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by AnonC 3y ago
Apple: “While you are in the EU, you get reduced protections and greater risks due to DMA. Once you are out of the EU, you get the best protections that the Apple App Store offers. No malware. No scamware. No adware. No silly apps with enor
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Though I’m in favor of forcing Apple to do certain things (right to repair, sideloading apps, and more), this is one case where I can’t take a side. Epic (and actually Tim Sweeney), for all its bravado and underdog pretense, is a bad actor,
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> Decent countries already make it illegal to buy cryptocurrency for real money, I don’t know if English is your first language or not. The use of the word “decent” here seems inappropriate and totally lacking justification or nuance.
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GP here. Signal allows chats to be backed up on Android. It’s a built in feature.
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GP here, with a late reply. Signal allows chats to be backed up and restored on Android. It does not support (and has said it won’t provide the feature) on iOS and related platforms that I mentioned. You can go through Signal’s help pages t
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> No communication service stops people from backing up with encryption or not, local or remote, or from copy/pasting or for that matter taking photos of the screen ("analog hole"). At least for the first part on backing u
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Official blog post by 1Password: https://blog.1password.com/1password-acquires-kolide/ posted in HN submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39442243 Official blog post by Kolide: https:/&
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> It's important to note that there's still tons of Objective-C written inside Apple to this day, perhaps more than Swift. I don’t know if this is true or not, but Apple certainly isn’t writing its own end-user applications wit
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Whenever I use a new application I look up the frequently used menu options and the corresponding keyboard shortcuts, if any. It’s a lot faster than using the mouse for most actions. Nowadays most applications are developed with the mouse a
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GP here. Maybe I should’ve worded it differently. I wanted to say that it’s better for the users not to rely on an unsupported and poorly designed platform like the free Google Voice service. I’m not in favor of companies blocking VoIP numb
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Google is really atrocious in this respect. It won’t even use recovery email addresses properly. The only solution is to move back to an IP address range that seems like your original “home” location and pray that it works. I have some choi
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It doesn’t work on all sites and apps, which is an annoyance. Why it can’t intelligently offer the SMS OTP when a user is just waiting on an input field and an SMS comes with a code is beyond me. They should be able to decipher the messages
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What happens when the owner of the number discontinues the phone service, loses the number and the same number is give to another customer who then tries to register for an account on the same platform? Phone providers may recycle numbers i
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I don’t have experience with TOTP on this, but I’ve seen that the “try another way” doesn’t even work with a recovery email address and a code sent to it. Google seems to make it almost impossible to login if you move away from your “home”
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Based on my experience with Google Voice, I think of not allowing Google Voice as a positive that could help people. I’ve written a little bit about why not to use Google Voice in this comment (on this same post) here: https://ne
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Google Voice (the free service) has its own pitfalls, which I believe make it a very poor choice to use for online accounts. I’m speaking from personal experience. If you happen to not use it for a little while, Google Voice will send an em
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As said by another commenter above [1], the iPhone 15 Pro can shoot spatial videos that can be viewed on Vision Pro. When the Vision Pro was announced, Apple was its typical self by not revealing anything about another future product (plus,
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> I trust Microsoft a little more than Apple, as by default there's more freedom on Windows than on MacOS Can you elaborate a bit on “by default there’s more freedom on Windows” part?
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That Tidbits article was useful. Thanks for that. I use Little Snitch, but what rules are to be set to block these downloads?
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I got the same pop up a couple of days ago and I dismissed it by clicking on the “x” on the top left. I immediately went to Settings to confirm that my update settings were not changed to automatic updates (they weren’t). Now I’m worried th
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You’ve missed something in this instance because you’re surely not a follower of rumors and news about Apple. Ming-Chi Kuo is not some random blogger but a financial analyst with reliable and deep connections within Apple’s supply chain. He
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> As far as their SDKs they actually do need to provide those for free, otherwise nobody will develop software for iOS and they won't be able to sell devices. It currently doesn’t work like that. To develop and distribute apps, even
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This is not for incremental backups but for all data tied to your Apple ID — Apple provides a data download option to get your contacts, photos, videos and a whole lot of other data. You can visit this KB [1] for details and instructions. T
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Though Telegram’s chats are not end-to-end encrypted by default (and E2EE is not available for group chats), its storage management on device and on the cloud are quite good.
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Search on the messages app is broken for me on iOS and macOS. It really can’t find things that are there. So I have to scroll and look around. The sizes reported are also inaccurate. While iCloud will report some large number, when I dig in
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I agree with some points you make (I’m not downvoting you). But I believe Sundar is the wrong example to take. There are better CEOs within that short list on the site to use. I also don’t believe that Sundar wasn’t coached and trained and
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Update: all invites above have been used.
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This is off topic on this point, but I wanted to point out a privacy issue with invites (as these codes are given out on forums like these to random strangers). The invite codes show which account was created with those to the person sendin
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I got an invite for Bluesky from a kind person on HN, but as someone who didn’t use Twitter, I didn’t have a sense of whom to follow. I discovered some nice artists and comics. Any suggestions on people who post nice stuff or comics or fun
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> As someone who doesn’t use Twitter, my biggest gripe with Twitter right now is that 70% of the time I will click a link or search result to see a single post and I’m greeted with a giant X telling me to login or sign up. I simply leave

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