r3vrse

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by r3vrse 2y ago
Neat! I have wondered how much of a foothold "retrograde" tech will take in the next 10-20 years. Decision fatigue, nostalgia, attenuation — call it what you will. At some level we're tacitly acknowledging that the vast ocean
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by r3vrse 3y ago
My 6yo has an iPhone which arrived OOTB with a News widget, accessible by a single swipe, including similar "breaking" content. No sign-in required. Just an internet connection. What does she want for Christmas? An iPhone 14 Pro M
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by r3vrse 7y ago
Convey a singular point with intent. Below is first paragraph rewritten. Just my 2¢. --- Essays should be persuasive. But we can aim for something more ambitious: that an essay should be useful. Useful writing makes a strong claim without r
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by r3vrse 7y ago
Anecdotal: was setting up some Hisense TVs at work the other day and the unit came up with a message that "all Network features" would be disabled if you declined the EULA. Immediately thought "works for me". I wonder if
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by r3vrse 7y ago
Dipping into whimsical analogies: this is a digital abattoir where the meat = content. Now, as before, no-one wants to see how the sausage gets made. Especially those selling it. Can't kill demand or bear the visceral truth. So instead
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by r3vrse 8y ago
Also have a professional proofread your posts. 'Around the bend' is not the connotation you were looking for.
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by r3vrse 8y ago
Just static route Google DNS back to your gateway. Works fine for me. As others have said though, who buys a Google device thinking it's not gonna talk to Google?
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by r3vrse 8y ago
Ironic that participants were initially contacted via FB ads. In light of the recent "Research" app disclosure, and that in both cases a fee was paid for participation, it makes me wonder what people won't do for a few extr
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by r3vrse 8y ago
Every now and then I rise above the temporal miasma of popular web culture and think: why is this surprising? BBS, AOL, Netscape, MySpace, Tumblr, FB, Insta, Snap... Why are we surprised by this progression? All "good" things go b
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by r3vrse 8y ago
Honest feedback: I don't see how this succeeds without integration with existing applicant workflows. The cognitive overhead of another app to store data, manually update status etc is high. If e.g. Monster or Indeed launched this as a
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by r3vrse 8y ago
Unfortunately, in the Enterprise space, this setup is likely to be a zero sum game, as the challenge email would get dinged 90% of the time for spammy wording like "quarantine" and links to unknown domains (and/or blocked ent
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by r3vrse 8y ago
No. This won't fix anything. It is flying in the face of social norms and basic, narcissistic inclination. What is verboten will become desirable, and circumvention will be lauded by peers. We live in a digital world. That isn't g
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by r3vrse 8y ago
Working in this space, I'm convinced that email will eventually evolve from a default "blacklist" model to "whitelist" in the next 3-5 years. There's simply too many bad actors and too many uneducated or uninte
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by r3vrse 8y ago
It surprises me in a way that "big internet" (AT&T, Verizon, Comcast etc) and associated large enterprise interests have not been more staunch proponents of IPv6, at least for fixed consumer connections. It would be trivial in
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by r3vrse 8y ago
While this sentiment is applicable (and agreeable) now, I can't help but think it is a little short-sighted. Can we really say <insert_megacorp_name_here> will do or not do 'X', or has some immutable policy 'Y&#x27
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by r3vrse 8y ago
> There’s an alternative to the Play Store for Android. F-Droid is an open source app “store” (repository would be a better term here) which only includes open source apps (which Signal thankfully is). By no means does Signal have to onl
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by r3vrse 8y ago
> In other words my current smartphone will be unsafe for everyday use after September 2018, but it may have some life left in it by protecting its operating system with some network level security. I stopped paying attention when I read
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by r3vrse 8y ago
I spend a fair amount of time on HN. Among many, I think this article is probably the most succinct endictment of ADHD-ridden "modern" web programming/ecosystem practices I've read. It's so sad to me that while the
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by r3vrse 8y ago
I work in a role where a bunch of Huawei devices have been deployed to non-technical end users for a particular business purpose (against my advice). This doesn't surprise me in the slightest -- the overzealous and frankly capricious c
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by r3vrse 8y ago
If they get you using an app that evades in-browser ad, tracking blockers etc... so $$ is the primary reason, basically
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by r3vrse 8y ago
How visible is that issue though? How likely to be digested by the masses? "Tech company takes money and screws over customers" is a headline that writes itself.
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by r3vrse 8y ago
In the next installment of "How To Make A Successful Exit While Not Give A Flying Füçk About Your Existing Customer Base Or Industry Rep. That Got You There 101" Is anyone else as tired of this schism of material gain over all oth
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Ask HN: Tech landscape 10 years from now
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by r3vrse 8y ago
Try this: http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/caffeine/ Use it all the time when working from home/moving around and I don’t want my laptop to lock every 15.
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by r3vrse 9y ago
I completely agree. I do find it interesting though, as someone who through work has deployed a lot of cell phones for field ops - the situation seems to be kind of, sort of getting better in that respect. We bought a ton of Moto G4s and G5
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by r3vrse 9y ago
Netgear R7000 [1] with AdvancedTomato [2], which is Tomato but with a pretty UI. It runs DNS, nginx as a reverse proxy, SSH gateway and some other bits & pieces with minimal fuss. Pretty sure I've never had to reboot it outside of