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1023bytes··on App lets banks lock your financed phone if you default on payment
There has to be some kind of exception for payment apps or else it's pretty dumb, how else would you make the payment
1023bytes··on Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal
The input is actually very slow. It's own configuration file (about 300 lines) took over a minute to paste.
1023bytes··on YouTube broke for 40% of the UK population after rolling out 60 FPS videos
60FPS is also noticeably more power hungry. I wish YouTube made it optional.
1023bytes··on EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...
1023bytes··on Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
Definitely not exhaustive, please don't use this for validation.
1023bytes··on The internet needs our love
>You probably don’t know the name Mozilla. You might know Firefox.

While reading this on the Mozilla blog...

1023bytes··on Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
I wonder what impact this will have on ReactOS
1023bytes··on Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
What’s curious is that info.com, who won many of the auctions doesn’t even work. It gives me no results at all
1023bytes··on Amazon One – Palm recognition for Amazon Go
Worst name ever
1023bytes··on Apple Fitness+
No Mac support is unfortunate for me
1023bytes··on New things in Android 11
https://google/ would be interesting
1023bytes··on Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
Signal doesn't make money either.
1023bytes··on Assange, Manning and Snowden Nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
Wirecard is just fraud, not government surveillance
1023bytes··on Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash
All banks in the EU are required to use 2FA, I'm curious how these hackers get around that.
1023bytes··on New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases
Currently there is crypto mining malware infecting exposed Redis servers (kdevtmpfsi)
1023bytes··on Google Acquires North
North bought the Intel Vaunt IP and improved it, so they actually do have some very impressive tech.
1023bytes··on Google postpones Android 11 beta
Honestly I think that's just an excuse. And I don't think Google really cares for media attention about this, it's a pretty boring, minor update, unless they have something else up their sleeve.
1023bytes··on Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
The benefit here is you pay a smaller fee for the storage and the machine itself is created on demand.
1023bytes··on Opera GX – Gaming Browser
Maybe it's intentional, to make you feel like your current browser is slow.
1023bytes··on ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
Well, you can take a photo of them. This is not a digital device, it's based on pressure sensitive liquid crystals. Electricity is only used to clear the display.
1023bytes··on LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app
So it's basically MVVM with SQLite as the model?
1023bytes··on LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app
They definitely wouldn't be able to achieve these kinds of results with React Native. It obviously adds a lot of unnecessary overehad.
1023bytes··on Google Fonts Analytics
So much wasted bandwidth
1023bytes··on EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
Not even the wall outlets across the EU are standardised.
1023bytes··on Labor board rolls back employee email rights after Google recommendation
So would this apply if a Google employee used their personal Gmail account?
1023bytes··on Sonos requires access to your location to install a Sonos system
"To access the hardware identifiers of nearby external devices via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi scans, your app must now have the ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION or ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION permission"

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/marshmallow/and...

1023bytes··on Show HN: GoCode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser
Another similiar game is Deadlock Empire

https://deadlockempire.github.io/

1023bytes··on Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia
Well, there is no denying that the region is in fact currently governed by Russia. Whether that is right is another question.
1023bytes··on Congressman's phone password is 111111
You can often see these very obvious smudges on the screen
1023bytes··on Stealing Ur Feelings
I was interested how are they doing the "IQ estimation", here it is:

   -(dogPos + Math.abs(menPos - womenPos) + Math.abs(whiteNegative - nonWhiteNegative) + kanyePos)
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