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by Zak 2y ago
When adding people to a chat, it shows the contact list from the device, with avatars. It is also possible to manually enter a phone number or username. It's very likely that senior government officials have a phone with journalists sa
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by Zak 2y ago
I don't think using Signal is the biggest problem in terms of security, though it's against the rules to use something not explicitly approved. The bigger security problem is that it was being run on devices that evidently weren&#
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by Zak 2y ago
They don't. They want you to have to use their cloud service, either to sell data you generate or to try to push you into a subscription of some sort in the future. They're evil, not stupid.
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by Zak 2y ago
Instagram caught the smartphone wave.
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by Zak 2y ago
I know, but any practical airplane can take off in calm wind from level ground. The first Wright Flyer required a strong headwind or downhill angle.
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by Zak 2y ago
I had the impression it took off downhill for that flight, failing my criterion, but it actually took off from level ground with a strong headwind. I'll give it partial credit; I don't think its rail would have been long enough in
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by Zak 2y ago
I think it's fair to say someone invented a thing if they design and build the first one that actually works. The concept of an airplane had been around for a while by 1903, but nobody had one. Similarly today we have the concept of a
728.
by Zak 2y ago
I think we can say that a successful airplane was inevitable in the early 20th century because of the other work being done in the field at the time. Other designs were getting close, but didn't quite have the necessary combination of
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by Zak 2y ago
> there's one user reporting one minute delay, and another - from his phone > out of those only 3% passed Anubi's proof of work, hinting at 97% of the traffic being bots This doesn't follow. If I open a link from my
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by Zak 2y ago
iOS is the gatekeeper. AirPlay is how iOS plays media wirelessly. iMessage isn't a gatekeeper because it isn't popular enough in Europe. It comes with iOS, but most European iOS users don't use it for enough of their messagin
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by Zak 2y ago
That's unfair. Modern computers are extremely complicated to the point that even the most knowledgeable person has only a partial understanding, and nearly everyone is required to use them to function in western societies. There's
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by Zak 2y ago
Android handles a couple permissions it doesn't want people turning on accidentally by requiring that the user open the settings app and manually pick which apps to allow from a list. I wonder if that reduces the rate of people enablin
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by Zak 2y ago
> I understand the urge to make phones more secure by default and to help users avoid foot guns There's secure by default, and then there's stuff users can't override even with great effort. Android restricts some danger
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by Zak 2y ago
While I agree with you (I daily a rooted Android phone), anyone who cleaned up a few Windows machines for non-technical people 20 years ago probably at least understands where Apple is coming from. The average person is really bad at system
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by Zak 2y ago
DRM on media almost never makes sense from an anti-piracy perspective. Any reasonably popular book, movie, or TV show is on The Pirate Bay within a single-digit number of hours of its release. It makes a lot of sense from a lock-in perspect
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by Zak 2y ago
This thread is the first I've heard of it. I had to look it up. The scammer convinces the mark to put money into fake investments and escalates until the mark runs of of money or gets spooked, then disappears. It's often made more
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by Zak 2y ago
It seems to me the mentality has become that since end users tend to be bad at system administration, they shouldn't be allowed to do it, for their own good. I reject this mentality. I don't think it's necessary or desirable
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by Zak 2y ago
I think much of the distaste for credit scores comes from their use for purposes other than making loans. I think it's reasonable for people to want a society where past financial difficulties (self-induced or otherwise) do not make it
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by Zak 2y ago
A difficulty developers have cited is that it isn't possible to have paid major version upgrades while keeping the same identity (links, reviews, etc...) for an app.
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by Zak 2y ago
I haven't had to put much effort into keeping my Play Integrity bypass working. I might touch it once a year. I do fear the day Google starts actively fighting it.
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by Zak 2y ago
I recently had cause to sign in to the Google Cloud console (not BigQuery specifically) and found it unusable on Firefox. It pegged a core at 100% and consumed memory at a prodigious rate. Basic UI actions were painfully slow. I killed the
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by Zak 2y ago
The experiment answers a useful question: does theanine have a strong, acute anti-stress effect on the experimenter? Effect size is the key element of this question. If the substance was alprazolam (Xanax) instead of theanine, we would almo
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by Zak 2y ago
I imagine it has to do with not wanting to add anything to the UI, though it wouldn't be hard to support Markdown with no visible UI.
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by Zak 2y ago
Both things can be good ideas at the same time. It's likely the case that large corporate social media platforms have thought about what formatting options they want to provide and have decided that they will make more money if they ke
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by Zak 2y ago
> Firefox's sync for example doesn't sync extension settings, search engines and it fails on Android multiple times per day Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions at all, so I'm a bit confused as to how that&
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by Zak 2y ago
Do we have clear evidence for vaping causing harms of similar severity and frequency as smoking?
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by Zak 2y ago
I wonder if a fuel economy standard that ignores vehicle size would be viable. That would advantage the lightest, most aerodynamic cars and make big vehicles expensive. Some people need big vehicles, but increasing costs for those people
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by Zak 2y ago
Do any countries' emissions regulations require manufacturers to actively try to prevent illegal modifications? It seems to me that wouldn't be the manufacturer's problem, and I can't recall hearing of a legal case where
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by Zak 2y ago
Sure, and that could break the printer, cause it to print things I don't want it to, or cause it to serve malware to other devices. I would like the printer to be too simple for the third case to be realistic, but that may be harder to
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by Zak 2y ago
It's a printer. The only way it could have security issues is if it's connected directly to the internet (not behind NAT) or a device on my LAN is actively attacking it. The former case is difficult to accomplish without enough ex

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