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by dwaite 2y ago
> Are passkeys replacing passwords, 2FA, or both? The minimum bar is replacing passwords with something more secure for the user. If the site wants more specific factors or characteristics of authentication (such as a non-cloneable posse
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by dwaite 2y ago
Families tend to get spread out and vacations tend to be very short. There is a strong encouragement to meet for recognized holidays, so these are by far the busiest times at airports. Last year, the prediction was 4.7 million people in the
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by dwaite 2y ago
> I get the reasoning, but I chose Android because it's open .... I suspect you mean, you chose Android because Google _said_ it was open. Plenty of tech people chose Android because they knew others would be able to carve out a wor
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by dwaite 2y ago
I think it tends to push to the extremes. Either it provides an incentive structure that retains knowledgable salespeople and provides a huge customer benefit, or it winds up being toxic for both the employees and customers.
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by dwaite 2y ago
pretty common on UNIXes; you can also have forward slashes in filenames. They just have to be escaped to differentiate.
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by dwaite 2y ago
Yes, and it specifically is more noticeable in applications that let you open any file type; if you open and save a list of specific types, you have described those types to the system (and so there is a registered full extension to use). T
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by dwaite 2y ago
A feature to accomplish... what? It isn't "autocomplete" as the original title implied; the .s never appears in the save dialog even if you tab away from text entry. Apple has been deprecating global access to the universal t
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by dwaite 2y ago
Microsoft's reluctance to break things comes from commercial entities being a big source of licenses both for desktops and backend servers. If some poorly maintained mission-critical app doesn't run on Windows 11 because it hasn&#
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by dwaite 2y ago
How did they block Vulkan support?
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by dwaite 2y ago
> (6) is the most sensible option followed by (2). (2) should have happened years ago if it was in their plans. The regulations may have moved up the timeline, but it didn't change what was going to happen. It did happen. They added
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by dwaite 2y ago
Apple started shipping exclusively USB-C cables/chargers with iPhones with the 11 in 2019. There's certainly a case to be made that they should have done that earlier (iPhone X or even back with the iPhone 7). It is perhaps worth
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by dwaite 2y ago
The problem is that other than faster charging, the vast majority of people would not see USB-C as an upgrade, and instead a play to make them buy new cables and chargers. Even though Apple had switched over to exclusively bundling USB-C to
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by dwaite 2y ago
> if the state of the firmware somehow gets in a mucked-up state and they need to be flashed. The only possible way to recover broken AirPods is via tethered recovery. There is no process to reflash AirPods, at least one known outside o
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by dwaite 2y ago
> Does anyone offer a tethering plan that's rate limited but not data limited? T-Mobile in the US; they give you a set amount of high-speed tethering based on your plan, then it rate limits severely until the end of the billing cycl
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by dwaite 2y ago
> Internet tethering is actually one that's gone backwards, with "unlimited" cellphone plans that are limited when tethering. Or plans that disable tethering even though all the software is there. The internet tethering li
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by dwaite 2y ago
It will not be able to reliably work with the A partition once B boots the first time - the update process even for many minor releases will trigger local and cloud data upgrades, and there are security reasons to not leave the option to le
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by dwaite 2y ago
Sure, but shouldn't there be a minimum standard like "the built-in and well-documented recovery process failed?"
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by dwaite 2y ago
Can you go into a bit more detail on what you see as the problem in non-repudiation of presentation?
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by dwaite 2y ago
It is a properly named language. Just a staggering majority of XML use is for a purpose it was not originally designed for. It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations
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by dwaite 2y ago
And schema and paths have much the same issues - they are being used as tools in things like network-exchanged messages when the underlying specs and the implementations out there were not designed with that idea in mind. You are going to h
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by dwaite 2y ago
I thought the IBOS kernel leveraged L4 (Pistachio?) I believe generally the push has been to better use the isolation feature in existing operating system environments - such as having separate processes for rendering and javascript executi
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by dwaite 2y ago
I would feel far more concerned that an arbitrary application that decided to do its own DNS resolution would be doing so for nefarious reasons, or might mess up the process (such as not supporting encrypted DNS in this case). If you genuin
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by dwaite 2y ago
Their most recent press announcement around Android Wear seemed to imply that they don't license the tech outside of selling their own biosensors. https://investor.masimo.com/news/news-details/2024/Masimo
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by dwaite 2y ago
I believe the Qualcomm modems run a L4 variant.
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by dwaite 2y ago
> Like when I'm listening to a Spotify playlist and I want to like the song or save it to a playlist while driving, it would be amazing if I could just tell Siri to do it for me Spotify already supports liking a song via Siri. http
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by dwaite 2y ago
If you look up battery health and it shows as degraded (or you follow the notification to get there), it gives you support options to schedule an appointment or send it in for repair.
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by dwaite 2y ago
I don't quite agree with this piece, as it is comparing apples and oranges. What you want is patterns for having safety, efficiency and maintainability for concurrent and parallelized processing. One early pattern for doing that was co
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My reasoning for never pursuing push is that a lot of semantics become implicit in the business requirements of the application itself. How does the server know it should push or not push data based on the client state, e.g. should it be pu
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by dwaite 2y ago
My understanding is they can get a warrant to seize footage from a camera on your house (but not I wouldn't call it an 'invitation).
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by dwaite 2y ago
The point of RDF is to raise the problem to the greatest common divisor level of complexity - a hypermedia graph of arbitrary predicates about arbitrary objects. OWL is a modeling language to describe ontologies, e.g. some constraints peopl

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