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on the other hand i know countless subcontractors/vendors that have dozens of work email addresses from different companies and are not really employees of any of them.

so yea, emails are not a trusworthy source of anything, but filtering singups based on addresses is very common.


> Are the numbers that they are showing an average of all reports starting from 2007

tbf it would probably suffice to have that information somewhere


reputation systems don't just die off because they are found to be inadequate </s>

there is a constant influx of ppl that don't know yet [0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/


then again, who decides if it is a (very) good reason?


have recently been in an interview were the scriptedness feeling crept in after the first few up-beat intro questions were done. didn't felt professional at all to see them working a questionaire with me.


yea, in oss projects, users tend to feel more like stakeholders than with products of some mega-corp.

we all know that these feedback channels just create a corpus of opinions to be used for arbitrary arguments by management. no one is gonna read or even react to this unless it's necessary.


> There's a reason Zerodium values iOS zero days less than Android ones too

iirc it was the other way around for some time


iirc there was a time where spamers would send calender invites to random gmail's


even remember a time when my galaxy s4 mini would ask me how it should represent itself when connected via usb; also drivedroid to emulate a cdrom drive with an downloaded .iso in order to boot older computers that don't know how to usb.

maybe i have been spoiled by the real computer in my pocket experience of custom rom's.


bought a 1st gen SE in 2017, dropped daily, nothing broke to this day. what a phone!


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