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New comment by dexterdog in "Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!"

dexterdog — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:37:00 +0000

Not only that, but there is a cost for retrieval and transmission especially if you are in cold storage. It's much cheaper to just mark it for deletion than it is to get it back.

New comment by dexterdog in "Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them"

dexterdog — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:48:16 +0000

Not if they commit the kinds of market fraud that Musk's companies have.

New comment by dexterdog in "The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite"

dexterdog — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:40:11 +0000

The integer is a UTC time so it can be sorted. If you need the time zone you store than in a smaller field.

New comment by dexterdog in "The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite"

dexterdog — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:33:32 +0000

It's just s dumb as storing dates as strings, but people still do it.

New comment by dexterdog in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

dexterdog — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:02:51 +0000

SMS should not be considered sensitive data since it can be read by entities between you and the source.

New comment by dexterdog in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

dexterdog — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:35:11 +0000

I would, but I don't need to know immediately. Plus you have the other vector of my phone sitting on a table and showing the notification to a person who can see it when they are trying to login as me.

New comment by dexterdog in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

dexterdog — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:10:06 +0000

The main relationship is to all gambling. Sports likely gets assumed to make it worse because people still believe the myth that the Super Bowl is the worst DV day of the year.

New comment by dexterdog in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

dexterdog — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:16:24 +0000

Not OP, but I've been on GrapheneOS for a few years and I have no problem with Chase, CiT or Wealthfront. I mostly use them to check balances and unlock debit cards, but they all login and function fine.

New comment by dexterdog in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

dexterdog — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:12:46 +0000

And I aim to be the one that eats you

New comment by dexterdog in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

dexterdog — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:55:54 +0000

99% of people who follow that are still completely dependent on the world order and will be just as screwed as everybody else if everything goes tits-up.

New comment by dexterdog in "CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87"

dexterdog — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:41:48 +0000

And then you couldn't get to their home page because they got hammered by traffic. They eventually slimmed the page down to just the main story and you could get it to load eventually.

New comment by dexterdog in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"

dexterdog — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:46:38 +0000

And in some countries people are only given a choice of two, neither of which benefit the population.

New comment by dexterdog in "How does GPS work?"

dexterdog — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:56:42 +0000

Yeah, they're doing some kind of nonsense to avoid scraping which also blocks any browser setup for any kind of privacy. I even tried reloading the page with ublock turned off and it still did it so I moved on to something else.

New comment by dexterdog in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

dexterdog — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:59:36 +0000

Yes, the black will wind up 2-tone when you get through the top layer. Mine get silvery to the sides of my trackpad from hand friction over time. I like the laptop in black, but silver ages far better.

New comment by dexterdog in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

dexterdog — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:18:55 +0000

DTF STL is a fantastic show as are all of the series done by Steven Conrad.

New comment by dexterdog in "Chrome DevTools MCP"

dexterdog — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:15:03 +0000

I wouldn't call it an arms race. I don't update my client that often and I rarely have problems downloading any video with it.

New comment by dexterdog in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

dexterdog — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:00:11 +0000

There are also solutions for blocking ads without subscribing to premium.

New comment by dexterdog in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

dexterdog — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:00:49 +0000

But it gives you access to almost none of your actual files

New comment by dexterdog in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

dexterdog — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:24:14 +0000

How would most people know what works best? Most people are only using one.

New comment by dexterdog in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

dexterdog — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:33:37 +0000

Why not? I've used it between my desktops and my phone with no problem for years.