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by tinus_hn 4y ago
The comment claims Safari, an app, has exclusive access to system features, my comment shows how other apps have access to the same features. The web has nothing to do with it.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
It’s incredible. Apple causes a big bank to lose money because they introduce a product where they can’t use their typical money grabbing tricks like extortionate fees and interest. How does this site, where the commenters always pretend to
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
You don’t understand because you’re blowing this way out of proportion. Most people can use the keyboard just fine with no problems at all and it keeps improving. Nobody is ‘crippling’ anything and nothing is ‘awful’. It’s okay, it’s good e
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
This only works with OTP codes formatted in a specified way so the system can make sure it’s only suggesting OTP codes and only on the website they are intended for. https://wicg.github.io/sms-one-time-codes/
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
No, it’s documented API. It’s either because it doesn’t actually work as documented, or because the other applications’ developers are lazy. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/password_...
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
They can count the number of downloads and the number of requests to the update servers. Or they can just not count the people that disable telemetry.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
But I don’t doubt the consent form told the user to get the consent of everyone in the house. But hey, mister sour grapes from the article now ‘doesn’t think he consented’ but doesn’t want to show the consent form. If this ever goes to cour
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
That’s account lockouts, it doesn’t work against bots because they can just try a million accounts instead of a million passwords on one account and it makes it super easy to do a denial of service on an account, and it doesn’t prevent a de
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
If you want a computer that does exactly what you want the way you think you want it, clearly you should not get a Mac.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Why does the icu string library care about time zones?
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
You are prepared to fight the system, while you don’t know why it is doing what it is doing and what you are gaining by fighting. Your arguments are mostly ‘I’m used to Windows doing X so that’s what I want on the Mac.’ If you want Windows,
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
It’s great that you were lucky, others are not. And it’s not a big deal, it’s a fact of life. Except when it’s a Tesla, of course.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
In contrast, many of the behaviors are better on the Mac, but they do take some getting used to. The reason Apple doesn’t ‘just add a preference’ is that that would prevent people from getting over that little hurdle of getting used to it.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Of course the idea is that you would only quit applications automatically if it starts quickly, you shouldn’t automatically quit Photoshop.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
In other news, no car has ever seized up and stopped at an inconvenient moment before Tesla made this horrible mistake, and keeping a safe distance would not be necessary if it weren’t for those dang automated drivers. Now get off my lawn!
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
If you block all logins for 5 seconds after a bot attempts to login, and the bot attempts to login 50 times per second, no one will be able to login.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
So now in the case of a bot attack no one can login. That doesn’t work.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Most businesses started by passionate technical founders fail as well, there is a selection bias in the big companies that are in the news. A lot is just luck, having a product that the market needs that can be sold at a profit without bein
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Because you want to have delays between bot login attempts?
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
The market for promotion using fake views and bots is enormous. It’s the new spam.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Apps can’t run unsigned code on iOS, everything has to be in the bundle submitted for review. That’s why you can’t have a third party JIT compiler.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
It’s not easy to tell two login attempts are from one bot. This kind of workaround unfortunately doesn’t work in practice. Otherwise of course this whole problem wouldn’t exist.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Targeting is a thing from the last decade, we did fine before and we will do fine after.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
How many megabits per second were you getting on that PSTN line? Or is this just some generic ‘the rent is too damn high’ tangent?
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
PSTN is the telephone network, not internet. If you want to replicate dialup, get a prepaid wireless card or a cheap subscription.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
This is as valid a criticism as complaining the phonograph will put musicians out if work. Time marches on, adapt.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Is this someone at Reddit who found that prompt, or was he banned from GitHub for something he wrote on Reddit?
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
> Feel free to downvote if you feel, as per HN guidelines, that I am not contributing to the discussion. No, I downvoted for complaining about downvotes. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
No different than the commercials on broadcast tv before targeting. Remember that in total no more diapers are sold regardless of these commercials, they just cause consumers to buy a specific brand. If advertising diapers no longer works,
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
It’s no different from the ‘AirTags used for stalking’ stories, when AirTags contain at least some privacy protections and generic Chinese trackers with no limitations have been available for years.

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