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by throwaway2056 3y ago
> tcketmaster IIRC, nothing changed. Take for example practices of PayPal or VISA etc. Nothing changed. > Cloud backup works for average users. That includes keypass. Heck, even HN users do it that way. The only difference is that w
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
> Buy a second Yubikey I can (as a geek) but this is a problem for average Joe or a single mum with 2 kids. This is the reason even banks or <your employer> incl. Federal places uses Cisco DUO not an opensource solution. Most thing
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Google tried to fix the web – by taking it over (AMP)(theverge.com)
49 points by throwaway2056 3y ago|7 comments
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
To be honest, I was once like you but eventually it is painful to have tons of harddisks and maintain things. Also when I once visited a FSF event and saw many of those so called advocates (telling amazing things in blogs about Libre) were
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
> What it does is promotes further centralisation, because most users will use one of the big providers. Because there are no easy non-centralised solutions (that works for Average Joe)? Remember Average Joe cannot - backup keepass - 3-2
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
> FUD such as retail Pixel devices' At the end of the day pragmatism will survive. Sure, if the OP cant put a simple SIM card to get it resolved then he/she can buy from nitrokey/other installed GrapheneOS. The basic prem
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
In all these threads, there is never a project manager from a large establishment telling - Thanks. we will migrate - we did and it was <good/bad> More or less everyone is after $.
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
If one runs the command until last week or so it exited (with failure) but pointed out that it is deprecated and provided a link to https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/register/index.html gitlab-runner register
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
(I wish github does not become one but sadly gitlab is beset with constant pain) - no proper communication - unclear future plan - poor documentation See for example https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issu
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
Do I assume you already have adb/dev settings enabled?
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
how can you enable ADB/dev settings on the phone with a smashed screen?
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
Comparing hn-ers lifestyle/needs to that of Massai? not the best idea.
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
> Fighting for civil rights often makes you look like a prick, because you keep laser-focused on your goal and need to counter all the reasonable-sounding objections of people who were following their daily routines before this ball-brea
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by throwaway2056 3y ago
I am sure a lot of HN do it in private. In modern world (>90s) to be non-religious due to stereotyping people.
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
> Question is for each of us who are experts in the field: do we continue to encourage this trend or do we encourage people to learn? This is will not happen. Every other tech fellow I speak to (working in SAP-/Oracle/google&#
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
This. Plus: people here calling for Raspberry or Synology do not know 'average' users - People dont know what is ethernet - Most people cant navigate GUI of synology or other stuff - Some of the hn gurus need to work as CS for a w
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
It is not anti-Apple. Everyone has anecdotal story about these. > and she abuses the shit out of it. It is all own stories. Go to any university or school. Give the student a mac. Wait for a few months and see.
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
Finally something that beats... https://fingerprint.com/demo/
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5M item limit for Google Drive: File unable to generate or upload due to 403(issuetracker.google.com)
165 points by throwaway2056 4y ago|133 comments
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
I dont think majority of the lawmakers or population cares. Verizon/carrier locking. Apple app store.
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
There is something called society. BTW, just because you do not use street lamps (as you use a car) means others still need sidewalk/pavement + street lamps.
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
I assume you never used them for YouTube/zoom/meet? Whether you like or not streams become heavy - older devices cannot handle. With spectre/meltdown patches things became slower for these older devices. For reasons beyond co
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
Please start here. Tons of thinclients https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hware/hardware.shtml
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
Technically one can create this and launch a new profile everytime. It can still detect the device (there are some failures - if I change the screen resolution/dpi). May be after 3 or 4 times, the server may also detect that a certain
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
I tried live boot of ubuntu. Every time it can detect accurately. Looks like the whole privacy thing is OVER. Unless lawmakers do something - (i.e) not going to happen! Atleast they can use this to prevent reCaptcha - and make passwords dis
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
It is interesting that the site can fingerprint individual profiles/dir easily: For example chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/tmp/profile_A chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/tmp/profile_A --incognito chromium-browse
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
> Terrible, having local company's instead of internet controlling behemoths who made it the opposite of a distributed information exchange network (you know the core idea of arpanet). Please ask any local company to build such infr
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If you work at Dreamhost, can you help us?(charles.plessy.org)
10 points by throwaway2056 4y ago|4 comments
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
I think OP is right to note that this gives more control to operator. Unless telecom regulators make moving around easy, most operators will tie device IMEI to eSIM (calling it security) and make it hard to move. Also you failed to notice,
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by throwaway2056 4y ago
Enough is enough. Why always go after FAANG? If google analytics was dissolved then some one else will take its place. Remember visa/master card are terrible. Stripe is very organic and nice until it wasnt Myspace terrible until facebo

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