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vor 6 Stundendiscuss

It addresses it with regards to the goal of imitating macOS, where obviously it fails (since macOS doesn't randomize tanh). It doesn't address the goal of avoiding fingerprinting.

However, if you're customizing the behavior of tanh to the point where it returns a different result than any stock browser, you run the risk of ending up in a bucket of size 1, making fingerprinting trivial. (That being said, it might be a different bucket each time if the fingerprinting code doesn't specifically check whether tanh is random, which of course it likely doesn't.)

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letzten Monatdiscuss

I think this is more common when reporting heights in feet+inches than in cm. Rounding up 1.76m to 1.80m seems much weirder than rounding up 5'11" to 6', since all measurements in cm are very precise-sounding.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Why do you think being regulated utilities would preclude having multiple classes of service? Airlines had first class before deregulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_class_(aviation)#History

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

In Celcius, it's less common to round to the nearest 10 degrees (or say things like "in the twenties" as you might with Fahrenheit), because that makes a much larger difference than it does in Fahrenheit. So I wouldn't necessarily assume that "20 degrees" only has one significant digit unless it's explicitly stated. (I haven't checked the original paper, though.)

However, converting something like 21°C to 69.8°F is indeed silly and should just be 70°F.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Do we know that those heavy duty trucks were formerly used to do things you need heavy duty trucks for? It seems more likely that 18% (or more!) of the usage was by people who think heavy duty trucks look cool and wanted to show off theirs.

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vor 11 Monatendiscuss

There are, in fact, some efforts going on to improve beyond the status quo on permission prompts in browsers, e.g. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

Though, that document also states:

> Our research [1] finds that users often make rational decisions on the most used capabilities on the web today — notifications, geolocation, camera, and microphone. All of them have in common that there is little uncertainty about how these capabilities can be abused. In user interviews, we find that people have clear understanding of abuse potentials: notifications can be very annoying; geolocation can be used to track where one was and thus make more money off ads; and camera and microphone can be obviously used to spy on one’s life. Even though there might be even worse abuse scenarios, users aren't entirely clueless what could possibly go wrong.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642252

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