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by pranau 4y ago
Google does not operate in mainland China.
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by pranau 4y ago
I’m disappointed to see such nonsense on HN not flagged to death. Is this a troll comment that I’m too slow to get?
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by pranau 5y ago
Seems like a story they spun with cherry-picked data to justify the removal of the dislike count.
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by pranau 5y ago
This seems like a disingenuous whataboutism. You are free to not use Steam as a publisher. You can use Epic/GOG or choose to self-host. The biggest advantage of Steam is the convenience of payments, marketing and infrastructure. If tha
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by pranau 5y ago
NY Times had an article covering it yesterday - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/technology/apple-child-ab... The article seems to cover both sides of the argument fairly and nails the concerns over Ap
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by pranau 5y ago
So what? When you don’t trust the actors running the system, it doesn’t matter if the crypto is perfect. And right now, I don’t trust the maintainers of the CSAM database and Apple to do the right thing.
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by pranau 5y ago
This happens in North Indian states as well where the state governments have gotten extremely trigger happy with cutting off internet access for trivial reasons like student exams. It’s extremely frustrating and makes me wonder how people k
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by pranau 5y ago
> it would be a cesspool like the Google play store I would suggest you use an Android smartphone from the last 5 years before making a comment like this. I use both iOS and Android devices on a regular basis and both the App Store and
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by pranau 5y ago
Thanks, that makes sense. Eventually, it does come down to trust then. I was under the impression that there was a technical reason as to why Amazon Sidewalk is worse than Find My.
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by pranau 5y ago
I don't own an Amazon smart device and I don't think I ever will so I cannot comment on whether there is actually a need for a feature like Sidewalk. Find My is also opt-out instead of opt-in
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by pranau 5y ago
Are there any indications that the Sidewalk network can be used to relay other than device control information?
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by pranau 5y ago
Can you please explain how Apple’s Find My is anonymous while Sidewalk is not? As far as I understand, Find My collects device location information through other iPhones and then upload them to Apple’s cloud where it can be viewed by you. A
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by pranau 5y ago
Can someone explain why there’s so much outrage against Amazon Sidewalk when it’s doing a similar thing to Apple’s Find My/AirTags which was met with almost universal praise?
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by pranau 5y ago
Apple does this as well on iOS where certain stock apps like Books always open links in Safari even when you have a different default browser set.
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by pranau 5y ago
>And if side-loading was alowed then every big player whose app users "have to have", e.g. Google, Facebook, Abobe, Zoom, Epic, would start their own independent app store (or distribution just for their apps). >Users would
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by pranau 5y ago
Check today's date :')
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by pranau 5y ago
The Google keyboard on Android (and, I think iOS) already lets you do this[1]. Go to the emoji picker on the keyboard and select an emoji or two. You get 4-5 suggestions of randomly added modifiers for the selected emoji. https:/&#x2F
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by pranau 7y ago
I'm surprised that this isn't a requirement for banks considering the very large number of scams going on in the US. In India, getting an SMS/Email confirming every card usage is a legal requirement imposed by the Rserve Bank
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by pranau 7y ago
Interestingly, I find the same to be true about people who complain about Android here on HN. And I feel it is for the same reason as you've mentioned. I cannot count the number of times I've had to laugh in pain at the shocking i
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by pranau 7y ago
Genuine question - I use WebEx Teams at work too and it works perfectly fine for the most part. It's also very lightweight compared to Slack. What do you find so terrible about it?
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by pranau 7y ago
I wouldn't be so sure to blame the OEM. Read this article [0]. Google dismissed a support ticket claiming that the OCR text selection feature was available only to Pixel devices released after 2017. The Android Pie page [1] advertises
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by pranau 7y ago
OCR text selection is available via Google Lens. What I'm talking about specifically is the ability to select out text from app pages where text selection is not usually possible. For example, say an app had button text or an embedded
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by pranau 7y ago
I wonder how many of the features advertised here will make it onto the Android 10 release of other OEMs. In Android 9 for example, the ability to select text via OCR in the recent apps screen was limited to only the Pixel devices for some
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by pranau 7y ago
If you had made the same statement but replaced Apple with Google or Microsoft, your comment would have been downvoted to death already. You shouldn't need an online ID to use a laptop. It makes perfect sense to use it without any sort
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by pranau 7y ago
> I've heard a lot of people in India are moving to it for personal and work chat ilo WhatsApp. I'm from India and I had to go look up what you were talking about. Literally the first time I'm hearing about this. I am also
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by pranau 7y ago
> turn us into weak, dispirited, sanctimonious saps. Citation needed
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by pranau 7y ago
> I would love to see Windows not take up 4 gigs of RAM out of the box. Let me uninstall Cortana please Microsoft. I'm sure there's other crap I don't want but I fear if I can't just hit 'Uninstall' it wont
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by pranau 7y ago
I get that Google is very powerful and it lives off of our data and I get how this may be construed as an attack on our privacy but the amount of misinformation and conspiracy theories I am seeing on this thread is appalling. First, Google
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by pranau 8y ago
In my experience (as an Indian), they ask money primarily for alcohol, cigarettes or drugs and buy food from whatever's left over. They are still not what one would call "nourished" and are pretty malnourished in most instanc
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by pranau 8y ago
I would be more suspicious of the article as a long winded advertisement if he had mentioned the sites :) But to answer your question, I'd say the best bet is to follow the money. Sites that rely on subscriber revenue are more likely t

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