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by llimos 5y ago
Coming from Twitter seems to bypass the paywall https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/1386225719622213633
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by llimos 5y ago
Besides for the data, which is pretty bad, the feelings described here are pretty much spot on. (I'm 36.)
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‘We are drowning in insecurity’: young people and life after the pandemic(ft.com)
18 points by llimos 5y ago|3 comments
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by llimos 5y ago
Agreed. This is something that made me very annoyed when they did it to us. I know exactly what I'm doing, I know that you can't infect a computer from opening a link unless the attacker possesses a new browser 0-day, and expectin
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by llimos 5y ago
It starts out set in 2002. You could absolutely get 4% on a savings account in 2002.
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by llimos 5y ago
oh, that's useful. Thanks - I filed a bug. Hope I can use it soon!
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by llimos 5y ago
Looks very nice! Is there a way to see logs? I'm not managing to connect to a MariaDB instance on Azure, and all it says is "Connect failed: An internal error has occurred."
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The method in Microsoft’s merger madness(economist.com)
2 points by llimos 6y ago|0 comments
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by llimos 6y ago
The problems with passwords have seeped out into the non-tech world too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHaBH4LqGsI
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by llimos 6y ago
> nobody should be forced to help the government implement something unethical Nobody is forced to install the app at all (at least in the UK's case). And if they do, they're not forced to share their location anyway. On the ot
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by llimos 6y ago
Idea- Allow adding birthdays in alternate calendars. That would be a real differentiator from things like Google Calendar, which don't usually allow recurring events based on an alternate calendar. But a lot of people do celebrate birt
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by llimos 6y ago
The trouble is, you have no sense of what proportion of stories turned out to be true, since they only list the debunked ones.
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by llimos 6y ago
"Kill" is definitely a metaphor. A more literal phrase would be "force stop".
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by llimos 6y ago
> and you get a SMS as you expected during the login process They could also ask you to enter the code from your hardware token, and accept whatever code you type. Phishing is a different story, not really related to SMS. > Also, in m
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by llimos 6y ago
Actually, we do call it a "purge". That's not a word without connotations. We also kill child processes. No-one's had a problem with that till now. Sometimes a metaphor is just a metaphor.
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by llimos 6y ago
And MasterCard. Everyone must switch to Visa now.
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by llimos 6y ago
I've seen a few threads like this in the last few days. From where I'm standing, it seems to be a US-only issue. Can anyone please confirm that in a country that does not allow porting numbers without a code being sent to said num
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by llimos 6y ago
No. I still can't use Home or Work. Maybe @google.com accounts have an exemption.
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City Minister calls for “responsible capitalism” after the pandemic(smf.co.uk)
1 points by llimos 6y ago|0 comments
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by llimos 6y ago
This is starting to sound like https://xkcd.com/378/
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by llimos 6y ago
I'm sorry for sounding curmudgeonly, but grammatical mistakes in UI are a real turn-off for me. When the first message that greets me is "Welcome to use Java Tools", my initial impression (rightly or wrongly) is that this won
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by llimos 6y ago
Not my experience (with Bank Mizrahi). Can do almost anything on the web. Can even cash in checks by taking a picture of them on the app. Calling the central number for the bank directs the call automatically to my personal banker based on
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by llimos 6y ago
Banks are so tightly regulated that they all offer pretty much identical options at identical prices. Shopping around, it's virtually impossible to find any differentiator between them. They don't even advertise based on different
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by llimos 6y ago
I would love to see a government policy that differentiates between businesses that add value and those that don't, but I appreciate it's pretty much impossible to define and is unlikely to ever happen. An economy is set up based
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by llimos 6y ago
It's not a paywall. You can X it out.
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by llimos 6y ago
Why does the page jump back to the top when I scroll past the bottom? Is this by design? (I'm on Firefox desktop.)
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by llimos 6y ago
Would be interesting to know how many up and down votes HN is sending that answer.
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by llimos 6y ago
1000% this. > Why do women have to emulate men to be valuable? Growing up in a "traditional" family, the first thing that struck me when I went to work at a big investment bank was how the women did everything they could to be
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by llimos 6y ago
When this story first broke, I spent a lot of time and effort getting the word out, getting people riled up about the evils of FB, and trying to get people to switch to Signal/Telegram/whatever, all with minimal success. As someon
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by llimos 6y ago
A lot of them are probably due to Bootstrap (<5.0) bundling it.

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