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by discostrings 8d ago
More detail/discussion on the passive audio recording and transcription/summarization features: Apple details how Apple Watch’s new Audio Intelligence features work in privacy paper https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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Apple Doesn't Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening Features(wired.com)
3 points by discostrings 8d ago|1 comments
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by discostrings 3mo ago
It also closes when you click/tap outside the dialog, unlike most other Windows dialogs. I actually can't think of another Windows dialog with the same level of functionality that behaves this way. I'm pretty sure it was intr
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by discostrings 1y ago
In the 70s the ads were a one-way broadcast. Now the ads watch you back. Far beyond the time wasted, they're an invasion of privacy.
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by discostrings 1y ago
My interpretation of "break web pages" was serving XHTML with MIME type application/xhtml+xml, in which case browsers don't render anything when the XHTML isn't well-formed, which is really just a strict / vali
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by discostrings 1y ago
I think you're confusing XHTML and semantic web on the "break web pages" part.
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by discostrings 1y ago
At the point in time when I disabled notifications for the app, it did not. I tried that. Even after navigating dark patterns, digging into the menus, and turning those options off, I still received promotion notifications. Perhaps they&#x2
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by discostrings 1y ago
Push button light switches that had two circular buttons with this behavior also used to be extremely common.
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by discostrings 1y ago
Uber violates this. At least as of a few years ago, there was no way to get notifications about driver arrival without also getting special offer and Uber Eats spam notifications periodically. Not only was there no opt-in consent, there was
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by discostrings 1y ago
For many, and hopefully increasingly more and more of us, time and attention can be more valuable than money. Manipulating our behavior to develop familiarity with a product by seeding the habit of using it as an ad-clicking serf and nurtur
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by discostrings 1y ago
Missing vertical taskbar is probably the most egregious omission, but it's not so much they took it away as it is they created versions of a number of Windows Explorer components in a higher-level technology without implementing half t
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by discostrings 1y ago
> iPhone Pro can transfer at up to 20 Gbps Citation/proof strongly needed on 20 Gbps
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by discostrings 2y ago
Fully denying internet access for an app is actually in iOS and has been there for many years. But it's only available in China. https://tinyapps.org/blog/202209100700_ios_disable_wifi_per_...
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by discostrings 2y ago
Similarly to making so many of the playlists "made for you", they've completely ruined the "radio" feature. You used to be able to select the radio option on a song, artist, or playlist and get a playlist of songs t
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by discostrings 2y ago
Blog post on wordpress.org concerning this: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/
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by discostrings 2y ago
Not in the BitLocker configurations I've seen over the last few days. The file is deletable as a local administrator in safe mode without the BitLocker recovery key in at least some configurations.
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by discostrings 2y ago
The BitLocker configurations I've seen over the last few days don't require the recovery key to enter safe mode.
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2024 Eclipse Forecasts(arctic.som.ou.edu)
2 points by discostrings 2y ago|0 comments
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by discostrings 3y ago
The "store 2 bits of information" approach Apple was moving exploring would solve at least a lot of that case. You could effectively store 3 pieces of information: 00 = default state, 01 = used free trial, 10 = banned, 11 = somet
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by discostrings 3y ago
It's not specific to iCloud Keychain--it applies to on-device Keychain on iOS devices, too, even if you don't use iCloud. Any developer can store data there with no way for the user to know or see what it's saving, and it&#x2
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by discostrings 4y ago
iOS actually does have a separate "internet access" permission for apps, but it's only available for devices sold in China.
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by discostrings 4y ago
Canada models have a SIM slot, but they don't support 5G mmWave bands.
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by discostrings 4y ago
If you don't care about mmWave 5G... and there are other bands missing as well.
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by discostrings 4y ago
Can QR codes for eSIMs be sold like traditional SIMs? I haven't actually gone through the eSIM registration process, but I assumed this should be possible.
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by discostrings 4y ago
This prevents my day 1 purchase as well. My US carrier (Verizon Prepaid) doesn't support eSIM yet, and I don't want a postpaid plan. I see absolutely no reason removing the SIM slot at this time is in customers' interests. Ge
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by discostrings 6y ago
Right before checking HN, I'd spent a few hours thinking about how to approach this very problem! Where are you fetching or how are you determining the track IDs for each service? Is it a simple metadata search through each API, are yo
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by discostrings 6y ago
Now what's the matter buddy, ain't you heard of my school? It's #1 in the state! People have been true to their schools since at least 1963.
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by discostrings 11y ago
Most sites aren't web apps--they're content-based, with text, pictures, and links. Progressive enhancement makes the most sense for the majority of content on the web. Web applications are certainly useful in some contexts, and pr
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by discostrings 12y ago
> Ultimately this is moot as you can't get around your font & rendering fingerprints that can be extracted from a hidden canvas element, but hey. Still better than serving it up in a platter. This has some work to be done still,
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Secret 'BADASS' Intelligence Program Spied on Smartphones(firstlook.org)
5 points by discostrings 12y ago|1 comments

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