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by firefax 2y ago
Well unfortunately, if the backup method is SMS MFA, and that SMS # is now behind Google's cloud, you can become locked out. Really terrible, from a UX perspective -- I managed to go decades without a data loss, and then poof -- ever
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by firefax 2y ago
>iOS backups are consistent in backing up everything sans stuff in the Secure Enclave Do they now back u TOTP generators? I lost access to an account I had since my teens because when restoring from backup, I had no MFAs in my Google Aut
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by firefax 2y ago
>People don't really care about privacy Then why are they willing to pay a premium for Apple Products, which do as much locally as possible? (Without going into detail, I know this because a very skilled engineer I worked with was h
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by firefax 2y ago
What's your favorite taqueria?
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by firefax 2y ago
To quote Steven Colbert: "reality has a strong liberal bias" (Not enjoying how folks on HN conflate liberalism with "the left" when they are two VERY different things)
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by firefax 2y ago
>flirting with the C suite It sounds like one of the issues was that the C-Suite flirted with her >Wynn-Williams also writes that Kaplan, as her boss, made inappropriate comments to her, including repeatedly asking where she was bleed
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by firefax 2y ago
>FB was a much better product FB used to have granular privacy controls and no "feed" -- you wrote on someone's wall, they wrote on yours, and people had to actively click on your profile to see the messages rather than ha
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by firefax 2y ago
Tor bridges are more bandwidth intensive than CPU intensive, but thanks for the thought.
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by firefax 2y ago
Maybe you got better at posting? :-)
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by firefax 2y ago
I keep forgetting there's a front page to this website. What a cool story!
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by firefax 2y ago
>What public good could possibly come from such a restriction/ban? Often it's to keep out the "wrong" sort -- don't want some uppity poor moving into your school district. So small things like hanging your laundr
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by firefax 2y ago
Haha thanks, I'm guessing English is not your first language? Glad I could be of help ;-)
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by firefax 2y ago
Many townships make line drying illegal, at least in PA.
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by firefax 2y ago
Makes sense. I've seen folks justify being needlessly adversarial because their crotchspawn obviously deserve the best , so anyone who stands in the way of a promotion or publication is a threat and therefor they can reframe bullying
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by firefax 2y ago
Peter Higgs would agree: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-... >Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ h
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by firefax 2y ago
I'd rather get a bullet in the head than spend any substantial amount of time in an American prison.
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by firefax 2y ago
>The rhetoric around Firefox is so exhausting. They change some wording while having made no actual technical changes to the browser and the internet is on fire for days calling them the devil incarnate Having worked there, it's con
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by firefax 2y ago
1984
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by firefax 2y ago
Reddit does a good job surfacing quality content, especially in the domain of art and design. There's several science and space subreddits as well. Very few ppl can blog consistently enough to warrant an RSS feed -- you need an aggrega
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by firefax 2y ago
Is it normal to go into a PhD not having at least a vague thesis topic? I had the opposite issue -- I had an idea that had support in my research area, but my advisor did not have funding to pursue. (I wanted to expand the end of term proje
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by firefax 2y ago
You'd be surprised who you see.
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by firefax 2y ago
A lot of affluent people buy houses in Bethesda then commute via the Red Line.
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by firefax 2y ago
I am not in the EU. There's two accounts - FB and Insta. The same email was given to both.
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by firefax 2y ago
I deleted my Facebook in 2016, and when I tried to create a new one they banned me as "inauthentic". I've seen people complain about the site demanding a government ID scan, but I'd have been willing to prove I am who I
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by firefax 2y ago
Student legal services usually can't help you with disputes with the uni -- I remember reading this when speaking to them about a (unfair IMO) traffic ticket when I was a student at a different institution.
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by firefax 2y ago
Google has issues with authentication. I lost my childhood account because it decided the recovery codes, written on paper + stored in a safe location (matching) were all marked as invalid. I'd have seen logs of them being used if some
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by firefax 2y ago
>To see our schedule, please either enable JavaScript or go here for our NoJS schedule. Great design. Too often sites force me to temporarily whitelist their JS to get basic info.
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by firefax 2y ago
If so, they're silently voting, not engaged in the comments. On my old account, I noticed sometimes I'd get no replies to something, but enough downvotes to hide something... then it seems some algo noticed those votes were odd an
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by firefax 2y ago
Why are you in a community that tolerates them? I had to tell someone IRL today I won't be cursed at and walk out of their office... why wouldn't you do the cyber equivalent? I'm forced to read Reddit and Twitter to keep up o
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by firefax 2y ago
Have you not heard of Distributed Denial of Secrets? Large entities are hacked and leaked constantly, it's just not reported on much in the mainstream press: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secr

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