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by mtgx 7y ago
NFC keys should work for iOS, too, now: https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/22/yubikey-neo-iphone-lastpass/
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by mtgx 7y ago
Unless your CEO loves talking about CVEs all day long, I think we should all be grateful for these good-looking marketing campaigns for serious security issues .
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by mtgx 7y ago
No tinfoil required. When in doubt about such issues think about whether or not the "bug" or "error" that people found in Google's solutions benefits Google. If it does, then it's much more likely than not that
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by mtgx 7y ago
I think Google is only going to play this "incompatibility" card more and more now that Chrome is the dominant browser. We need more pushback against Google doing stuff like this, even when at first glance what they push for seems
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by mtgx 7y ago
I'm pretty sure there were multiple comments about being able to make an AMP-alternative with regular HTML that's just as fast from the very first AMP-related post on HN. It may even have been the top comment for some of the first
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by mtgx 7y ago
Whether or not ads on the internet are good is not that clear cut. But I would say 99% of tracking is both evil and mostly useless, probably with the 1% being first-party analytics to track some very simple stuff like page views. I'm g
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by mtgx 7y ago
> and it gaslights you into thinking you did not solve the challenge correctly, which is plain cruel. It's good to see some confirmation that you're not insane. Google's ReCAPTCHA is plain EVIL.
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by mtgx 7y ago
And through this, the FBI/GCHQ will get their much-wanted "targeted" malicious updates vector for which they've been asking for a while. If Signal has to implement it, I assume the FBI will ask Google for the ability to
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by mtgx 7y ago
This is a relevant video to some of the stuff you said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBKa6d6j9_8
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by mtgx 7y ago
> it means they accept that chrome is largely used by power users who can install these You're making a very big assumption here. Last I checked people who blocked ads counted in the hundreds of millions and the number was growing r
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by mtgx 7y ago
Aren't we moving the goalposts as technology advances? For instance, your DNA used to be private in the past simply because no one could do anything with it even if they would get it. So you benefited from this privacy aspect by defaul
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by mtgx 7y ago
In other words, B&N is to be dismantled and sold for parts in the near future.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Besides, Huawei's phones were already banned in federal agencies and Pentagon since last year. So I'm really not sure what Google is trying to say with this "national security threat" at all.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Do Huawei phones even receive that many updates? Google just "makes available" the updates - they don't update Huawei's phones themselves. And many of Huawei's phones don't get updates for long after release ei
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by mtgx 7y ago
Make it so the representative is paid directly by the workers via a mandatory fee (whatever sum is necessary to pay their salary), and then make it illegal for the company to pay or reward that board member in any way. If the latter is brea
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by mtgx 7y ago
> to be able to vote electronically That's one thing we definitely shouldn't want. This case is just the latest proving what a bad idea that is.
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by mtgx 7y ago
> Advertisers do not want to be associated with violent content True. They do not want that. > And for good reason. I disagree. That's not a good enough reason to censor such information from the public.
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by mtgx 7y ago
I remember there was some oil companies-backed anti-Tesla propaganda image a while ago showing the "environmental disaster a lithium mine creates," which went viral for a bit. It was, I think, a tar sands mine. There's no way
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by mtgx 7y ago
I don't think Uber allows just about any car to enter its network. I believe they verify them for certain standards.
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by mtgx 7y ago
I think he means why other five, presumably legitimate, companies have his email address when he never signed-up for them. My guess is it may be someone like Facebook who used to share "your friends' data" with third-party co
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by mtgx 7y ago
And if Google wasn't under anti-trust investigation now, it would probably purposefully change its apps so they don't work unless you enable cookie tracking again.
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by mtgx 7y ago
That doesn't say much considering we've been living in an era of tons of corporate consolidation/no antitrust actions whatsoever. Honestly, I think the vast majority of $1+ billion acquisitions should be rejected by default.
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by mtgx 7y ago
> It's not about consumers overwhelmingly choosing a product because they like it more. And that's not what the charges are about either. You're making it way too simplistic. Google has been involved in actual anti-competi
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by mtgx 7y ago
The US gov got him where they wanted him, but let's hope Assange breaks this cycle of the U.S. gov arresting and accusing whistleblowers of espionage by not taking any plea deal or pleading guilty. He needs to take this all the way to
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by mtgx 7y ago
It's a shame Microsoft didn't want to use Firefox's codebase instead of Chromium for its new Edge browser. I don't know what Microsoft thinks it gained by doing this, but I'm almost certain they'll regret it in
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by mtgx 7y ago
He was asking for the reverse -- what does Chrome offer extra?
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by mtgx 7y ago
Companies have argued before that they own the products created with their modified genes. Will they try to claim ownership of these babies, too?
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by mtgx 7y ago
If Google isn't providing a way to stop that sort of data collection in the EU, then it's a clear violation of GDPR.
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by mtgx 7y ago
I'm not sure if sarcasm or not, but do you believe that what would be "fair" would be for the bottom 90% to pay for 90% of the budget in taxes? Maybe in an ideal world that could be true , but it would also require for the b
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by mtgx 7y ago
It's such a shame Microsoft thought it will benefit more from piggybacking on the Chromium monopoly over building its next browser on top of Firefox. If Microsoft would have donated only 50% of the Edge browser development budget to Fi

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