I completely disagree, this is just another level of safety.

If everything went perfectly everytime we wouldn't need any safety equipment, but things aren't always perfect.

> BrowserStack routinely sell or give away their users' data.

> A third-party service used by BrowserStack siphons off information to send to others.

> An employee or contractor at BrowserStack is exfiltrating user data and transferring it elsewhere.

Or the simpler answer, their db/email list has been compromised.

> > BrowserStack routinely sell or give away their users' data.

> Or the simpler answer, their db/email list has been compromised.

I find the first option far simpler.

The simplest answer is they are voluntarily being scum and selling user data to make a quick buck. It’s almost universally true.

> It’s almost universally true.

It’s not. I give a unique email address to every service I register with, which means I can see who is leaking my email address. Very few of them leak my email address at all, and those that do tend to do so involuntarily through data breaches.

The other main factors in spam are the sleazeballs at Apollo, ZoomInfo, et al., services that use my email address internally for more than I consented (if I use my email address to register for a service, this does not permit that service to add me to their product mailing list), and the spammers who guess email addresses based on LinkedIn info (e.g. name + company domain).

The number of services who appear to take an email address I have given them and sell it appear to be extremely rare.

If you dont mind, What kind of unique email address do you use and how do you manage all the aliases?

There’s no real management involved. I set up a wildcard MX record for *.example.com and hand out jim@<some-id>.example.com whenever anything needs my email address. I don’t need to specifically set up an alias. If spam comes in, I look at the To address to determine where they obtained my email address. Fastmail can be configured this way, for instance.

Most mail providers also support plus addresses or wildcard local parts, so you can do jim+<some-id>@example.com or just <some-id>@example.com. Gmail supports plus addresses, for instance. The downside is that some services reject pluses and some spammers strip out the IDs.

I do the same, and seem to have a much higher hit rate (or a much lower acceptable baseline!)

>and selling user data to make a quick buck

Are there actually companies that will pay you $$$ for a list of emails?

Not exactly, but plenty will just sell everything to data brokers.

>but plenty will just sell everything to data brokers.

Again, "sell" implies that there's some company where they'll accept data from anyone and pay them for it, which so far as I can tell doesn't exist. That's not to say there's no selling going on. The fact that data brokers exist means they do, but that doesn't mean every business is in a position to "sell" data.

My boss has paid many people for lists of email addresses in the past.

Im pretty sure he is not a mythical being!

> simple self-distillation (SSD):

Sorry apple, SSD is already taken, you can't use that acronym.

You're right, I offer these alternatives:

Consistency Preservation Update (CPU)

Guided Probability Update (GPU)

History-aware Distillation Driving (HDD)

Probability Smoothing Update (PSU)

I used to invent TLAs on the spot for fun, and when someone asked what it was, would respond, "It's a PUA", eventually revealing that meant "previously unknown acronym". It was even more annoying that it sounds.

ATT=All TLAs are Taken

Brother you need to put anything on your homepage other then an image and a link to your GitHub release page.

Why would anyone download this?

Include features, screenshots of features, explanation of what the goal of the project is, etc.

Imo NFC tags could be the easiest way of doing the same thing for bigger items, scan it when you use it, log it.

Or just a QR code sticker to a URL only accessible from your LAN

Homebox seems to be a good way to make that happen, FWIW. I looked at it for when I was moving house and it had way more than I needed. But it does support the QR code printouts.

Didn't homebox have some massive drama too? Stopped development, started, forked, fork stopped and started etc?

At least that was my experience when I was looking for an organisation system -and gave up =)

If it does have an issue, you host all of your own data and you own 100% of the URLs involved on the QR codes.

Idk about the drama, I just get stuff done and keep going.

Damn they are really going after the middle manager boomer coders these days with their RCE vulns

(For legal reasons this a joke, please don't kill me in the Vim vs non Vim holy wars)

Microsoft doesn't believe in consent, it believes in yes or every 3 days.

I am reminded of Steve Jobs's video where he says Microsoft has no taste everytime MS pushes this stuff on it's users. True in 90s, true now

Video https://youtu.be/lahX_ARGTqA?si=AnULWzRbl7cc3UWu

Well Unfortunately I can also argue, Apple has no taste anymore. At least, less of it day by day.

I mean it's super obvious, it's directly tied to scrubs popularity.

New season of scrubs = new war in the middle east.

Wow, I didn't know. Thank you! Such a great show.

It's suprisingly good, like it's it's 100% worth watching if you liked scrubs.

It's a shame my job as a penis enlarger is 50% mixed. The market is super shakey at moment with all of the AI enlargers going on.

https://aijobsreport.org/quiz?job=Penis+enlarger

Core of the job stays human—AI helps at the edges.

Interestingly to me this is what raycast actually is for me now. Most of my common workflows are just raycast keybinds now or quickly typed in.

An example is I have my airpods bound to ctrl+alt+b to connect via Bluetooth. This is to have it yank back control from my android phone.