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by gergles 8y ago
While they're removing most of the most negative changes ('peak pricing' and the pointless 'take a picture of your ticket stub') for people who remain subscribed (pray they don't alter it any further), they&#x2
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by gergles 8y ago
You can purchase a New York EZPass in cash at places like Costco, and reload it with cash at any 7-11 or other Visa ReadyLink merchant. You are required to register the EZPass to get a reload card in order to do this (which just requires yo
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by gergles 8y ago
The people most likely to use these features I imagine are also the ones most likely to turn off telemetry. Making decisions to remove long-standing features based on telemetry seems short-sighted to me because of this reason.
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by gergles 8y ago
AirPods were actually completely rushed to market and were hand-soldered according to teardowns. There were tons of supply chain constraints and bugs. I don't feel like this is the best example for your argument.
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by gergles 8y ago
Yeah, taking all the risk if the project fails is just their job for having the unmitigated temerity to be rich.
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by gergles 8y ago
Hopefully it isn't yet another case of smug Europeans preening and going "Oh, you stupid Americans, our regulators are different and would never levy gigantic fines. Instead, they come give you a hug and have a cup of tea and po
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by gergles 8y ago
> Fire OS and my personal phone which is running a Google-free version of LineageOS would like to have a word. Hilariously, you just made the parent's point for them - you yourself said you aren't running Android but Fire OS or
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by gergles 8y ago
Reverse that. The US has always had online terminals because we didn't get EMV initially. Taking impressions and filling out charge slips was 'online' (call the auth center,) swipe transactions were online, and then we just d
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by gergles 8y ago
Costs are exactly the same for EMV or non-EMV (swiped) processing. If your acquirer is doing something different, you need to dump them, because it's so far out of industry standard I'd literally be speechless. The only speedup fr
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by gergles 8y ago
> This is clickbait. Apple was sued by VirtnetX and forced to change how it works such that it relies on relay servers run by Apple. The author knows this, and knows that open sourcing a protocol that relies on Apple’s relay servers does
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by gergles 8y ago
OK, but we're clearly talking in the iOS context, given that was the only platform Apple was blocking.
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by gergles 8y ago
Turning on DND blocks all your other notifications too. You get very little control over how much the phone can bother you, and this is still my biggest complaint about iOS. Even if you have a silent ringtone set for someone, an incoming ph
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by gergles 8y ago
Do note that it will only run for 7 days unless you pay Apple $100 a year for the privilege of running code on your own device. You can reinstall it every 7 days for free though!
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by gergles 8y ago
You actually can turn off cellular network calling altogether, if you are willing to do that. Dial (star)#67# (or call 611 if it doesn't show up there) to see what number your voicemail center is. Then dial (star)21(star)1(that numbe
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by gergles 8y ago
There's a separate DOCSIS QoS stream allocated for it, it isn't using "your" bandwidth. (Of course, there's only so much uplink at the CMTS, but...)
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by gergles 8y ago
> But for me 1Password seems like a small, honest company providing great quality service and software. Yes, I imagine because they have carefully crafted that image through blog posts and impression management. They have over 70 employe
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by gergles 8y ago
I use Enpass for this, which uses any kind of regular cloud storage backend and has a fully-featured desktop client and browser fill plugins for free. The mobile clients cost money ($10 per platform, once) which I think makes perfect sense.
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by gergles 8y ago
No, your device location is not CPNI. Generally, only things that appear on a detailed phone bill are CPNI.
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by gergles 8y ago
This isn't a user-gated permission but an Apple-gated one. Apps can't retrieve the nearby SSID list unless they have the "Hotspot Helper" entitlement from Apple. https://developer.apple.com/documentation&
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by gergles 8y ago
I guess they could, but they don't seem to want to. Cinemark's competitor gives you ONE movie (non-premium, non-3D, etc.) a month for $8.99. Watching the ad for it preroll every time before a movie I've 'paid for' (
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by gergles 8y ago
Have you considered that perhaps a fucking text editor doesn't need a team of five employees? This isn't a brain-surgery guidance program, it's a Markdown text editor that uses a sync system written and operated by somebody
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by gergles 8y ago
Conversely, I find Carrot Weather ridiculous when Dark Sky is $4 one time and uses the exact same data source. They (DS) don't try to gouge you for Apple Watch features, which I interpret as "they're probably rich so why not?
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by gergles 8y ago
Clearly, because there's an unabashed, irrelevant circlejerk thread of Trump-bashing on a post about the Literature Nobel prize.
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by gergles 8y ago
The password manager integration is a public standard. More annoyingly, though, apps can also find out if you've pasted into a field and then immediately clear it (some rinkydink banking apps do this.) So it's a 2-pronged problem.
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by gergles 9y ago
This reminds me of my favorite story about old-school Macs. All Macs shipped with Hypercard after its release for a while. Then, eventually, Apple spun off Claris, who got HyperCard as part of the deal, and Apple decided to ship a nerfed ve
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by gergles 9y ago
Reddit also refuses to ban /r/entexchange because the Silicon Valley liberals that run it like weed but hate guns. So, reddit is moralizing, has a logically inconsistent position, and deserve to be called out for that.
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by gergles 9y ago
> so it's not like my opinion is somehow more valuable than yours. But you admit to trying to suppress his ability to express that opinion and see no problem in doing so?
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by gergles 9y ago
The only thing you have to attest under penalty of perjury in a DMCA claim is that you (the person filing the notice) are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner you are claiming has had their copyright violated. The attestation
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by gergles 9y ago
And it doesn't even ask for the background location permission, so unless it has magical superpowers, it isn't going to be able to track you unless have the app open. This is a really bad article, and I am shocked, just shocked, t
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by gergles 9y ago
If this is the entire conference room, and you are in a wheelchair, then you can't attend whatever occurs in that room. I imagine you won't be a very productive employee without being able to attend any meetings that occur in the

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