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New comment by macki0 in "Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port"

macki0 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:08:30 +0000

Proof: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus-mac/notepad-plus-plus-m...

Every single commit says ‘and claude’

New comment by macki0 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

macki0 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:54:30 +0000

The way this email is worded this would more likely be classified as a Redundancy as opposed to a Firing. So different laws/rules would apply

New comment by macki0 in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

macki0 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:21:04 +0000

Big difference though is that in the UK these cameras are publically owned, and the data feeds into a publically owned ANPR database. Whereas Flock cameras are owned by flock and all the ANPR records are stored on their own infrastructure

New comment by macki0 in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

macki0 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:17:39 +0000

I don’t believe Flock cameras are used anywhere in the UK?

Pretty much all public cctv cameras that are installed on the side of public roads, like Flock are in the US, are publically owned, either by Police forces, Local Councils or National highways.

New comment by macki0 in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

macki0 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:19:15 +0000

Craig Newmark (Craigslist) and Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) come to mind, both founders could have made platfoms that would have been ad-ridden (and made a boat full of cash) but the founders chose not to

New comment by macki0 in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

macki0 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:13:05 +0000

iCloud data can be end to end encrypted (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/108756)

New comment by macki0 in "How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM"

macki0 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:22:51 +0000

wait till you find out about iLO/iDRAC or vPro

New comment by macki0 in "Mixpanel Security Breach"

macki0 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:08:25 +0000

If you are EU based (or other equivalent country with decent data protection laws) there may be a GDPR complaint with them not deleting your data after closing your account under the right to be forgotten

New comment by macki0 in "Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy"

macki0 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:28:46 +0000

> What is the purpose of OpenAI storing millions of private conversations

Its needed for the conversation history feature, a core feature of the ChatGPT product

Its like saying "What is the purpose of Google Photos storing millions of private images"

New comment by macki0 in "Detecting Noise in Canvas Fingerprinting"

macki0 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:45:33 +0000

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org for those that are curious

New comment by macki0 in "Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S."

macki0 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:07:17 +0000

Alex Jones and Elon Musk said it. Must be true then

New comment by macki0 in "Llama.cpp supports Vulkan. why doesn't Ollama?"

macki0 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:47:39 +0000

wheres that made clear in "ollama run deepseek-r1” the command to download/run the model?

New comment by macki0 in "X has started reversing the throttling on some of the sites, including NYTimes'"

macki0 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 02:42:08 +0000

“I can’t replicate this issue, now that the issue has been fixed” I don’t even know where to begin...