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by signal11 3y ago
If UPI competed with cash, that’d be sort of fine. The problem is that UPI enthusiasts think it’s a perfect replacement for cards. It’s not. Even with cash, because you need physical presence, you can inspect the goods. Under many UPI scena
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by signal11 3y ago
There are misconceptions about UPI all right, but a lot of it is from UPI proponents who have no idea what dispute resolution means. Order a bed and pay via UPI, say. Get a chair instead. These type of commercial disputes are difficult for
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by signal11 3y ago
The process you link to is Indian bureaucracy at its finest. It also focuses on disputes surrounding UPI payments, ie “I paid via UPI and the money didn’t arrive”. Look at the categories of disputes on that page. The “fraudulent transaction
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by signal11 3y ago
UPI has no dispute resolution (as of now). So if you pay with UPI to someone and have a dispute, good luck. You have to approach the Indian courts to get your money back, which, given the Indian justice system, is… difficult. By contrast, d
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by signal11 3y ago
If you run Windows and are jonesing for some ActiveX action, and want to be really careful, you can run WSL, run LXDE on WSL, and run https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98 on Firefox on LXDE[1]. That’s maybe enoug
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by signal11 3y ago
> Also, does this mean if you lose your phone you can’t log into anything? How do you recover from that? If your passkey is tied to the phone (which will be true for most people), losing your phone will be an interesting experience. Assu
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by signal11 3y ago
> At the end some one needs to compromise Sure. Google and Meta and similar companies can compromise by having proper redressal processes which will hold up in court, should they lock your account. Being an identity provider who can take
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by signal11 3y ago
They’re similar but differ in some important ways[1]. Passkeys were built on top of work done by FIDO though. [1] https://css-tricks.com/passkeys-what-the-heck-and-why/#the-d...
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by signal11 3y ago
> BTW, if so many average Joe's lost google accounts then there would be outrage and great chaos (like ticketmaster etc). So some people lost Google accounts - true. Same some people list U2F key. They don’t “lose” Google accounts o
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by signal11 3y ago
The parent comment I replied to brought up passkeys, trying to paint criticism of it as “conspiracy”.
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by signal11 3y ago
> HN folks seem to think passkey is some wild biometric stealing mega Corp conspiracy. What it does is promotes further centralisation, because most users will use one of the big providers. This wouldn’t be a problem either, except that
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by signal11 3y ago
> Fortunately, both iOS and Android also support "detachable passkeys" a.k.a. Yubikey and co That’s good to know. Although my concern would be, that’s really good for people who use YubiKeys, but regular people won’t, and they
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by signal11 3y ago
My cynical assessment of Passkeys is: If Google/Amazon/Apple/Meta/whoever locks your account out, you now lose access everywhere. This isn’t a theoretical risk. You’ll see lots of people complain about this online. Also,
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by signal11 3y ago
For me the “wtf” thing is that you can get a newer bash with Windows than macOS. Also since Dec 2022, you can run GUI apps on WSL, so you can install Firefox, VS Code etc on Linux and have them show up on the Start Menu. I can’t say why e
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by signal11 3y ago
Oh, thank you, I wasn’t aware. They even have a decent graph linked to off[1]: https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation
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by signal11 3y ago
Ironically Mozilla began to sponsor Rust as part of their Servo project. Before they laid everyone off and made Servo a volunteer-run project. I do feel they should have persevered. Although, yeah, writing a new rendering engine from scratc
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by signal11 4y ago
The stock price has little to do with product quality, especially for a company like Microsoft with multiple revenue streams. That said, Windows OEM revenue is down almost 40% [1] — yes weak PC sales have contributed, but these days I suspe
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by signal11 4y ago
The Windows OOBE experience is trash now. Thanks to their “on by default” widgets, it’s like getting a subscription to the National Enquirer along with an OS. This isn’t a knock against the idea of widgets btw. Widgets can be useful. The is
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by signal11 4y ago
This is promising, but it’s not as exciting as one would assume — it’s a very limited rollout, ensuring the use/don’t use UPI decision has to be made quite quickly for people unfamiliar with it, which is most tourists. > To start
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by signal11 4y ago
> In my latest trip, I don't believe I paid cash in any shop and I was in a second tier city the whole time, not one of the big metropolitan cities. If you’re a tourist or business visitor, this isn’t possible. UPI isn’t available t
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by signal11 4y ago
This above comment is a great example about the limitations of language when dealing with image manipulation and generative image enhancement. “People added additional craters” … no they didn’t. Without knowing anything about what people in
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by signal11 4y ago
I saw this other life-expectancy-related story a a while ago, and there are probably COVID-related reasons, but I’m surprised this hasn’t got more publicity: > China's life expectancy is now higher than that of the US [1]. Here’s a
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by signal11 4y ago
And this after they were caught “faking” photos of the moon: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moo... To be clear, they’re adding detail that the camera can’t see. What they’re doi
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by signal11 4y ago
Sam Altman’s isn’t claiming ChatGPT will make you rich. When you start using it, it tells you it’s a research project. Even in its current form, it’s useful for a narrow set of uses. It’s entirely conceivable that ChatGPT successors will be
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by signal11 4y ago
That’s one part of it, also if you sell say ebooks or MP3s, you can’t sell them in-app, but also you can’t even provide a link in-app to buy them using the mobile browser. I don’t want to derail this conversation with App Store policies, bu
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by signal11 4y ago
PG’s tweet said, iirc, go to my website, it has my Mastodon link. He didn’t even mention his website, it’s on his bio. If that’s not okay to Twitter, that’s extremely interesting. Brings Apple’s App Store rules to mind.
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by signal11 4y ago
I’m really interested in 1Password’s approach to WebAuthN[1]. If they can deliver on their cross-platform promise, other projects will likely be able to do so too. [1] https://www.future.1password.com/passkeys/
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by signal11 4y ago
This used to be the case, but these days if you’re in a fibre area or area with BT’s widely available FTTC offering, BT will happily sell you a “no landline” deal on their website. Incidentally their landlines on fibre are basically VoIP ph
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by signal11 4y ago
> Everything requires an application, even when everything can be done digitally. Please also provide two self attested photocopies. (It’s interesting to think about why attestation is required.)
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by signal11 4y ago
OneDrive. Enterprise deployments have something similar to consumer-grade OneDrive, but more enterprisey with compliance controls built in. And of course all the regular Office apps work well with it — it’s not just browser based. It’s hone

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