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601.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Unfortunately it does so at a >2% average cost to everybody. At the individual level it makes total sense, though.
602.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Of course somebody is paying your 3%; there's no free lunch. To a large extent it's yourself (via interchange paid as part of the merchant's fees); part of it is however also other people paying cash and often not receiving a
603.
by lxgr 6mo ago
You get roughly the same level of fraud protection on both at this point. This is both due to converging legal protections in many places and due to market developments (both Visa and Mastercard require issuers to offer "zero liability
604.
by lxgr 6mo ago
There's also Bartender, Hidden Bar etc., but they all come with some downsides. I just don't get why Apple doesn't recognize this as a problem. Do the engineers working on macOS all have two of these 5:1 aspect ratio ultra wi
605.
by lxgr 6mo ago
> Dock is usually full My menu bar is also full and, unlike the Dock, I can’t resize it to fit more.
606.
by lxgr 6mo ago
How would not implementing a prompt API make them dedicate their resources to something else they didn't consider important before? This seems like a false dichotomy.
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by lxgr 6mo ago
> it's now common knowledge that robots.txt isn't a hard requirement and can be avoided entirely, for example Was it ever not? It's a text file, not law. > They have absolutely turned the open web into a dark forest. On
608.
by lxgr 6mo ago
> The point of using the term autocomplete is to make the underlying technology relatable and remove the mystic from it. I think it fails to do that. It's the wrong level of abstraction. Or is it helpful to model an ISA as the indiv
609.
by lxgr 6mo ago
At what point does autocomplete stop being "just autocomplete"? Clearly there's a limit. For example, if an alien autocomplete implementation were to fall out of a wormhole that somehow manages to, say, accurately complete se
610.
by lxgr 6mo ago
The technical explanation makes sense to me, but there's some sweet irony in creating simulated, agentic beings via complex, deterministic processes, said beings starting to see the world through the lens of fictional agentic beings as
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Oh, cool, thank you! I must have used the wrong search terms; I could only find vague hints about deactivating Handoff/Continuity. I stand corrected, and I appreciate that Apple did consider the non-Bay-Area use case :) > Unless you
612.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Which, in my view, significantly decreases the value proposition, as there is no way to deactivate this feature to my knowledge (at least not without also opting out of other useful features under the "Handoff" umbrella). A typica
613.
by lxgr 6mo ago
The physical layer part really isn't complicated, and most Wi-Fi chipsets have supported something like it for over a decade now. What's tricky is to specify and get everybody to implement the layers on top of it, including device
614.
by lxgr 6mo ago
AWDL really isn't that novel, neither as an idea nor implementation. What Apple did nail is the user experience on top of it.
615.
by lxgr 6mo ago
It's been a standard feature of many Wi-Fi chipsets/drivers for over a decade.
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by lxgr 6mo ago
> It uses a time-sliced channel-hopping mechanism so the radio can serve both infrastructure WiFi and the direct peer link simultaneously. This is really nothing special as 802.11 implementations go, as it's pretty easy to do as lon
617.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Huh, I was going to say that this can't possibly be the case for the newer standards, but it seems like it really is the case even in 4G/LTE... Hopefully devices at least ignore it when 2G is deactivated entirely, for those where
618.
by lxgr 6mo ago
SIMs can define both their home network (both implicitly since the IMSI starts with MCC/MNC of the issuer/home network, and explicitly in the form of a list of "equivalent networks", which is useful for MVNOs with their
619.
by lxgr 6mo ago
> they get automatically flagged as scams, because the dialer companies that the politicians use If it were possible to reliably determine the source of a call in the US phone network, spam wouldn't be an issue! Theoretically, STIR&
620.
by lxgr 6mo ago
I don't think that matters, since the phone has no way of knowing from the SIM card alone whether it should still connect to 2G networks or not. It sounds like a good idea to at least restrict 2G connections to non-roaming scenarios, b
621.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Because none of them actually match the capabilities of AirDrop, since they essentially require controlling the full stack (UI, low-level networking including Bluetooth for discoverability, Wi-Fi peer to peer connections without dropping an
622.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Unfortunately, I think there's no way for a SIM card to indicate to the phone that it would like it to please never connect to any 2G (or any non-mutually-authenticated) network. Absent that, maybe this happens via a carrier profile (o
623.
by lxgr 6mo ago
I feel like we need a spamsolutions.txt [1] for purported AirDrop replacements. This one fails the "must not require an existing Wi-Fi network that both peers are connected to" criterion. [1] https://craphound.com/
624.
by lxgr 6mo ago
If people need to stop notifications for incoming calls/messages, I'd call that dysfunctional, not just suboptimal. And what's worse is that even if this were to be fixed now, the reputational damage is already done, since ma
625.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Are you sure it's not sourced from the visited network? In that case, 3G or beyond wouldn't help you, as mutual authentication does not imply end-to-end authentication of all traffic between you and your home provider.
626.
by lxgr 6mo ago
This matches my experience. The US seems to have completely given up on protecting its public phone network against abuse, while at the same time relying on phone numbers as the primary identifying key and authentication method for humans i
627.
by lxgr 6mo ago
3G and beyond use mutual authentication between your phone and home network, so this only works while phones still happily connect to 2G (GSM) networks if nothing better is around (or is getting jammed at the same time).
628.
by lxgr 6mo ago
“Please enter your 16 digit payment card number to be connected to an emergency operator”…
629.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Only if they’re not already connected to a better network, no?
630.
by lxgr 6mo ago
How does Chrome’s implementation matter in an article about Firefox?

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