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by rsync 9mo ago
"In most cases you can’t use the device without agreeing to the terms of service right?" Yeah ? Who agreed to that ToS ? Abby McAbbott ? With no phone number ? A throwaway email address ? As I said: I have not entered into any
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by rsync 9mo ago
"... wrongful death lawsuits are typically the only way to hold these companies accountable. Yet, there are very few people who have not agreed Abbott's toxic terms of their proprietary companion application ..." I (a non-dia
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by rsync 9mo ago
"... bad aluminium body ..." Would you elaborate ? I believe there are a few all-metal laptops competing in the marketplace but was unaware they were actually better than the apple laptops ... what all aluminum laptops are bette
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by rsync 9mo ago
FWIW, I have been using the companyname@mydomain.com auto-alias for many years now and I've never had it challenged nor rejected by a human or a machine.
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by rsync 9mo ago
We just aged out of this as our youngest child is now 11, but I can affirm that magnatiles are fantastic and fun - and that is coming from someone who lionizes legos and considers them the ne plus ultra of toys for children. That being sa
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by rsync 10mo ago
It works well. I have a throwaway pseudonym dedicated to my appleTV and we use the login so infrequently that we always have to look it up. The only time we ever interface with apple is to install a new app on the AppleTV and that is very
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by rsync 10mo ago
There's an interesting idea here that is tangentially related to "common carrier" regulations ... Specifically: If a flock (or similar) camera is deployed on public land/infra there should exist default permission for an
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by rsync 10mo ago
"Or others see when parents are repeatedly leaving their kids unattended." ... which is the expected, default use-case for a playground ...
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by rsync 10mo ago
Wait, wait - aren’t you the cookie engineer Who did the site about cloud flare and did the auditing of the malware sites hosted by cloudflare? OK, now I remember - it was this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38
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by rsync 10mo ago
Their CEO states: "(proton fraud detectors) are looking for certain patterns in use. And they collect clues on the dark web. For example, if you find Proton mail addresses in criminal Internet forums, the accounts behind them will be b
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by rsync 10mo ago
These are my own questions - asked since the first mac mini was introduced: - Why is the tooling so lame ? - What do they, themselves, use internally ? Stringing together mac minis (or a "Studio", whatever) with thunderbolt cables
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by rsync 10mo ago
For the sake of completeness I will mention that one US bank that I use, Wells Fargo, issues the classic RSA keychain tokens: https://www.wellsfargo.com/biz/online-banking/securid/ ... which is quite simple a
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by rsync 10mo ago
I am a US person and the four (three very large and one smaller, regional) banks that I use do not have any such requirements. Web based online banking (since nothing related to banking requires 3D or VR/AR or camera/mic access or
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by rsync 10mo ago
Sure, but it has no value and nothing negative happens if it is revoked. Further: the three apps I install are not crucial - I could live just fine without them. All I really need is Safari and a working POTS endpoint for my cloud-hosted
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by rsync 10mo ago
The best possible license plates in Colorado all start with ZG …
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by rsync 10mo ago
I have neither a Google nor an Apple account. Well, to be fair, I do create an ephemeral Apple ID every time I get a new phone… But I immediately log out of iCloud after downloading the two or three apps that I use. I have no idea what my A
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by rsync 10mo ago
… which is a positive, right?
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by rsync 10mo ago
Oh By is an “everything shortener”.
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by rsync 10mo ago
That's certainly true - hence the extremely (almost minimally) short '0x.co' URL. It's certainly not for every use-case ...
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by rsync 10mo ago
"... and paint QR codes on the ground at those spots ..." This is what "Oh By Codes"[1] are for. Instead of trying to paint a QR code, which is difficult, you can just chalk a 6 character code. Further, you can create th
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by rsync 10mo ago
"Virtual private servers changed this. You could spin up a server in minutes, resize it on demand, and throw it away when you were done. DigitalOcean launched in 2011 ..." The first VPS provider, circa fall of 2001, was "John
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by rsync 10mo ago
"Similarly, Volvo's EX cars look almost exactly like their XC counterparts." Interesting you should mention ... Here is the interior of the 2025 XC90: https://0x.co/AJ5PVP ... and here is the 2025 EX90: http
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by rsync 10mo ago
We don't want your electric car ... we want your car, but electric . We want an electric F150 or an electric Suburban or v90 wagon or whatever. But instead we get e-initiative i-mobiles. We get TRON-cars. We get iModels. There i
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by rsync 10mo ago
Did the error condition actually call out "VPN use" ? Did the HBO UI actually call out, by that term, a VPN ? ... or were you simply using a VPN and that's the most likely culprit for a general failure of the service ? Genui
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by rsync 10mo ago
"... Thunderbolt is great for peripherals, but as a semi-permanent interconnect, I have worries over the port's physical stability ..." Thunderbolt as a server interconnect displeases me aesthetically but my conclusion is t
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by rsync 10mo ago
Evolution isn’t stupid … it’s not a random outcome that we don’t produce our own vitamin c, or have an appendix, or (urate oxidize blah blah). I wish you all the luck in fixing these problems and would be fascinated to see the outcomes… How
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by rsync 10mo ago
I don’t consider hacker news to be social media… And I wouldn’t expect others to, either.
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by rsync 10mo ago
This is my view. I tend to dislike these type of posts but a properly designed and functioning vote mechanism should take care of it. If not, it is the voting mechanism that should be tuned - not new rules.
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by rsync 10mo ago
Hmm ... I used ratpoison 25 years ago ... is it current/maintained ? Is there a live release/support/discussion ecosystem for ratpoison in 2025 ?
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by rsync 10mo ago
"So I ended up using glyphosate, but I'm looking for something better." Not for everyone and not for every situation, but ... If you get a propane torch - the full sized ones that attach to a 5gal. propane tank - you can very

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