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by wtmt 8y ago
And don’t stack them one on top of another. I recall reading that added weight on the disks (common when they’re stacked horizontally) can result in data loss because of the dye changing structurally. Store then standing sideways, and as mu
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by wtmt 8y ago
> They protect more than 300 posh homes every night - and they do this by going on foot patrol for hours. This is quite common around India. Depending on the place, one person (or more, but separately) would be going around with a stick
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by wtmt 8y ago
That's pretty easy to conclude based on the business models of said companies. Why would anyone want to reach a different conclusion, especially when Google has shown apathy towards location data collection on Android, bypassing Safari
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by wtmt 8y ago
> They don't want user backlash... When it comes to siphoning location data from Android devices, it looks like Google only cares about updating its help pages, and not really about addressing the actual points in such a backlash. T
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by wtmt 8y ago
Pot, meet kettle. This is rich coming from Google, which doesn't respect users' choices in Android not to collect location data and yet the company wants others not to deal in that data from its other services. Perhaps it's j
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by wtmt 8y ago
And if you use Cloudflare in front of NFSN, the costs would be even lower.
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by wtmt 8y ago
Thanks. I wasn't aware of that, and will look into it. But if at all it doesn't sync secret chat across devices, then it's again not of much value.
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by wtmt 8y ago
> The iPhone XS simply doesn’t offer a significantly better experience than the iPhone X. Depends on your definition of “significantly better experience”. For example, you can adjust the depth effect on iPhone XS/XS Max while framin
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by wtmt 8y ago
As others have said, this can be configured in all popular browsers to ask for the download location. Also, if you use macOS, there’s a paid application called Default Folder X [1] that allows you to set default folders for different applic
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by wtmt 8y ago
For those on iOS with a device that supports 3DTouch, there’s an option to add a new card in the menu that pops up from the Trello app icon on the home screen. Granted that 3DTouch features are not easy to discover though.
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by wtmt 8y ago
I don’t understand why Telegram still doesn’t have E2E (“secret chats”) on the desktop. That’s such a pain for longer and hotter conversations when one needs to type a lot.
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by wtmt 8y ago
It’s just not possible to move Signal chats from one iOS device to another (on iOS, Signal and SMS are not connected). Signal prohibits backing up of the data to iTunes and to iCloud. So there’s no way to make this work. That’s how it has b
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by wtmt 8y ago
This post has some useful information, but the recommendation of other centralized platforms that rely on a phone number make this post seem like the pile of FUD that Telegram has been enduring for long. Contact theft, metadata, susceptibil
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by wtmt 8y ago
> The only downside is that the Signal servers may store automatically disappearing messages until all devices have received it, so you can't rely on messages being removed in due time. I don’t understand your problem statement. Sig
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by wtmt 8y ago
I like Wire and use it with some people. It allows signing up with email and supports up to three accounts on a device. But I do find it to be a bit slow, mainly in sending as well as downloading images where it’s painfully obvious. Telegra
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by wtmt 8y ago
> Clearly there's a spectrum, but a vegetarian diet or a vegan diet may not be the most healthy diet for a given individual. Your comment would've been comprehensive if you'd also said that a meat based diet may not be the
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by wtmt 8y ago
> And there's no way we can fight climate change effectively without political support. Of course, that's true. But where does political support come from? It comes from the voters, who may be individuals making choices that sp
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by wtmt 8y ago
In India, rear view mirrors with a wider view have been available as "clip on" options for a long time. If those are made standard in cars (instead of as addons), the specific "blind spot" problem would instantly disappe
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by wtmt 8y ago
> Another common thing Architecture Astronauts like to do is invent some new architecture and claim it solves something. Java, XML, Soap, XmlRpc, Hailstorm, .NET, Jini, oh lord I can’t keep up. And that’s just in the last 12 months! I
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by wtmt 8y ago
Your thoughts about Brave haven't considered its model of collecting payments for people without their consent. See this recent discussion [1] and contemplate whether Brave is really significantly better than Firefox for the points you
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by wtmt 8y ago
This one needs a (2017) in the title.
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by wtmt 8y ago
Facebook the company and platform need to be broken up and the pieces/parts isolated from each other. For all the benefits that people see in using it, Facebook has become the most dangerous online company in the world.
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by wtmt 8y ago
Telegram “just works” for me most of the time (except when it has some outages, which are somewhat rare). It is also highly feature rich, fast, and works in multiple devices. It’s the best alternative to WhatsApp for things that people who
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by wtmt 8y ago
The first and only problem with Signal, for me, is that it’s unusable. See my other comment above. There’s no point touting security benefits if the app and platform are not meant for the masses and cannot be relied upon. FWIW, I’ve tried S
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by wtmt 8y ago
I have tried using Signal, but found it to be a “works whenever it feels like” app and platform. It’s very poor compared to Telegram on features and stability. Recently I switched to a new phone and Signal wouldn’t send me the activation co
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by wtmt 8y ago
If you see this reply soon, you can edit and fix the Amazon link for this book. Your link shows a Page Not Found error. The correct link is https://www.amazon.com/View-Flyover-Country-Dispatches-Forgo... (the last two digit
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by wtmt 8y ago
It looks quite cheap for someone with a larger family. But there's nothing substantial on the privacy page. I'd expect at least some more verbiage on how data will be handled and won't be handled. It also doesn't state h
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by wtmt 8y ago
It's very worrisome how things have been going on in India, more so in the last two decades. Regardless of which party is in power, mass surveillance is increasing, and ways to preserve privacy have been under attack (the government tr
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by wtmt 8y ago
In India, people may prefer to get these delivered at work. For those who give their home address but aren't available there, usually what happens is that the delivery/courier person calls the recipient and figures out what to do
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by wtmt 8y ago
I agree with these points, but the device also needs to offer a good experience (like responsiveness, speed, camera/photo/video quality) and a starter set of apps. The former is where Firefox OS went wrong (IMO) by going low end a

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