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I wish they were all on the same day of the month...

Dates aren't a big concern though. What I was hoping for is something that would update automatically to some extent if (say) some amounts change, or a payment is missed. But I guess indeed that's basically impossible without access to my payment data.

Given that I have to update it manually though, I would at least like it to be synced remotely. So that I can, say, check it from my laptop on a webpage or desktop app without redoing all the manual data input.

I thought I heard they were rolling out some material you theming in beta a while ago. Did they revert it?

For my use case yes, that would defeat the purpose, but for what it's trying to do it kinda makes sense... At least, they have to do it to comply with payment regulations. And you're still only exposing your identity to one service with a decent reputation, rather than plenty of possibly shadier ones. It seems like a fair tradeoff if what you're looking for is privacy from services you want to pay for.

I'm not American, it seems to be available in the US only...

I guess you're right, yeah. I was hoping someone had figured out a different solution, perhaps integrating directly with the individual subscription providers. But I guess that's way too broad of a scope, integrating with countless individual services.

At least a cross-platform, cloud backed "spreadsheet" would be nice to have though.

Oh sure, didn't mean to imply that Chinese people weren't smart enough to think for themselves. I was just making the point that neither western media nor Chinese media is helping at all to create space or goodwill for critical exchange and debate across boundaries and firewalls (which, to be fair, is not surprising).

Glad to see there are actually Chinese netizens on Lemmy, by the way.

[...] I set up a cloud service where my VPN service would be located on Amazon’s web services, a reputable and widely trusted cloud provider. [...] After about an hour, I set up a VPN that worked flawlessly. The best part? Not only is it free to use [...]

Sorry, what? Last time I checked AWS VPSs were very much NOT free to use, and I'm pretty sure the lowest tier is still more expensive than your average VPN.

Also, this article seems to be arguing against its own points: "you probably don't need a VPN, but I have one anyway"...

This is just straight up true. Besides the belligerence and racism it pushes, it also makes it near impossible to have an actual, reasonable and critical comparative discussion of Chinese and Western societies. It closes any space that might exist for Chinese people to take part in any discussion of international affairs, since the attitude is so strongly against them. This pushes any open minded Chinese netizen back into the arms of their own government's propaganda, rather than inviting them into an open discussion of the good and bad sides of their and other societies.

Backed by who?

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with a recent history of questionable investments...

God I hope this is a bit

Are these from a video game or Terry Pratchett's Night Watch books?

I'm aware they're not using a generic model, but that's not much better. Current custom-made models still fuck up significantly more than humans, and in less predictable ways.

Even if their custom model is slightly incorrect 1% of the time, that's still a major problem in critical systems like those.

Legacy COBOL code is largely used in critical systems like those of banks and airlines. What could go wrong with having that code rewritten by stochastic parrots who get programming answers wrong half of the time?

Me when I start seeing sickoposting in my default Lemmy comms

Interesting demo! Does this use the user agent string for identifying clients?

Oh I mean, sure, but I don't think IP logging is the main privacy concern with spy pixels.

I'm assuming this trick uses the user agent string and other request metadata to identify clients. Even if it didn't recognize Jerboa as a client, it did guess that I was on mobile. That's not possible just by tracking IPs, unless they're cross-referencing it with other datasets. Also, I was on VPN anyway, so the IP would have been useless.

It should be possible for clients to obfuscate/fake the metadata of image requests to make tracking with spy pixels less effective.

Can countermeasures be implemented in the clients to mitigate privacy risks, while not having to proxy images?

Oh that's nothing... In hard techno it's not uncommon to find tracks with an almost completely flat waveform

Got it, thank you!

I'm seeing the same bug, and I don't see a github issue for it. Wanna create one?