leokennis

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1051.
by leokennis 8y ago
Depends on your use case. If you need a definitive answer of how often in 2017 you bought “Coca Cola Zero 1.5L” based on scanned receipts then 98% accuracy will be not enough. If you need that receipt from the one time you bought a garden h
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by leokennis 8y ago
Yep. I’m not using Google for anything anymore and have to say, the inconvenience is very minor. The rest of the web still syncs fine (IMAP, CalDAV etc.) Only YouTube is irreplaceable, and you need an account to save videos and subscribe to
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by leokennis 8y ago
I have to say: I like to be charged as much as FastMail charges. It gives me some sense that they will not be out of business or quit in a year or two. I like FastMail to still exist in 50 years.
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by leokennis 8y ago
And people happily store their 20 years of photo memories there...one day it will not be a custom inbox view or a voicemail transcript that will disappear.
1055.
by leokennis 8y ago
I’d say that a separate phone app with MFA codes that are only stored offline qualifies as a second factor, as you need both the phone and it’s access code (fingerprint etc.) to see the code.
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by leokennis 8y ago
Someone “hacking” the 1Password web service Logging in to a site on a public computer and the browser auto-remembers the password you typed A border agent forcing you to log into a website (this scenario only works if you leave your second
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by leokennis 8y ago
For “off road” use, Gaia GPS is great. Especially since it syncs to their website. I love OSM but editing is horrible. Draw a small path that wasn’t there before, pick from 500 different labels and tags (landuse:path or landuse:track?), mak
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by leokennis 8y ago
Nicely put. People also like to buy over-featured products for “bragging rights” (huge pick up trucks used to go shopping, ultralight trekking gear for 5 km hikes, €300 knives to cut apples in slices etc.)
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by leokennis 8y ago
Really? Reeaallly? When not paying contactless (which takes less than 5 seconds like you mentioned), paying by debit card takes 6 seconds: enter card, mash 4 number PIN, push OK. And after that 0 seconds spent on change, fumbling with bills
1060.
by leokennis 9y ago
Yes! Imagine a smartphone with an e-ink display, with a custom built interface and apps that focus on text. Basically phone (4G mobile internet, apps) meets reader (e-ink, text as main screen content, long battery life)
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by leokennis 9y ago
The only thing this way of thinking accomplishes, is insecure and depressed parents. You read to your child every day, but some books have only one character in them? Shame on you! Children also need parents that are confident in their pare
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by leokennis 9y ago
Exactly. If the alternative is Google Maps (or even Apple Maps), it’s not good enough to make me pay $5 to download a map of 1 country and forcing me to keep 500mb of data on my device permanently.
1063.
by leokennis 9y ago
I was on holiday in Germany. In The Netherlands I pay everything with my contactless debit card, where you hold it near the reader, wait 1 second and then you've paid. Every cashier in Germany (provided they accepted cards in the first
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by leokennis 9y ago
The problem is, if you want to cheaply ship cheap stuff quickly, you need to reduce costs. So no time to have your packers pick from 20 sizes of boxes; just toss everything in a huge box. No time to handle returns of broken shipments; just
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by leokennis 9y ago
I work for a large bank as OPS engineer. The idea that I could even read a production database without password approval from someone else is too crazy to consider. Updating or deleting takes a small committee and a sizeable "paper tra
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by leokennis 10y ago
What's even more annoying are sites like Quartz, where if you scroll to the bottom it will load some additional headlines. When you scroll past these, more are loaded. It's a page without an end. The ultra annoying thing is that i
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by leokennis 10y ago
With "technically it's possible", do you mean: * Anyone can access it but if it is monitored or found out afterwards, they're in trouble? * Or do you mean that after you ask permission, you get a privileged account or wh
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by leokennis 10y ago
I use it daily and it works great.