StavrosK

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by StavrosK 5y ago
This isn't very relevant to the current discussion, though, as you don't need root or an unlocked bootloader on Android to do that.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I don't know what to tell you if you believe that, while conversions drop off a cliff if the "signup" button isn't prominent, asking users to unlock their bootloader and install a third party app store just to get Facebo
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by StavrosK 5y ago
So the reasoning is "if you allow my phone to be unlocked, so many people will want alternate stores that Facebook and Google will unlist their apps from the App Store and use the alternative stores only, and then they won't be as
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> Why do you want to take my choice away from me? You keep repeating this disingenuous argument. If you don't want to root your phone, don't root it. If you don't want your kids to be able to root their phones, don't
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> So there may be a good reason why Apple don’t want this to happen Yes, this is why the phones are locked by default. This is not at all why the phones aren't unlockable, though. They can be unlockable and still be secure. Apple ju
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by StavrosK 5y ago
How does being able to get root access to an iPhone (the way you can on a Mac) limit creativity?
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by StavrosK 5y ago
This is such a tired argument. Nobody is arguing that iPhones should be rooted by default, only that they should be rootable .
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by StavrosK 5y ago
The problem is that there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be able to disable your iPhone's security and mess around with it if that's what you want. Apple owns the device, not you.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
You do, but I've found that some countries don't really want you, and they'll slam you with onerous KYC requirements to drive you to leave. I currently need to fill out 30 pages of documentation and have "a Skype call&qu
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Huh? That's not at all what I said. When I posted that, half the comments section were comments like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454154
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by StavrosK 5y ago
What's up with all the antivaxxer/COVID hoaxer comments lately? Every COVID-related thread seems to be at least half-full of antivaxxer comments, and that's being optimistic.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
It's just nice for us laymen to have more confirmation.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Too bad the Handshake domain donation to SciHub didn't pan out.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
It's correct now too, since we can no less change the value now than before the redefinition (we can't change it in either case, and not because Boltzmann is dead), so the joke works fine!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Sure, but that's why you add multiple devices/keys to your account. Reinstalling the OS should be fine. I'm very much looking forward to password managers acting as soft-WebAuthn tokens so they can hold a simple private key a
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> If the payee has a Greek bank account I suppose? But then it means that if both payer and payee have a n26 bank account and use it in Greece, they don't have to pay this fee anymore, right? So why would they use Greek banks? Indee
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> then even the transfers to greek accounts would be free No, the bank still charges the 3 EUR for the incoming transfer, sadly.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> You mean that a transfer from your Greek bank account to another Greek bank account would cost you 3 EUR? Yep! Sad. > What happens if you get a bank account in another EU / SEPA country (e.g. via n26) and use it instead of a Gr
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by StavrosK 5y ago
No, turns out SEPA only stipulates that cross-border transfers cannot be more expensive than national transfers, it doesn't say they should be free :(
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by StavrosK 5y ago
But names are names, not descriptions. Names can describe stuff, but usually shouldn't. "ParallelDashboard" is a terrible name.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Greece here, transactions cost 3 EUR. I think they're possibly free if you use the same bank, but the apps are cumbersome to use and the potential for fees is a deterrent, so nobody uses them for transactions of less than hundreds of E
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Oh oops, missed that, you're right.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
No, the inherent problem of SMS is that it can be stolen/redirected. Given that, and given that companies are too eager to use it as 1FA, you shouldn't use it. If I'm giving advice to companies, I say "don't use SMS
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> The very things that make SMS a uniquely good second factor make it an awful only factor. Use of SMS for account recovery should in general (or at least for important accounts) have a delay (order of days) that allows the real user to
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Because companies routinely and silently use SMS 2FA as SMS 1FA.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> Compare that to a U2F token where you can very reasonably remove the password entirely and still be just as safe Not only that, but you can remove the username too : WebAuthn supports a "usernameless" mode where you press &q
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I got "Wozniak" more than "Jobs" from it, given the technical nature of the job.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Reload was up/down.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
That helps as well.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Nice statistic, but killings by police are 28 per million in the states versus 1.3 in Germany/France: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enfo...

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