majorchord

Fetching data from APIs I have no control over, or ones that serve multiple purposes and use a single response format

They didn't mention sending JSON though... and you can absolutely return HTML fragments in a JSON response.

Got a link? What forks of element or synapse have they publicly endorsed?

https://nationwidepaymentsystems.com/mastercards-policy-on-a... …

You might not be wrong, but yelling at people for accepting conveniences that most don't even understand or care about, seems a bit pointless to me. Why even stop at document formats? Why not out…

I've seen some claim that it may imply the usage of LLMs.

"It doesn't personally affect me so I don't care."

Those solutions might work for some people in some countries, but I would argue that it's not acceptable for the vast majority of customers, and they would lose a very significant portion of …

I agree with you... I think a big issue right now though is that not everyone agrees on the same definition of "tyrannical" and whether or not this counts. You can't just say "all …

I'm not sure why walking is an advantage over a hot air balloon. /s Try to understand that "advantage" can mean different things to different people. Your perspective and usecases …

The real crime to me is tor browser not spoofing navigator.platform. Regardless of the user agent, if this variable can be used to find something that doesn't say Windows, then I think that alrea…

"Why should I kill all the mosquitos in this store 5 minutes before we open if there's nobody around right now?"

They flip-flopped on the issue: https://0x0.st/8wYc.png

this must be how blind users feel when nobody cares about them being able to use wayland-first OSes

> BYD’s solid-state batteries have an energy density of 400 Wh/kg, or nearly twice that of current lithium-ion batteries. I thought the big issue with solid-state (besides dendrites) was a low…

The tech used to get such fast charging isn't revolutionary, it's just extremely (dangerous) high voltage DC charging that only exists in any capacity in China. Also, what happens when an EV…

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-orders-rel... …

> clearly a gross negligence If we can't prove this for billion dollar corporations that leak nationwide user data, I don't see how a judge will find 4chan grossly negligent. Typically yo…

This is already being done, but the GFW can detect even some pretty clever obfuscation attempts, they even look at TCP timings and all kinds of things you might not think about. Even if the inner traf…

Setting the user-agent to curl (and maybe others) completely bypasses anubis.

> A single $5 vps should be able to handle easily tens of thousands of requests... Source:

> Someone like adding to their license I would assume that clause would be unenforceable. They may be able to try to sue for violating the terms of the license, but I'm fairly confident they&#…

Not OP but I found these at least, googling in 30 seconds: Australian Border Force searched phones of 10,000 travellers in past two years, data shows https://www.theguardian.com/austra…

> The government thus far refuses to even admit there is a contract Source?

> AFAIK it hasn't been produced That is my understanding and that is indeed a separate issue that appears to be still underway. It was reported that Democrats in Congress already asked DHS for…

When has it not?

Please tell me you have your own security cameras now.

I don't think it's possible to have a clear set of rules that cannot be interpreted maliciously.

One idea I had (feel free to steal this idea for your own use) was a one-time crypto payment to create an account. Of course you can't prevent bots from doing that, but if the price is right then…

I feel like people will take the "UAP are real" comment completely out of context. They're only saying that "things exist that we can't (yet) explain", which we already k…