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Went to bed with a $10 budget alert. Woke up to $25,672 in debt to Google Cloud

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11 points·by ratg13·há 3 meses·2 comments

Ask HN: How are mobile apps able to track users without permission?

4 points·by ratg13·há 4 meses·3 comments

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ratg13
·há 21 dias·discuss
Set up a GitHub action to auto-close any pull requests from anyone not on an approved list.

Leave a message in the pull request that if they want to argue their case for a pull request they can send a message through a communication channel of your choice, and say that anyone sending a message with AI generated text, even to help with language and grammar will be banned.
ratg13
·mês passado·discuss
You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body
ratg13
·há 2 meses·discuss
I stopped using samsung because of the uninstallable facebook apps.

I don't get why if i'm paying multiple thousands of dollars for a phone that they still bundle what I consider spyware and give the user no option to uninstall it.

On my last Samsung I went into the settings and disabled all of the apps that I couldn't uninstall .. and when I checked the settings like 6-8 months later, those apps were still disabled, but in the meantime they had installed a few more facebook authored background apps without my permission.

I will not be going back until they stop this.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
As long as you never have to interact with them. If you run into issues they have caused themselves, you'll find yourself dealing with a unique mix of arrogance and incompetence.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
I think people are too focused on the device part of it.

Whatever Apple did to block access to the cache does not negate the fact that these notification messages are still being sent in plaintext through Apple and Google’s servers.

It’s hard to imagine that Apple/Google couldn’t just be compelled to hand this information over if ordered by a court and wouldn’t need your phone at all.

And this loophole possibly only hinges on the fact that most law enforcement maybe never realized this was something they could ask for.

Or perhaps this is happening and the public just doesn’t know it yet.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
This doesn’t affect existing users.

This is a simple supply and demand curve.

Higher demand means the price goes up .. this has been true of things since before SaaS and before computers
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
Could also be non-native speakers .. Even as a former grammar nazi, now that English isn't my daily driver language I find myself making basic mistakes .. (two, too, to / its, it's / etc.)
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
I was always more partial to Compute magazine
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
If this gets swept under the rug, it doesn't seem like they are going to do anything about it, and it will mean that only the bad people are going to be able to find this stuff.. who knows for how long.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
Trump support is currently at 37% and only 69% of people think this is valuable.

A 6% overlap is hardly unifying.

The few Trump supporters I know think the whole thing is fake.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
E-Gold fulfilled all of these ideas and existed long before bitcoin and this article.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
Notifications are not part of an app, it is a service provided by Apple/Google

Most notifications are sent by backend servers straight to Apple/Google
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
Boris from the Claude Code team explained this on HN 2 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
It should be noted that they are not just bombing, but using airburst white phosphorus munitions over civilian areas attempting to scorch the earth and give people a lifetime of health problems.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
No new features, no security patches.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
I hate Amazon more because than most people, but let’s be realistic.

These devices came out in 2007-2012

14-19 years is a respectable lifetime for a handheld electronic device.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
If you are interested in learning more, check out the David Lynch foundation

(Yes, that David Lynch)

There is also tm.org which is a worldwide organization offering courses in most countries.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
At some point they got ultra aggressive about "duplicate" questions.

Technology changes at a fast pace .. so new questions would get asked, and then closed by moderators and pointed to similar questions that might be 5 or 6 years old and no longer relevant.. essentially ending the discussion on many topics and actively preventing progress in certain areas.
ratg13
·há 3 meses·discuss
The xAI merger is the core of the rugpull

SpaceX made 8 billion in profit last year and xAI is losing 1B per month.

The whole IPO is convincing people that datacenters in space that are orders of magnitude more expensive than ones on earth is a financially viable business model and that tens of millions of people that already have internet are going to give up fiber for starlink.

It’s FSD and robotaxis x100
ratg13
·há 4 meses·discuss
They have made something that can more easily be adopted by schools for students.

They are creating countless customers for life.