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by wtmt 7y ago
I read the headline name as Terminus, as I guess 99% of others did as well. When I started reading the description I realized it’s Termius, and thought that’s an odd name that most people are never going to get unless they’re reminded of th
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by wtmt 7y ago
A related point that bugs me is how subscriptions exclude many people because of the costs. People in countries with lower income and weaker currencies, as well as people in developed countries with lower incomes, may save up for a few year
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by wtmt 7y ago
India also has a huge dairy industry [1] (seems like the largest), where methane produced by these animals adds to the greenhouse effect. [1]: https://www.indexmundi.com/agriculture/?commodity=milk&graph...
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by wtmt 7y ago
Get 24/7 electricity from what source? The state run power producers don’t provide this in many tier 2 cities (pick some names and check). I strongly doubt if all tier 1 cities (except probably Mumbai) get power 24/7 either. Power
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by wtmt 7y ago
> It would be impossible for someone to steal cryptocurrency held in your own wallet That’s a false claim. Have you heard of people losing their wallets or about cold storage for cryptocurrency wallets to prevent others from stealing wha
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by wtmt 7y ago
Not sure what you mean by “everything in banking is super slow”. Maybe things are slow where you live. For money transfer (which is one part of banking), India has (had, for several years,) a few systems where money from any bank to any oth
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by wtmt 7y ago
It seems like there’s no official pronunciation (yet). There are some options discussed in a GitHub issue that was opened to ask about this. [1] [1]: https://github.com/rancher/k3s/issues/55
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by wtmt 7y ago
Privacy was declared by the Indian Supreme Court as a fundamental right found within some articles of the constitution. However, till date, there is no data privacy law proposed and passed in the parliament. The draft proposal that was prep
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by wtmt 7y ago
That’s not how it works. Or maybe you encountered a bug. Unlisting is permanent unless you install the app and activate your number to be listed again.
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by wtmt 7y ago
You can login to the website using a throwaway or junk Gmail account, give the website access to your Gmail contacts (which is zero), and then lookup any number.
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by wtmt 7y ago
This would be difficult to write as a law and very difficult to enforce, though I like the idea of the burden of proof being on the operator. In India we have a national DND (Do Not Disturb) registry that anyone can signup for and choose wh
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by wtmt 7y ago
The only feature I want back is full app sync with a computer, like it used to be some years ago (both transferring from the iOS device to the computer and back from the computer to the iOS device). This was removed when app thinning was in
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by wtmt 7y ago
> Can confirm, it's rare for me to be able to get at the audio captcha. Occasionally I'll find that tabbing onto the the button allows it load when clicking directly on it won't. I assume if Google is observing behavior t
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by wtmt 7y ago
> Their 2016 financial statements (I couldn't find anything newer) are available: > https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Au... . > tl;dr: In 2016 they spent over $250k on software
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by wtmt 7y ago
People look at older models as older models, even though they may be good enough and may provide software updates for longer compared to many Android phones in that price range. It also looks odd (to the purchaser) when one is buying someth
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by wtmt 7y ago
> My take on this is that when buying a computer (any computer: laptop, desktop, tablet, phone), you should expect to spend around 50% of its price on apps in the long run, and even more in niche business settings. That is the real price
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by wtmt 7y ago
> On the other hand, for horizontal distance, metres (or yards) make more sense than feet. To the extent that when American tell me how far away something is in feet, I just multiply by three before trying to use the info. Wouldn’t you d
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by wtmt 7y ago
I’m not sure how Apple did anything to software pricing. In the initial days of the iPhone, apps used to sell for as much as Mac apps. While you’re looking at the effort and cost of developing an app, also consider that not everybody has $4
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by wtmt 7y ago
Not the GP, but it's quite easy to get used to not having breakfast. Any sluggishness you may observe (you may not either) would usually be temporary. Intermittent fasting allows one to have (almost) zero calorie beverages, like water,
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by wtmt 7y ago
Your qualification of being Indian isn’t enough (if it were, then this would be a tie). Knowing how to open Facebook or YouTube isn’t digital literacy (though it can be considered as a very basic thing). Many poorer people struggle with thi
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by wtmt 7y ago
Side note. I didn’t read this post for two reasons. On mobile, the lack of inertial scrolling makes it like pushing hard against some massive slush, and the lack of a scroll bar prevents me from knowing how long the article is and whether I
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by wtmt 7y ago
Digital literacy is very poor in India. Most people in India wouldn’t understand what a browser choice actually means, even if Google is forced to provide it. I’m sure Google would also frame the browser choice with dark patterns to make Ch
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by wtmt 7y ago
NPCI, contrary to what the name seems to imply, is not a government company or organization. It’s a consortium of government and private banks (including the likes of foreign banks like Citibank and HSBC). Its payment services are allowed b
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by wtmt 7y ago
That page sounds like standard stuff that organizations put up. Based on James Clapper’s lies that the NSA didn’t collect telephone metadata on Americans, none of the points on that page seem to be truthful or respected.
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by wtmt 7y ago
If you haven't read this one yet, here's one data point on Brave doing something unethical (blocking ads and collecting payments on behalf of websites without consent/agreement). [1] Tangentially, I'm writing this commen
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by wtmt 7y ago
While this discussion is about Amazon's shipping coverage, surely I cannot be the only one concerned that Amazon is going to destroy (more than it has already done) many other competitors and that consumers would be left with one large
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by wtmt 7y ago
Note that IMAP support is only through a bridge software that you have to install and configure.
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by wtmt 7y ago
I have very limited experience. The client seems to log you out once in a while, as if it's a banking app. That's been an annoyance for me. On the free tier, you cannot login to more than one account at a time on the app. That&#x2
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by wtmt 7y ago
My biggest issue with Tutanota is there's no IMAP support. I don't wish to jump through hoops to get my mail out easily and in standard formats if I want to leave a service. That's why I won't use it. Same goes for Proto
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by wtmt 7y ago
Fastmail the company is based in Australia, while Fastmail's servers are located in the US. Take that for what it's worth, considering Five Eyes!

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