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by snazz 6y ago
I'm sure that plenty of people have purchased iPhones for their older parents to decrease the odds that they install malware.
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by snazz 6y ago
The FriendlyCaptcha demo takes less than a second on my machine (i5-7400, RX 560). A c5a.2xlarge is far more powerful.
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by snazz 6y ago
I was meaning HN users. In those discussions, it feels like about half are Americans. You’re right if we’re talking about overall users.
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by snazz 6y ago
It feels like smartphones are stabilizing as well. I don't see myself needing to replace my iPhone 8 for a while, even though there have been three more generations afterwards. An iPhone 5 felt much more outdated at the time of the 6s&
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by snazz 6y ago
No, DuckDuckGo purchases search results from Bing: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
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by snazz 6y ago
The US isn't representative of the rest of the world in this regard. That's why any discussion of iMessage is filled with half the people arguing that iMessage it the best thing since sliced bread (Americans) and the other half sa
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by snazz 6y ago
Apple isn't going to force you to update your device, so you can stay on an older version if you want jailbreaks.
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by snazz 6y ago
Functionally, iOS is a much more secure platform. Far more people are updated to the latest iOS version, which makes a huge difference. Apple invests tons of money into secure biometrics, privacy initiatives, and lots more. At the same time
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by snazz 6y ago
Zoho isn't Google-size, but it isn't irrelevant, either. Sending mail from a self-hosted email server is far harder since the big providers might put it in spam or drop it even earlier.
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by snazz 6y ago
Is that a common issue? I've certainly heard about devices losing battery life and cameras progressively getting worse, but complete death is very uncommon unless you use it without a case and drop it all the time or something. I still
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by snazz 6y ago
I think it's worth linking the 12.4.9 page because it's impressive that the software update is available going all the way back to the iPhone 5s. That's some serious longevity.
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by snazz 6y ago
As far as I understand, the legal footing for the RIAA takedown request comes from here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
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by snazz 6y ago
What incentive do they have to keep it open, though? People who already needed to read the source code (like security researchers) don't need the complete unobfuscated source in the first place. It would likely cost GitHub money in fri
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by snazz 6y ago
The source code was never very private in the first place—it's easy to de-obfuscate it. More importantly, GitHub doesn't want to support and deal with open-sourcing their core. There's some amount of irony here considering th
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by snazz 6y ago
Is the source code public? If not, do you have plans to make it open-source? I'm impressed at how fast you've been able to fix bugs and implement new features and I'd like to see how it works :)
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by snazz 6y ago
I appreciate the tasteful pwning as well! This is great.
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by snazz 6y ago
They can significantly reduce tooling complexity with their own web-based editor. It's also a much more graphical application than a traditional text editor. Take a look at some screenshots from their demo video: https://www
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by snazz 6y ago
Depends on your point of reference and what you're using Rust for. The crate ecosystem is a huge breath of fresh air compared to package management in C and C++, but you can't expect it to have a very good solution for things like
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by snazz 6y ago
No, that's just a technology that I consider "basic"—and one which most Americans use at least a little, even if the experience is terrible. And it does work for most people, even if it compresses images to oblivion and is sl
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by snazz 6y ago
MMS doesn't work on any FOSS non-Android Linux phone I'm aware of, so they definitely do not work for a significant percentage of the population even for basic group text messages. Building an alternative phone OS is much harder
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by snazz 6y ago
Content on HN about the holy trinity of programming languages, text editors, and operating systems generally favors less popular options with more mystique. Anything about Java is probably going to be largely neutral or negative, while a pi
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by snazz 6y ago
Lots of iOS games already support gamepads and iOS has supported keyboards and mice for a while now. I'm guessing that developers will be able to support keyboard/mouse once and get it on the iPad and Apple Silicon Macs.
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by snazz 6y ago
Like the lobste.rs tagging system? I'm not sure how popular that would be here, but it might be cool.
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by snazz 6y ago
In June, they promised that the first Apple Silicon Mac would be released by the end of the year. It's unlikely that they will have a fourth fall/winter event.
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by snazz 6y ago
If anything, Arm MacBooks have a huge advantage over my current (old) ThinkPad—battery life and performance per watt will be significantly better. I haven't read much more about the new virtualization tech that was announced at WWDC, b
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by snazz 6y ago
True. But I was replying to a comment which mentioned using IMAP sync as a backup; both that solution and Google Takeout require access to your account.
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Edward Snowden says he will apply for Russian citizenship(cnn.com)
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by snazz 6y ago
Yes. I can verify that it contains email attachments, Google Photos files (along with metadata in JSON format), and YouTube videos. There is quite a bit of other information included as well, some of which I didn't even know I had crea
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by snazz 6y ago
You can also schedule Google Takeout, which gives you a nice .zip or .tgz with mbox files, in addition to all of your other Google information. I have it set to deliver one of these backups every two months automatically.
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by snazz 6y ago
You could add the domain to your adblocker's block list.

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