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Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:49PM (#50310606)
This is misleading; a better analogy would be if someone swapped out all iPhones in the store with fake ones.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:21PM (#49633618)
You cannot get an eSIM for a Chinese phone number as a tourist; this is a restriction set by the Chinese government.
Re:Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo on Thursday September 04, 2025 @04:24PM (#45131840)
> the third party, unaffiliated, developer experience is better on an EVM than it is is on a traditional centralized database.

This is definitely a take, given how easy it is to write a program with security bugs using Solidity due to specific concerns like reentrancy that only exist due to the unique way smart contracts work. The inability to "undo" a fraudulent or mistaken transaction without requiring all validators to fork the chain also makes this a non-starter for many developers.

> your users pay to update the state of your application

Also a weird thing to call a "feature" for developers when this actively drives away potential users.

Re:The unexpected productivity boost of Rust on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:17PM (#45047601)
In Blink setHref is automatically bound to C++ code [1]. I think it's fair to say that anything goes.

[1]: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...

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