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> The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s.

Yeah, the original quality is either a 320kbps OGG or lossless. Not 160.

While this is _a_ backup, it's a pretty lossy one.


What a bullshit article.

AI agents don't think, don't have a concept of time, and don't experience pressure.

I'm tired of these articles anthropomorphizing a probability engine.


What are your thoughts on using AI generated cartoons as your primary marketing material on social media? For instance https://xcancel.com/bunjavascript/status/1955893818529866055...


AI slop lovers both of them.


Being a JS/TS one-trick pony all my career, how does it compare to other languages? I don't really see much difference, except if comparing with some C++ shenanigans.


Was just about to ask the same.


Not only that, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to get to legitimate data advanced web apps need in order to work properly, or to get legitimate analytics.

Everything is obfuscated. And this is not the situation on iOS and Android.

I am working on multiple products which use webassembly and cameras on mobile devices. It's impossible to reliably know how many workers to spin up, what's the safe memory limit and how much memory the device has, which compile-time optimized bundle to load, which camera to select for ideal focus lengths...

Especially on iOS.

And I often get customer complaints that the product is crashing. Eventually it ends up being a single (iPhone) that needs a restart to stop it from aggressively managing memory in Safari. Fingerprinting a device would solve SO MANY issues. And this is, again, possible on native apps.



Why do you even need a phone number in the first place?


To curb abuse.


Number spoofing is trivial, and SIM cards can be bought retail for as little as 1€ in the EU and many countries around the world.

You can buy them in bulk on shady sites for as little as 5c per pop.

Most abuse happens on an industrial scale, and it's trivially easy and practically free to bypass this kind of "security" feature.


Right, but 1€ isn't free. So if you manage to spam 1M people and make less than $0.05 * 1M = $50,000 then you are losing money.

Thus no spam on signal.


And to curb privacy / anonimity.


Hardly an actual mitigation. Temp phone numbers are in abundance and a dedicated spammer can definitely overcome it


No system is perfect. It’s about making it time-consuming and financially expensive to the spammer.


What types of abuse it really curbs?


Those that depend on creating new accounts to replace blocked ones.

Getting a new phone number isn't expensive, but it's infinitely more expensive than zero. And if a service is willing to block the phone companies that offer the cheapest new numbers, the price rises again.


I absolutely agree with the article.

Using phone numbers as IDs or a verification method is a horrible practice, not to mention that it forces you to use a phone in the first place.


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