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by jscholes 7y ago
> unauthenticated web server bound to localhost so that any website could make requests to it and get the video stream I read the linked article. At no point did it (or as far as I can recall any of the coverage at the time) say that th
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by jscholes 7y ago
So did they just... remove Facebook login? Doesn't seem that likely. Maybe the FB SDK has some flags you can set.
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by jscholes 7y ago
You are clutching at straws here. Zoom fires an alert when somebody joins a meeting. If you're not paying attention, that's not Zoom's problem. If the alert isn't surfaced very well, that's an UX issue, but not a
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by jscholes 7y ago
I'm not a MacOS user, but I'm having a really hard time getting my head around this: 1. You download an installer. 2. You activate that installer. 3. Your system tells you that the installer can run some code. 4. You agree to the
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by jscholes 7y ago
Enjoyed this write-up, but most of the exploration seemed to be facilitated by someone having already leaked the CLI root password online. Anyone have suggestions on how you might otherwise obtain that information?
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by jscholes 7y ago
Thanks for the heads-up, looks great and is S3-compatible too.
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by jscholes 7y ago
> Blackblaze B2, Wasabi, Digital Ocean Spaces are three that come to mind. Seconded on the last two in this list. I use both, for completely personal storage needs. I was lucky enough to get Wasabi's older, cheaper pricing model f
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by jscholes 7y ago
> Does that mean Zoom does in fact perform the necessary legwork on the accessibility front? Pretty much. They're not perfect, but they have put a ton of effort into it. It may be because they do business with governments, so requ
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by jscholes 7y ago
Anecdote: much of the software competing with Zoom has really bad accessibility for disabled users, incl. those using a screen reader, screen magnifier, keyboard-only/switch control, speech recognition, etc. This is despite the fact t
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by jscholes 7y ago
> Regarding Jobs' quote, here's another way to look at it: the most beautiful hotel in the world wouldn't feel like such if all the toilets overflowed when flushed. But this would be a functional problem, irritating at bes
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by jscholes 7y ago
... unless you would struggle to address a printed letter due to a disability, Have anxiety, a full-time job or anything else that prevents you from physically attending a surgery appointment, or can't speak. Or all of the above.
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by jscholes 7y ago
Amen to this article. Concise and right on point. My parents have a Roku streaming stick hooked up to their (relatively dumb) TV, but are not tech-savvy. A bunch of times, they've asked if I know how they can watch X, and I do. I h
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by jscholes 7y ago
I think the most difficult aspect of learning English depends on (A) the learner and (B) the goal. If your aim is to learn the language to a sufficient degree that you can handle business customers at an upscale hotel in a non-English spea
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by jscholes 7y ago
> light house cleaning. I'm blind, and my screen reading software's speech synthesizer amusingly pronounced this as "lighthouse cleaning". Which is a very different thing and made you sound fairly unreasonable...
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by jscholes 7y ago
You can join a Yahoo group by sending a blank email to "<groupname>-subscribe@yahoogroups.com". There is no CAPTCHA, only an automated email confirmation which you reply to. Is there a reason why that wouldn't work fo
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by jscholes 7y ago
> I’m so glad I don’t live in the UK anymore. Well, me too. But I'm curious where you live now, and if you think that things are truly better there?
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by jscholes 7y ago
Okay, I have a question for the author: Why didn't you just use a website layout which was easy to navigate and understand for people using screen readers? Is it because it's not a topic you've ever considered, or did you do
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by jscholes 7y ago
> Is there any way to be certain these are done in hardware and can’t be caught in a low level system once the device is rooted? If you suspect your device has been tampered with and need a guaranteed reboot, just let the battery run dow
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Ask HN: Hosted DNS providers with command line client to update records?
1 points by jscholes 7y ago|4 comments
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by jscholes 7y ago
> the hottest urban neighborhood This could describe a number of neighbourhoods in Mexico City. But I'm quite interested - could you direct me to any resources? E.g. how did you find the condo?
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by jscholes 7y ago
> I am so curious as to what a fully blind person would find most enjoyable about legos. I'm not sure this directly answers your question. But I'm totally blind and my first ~7 years of education were spent at a school for bli
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Delegation in Python(fast.ai)
1 points by jscholes 7y ago|0 comments
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by jscholes 7y ago
Love this idea. I'm currently looking for a way to be sent money from Mexico (to the UK), and was disappointed that the site currently had no suggestions. On that note, it's probably better to show an error message instead of an
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by jscholes 7y ago
> Unless you’re referring to the screen reader I am. I would never claim MacOS couldn't be used by professionals in a more general sense. > but my impression is Apple is generally regarded as the best in what comes to accessibil
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by jscholes 7y ago
> If you must run Windows 10 I must, because it's the only viable choice for a blind, screen reader user (me) who wants to get real work done.
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by jscholes 7y ago
I thought this article was going to be about GNU ed.
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by jscholes 7y ago
> We found these guys who live in Bradford, England who are setting up websites and companies so that they can process money for Accostings in the UK. I'm from Bradford - this is not at all surprising.
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by jscholes 7y ago
> And you surely can understand that code is trying to read a port or use a default one. In programming languages which use paradigms I'm more familiar with, yes. In Haskell, not so much, which is the entire point of this thread.
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by jscholes 7y ago
> we unsuccessfully tried to approach bars with a Netflix like subscription for drinks. ... wow. Glad you dodged a MoviePass-style bullet on this one.
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by jscholes 7y ago
> Though notice that you picked literally the most trivial example in the entire codebase that anyone can understand without explanation. I needed the explanation to understand what the code snippet was doing. Careful with those general

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