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by Boltgolt 4y ago
It's very pessimistic, no false positive reports over the last four years but i rather set expectations low.
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by Boltgolt 4y ago
It really does not, it's simply identifying you from a picture: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/dev... Notice how Microsoft shows how Hello can't be fooled by phones or by
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by Boltgolt 4y ago
Howdy is specifically made for IR cameras, normal cameras are not officially supported. Windows Hello works almost exactly the same way.
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by Boltgolt 4y ago
Howdy 3.0.0 will actually introduce a feature that allows login consent. Nod yes to authenticate, shake no to abort. https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/wiki/Rubber-Stamp-Guide#av...
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by Boltgolt 4y ago
Hey main developer of Howdy here, bizarre to see this on HN :) To emphasize: Howdy is about convenience for people that are okay with a less secure installation. It can also be used as a second factor. 3.0.0 has been in the works for 2 year
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
The thing is that you don't know how often that guy has been wrong.
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
Anyone reading this really needs to take a look at the articles side by side, this is extremely blatant plagiarism. They couldn't even be bothered to pick different objects for the ball and the fork
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
"just find another job" like it's that easy for everyone
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
I find it really interesting how idioms survive, even if the language around them changes. In Dutch it's "Morgenstond heeft goud in de mond" which is in incredibly close to German and Norwegian, and also the only place you wo
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
Would you prefer young children picking their own name?
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
This would have consequences for wealth inequality. Households with lower incomes spend much larger percentage of their money on goods with sales tax than more wealthy households. This plan would increase tax for low income families and maj
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
Imagine paying $100 just to be able to pay your government and thinking that's "not that big of a deal"
103.
by Boltgolt 5y ago
Usually, it's copyright on images and TOS problems
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
Most video or audio calling sites for starters
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
So all we need to do is have everyone use the same centralized vendor/institution and bitcoin is fast and free!! Wait a second...
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
As an intelligence agency the GCHQ should have added a boxy extention to the circle, turning it into a massive magnifying glass
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by Boltgolt 5y ago
That's a hot take. Pretty impressive that you're able to ignore decades of innovation and increased accessibility to tools because of JS & CSS.
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
And then there's Instagram, who only did square photos and nothing else for years
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
One word: Compatibility. There are already protections against XSS and CSRF build in, and adding stricter rules would cause sites to break. Do you want to maintain a list of all sites that need cross origin GET requests to function?
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
This "Carrier Alliance" does sound an awful lot like a Carrier Cartel
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
I was under the impression that the new Firefox for Android has not implemented all plugin APIs yet, and thus can't run most of the plugins. Of course there will be plugins that do work and are not whitelisted right now, and they need
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
GitHub says there could have been sessions that were leaked but can't be identified now: "While our log analysis, conducted from March 5 through March 8, confirmed that this was a rare issue, it could not rule out the possibility
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
TLDR: Adding an extra co-processor makes the game run faster
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
If you have a name, phone number and BSN (Dutch SSN) you can easily do lage-scale identity fraud
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
They support basically all PWA functionalities except installing the app to desktop. Is that really such a dealbreaker?
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
See also SIDN ( https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting_Internet_Domeinreg... ), the non-profit managing the 6th biggest ccTLD: .nl
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
The benefit of a night train is that you get an actual nights' sleep. On shorter distances going from city center to city center by plane is only a few hours faster, but you can't sleep much during this time as you have to get to
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by Boltgolt 6y ago
It requires some amazing mental gymnastics to call global warming the "result" of going to space. Exploring space has given us plenty of real word benefits, like communication links and weather satellites
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by Boltgolt 7y ago
Here in Sweden tiny sharp rocks, known as grit, are thrown on top of the forming ice. Works wonders
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by Boltgolt 7y ago
The web version of Duolingo used to have detailed explanations for each lesson that explained a lot of grammar, they seems to have disappeared recently

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