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by wtmt 6y ago
This is just “security theater”, to put it in blunt terms. The number of smartphone users in India is around 500 million out of a nearly 1.4 billion population. Most of the smartphones are also cheap low end models that likely won’t suppo
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by wtmt 6y ago
I don’t know what’s happening in your case, but changing the region works for me even in locations where the Apple News app isn’t available. Are you also using a non-USA store account when you travel? That can really confuse Apple News.
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by wtmt 6y ago
Thanks. I was still in the edit window and have corrected it.
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by wtmt 6y ago
IMO, Apple News is still a hobby looking for a purpose, since it was launched close to five years ago and is still available in only a few countries. Forget about the Apple News+ subscription, even the app isn’t available in other countries
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by wtmt 6y ago
Related question: Does it still require hanging around and waiting for an invite to create an account? If yes, then I’m not going to try again and waste my time.
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People who are educated tech wizards can also have the same stigma. There are many factors at play in places that have more diversity and existing problems between communities (like race, religion, class, etc.). Hopefully, like you said, th
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by wtmt 6y ago
> I don't think there is any social stigma to catching the coronavirus. Sadly, this is not true in India. Infected people have been threatened by their neighbors and friends with death. Infected people have also been harmed. Doctors
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by wtmt 6y ago
Not sure if I’d use it with the scrolling, since this format is ill suited for smaller screens, but I love this idea! One more suggestion for you to consider: a variant where each article is a link that takes the reader to a separate articl
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by wtmt 6y ago
Thanks for the prompt response with details. If I may bother you one more time, do you have XE in your list of providers? It provides money transfers for many currency pairs (probably not as broad as Transferwise or InstaRem).
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by wtmt 6y ago
I’m suspecting that the answer to my question would be no, but will still ask anyway. Did Transferwise give you any usable reason for their refusal or was it a blanket “sorry, we can’t do business with you” that many companies use for all k
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by wtmt 6y ago
I wanted to provide you feedback as well as alert others reading these comments. Your site doesn’t list anything other than Transferwise for transfers from India to USA, even though options like InstaRem and others exist. Based on this, I’m
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by wtmt 7y ago
I'm not an expert in this area, but I don't see nationalization as the best answer. If you have a government that can handle airlines better, then it could be considered. In India, Air India is the nationalized carrier. The amount
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by wtmt 7y ago
I had a quick look and found it interesting. Do you have any writeup (on GitHub or elsewhere) on how people connect with each other (since phone numbers aren't used as identifiers) and also how the end-to-end encryption (mainly key exc
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by wtmt 7y ago
This looks nice. I’d prefer that the app clearly states upfront that the numbers are in minutes, instead of someone having to guess what it is. It’d also be nice to start at one minute and have one minute increments for the first 10 minutes
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by wtmt 7y ago
If it’s FOSS and easily self-hostable, that’d be even better.
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Tangential: for me, the buzzfeed-esque GIFs make this post unpleasant to read. I couldn’t continue after a point.
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by wtmt 7y ago
It’s not completely shutdown. [1] > On February 1, 2020, Yahoo! removed online access to discussions and all other features except simple membership management, essentially turning all groups into mailing lists. [1]: https://e
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by wtmt 7y ago
The OP is talking about a paid service, which I presume isn’t a gmail.com address (otherwise why the suspension for non-payment?). To add to your advice, just having an own domain doesn’t help if you don’t download and store all mails on
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Mistborn: WireGuard, Nextcloud, Syncthing, Rocket, Jellyfin, Bitwarden and More(gitlab.com)
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In India, the average speed of traffic in major cities is anywhere between 5kmph to 15kmph during peak hours (from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., depending on the location, with some lean periods in between). There are electric vehicles (not many) that
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by wtmt 7y ago
Now I get what put.io is for. I was commenting earlier from the perspective of preserving content for longer and also making sure that it can be available for people in the future. From that angle, this service doesn’t help. For example, th
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by wtmt 7y ago
They provide some distinction between the impact and how soon something is to be dealt with. But in many cases, they tend to go together in a proportional manner, at least for the top values of severity and priority. And in all the cases I&
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by wtmt 7y ago
I'm not going to debate ethics or local legalities here, but I believe that pirating (where feasible) is perfectly fine as an alternative to preserving what these sellers impose restrictions on. Where it does get tricky is, in addition
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This is why pirating is alive and popular, because it makes people's lives convenient, while the real sellers do many things to make people's lives difficult. You as a buyer are expected to bend and give in to their way of usage a
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by wtmt 7y ago
I'm curious about your account loss. Was it a Gmail address that was your Google account? Did it have a verified phone number linked to it?
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by wtmt 7y ago
> We don't buy movies. At least in the US, we buy license/right to view. (IANAL) That part is the same even if you buy a music CD or a Blu-Ray disc. You're only granted a license to play it for your personal use (and you&
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by wtmt 7y ago
If there's one thing I've learned with all these app stores and digital stores, a better way to handle this when you move countries is to create a new account for that country and also retain the older account (if possible, withou
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by wtmt 7y ago
That looks quite expensive and doesn't disclose details about the kinds of disks used (upfront) and the connection speeds allotted. The seed times are also too short with the ratio "or" time clause. Anyone wanting to seed to
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by wtmt 7y ago
I've now given up on Brave on Windows because in the recent times, it has been crashing too many times (with less than 20 tabs open in total). Firefox, on the other hand, has been handling hundreds of tabs across several windows.
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by wtmt 7y ago
> The “mess”, though, is just a natural artifact of longevity. Many years of decisions that made sense in the moment accumulated to appear to be a “what WERE they thinking?” situation when, in fact, they were addressing the market forces

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