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by signal11 6y ago
> These are banks. It took them over a decade to only finally implement SMS 2FA. A lot of the slowness is driven by regulation and especially the slow decision-making that leads up to regulation. In the UK for example, I cannot think of
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by signal11 6y ago
Chrome’s PDF viewer launched in Dec 2010[1] with v8.0.552. The release notes do note that a benefit of the built-in viewer is that it’s sandboxed. That’s fair enough, I guess — the Chrome team had a bee in their bonnet about plugins going a
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by signal11 6y ago
PDF as a native browser feature started IIRC with Chrome — until then, everyone had to use a plugin. I’ve always thought the reason Chrome built in a PDF reader was that Adobe Reader was really slow to start and brought the browsing experie
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by signal11 6y ago
After they stopped selling the on-premises meeting server, WebEx was always hosted, never on-premises. And a lot of these former WebEx customers have now moved over to Zoom[1]. It’s a relatively easy transition for corporate IT to make. [1]
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by signal11 6y ago
Teams is interesting in that it sort of overlaps with both Slack and Zoom. Zoom’s audio & video feels way better though. Completely agree re Cisco as well: I also have Cisco Jabber and it’s basically terrible at everything — audio, vide
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by signal11 6y ago
1Password also deals with it well. For example on Google, Microsoft, and Atlassian.
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by signal11 6y ago
> Let’s say 15k credit card with AMEX. I owe 150 in interest but instead I send 1,500. Would they refund the mistake? Yes if you had exceeded your minimum payment: https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/credit-cards/ar
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by signal11 6y ago
Pavel Fatin’s tests agree with you — search for “Editor latency in Windows (text file)” on this page: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ Interestingly gvim had the lowest latency in this test. I wonder if tha
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by signal11 6y ago
Google doesn't like you using the term "google <something>" because that opens the door towards a genericized trademark (like xerox or cellophane), but plenty of advertisers buy keywords or a phrase on Google and then u
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by signal11 6y ago
> If a developer doesn't like Apple's terms, there are no viable alternatives for iOS distribution. Lots of opportunities for mobile distribution though. Apple is what, < 20% of the mobile market? (I know where you're c
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by signal11 6y ago
Thank you to the MDN and Servo teams for all their hard work. I wish you well for the future and hope you find a new gig soon.
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by signal11 6y ago
> winning so far Given PayTM’s losses[1,2], I find “winning” an odd choice of words. The reality is that digital payments in India experienced an artificial “bump” following India’s ill-thought demonetisation experiment, which has evapor
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by signal11 6y ago
> Im yet to hear a single case of socially engineered forgery happening from my friends and family circles Search Google News for [upi fraud India]. It happens far more than you think.
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by signal11 6y ago
> UPI truly is a revolution. I can have a 6Rs chai tea (8 cents) from a road side tea stall and pay using UPI with zero transaction fees. The main benefit of UPI is that it works really well for small amounts, e.g. the INR 6 tea. Such sm
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by signal11 6y ago
> One of the challenge I give to non-Indian folks is buy Internet access on international airports in India. This is by design , because the Indian government is terrified of anonymous phone/internet access and doesn't care on
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by signal11 6y ago
Social engineering attacks work quite well too. A quick glance through Google News reveals many attacks by which scammers coax a PIN out of unsuspecting victims [1,2]. UPI withdraws money out of your bank account -- in that respect it'
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by signal11 6y ago
As a 1Password for Windows user, I can't say I ever experienced lag with Chrome or Firefox. I don't use Hello though, so can't speak to that.
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by signal11 6y ago
OneDrive completed its rollout of differential sync in April 2020[1], after beginning in Sep 2019. This should improve OneDrive’s sync speed substantially. [1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365/oned
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by signal11 6y ago
> Was there no scam at all? Mihir Sharma’s book Restart (2014) has a good chapter on this. The answer it seems was, no. It’s not in the national interest to charge maximal prices for natural resources, and this is followed by many coun
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by signal11 6y ago
vim works quite well with standard keyboards. Put this in your .vimrc: set nocompatible behave mswin
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by signal11 6y ago
It's a small droplet on Digital Ocean.
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by signal11 6y ago
I set up a personal mail server (SMTP+IMAP, no webmail) a couple months ago for personal/family use —- no sense in paying about $60 per user per year for GSuite or 365. (Microsoft actually offer a custom domain email solution for famil
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by signal11 6y ago
In Facebook’s case, assuming malice is a rational way of looking at their actions. For instance, and this is really one of many — Facebook took phone numbers from users for 2FA, promising it’d only be used for security and... used those num
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by signal11 6y ago
> The advent of 4G and the heavy investment by telcos in earlier generations of telephony has left them unable to compete financially with Jio. The nature of 4G technology means that the other telcos’ business models and borrowing struct
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by signal11 6y ago
Jio’s offer is really good on paper, but it’s got to be one of the slowest 4G networks I’ve used when I tried it in February. Anyone know if this is because of a lack of competition (there’s effectively one other serious player left in the
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by signal11 6y ago
Something like TuiCss[1]? [1] https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss
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by signal11 6y ago
What's wrong with it? Just curious, I use Outlook for work and my main pet peeve is that i) local search isn't great and ii) in general, the application UI is very 'delicate' -- e.g., I have mail rules that move mailing
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by signal11 6y ago
Looking at the Icelandic layout[1] from a programmers' perspective, the big difference appears to be that \, [, and ] need a modifier, Alt-Gr; and ; (semi-colon) is shifted. The shifted semi-colon must be irritating in C-like languages
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by signal11 6y ago
I suspect what made companies exclude easter eggs was a sense that they were too big and "serious" for this sort of whimsical activity. And specifically for Microsoft, a sense that they were now targeting the Enterprise marketTM a
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by signal11 6y ago
To say Mr Ambani has good relations with the current government is underselling his influence. He has good relationships across the spectrum of Indian political parties (except maybe the communists who are effectively irrelevant). However

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