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by wtmt 7y ago
Quick thought: $7.99 looks like it should be the highest tier in a four tier scheme (free, a dollar or two, way less than $7.99, and $7.99) since you're talking about per month prices. Even then the price looks steep to me (currency co
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by wtmt 7y ago
Indian citizens, at least the progressive thinking ones, do not stand for shutting down the Internet connectivity for any purpose, more so since the governments (central and state) have been doing it without transparency and without strong
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by wtmt 7y ago
On what basis do you imagine that any resistance or disinformation campaign by Pakistan and other interests would die down soon enough within days or weeks and make the central government allow bringing back Internet and mobile connectivity
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by wtmt 7y ago
Satellite Internet access would also be shutdown in a scenario like this, since it would be the government permitting or denying who operates a satellite to provide such services and the associated spectrum used...unless other countries or
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by wtmt 7y ago
> Additionally we have huge ethical problems in how humans treat each other we should work on before even worrying about an invertebrate's problems. The deep patterns of thinking underlying the mistreatment of humans and the mistrea
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by wtmt 7y ago
> And all passport holders have a de-facto global UID (but not everyone has a passport and bi-nationals may have several) In India, passport numbers change (for the same person) whenever they're reissued (renewal, lost, etc.). Tha
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by wtmt 7y ago
1. Company builds a product with no/minimal ads and uses community involvement to grow. 2. Company adds more ads to the system to earn money. 3. Company adds more "features" to make money (for expenses and...to make money). 4
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by wtmt 7y ago
The insistence on a surname is quite annoying for people who don't have one or use one. In India, there are many cultures where a surname or family name isn't used or isn't passed down from one generation to another and to th
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by wtmt 7y ago
Can't you ask for a key fob OTP code generator device? Employees who work at sensitive client sites in many cases wouldn't be allowed to connect their phones to the Internet and may have restrictions placed on the usage of it. A s
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by wtmt 7y ago
> These tools often allow administrators to pry into how the phone is used as well, retrieving call logs, SMS history, and in the most extreme cases, full logs of web browsing. I doubt any of these (call logs, SMS, web history) are possi
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by wtmt 7y ago
Lock in and information loss is something important to consider with any SaaS solution, especially if you're going to use the free tier. Migration with data and history is often very difficult or impossible. If you think a SaaS platfor
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by wtmt 7y ago
GP here. I do agree with some of your points. I usually watch content on a TV, and very rarely on a computer or mobile device. On the TV, it's nice to have IMDB ratings that show up on some/many (not all) of the content on Amazon
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by wtmt 7y ago
Similar to what cbsks said, Amazon Prime Video usually starts with low quality fuzzy video, which I've also seen happen in between while watching something. On Netflix, the video quality has been great from start to finish almost all t
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by wtmt 7y ago
I've said this here before (though some seem to have disliked it). The Netflix UX and video quality are leagues ahead of Amazon Prime Video. Hotstar is a big laggard and far, far behind in every single aspect except for the amount of I
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by wtmt 7y ago
What about swap space used on the disk by the OS, transparent to the application? Is that also a concern for “file system imprint”? What’s the threat model here? The application would have to use RAM that’s never swapped for storing this so
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The Omega Speedmaster: The Watch That Went to the Moon(theatlantic.com)
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by wtmt 7y ago
That seems to be Linux-only. There should ideally be GUI applications for every platform that lay people can download, install and run with sane defaults. Cloudflare did that for mobile with the 1.1.1.1 app.
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by wtmt 7y ago
Just a minute after this quiz, if someone were to provide the answers and descriptions of what had to be written and asked me to write it in Lisp, I'd probably get 2/7 or 3/7, covering only the simplest of examples.
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by wtmt 7y ago
Instructions for others: * Type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter. * Accept the "This will void your warranty" warning. * Type network.security.esni.enabled in the search box (you can also just type esni to filter to t
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by wtmt 7y ago
Everybody knows that the government, three letter agencies, shady marketers and unscrupulous businesses will try to track them or do what would be considered as nasty and evil. I think the distinction here is that Superhuman put that power
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by wtmt 7y ago
> Backup my Signal history. That was only because Signal prevented (and continues to prevent) data from being backed up. This was a terrible drawback with Signal, for which it brought out a (better?) solution after several years on Andro
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by wtmt 7y ago
>Better company running it Nope, I disagree. Google is certainly not a better company than Apple when it comes to data collection, making it confusing (and sometimes impossible) to prevent data collection, and profiling user behavior to
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by wtmt 7y ago
I completely understand that it may not be his call. That's why I said "Tell management to take an ethical stance and preserve the reputation of SO." Maybe he (or someone else in the team) has already given this as a temporar
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by wtmt 7y ago
If you're "NOT okay with it", how about stopping ads completely until you resolve this problem? That should give a bigger impetus to solve it ASAP as the bottom line gets hit for multiple stakeholders. This is not just ads,
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by wtmt 7y ago
ArsTechnica (obviously a very different site compared to SO) has an ad free subscription model where it also removed all trackers for paying subscribers. It's possible to do this in an ethical way. Whether the site publisher is interes
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by wtmt 7y ago
In Brave, Undo Closed Tab doesn't work for me. It should supposedly work with Ctrl+Shift+T, as per an online search. Like Chrome, the built-in session save and restore (after a crash or close) is mostly miss, with few occasions of hits
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by wtmt 7y ago
This app does not work in all countries and regions as yet. The pricing for the firewall capability also seems to be on the higher side: "The cost is $9.99/month (or $99.99 per year) for VPN + Firewall capabilities. VPN-only servi
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by wtmt 7y ago
Have you tracked or checked how well bitwarden_rs keeps up with mainline Bitwarden on changes and fixes? I’m usually concerned about these forks getting way behind or getting abandoned after sometime. At least mainline Bitwarden has paid su
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by wtmt 7y ago
Bitwarden has a free tier in its hosted version. And even the hosted version with a paid subscription is very cheap compared to 1Password. Like 1/5th the cost or lower, depending on the plan.
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by wtmt 7y ago
Not a lot of details compared to what many others have said before. The developer tools enhancements in Firefox are interesting. > Safari is on the second place just because of macOS popularity. Shouldn’t this be “iOS” instead of “masOS”

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