a lot of possible innovation were blocked by a few aggressive patents. I don't know if it is still the case.
> It could change a lot of things in the world, especially regarding the power consumption of most commonly used screens for a not of signage everywhere.
There's something I don't get about common e-paper displays.
I have a Remarkable, and it's great. The battery life is also supposed to be great. It can last for months while the Remarkable is turned off.
If the Remarkable is on, it won't last. All the battery will drain away. You have to babysit it carefully, or this is what will happen, and the next time you want to use the Remarkable, it will be dead and you'll need to charge it first.
For some reason, if left idle, it will enter a "sleeping" mode. The screen shows whatever was on the screen, with a little bar overlaid telling you that it's sleeping.
Sleeping mode is actually just awake mode. It continues to draw power as if it was on. The only difference is that it stops responding to touches. If you press the power button, it wakes up instantly, because it was already on.
Off mode is different. In off mode, the Remarkable stops drawing power. Also, it erases the screen, instead displaying a full-screen message that the Remarkable is off. You have to manually put it in off mode whenever you stop using it, or all the battery will rapidly drain away. If you press the power button, nothing will happen; you have to press it and then hold it down for two seconds (I measured this) in order to get it to boot up.
To put it into off mode, you have to do the same thing, forcefully holding down the power button while you wait for it to admit that you want it to turn off. This takes four seconds. Then you have to confirm on the screen that yes, you held the power button down for four straight seconds on purpose.
The ergonomics of this are awful. Leaving your Remarkable idle means losing your entire charge; it will never transition from awake-but-pretending-to-sleep to off. Turning it off is a huge pain. It would solve so many problems to just leave whatever was on screen before idle on the screen, and actually turn off.
> ePaper displays are niche, and worse for most personal and business use-cases compared to LCD et al.
Hence we need more resources for R&D to figure out the shortcomings. LCD didn't pop into existence randomly either. It's not a guaranteed win, but neither AI has proven any realized gains in the majority of industries that gambled on adopting it.
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