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by johnnycab 7y ago
>Apparently 2FA for Apple ids cannot be rolled back! Apple removed the option to turn off two-factor authentication on some Apple IDs created in iOS 10.3 or macOS 10.12.4 and later. A couple of years ago, I forgot the question/pas
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by johnnycab 7y ago
The 7th Gen is still lacking the quad speaker setup, ProMotion 120Hz refresh rate, True Tone and does not feature a fully laminated screen. At least, it has retained the 3.5mm audio jack. Although, the 10.5" (2017) iPad Pro will remain
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by johnnycab 7y ago
If you think that differentiating between three phones in the new range is confusing, you should keep far away from Xiaomi!
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by johnnycab 7y ago
There aren't many countries in the EU, which emphatically restrict Sunday shopping. Even where the restrictions are in place, trading laws can vary and not strictly imposed or adhered to. This can also be coupled with diminishing polit
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>Now they are actually in the process of automating the trains, which has been criticised by many as a vanity project. The DLR has been driverless, since it was introduced in 1987 ─ it is a working example of the paradox of automation, w
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by johnnycab 7y ago
Some of the points you make were also brought up in the ShowHN post for 'My Brand New Logo', which similarly uses AI as it's USP. I would like to know, what differentiates your service? https://mybrandnewlogo.com&#
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>Whilst it's funny these guys did this with AI I can't help but feel that they could have done this with someone who is halfway decent at accents and saved themselves a lot of effort. On the contrary, it seems like they did sav
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>I'm in Poland right now, the latest "big" news was that the son of some rich guy died jet skiing and that a thunderstorm killed some people in the mountains, not the crisis in Venezuela or protests going on in Hong Kong.
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>If you try to cancel your Prime Membership, they make it sound as if you lose all benefits right away This method of obfuscation is also prevalent on most music services I have subscribed to ie. Spotify, Deezer, Tidal et al., which also
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by johnnycab 7y ago
Yak shaving refers to a task, that leads you to perform another related task and so on, and so on — all distracting you from your original goal. Buffalo milking seems to be variously related to experience (see effortless squeezing) or Buf
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by johnnycab 7y ago
I am another long-term Thunderbird user and for most parts, it just works. However, there is a bug related to Global search [CTRL+K] which has still not been fixed, and is extremely frustrating, as it breaks the function of searching all ma
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>Even working in prisons they are strict on equipment The tone of incredulity in your comment suggests, as if this practice is extraordinary, when it would be considered SOP ─ tools and crims behind bars make the most unlikely bedfellows
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by johnnycab 7y ago
Your comments contain fundamental errors. I won't go into great detail, why Three failed to acquire 4G spectrum and how it was subsequently awarded significantly valuable frequency from EE in the process. However, there is a lot more
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by johnnycab 7y ago
I would have thought that the headline alone would be sufficient enough to provide that answer. In order to remove any further doubt, millions of books are still in circulation, after more than a century since the scare/panic. This sho
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by johnnycab 7y ago
It is a fairly good cross-platform list; would definitely recommend O&O Shutup 10 (Windows) - disables Telemetry and other intrusive features. Also, changing to DoH (Cloudflare) and enabling ESNI in Firefox is a good measure. I did not
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by johnnycab 7y ago
This appears to be a similar attack vector, to the one which might have been used for scamming Swiss Revolut customers, by determining legitimate users via the phone number range, in order to deliver fraudulent SMS messages. https:/
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>Everything is in London because everything is in London. HS2 is an attempt to break out of that. By developing better rail links across England we allow companies to start moving out of London. Despite the topic being divisive, this is
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>"a man was placed on leave, must be a sex scandal!" Is this seriously the society we live in? - Maybe there is a precedent for this insinuation https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/essential-c
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>Very occasionally an inspector just holds a hand terminal to your card to check you paid. For a ticket inspector, there is hardly any information to discern if a journey has been made when using a Contactless card. Furthermore, anybod
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by johnnycab 7y ago
I am not an active patron, but it impresses me how creative some people are at discovering these tricks. It appears that McD doesn't seem to mind, rather they leave the door slightly ajar for some tomfoolery, making the user believe th
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by johnnycab 7y ago
https://t.me/hackernewslive
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by johnnycab 7y ago
Telegram is a great way to read HN articles, by subscribing to the channel, especially if you can't onboard enough people in your circle, to use it as a primary messenger. It also fires up on iPad, unlike WhatsApp.
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by johnnycab 7y ago
You seem to have gone off on a tangent, with regards to emulating the 'sound' via plugins and distortion filters for music production, without actually having to invest in the physical medium. Whereas, I was commenting on the bana
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by johnnycab 7y ago
One even reads nice things about the way cassettes sound, like in this Medium post from Aubrey Norwood: “The sound tape gives is warm. Saturated. It promotes a degree of imperfection, and creates an underflow of infamous tape hiss that lea
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by johnnycab 7y ago
This is a case of 'genericisation'. A Very Short Introduction” of a man in 1990 who filed for a trademark on his red, white and blue assortment of “Stealth Condoms”, with the tag-phrase “They’ll never see you coming.” Northrop, t
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by johnnycab 7y ago
There might be some added benefits or preferences e.g. extended warranty, insurance, physical location, loyalty towards a brand or accrued in kind via a scheme or membership etc.
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>As for EU involvement, it seems to have worked out for the best with forcing phone manufacturers to use USB for charging - I still remember the days of feature phones, where we were all drowning in phone chargers and (separate) data cab
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>Apple would be actually courageous for switching to USB-C and forcing everyone's hand. Last time Apple was courageous ─ the headphone jack got killed. The word 'courage' was used to onboard Airpods and move the general tr
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by johnnycab 7y ago
I disagree; extrapolating the Pareto principle and arbitrarily defining needs/wants ratio on privacy, by drawing a relation between either being savvy or ambivalent and justifying the value of free content, is a non-sequitur. There a
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by johnnycab 7y ago
>Isn't it the same as printers watermarking printouts? I don't see this as a necessarily bad thing. I can't see how you can adopt a stance, which places accountability above blanket surveillance by condoning behaviour, whi

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