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by stephenr 2y ago
The ridiculous amount of warning time and the ridiculously quick time to get an entire days charge are good design.
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by stephenr 2y ago
> On top of all of that, Apple TV+ has the added albatross of requiring their hardware for the shows What are you talking about? You don't need an Apple device to watch their TV service. https://www.apple.com/by&#x2F
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by stephenr 2y ago
Journey to the End of time is good as a big picture thing, but I think the same artist (melodysheep) made something even better, in terms of helping us navigate life day to day: The WTF Singalong. https://m.youtube.com/wa
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by stephenr 2y ago
Isn't the default setting in iOS set to "share in a compatible format" (i.e. JPEG)?
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by stephenr 2y ago
> Legal cover for when a baddie uses the connection to order drugs or whatever. .... Is this meant to be a joke? > still required me to import a CA It's reasonably likely that they wanted it to only work on known devices with t
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by stephenr 2y ago
In your coffee shop-like scenario, what benefit does a captive portal on anonymous Wifi offer to either the customer or the coffee shop, over regular Wifi authentication, and a sign on the wall that says "wifi username/passowrd is
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by stephenr 2y ago
> or you want finer grained authentication than a shared key? Configure your access points to use RADIUS or SAML for auth?
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by stephenr 2y ago
I don't think you can accurately identify "good" weather for even a modest group of random people, because people want different things, for different reasons. More likely would be identifying locations with similar weather
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by stephenr 2y ago
... use regular authenticated wifi?
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by stephenr 2y ago
Wait till he hears about workers rights in other countries.
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by stephenr 2y ago
I'm honestly not sure what's more cringeworthy: demanding your already ridiculously flighty workforce return to cubicles to satisfy the middle management requirement of seeing bums on seats, or calling your staff Amazonians.
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by stephenr 2y ago
> what's Amazon's unique selling point The same thing it's always been: cargo cult membership for tech bros who think Amazon invented renting virtual servers.
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by stephenr 2y ago
- You're using md5, which is trivial to compute in bulk. Rainbow tables are a thing that exist. - You're exposing the hash that you generated over the wire, in a cookie. - You're doing fail-fast comparisons, which has the pot
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by stephenr 2y ago
Oh sweet baby Jesus Please learn about authentication, and password handling, and sessions. TLDR: md5ing the hardcoded username + password and setting it in a cookie is basically asking to be hacked. I literally got to line 30-something on
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by stephenr 2y ago
Thats why I said "for casual uses". Most people probably don't lookup plants often enough, with that level of specificity required, to justify $100 a year for an app that does just that - the built in one also works for anima
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by stephenr 2y ago
For anyone in Apple's ecosystem: photos on iPhone (I believe on Mac too but haven't checked) does this out of the box; details of how to use it are here: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/
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by stephenr 2y ago
If your product has a wait list it's a pretty good sign the developer is more concerned with hype than a good product, and I'll deliberately ignore it going forward.
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by stephenr 2y ago
> At first glance they may be less obvious, but they are significantly more discoverable. \? Just shows you all of them. In MySQL it always feels like I need to Google it. In MySQL either `?` or `help` or `\?` will show you the help...
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by stephenr 2y ago
Inductive charging is the replacement for usb charging. I literally don't remember the last time I charged my iPhone by plugging it in - there are even inductive power banks available now.
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by stephenr 2y ago
I don't know for sure but the explanation given sounds very much like they expect it to be a 100% manual process.
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by stephenr 2y ago
> Servers are super reliable We have clearly worked in very different places.
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by stephenr 2y ago
> We're simply using a Go backend with SQLite and local disk storage and it pretty much contains everything we need to scale How do you make it highly available like this? Are you bundling an SQLite replication library with it as we
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by stephenr 2y ago
Size likely has nothing to do with it, while reliability is a much bigger concern. If your business uses said tool for all client work, and it's hosted on a single server (be it physical or a VM), that is a SPoF. Any downtime and your
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by stephenr 2y ago
When I see things like this where you need a package manager to install a different package manager to install the tool, and the only setup information assumes a bunch of stuff in Docker on a single machine, I just default to assuming it&#
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by stephenr 2y ago
I don't really play games much. I bought something on steam a few years ago. It was annoying dealing with their crappy desktop app but whatever. Then I wanted something else - literally a second game: and it wouldn't recognise eit
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by stephenr 2y ago
> Don't use a passkey on your computer, otherwise you will only be able to sign in from that computer. This is only true if you don't use a password manager which syncs passkeys.
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by stephenr 2y ago
Thanks for posting this. I'm going to link back to this whenever anyone claims that using AWS/etc means you don't need any experienced infrastructure/ops people. As for the actual question: what browser/password man
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by stephenr 2y ago
> there are plenty of posts right here on hacker news about the internals of that decision There sure are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697824 > This is already happening. I very recently worked on the Edge
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by stephenr 2y ago
Before the current Chromtastrophe, multiple companies maintained their own, fully independent rendering engines, according to web standards. Microsoft didn't stop developing EdgeHTML because it's too hard, they stopped because Goo
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by stephenr 2y ago
> I think it would be a major shock to the browser ecosystem. To repeat the question from above, where is the downside? Microsoft only abandoned EdgeHTML and adopted Blink because Google owned sites like YouTube were deliberately breaki

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