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25,050karma·12,302submissions·September 8, 2017
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As others have noted the app works fine without location on. (Android also has "only when using App" settings) It does default full location access all the time which is where the problem …
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Unless I'm misunderstanding you, none of this is true for the Android devices I've owned. Vendor specific perhaps? Devious way to do it. Doesn't Apple suffer with the same problem (l…
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It isn't really an app though, it's one of those half arsed SPA in an webview that CONSTANTLY updates the large JS payload whenever you open it. Agree about the line bypass feature.. Tims c…
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Quibbles: - Documentation: is ALL over the place. I do not find it excellent. There is LOTS of documentation but due to naming (.NET framework != .NET Core != .NET Standard != .NET [current]) you can…
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This is far from true. Either via trojans, botnets, "crowd sourced vpns", or of course tor relays, residential IPs are a source of many bots. The overwhelming majority of spam sources (aft…
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The other repos (mentioned in the `Dockerfile` and `build-dev.sh`) seem to be open on @nibdo's profile: https://github.com/nibdo …
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Hollis met a Canadian artist (Chombo) in Hollywood that made a giant squid (Architeuthis) that could be seen with a visor rig... in Spook Country. They love and discuss the internet plenty.. since no…
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According to the commit log this is the license the repo was created with in 2020[0] title should be "SSH-MitM in no way changes its license". Just a point fishing attempt? The latest comm…
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Fairly large discussion 7 months ago (45pts, 37 comments)[0] Commenters did not take too kindly to it at the time. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28544735 …
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tl;dr because Apple felt like it, but they did sweeten the device with a larger HDD https://archive.ph/LmBlM
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Also posted in Oct 2020[0] with 175 points, 119 comments.. some useful comments, including some privacy fears [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897812 …
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Intel proposed AVX512 in 2013[0], with first appearance on Xeon Phi x200 announced in 2013, launched in 2016[1], and then on Skylake-X released in 2017[2] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/…
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The MS in MSN stands for Microsoft, launched by Microsoft in 1995. Microsoft did indeed buy Hotmail.. in 1997 before google was even founded (1998). They have mostly retired the email addresses (you…
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Server seems unhappy, but the archive has caught it: https://archive.ph/74dHx
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iPhone.. famously home to burnable fuses[0][1] (although in principal they're for security/unique device identification) [0]: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Security…
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Biggest discussion was on the TomsHardware submission[0] (170pts, 215comments), the verge was also submitted[1], but no real traction (7pts, 2comments). [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com…
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Dupe (same repo) [0] 231 points, 38 comments (11 hours old) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30672527 …
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Dupe [0] 231 points, 38 comments (11 hours old) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30672527 …
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I hope this was before December 2017[0], this behaviour hasn't been legal in Canada for half a decade. [0]: https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications... …
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It is 8 xboxs in the 2U chassis apparently (they're stacked two high)[0] analysis [1] [0]: https://external-preview.redd.it/Ma7bVRkbUuoM4xhzbJFe3qdTzAZ...
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Feels like the blog post[0] which was already submitted [1] (91pts, 38 comments) is a better link (much more detail) [0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/a-new-year-a-new-m…
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This has been posted a few times today, the biggest 100pts, 49 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30500753 …
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They did update their pricing as a result of this[0] (article has the same date). Not that I condone their old model, but it's a shame the Mozilla article wasn't updated given their call to…
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Audio! I'm not sure I've seen this tag (sorry for the attempted invention of something new)
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Could benefit from +(podcast) in the title (like video submissions) since there doesn't seem to be a transcript.
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There's no bombastic announcement, it's a link to an image that op made an opinionated title for.
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First link has a typo (an errant á), should be: https://krita.org/en/item/funding-kritas-development/ .. however it's even older (from 2016) Their windows store bu…
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Source/Origin article (linked in the "Patch now" section): "Zabbix - A Case Study of Unsafe Session Storage"[0] [0]: https://blog.sonarsource.com/zabbix-case-s…
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Teams voice/video chat doesn't work on Firefox. Likewise Jitsi recommends using Chrome[0] (it does run in Firefox, they suggest if enough users are on Firefox the performance will be poor).…
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But; feross lives to post portswigger articles