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by rahoulb 7y ago
My wife (who is a primary school teacher) was saying that a kid in her school was taking photos with her watch. She didn't even know watches could do that and it means they are going to have to rewrite school policies (currently phone
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by rahoulb 7y ago
I used to use Coda and Coda 2 - I loved them, and they were true "Mac" apps. But I switched to Sublime and Vim for one reason alone - Cmd-T/Ctrl-P fuzzy file opener. That one feature makes such a difference to me as I switch
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by rahoulb 7y ago
No idea, the developer said he was told they were violating the terms of the Spotify API agreement by using non-standard hardware. The only thing I can think of is Spotify had/has one of their own lined up and haven't released it
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by rahoulb 7y ago
There was a third party app called Apollo for the Apple Watch. It used the cellular or Wifi connection of the watch to stream directly from the Spotify API. Spotify issued a cease and desist within days. I still have it installed on my ph
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by rahoulb 7y ago
How does sales tax work? As a VAT-registered business, if I were buying something for work (such as a laptop) I would pay 20% VAT but then I claim it back at the next quarter - as VAT is actually a tax on profit, not on spending. Does the
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by rahoulb 7y ago
Well, Apple say that they don't actually have the data in the first place. For example, with maps, they chop your travel into pieces with no common identifiers. So that way, they get traffic information and can understand which route
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by rahoulb 7y ago
Apple have made it a point of differentiation against Google and Facebook in particular. They say that they try to do as much processing on device as possible and when data (for stuff like Maps) is submitted centrally, they anonymise the da
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by rahoulb 7y ago
As we're talking about maps here ... the only goal I have is to get to Point B. But I can choose to drive myself or take a taxi because I'm in a hurry, cycle because I want to get fit, walk along a busy road or walk through the f
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by rahoulb 7y ago
Their intention was to bypass an inbuilt security measure. So no, maybe they didn't mean to add a vulnerability but they did mean to reduce the security of the system as a whole
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by rahoulb 7y ago
I wouldn't call it a bug. Zoom deliberately engineered their app so it opened a security threat, accessible from any website on your browser, on your local machine without the user's knowledge. Then they reinstalled their softwa
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by rahoulb 7y ago
Well - Safari asks you for confirmation. They built the local, exploitable web-server to avoid the confirmation message. Why would they go to that trouble, only to reimplement what they were trying to avoid?
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by rahoulb 7y ago
I realised I had a paid account, so I've cancelled that too. And I've also reported them to Apple, after seeing that the ZoomOpener app reinstalls the client - which is completely and utterly unacceptable.
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by rahoulb 7y ago
They put this in place precisely to avoid Safari's "Do you want to open this in Zoom" confirmation prompt
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by rahoulb 7y ago
I asked Zoom support about this and they sent me to this page: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2019/07/08/response-to-video-... The key thing here is they think this is a fair trade-off because Safari ask
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by rahoulb 7y ago
The trackpad makes it impossible for me to use a non-Apple laptop (I particularly love the haptic ones) - if anything else comes close I would love to try it.
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by rahoulb 7y ago
Nearly all the discussion here is about inheritance. I think the main advantage of OOP is message passing - which, if you think about it, is pretty how networking works across the board. (This also makes sense if you think about Smalltalk&
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by rahoulb 7y ago
I'd imagine the first step would be a quiet word with HR. If they are in any way good at their job, they will do the work for you, as their job is to protect the company from tribunals.
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by rahoulb 7y ago
In the UK, if you use some software internally and it is essential for work, then it has to be accessible or you are breaking discrimination laws. It's even stricter if you take any type of public funding - and I'm pretty sure it&
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by rahoulb 7y ago
That's great when I'm going somewhere for work. It's not so good when I've not put the "appointment" in my calendar. If the voice interface were 100% perfect it would be OK, but it's not (especially with
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by rahoulb 7y ago
Anecdotal I know, but I know of several people who now refuse to install the Facebook app on their phones (instead using the website) because they don't want "Facebook listening in on their conversations"
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by rahoulb 7y ago
I use Spotify, FreeAgent, Toggl, Zoom, Pipedrive, Asana and Trello (plus Basecamp previously) on my iOS devices - and pay for all of those through the respective websites without any option to pay in the App Store. (Edit: I know Spotify use
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by rahoulb 7y ago
PCalc works as a notification widget - so it looks like you can have it floating on the new iPadOS homescreen - or just pull down and swipe to access it everywhere else
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by rahoulb 7y ago
I had a similar problem with Lloyds - every time I wanted to transfer money using the mobile app, I had to type in the password manually as they had disabled the "paste" option. Given my password was auto-generated and 16 charact
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by rahoulb 8y ago
I agree with your main point - it's the inequity that's the point. In the UK tampons and pads have VAT charged on them (as they count as a luxury ); there is a campaign to remove this and it has been reduced to 5%, but it'
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by rahoulb 8y ago
There’s a lot of “the latest diabetes research” and “myth buster” stuff on there which is perfect for sharing
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by rahoulb 8y ago
The iPod “classic” in its various incarnations was pure Rams
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by rahoulb 8y ago
I also love BlinkShell and Mosh which is what makes using iOS as a dev/admin front-end setup workable
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Much as I love the small phone (I had a 5S and an SE) ... the link is for the refurb store. So this isn't anything about Apple restarting production of these - just that they've had some returned that they are now reselling. If y
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by rahoulb 8y ago
What has changed is Apple has a direct competitor product. Firstly, that competitor product has technical advantages as it can access APIs that Spotify cannot (SiriKit, background audio on earlier versions of WatchOS). Secondly, that compet
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by rahoulb 8y ago
I think that's precisely the point. If the Apple Watch and WatchOS is a device then I expect it to only contain Apple software. If the Apple Watch and WatchOS is a platform then I expect to be able to install 3rd party software on it.

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