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by signal11 5y ago
That’s actually a pretty good explanation. My Concise Oxford dictionary app has this: coach(1) /kəʊtʃ / ▸ n. 1 Brit. a comfortably equipped single-decker bus used for longer journeys. 2 a railway carriage. 3 (also coach class) N.
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by signal11 5y ago
Yes, originally WhatsApp used to auto-save images received in chats into the photo library. But they added a setting for that years ago, not sure what the default is now.
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by signal11 5y ago
> 2. A lot of people evidently use iCloud Photo Library to store images of things other than pictures they took themselves Not in the context of CSAM, but this is iOS’s “appliance” user interface coming back to bite it. The iOS photos ap
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by signal11 5y ago
New Zealand?
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by signal11 5y ago
Everything’s a trade off, but this one is worth trying imho. There are lots of things could be done to even the playing field. Eg require all browsers to come “out of the box” with with zero sites trusted. This would incentivise regular sit
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by signal11 5y ago
Google's support for custom domains is strictly for Workspace (formerly GSuite) customers. It's analogous to Microsoft 365 business plans[1]. Other providers are moving beyond this, i.e. offering custom domains to a wider set of (
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by signal11 5y ago
> Having a firstnamelastname address will subject you to a truly baffling level of false accounts and misaddressed email You're so right. This is a big reason I'm looking forward to Apple's iCloud+ custom domain names. Out
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by signal11 5y ago
Manhole covers come in a variety of shapes. A non-ironic "why are manhole covers round" question speaks more to lack of life and/or travel experience than anything else. There are triangular[1] and even more exotic-shaped[2]
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by signal11 5y ago
So this is a "software defined satellite" used for communications -- here's some background reading[1] about why this is a big deal. > ...an increasing number of legacy organizations and startups have unveiled software-def
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by signal11 5y ago
126 MB for me.
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by signal11 5y ago
“Deniability front” might be a bit harsh, but revolving doors between government and private sector exist all over the world. Ignoring NSO for a moment, in general they are not always malicious. But with regards to NSO in particular, ther
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by signal11 5y ago
> This seems outdated - computers are very app-centric now. Stuff is usually found inside an app, not a document, and the filesystem barely exists. Which is why Google spent $$$ on a whole gTLD to enable new document creation :-) https:
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by signal11 5y ago
> it's totally possible to make a self-contained HTML page without using a JS framework of the day. It's going to be way easier to consume than a PDF. Completely agree. For instance, NASA's APOD site[1] is a good example o
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by signal11 5y ago
“Your call is important to us. Thank you for waiting. You are 8382nd in the call queue because our overworked and understaffed call centre team are all handling other customers. By the way, did you know we understaff this team because custo
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by signal11 5y ago
You can see datasets purporting to be, for instance, details about students appearing for various Indian competitive exams for as little as $50-100[1]. Other datasets are costlier, of course. If you're marketing to that demographic (e.
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by signal11 5y ago
India wants data residency because it wants to apply its own somewhat unique approach to law enforcement to all digital data — financial and otherwise. This is a country that switches off mobile data (3G and 4G) at the drop of a hat[1], and
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by signal11 5y ago
It appears to be an Apple TV+ exclusive, so probably not. However Apple TV+ has a 7-day trial in some countries, and you get 3 months free if you buy an Apple device.
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by signal11 5y ago
> OTOH Firefox is vastly fatter than it was in its early versions, which supported FTP (and Gopher!), so it doesn't seem like FTP or other minor protocols are an actual cause of complexity- and bloat-creep. I’m sure someone will cor
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by signal11 5y ago
> And I know of no system that allows different simultaneous workspaces with their own IDs, nor browser that allows the same with tabs I'm probably missing something, but Microsoft makes it reasonably easy to switch from personal ac
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by signal11 5y ago
The iPhone 12 Pro models seems to have had a software issue[1] that resulted in poor focusing — this was fixed later. A workaround at the time was using a different camera app, eg the link recommends ProCam but I suspect any RAW capture app
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by signal11 5y ago
Underground does sound promising but doing it at scale for a large number of people… I wonder how viable that is, and if it’ll cause structural issues at the surface. Also in this specific case they may need dehumidifiers. The other option
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by signal11 5y ago
That’s the site I referred to as well, but I found it a bit hard to use, with the ads and all. Am I reading the map right? Karachi to me shows 27. But scarily for other places there’s 39 and even 41 in there.
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by signal11 5y ago
If I understand this right, this is not just the heat, but the humidity as well. The UK Daily Telegraph had an article[1] about how nearby Jacobabad crossed the 35C wet bulb reading threshold, at which point — according to the article — t
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by signal11 5y ago
Context: this warning from the UK Financial Regulator: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/consumer-warning-bi... (Technically the FCA is one of the UK financial regulators, the other being the PRA, but it&
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by signal11 5y ago
You're just thinking of security -- and there are many valid concerns around using SMS-based cleartext messages as a 2nd factor. But additionally, a big issue is reliability of the 2FA mechanism. Especially when your service provider
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by signal11 5y ago
SMS 2FA is an antipattern. Many people know this, but it's not percolated down to everyone just quite yet.
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by signal11 5y ago
I remember there was an announcement from new management. From their Wikipedia page: > After SourceForge was sold to BizX in 2016, DevShare was discontinued. On May 17, 2016, SourceForge announced that they were now scanning all projects
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by signal11 5y ago
These places are unwittingly teaching their customers that they'll have a superior experience by using a food delivery service such as Uber Eats.
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by signal11 5y ago
You don't always have to smile or emote to project engagement. If you look at him introducing the Surface Laptop 2 at about 1m30s[1] through to 2m -- the passion and energy is unmistakable. Listen in particular to his voice and how he&
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by signal11 5y ago
That was Panos Panay who’s usually extremely engaged. I don’t know if it was a conscious decision — he did look like he was speaking at a funeral.

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