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New comment by sureIy in "Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text?"

sureIy — Thu, 29 May 2025 02:02:38 +0000

They actually did at some point, but people hate that. https://howfinity.com/how-to-use-facebook-nearby-friends/

New comment by sureIy in "Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text?"

sureIy — Thu, 29 May 2025 01:59:42 +0000

Not if you're under 25

New comment by sureIy in "Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text?"

sureIy — Wed, 28 May 2025 10:30:00 +0000

HTML was a mistake.

What if browsers just returned texts with links and auto-linked and auto-embedded them like markdown does? Only on request. A true user agent.

Well, I would have settled for HTML 1 for the forms.

New comment by sureIy in "Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text?"

sureIy — Wed, 28 May 2025 10:28:15 +0000

Unfortunately some people want to have some semblance of social life and in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool.

New comment by sureIy in "GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world"

sureIy — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:35:40 +0000

Confirm. GitHub search is "search" not "excellent search"

New comment by sureIy in "The WinRAR Approach"

sureIy — Sun, 25 May 2025 04:05:57 +0000

"Best" doesn't always win. We'd be sporting PalmOS if that were the case.

New comment by sureIy in "CivitAI Policy Update: Removal of Real-Person Likeness Content"

sureIy — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:55:05 +0000

What has been the problem exactly? Just generic "fake news" or did the platform generate porn?

New comment by sureIy in "We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch"

sureIy — Thu, 22 May 2025 22:48:34 +0000

You may be surprised to find out how many more things are happening today! It's definitely a conspiracy.

New comment by sureIy in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

sureIy — Thu, 22 May 2025 09:18:16 +0000

> huge ego and power hunger

Some people should probably be stopped before they get too hungry. Same with some bald guy in Eurasia right now.

New comment by sureIy in "Run GitHub Actions locally"

sureIy — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:56:18 +0000

I figure because they charge for minutes, I'm not saying that it actually turns a profit. My company also pays for certain "xl" machines.

New comment by sureIy in "Run GitHub Actions locally"

sureIy — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:41:37 +0000

I'm convinced that they specifically won't do that so that people won't use them to build competing products. Actions is one of the pieces that make GitHub money.

New comment by sureIy in "Zod 4"

sureIy — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:34:25 +0000

> I don't want TypeScript to be a runtime checker

I do.

If the types are internally consistent, then they don't need runtime validation, it'd just be extra code to download and run.

If you accept external data, you may already opt in using something like Zod. I don't see why conflate the two things just because their quacks echo the same.

New comment by sureIy in "Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI"

sureIy — Tue, 20 May 2025 02:11:35 +0000

Do we have enough spaces in the ALL_NUMBERS array or do we want to group them by thousands?

ALL_NUMBERS_00001

ALL_NUMBERS_00002

New comment by sureIy in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

sureIy — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:45:59 +0000

You'd be surprised by how many rich people there are. Airbnb doesn't need to sell millions of these services to make millions off them. If an "experience" costs $150, that's just as good as a night in their rooms, if not more profitable.

New comment by sureIy in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

sureIy — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:42:06 +0000

You can't link a web page to the person behind it. Maybe Airbnb is in the right to offer the service in the country, it's just nobody could verify/enforce the ability to rent short term.

New comment by sureIy in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

sureIy — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:30:11 +0000

Oh absolutely. This makes leaving bad reviews even more important.

- leave unemotional matter-of-fact reviews so they can't complain for slander

- leave them days later so they can't link them to you

- leave them for businesses that provide incentives for 5-star reviews

- leave them when multiple reviews already complain about unethical actions taken by the owner

A 4-star HIG hotel in Bangkok once proposed I leave a good review to fix one of their mistakes. I firmly said I wouldn't and then mentioned the request in my 2-star review. The mistake was assigning "free breakfast" to the wrong room in a 2-room booking. Had to fight 3 days to get it fixed.

New comment by sureIy in "Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?"

sureIy — Tue, 13 May 2025 04:08:07 +0000

Technically you're right. From an end-user standpoint, it's irrelevant. Apple's mock vista ad applies just as well to Ventura: they're all annoying and a security theater if the user is just told to input admin password into any random popup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY

New comment by sureIy in "Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?"

sureIy — Tue, 13 May 2025 04:05:10 +0000

What's the problem here? Javascript popups can't read your fingerprint so what would be the endgame of a fake passkey popup?

New comment by sureIy in "Build your own Siri locally and on-device"

sureIy — Tue, 13 May 2025 04:02:16 +0000

I'm sorry, something went wrong with your "what time is it" request.

Oh you asked "what time is it in Miami?" Because I already cut you off after "what time is it".

This happens on a daily basis when I'm not talking right into my phone.

New comment by sureIy in "Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings"

sureIy — Sun, 11 May 2025 06:12:02 +0000

VMs are detected and blocked. DRM is hardware-level nowadays.