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Alternative: Banks are incentivized to better authenticate people, rather than relying on faulty KBA and public IDs like SSNs—information that is often leaked and can be phished. That being said, none of the compromises described in the com
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It’s not behind a captcha. The owner of that website doesn’t like Cloudflare, so if they detect you’re using Cloudflare DNS or WARP, you’ll get a fake captcha that looks like Cloudflare’s. Completing it won’t give you access to the site. It
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As an audiophile who is picky about chargers, no. Also, Apple isn’t the only company making decent chargers, but many of the comparable chargers I’ve gotten from other companies—e.g., some of the older Pixel chargers—have died over time, wh
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I’m not a Tesla fanatic—I’m rather disgusted by many of Tesla’s practices—but I agree with the parent. If you buy experimental technology from a company with a reputation for cutting corners, and said technology happens to be rather flammab
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Try to load this in Safari, then try to load it on any other browser: https://netops.is/safari-push-bug/ That bug has been present for at least two major iOS version. I’ve reported it to Apple, but they’ve never bother
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> Apple’s “proprietary” format is also open No, it isn’t. It’s useless without HEVC, which is encumbered and requires royalties,[0] most of which go to Apple. VP8 is free (as in “free beer,” not as in “freedom”). > What if iOS users
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> I get that you’re disappointed Safari doesn’t support the same stuff, the same way as Chrome. In some cases, yes, but in others, no. For example, Safari still clings to their proprietary image formats. That means I need two versions
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I was fully prepared to berate this article for encouraging manual copy-pasting, which makes people far more prone to phishing attacks. However, it makes this important clarification: > Autofill can be 2 types: automatic autofill (autofi
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> The idea of IE being purely an "outdated" browser seems to be one perpetuated by young devs reading & misunderstanding old blogposts. That’s certainly not true: it was indeed outdated for much of its life. Yes, through IE
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I’m having a little trouble following since I don’t speak French, but based on other comments here, it sounds like: 1. French YouTuber Micode bought a used SSD from leboncoin. 2. Micode wanted to demonstrate that data should always be prope
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LEOs often seem to be exempt when acting in an official capacity. I’m not sure what the restrictions are—do they need a court order in a situation like this?—but LEOs are definitely allowed to break laws and buy illegal wares.
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Not for LED bulbs, as far as I know. That’s certainly true for incandescent, but I don’t think this experiment would work well with incandescent anyway.
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Nobody is assuming anything. You have presented it as a rhetorical question—work on your presentation if that wasn’t the intention. Nobody said anything about bad faith; in fact, I stated that I agree with the sentiment. What I don’t unders
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Initially it says that the intended purpose was cocaine, but then it goes on to say that online marijuana and hashish were found.
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The company behind Audacity has been doing some absolutely abhorrent things (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891005 ). These deserve to be pointed out on HN because they are abnormal and unprecedented. This is n
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Why isn’t law enforcement being held accountable as well? As long as it’s possible to wreak havoc with a single phone call or text message, there will always be people who will do it. Law enforcement needs to be prepared for that. Why is th
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It was definitely a threat. “It would be a shame if I were to report this unrelated repo to your government to demonstrate that you’re a political dissident. It would be a shame if your government were to punish you for it. Don’t get mad; I
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If the original title is blatantly inaccurate or doesn’t properly describe the subject at hand, it makes sense to modify the title. In this case, “threatens developer” is a bit of an understatement, if anything. The original comments—which
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As an avid Docker user on M1, it’s actually not bad. Docker let’s you choose between Apple’s virtualization and qemu. Apple’s performs better in terms of CPU, but qemu is miles ahead in terms of I/O performance. Neither solution is any
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Why not both (A) and a regulatory solution? I see no reason to avoid the regulatory route.
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Yikes--it looks even worse on Google Street View.[0] That appears to be bridge P-03-023.[1] According to MassDOT, it was built in 1959 and "reconstructed" in 2010--which apparently meant "replacing the bridge decks, ... and
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I’ve had “pepperoni” pizza in Italy at a place where nobody spoke any English. It was filled with locals, not tourists. They had one kind of pizza: whatever they decided to make that day. For a few days it was what I, as an American, would
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I live in an area of the US with lots of Asian and European tourists, and they do exactly what you claim they don’t do. Is it really an issue, though? As long as they’re nice, I find their impression of my culture to be more fascinating tha
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Any single backup is a stupid idea. Combine them, and you've got a great backup solution. Why would I keep important data in one physical location? My house could burn down tomorrow, but I'd still have my cloud backups. My clou
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If you’re switching between computers a lot, it can be difficult to adapt. I use macOS, Windows, and Linux daily, and the difference between Command on macOS and Control on the other two still throws me off every time. Fn + arrow keys has b
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If I were such an agency, I'd definitely have multiple honeypots competing with each other.
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The post doesn’t go into detail about the circumstances that trigger the bug, but that also shouldn’t really be the user’s job in this case.
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It’s a pretty interesting license. > The Software is not used by, in cooperation with, or on behalf of any armed forces, intelligence agencies, reconnaissance agencies, defense agencies, offense agencies or any supplier, contractor, or r
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SMS works a little differently in India; it’s more difficult to spoof the IDs the author is discussing.
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Sanctity is just another word for exclusivity. Knowledge used to be reserved for the elite, locked behind closed doors that the majority never knew existed. Then the printing press came along. Knowledge was commoditized, no longer reserved

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