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by daveoc64 4y ago
Please remember the HN Guidelines: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, emai
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Adobe was reported to be threating Microsoft with anti-trust complaints in the mid-2000s, as Office had started to include support for outputting PDFs without needing to buy a plugin from Adobe. I imagine they've steered clear of stepp
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It loaded OK for me. https://support.lastpass.com/help/security-bulletin-recommen...
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It's never happened since - you are almost certainly mistaken. This is a common problem with digital storefronts - people think they bought something from store X, but they actually got it from store Y or on a different account. Amazon
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The Kindle came out in 2007 - nearly 16 years ago. The "1984" incident happened in 2009 - nearly 14 years ago. Amazon modified their terms and conditions to make it difficult for them to do something like that again. I'm not
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>Make no mistake: the Online Safety Bill has absolutely nothing to do with protecting children. I don't think that's entirely true. I am sure many MPs, charities, and campaigners do only see this as an issue of child (and more
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You'll find very few people in the UK that want to be able to have weapons in the way that the USA does.
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Ah yes, "permanently". Except on certain versions of Windows.
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It's really all about risk. There are certain categories of transaction that see a lot of disputes. Payment processors, banks, and card schemes (like Visa/MasterCard) don't like disputes - they are costly to deal with.
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The Quest 2 came out in 2020 and has massively outsold the Valve Index.
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They offer Windows as a configuration option, so yes.
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>In their discussion with the mods they mention "site-wide rules" which makes me think they don't understand that the mods of each reddit make their own rules. They're referring to the 10% guideline that many subreddi
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Apple makes no promise of support for any of its products and never has. I would much rather use an Android device from a manufacturer or a desktop OS from Microsoft that is actually up front about their support lifecycle, than go with Appl
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Because using a password manager as intended solves several well-known and very common password-related attacks like credential stuffing. A password manager makes it possible for the average person to have high length, completely random pas
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It was Sony that dragged their feet on cross-platform play: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22417560/sony-ps4-cross-pl... Nintendo and Microsoft had it up and running, but Sony didn't want to allo
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> I, personally, think that password managers contradict the idea of passwords. A password is something that YOU know. You and nobody else. Ideally not even the system you access. That's the theory of passwords, but it has been demo
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Of course, this is in the US. Impossible doesn't sell its products in Europe (or none of the good ones anyway). Here we have things like Burger King UK which has a more or less 50/50 plant based/meat split on its major produc
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But with a functioning majority, governments in Europe would be able to amend any such bill or constitution. It only works how it does in the USA because of political stalemate and gridlock.
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It's the same on iOS too. Many major apps make their own camera UI, because it allows them to make a bespoke experience that actually feels like something that's part of their own app. There's always the option to use the sta
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From what I understand the proposal here is to have camerapeople moving around and filming things that look interesting. The UK's parliament coverage doesn't work like that.
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>Google should crack down more on apps. Crack down on what? You seem to seriously misunderstand the situation. There are two options for an app to take a photo: 1) Using the Camera Intent 2) A custom-designed UI that uses the Camera&#x2F
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>Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, Google Messages (!!!) don't use this API. That's a perfectly valid choice. App developers of that size have the resources to make their own camera UI, and produce the experience they want to.
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Yes. That's what a Camera Intent would do: https://developer.android.com/training/camera/camera-intents This is the "I want the default camera app to take the photo for me, and I just want my app to be g
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There are some solutions to these problems. The typical hardware solution is for the phone provider to install a battery powered backup device. In the event of a power cut, the backup device allows the landline phone to make calls to 112&#x
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>Credit cards can be more convenient, but not all places accept them and of the ones who do sometimes they charge an inordinate fee. Card acceptance is very high in the UK now, and fees for paying by credit or debit card have been illega
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>When I went to school, fights were fairly rare, but they did happen. Usually they were minor without any serious injuries. Your punishment was usually several detentions, saying you're sorry, and your parents punishing you at home.
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This was a huge issue for some of the software I maintain. The link explains the problem really well. User agent sniffing was the only option. We have a lot of end users on older iPads that can't upgrade to a newer browser. These users
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Both. See the link. Notes on a site/password go in the "extra" field, which is encrypted. For most people it looks like the only field that should hold any user-provided unencrypted data is the URL field.
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All notes fields are encrypted. Take a look at the following analysis of the LastPass data structure: https://github.com/cfbao/lastpass-vault-parser/blob/master/l...
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Most data fields are encrypted in the LastPass vault. The real exception is URLs linked to passwords. Some metadata is also unencrypted (e.g. created date). Both the "secure notes" category and the "notes" section on a p

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