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DanAtC

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DanAtC··on In wake of data breach – Samsung forcing users to accept T&CS or risk their data
Samsung is such a trash company with garbage products. Why people are willing to pay them a premium is beyond me.
DanAtC··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
At least you get notified. Microsoft/Outlook on the other hand silently drops emails leaving you and the recipient in the dark.
DanAtC··on Blocking Kiwifarms
I don't understand where the myth of a "free" Internet comes from. Since privatization in 1993, you've always been held to _someone's_ terms of service. Even if you become your own ISP--get an ASN, IP space, a place to rack equipment--you still have to find someone to peer with, and if you bring enough heat you'll find yourself dropped.

Not to mention DNS which is subject to the laws of the country of registrar; plenty of pirate sites have had their domains have been seized by the US gov't.

DanAtC··on Wizz Air now charging some travellers a strange extra fee (2020)
AXS already stops working outright in the middle of buying tickets if Apple's Private Relay is enabled.
DanAtC··on Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking back at “The Cuckoo's Egg” (2015)
Uh...
DanAtC··on iOS Dictation Is Dickish
Years of accidentally hitting that stupid button. Thanks for this.
DanAtC··on Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)
I see no downsides here
DanAtC··on Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
Sony's love affair with propriety formats (Betamax, MiniDisc (and ATRAC), Media Stick, UMD) doesn't do them any favors.
DanAtC··on Incident report: Employee and customer account compromise
Could do it cheaper with some more obscure MVNOs https://prepaidcompare.net/
DanAtC··on Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing
Over 7 months after it was fixed? Why not disclose immediately after?
DanAtC··on How do I progress to the next level in my career?
Do more than they're paying you for and hope someone notices and promotes you.
DanAtC··on Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
Walmart has third-party sellers now too.
DanAtC··on Cow Clicker (2010)
Apple likes to destroy their own history by removing apps that are too old to run on their latest hardware.
DanAtC··on Tech layoffs keep stacking up
layoffstracker.com has an RSS feed which is fun to throw into work Slack channels: https://layoffstracker.com/feed/
DanAtC··on Ask HN: Does HN block iCloud private relay requests?
Maybe if HN supported IPv6 there wouldn't be the risk of blocking people sharing a small pool of IPv4 addresses
DanAtC··on New XPS 13 Shows the Price of Going Too Thin
The second USB-C port on that is PD only.
DanAtC··on New XPS 13 Shows the Price of Going Too Thin
I meant one USB-C to many USB-C
DanAtC··on New XPS 13 Shows the Price of Going Too Thin
Is it actually Thunderbolt not plain USB-C?
DanAtC··on New XPS 13 Shows the Price of Going Too Thin
Edited my comment. Does it do one USB-C to multiple USB-C ports or is it USB-C to USB-A?
DanAtC··on New XPS 13 Shows the Price of Going Too Thin
But there's only two USB-C ports and USB-C hubs don't exist. If you're charging your laptop and using a headphone adapter you're SOL if you need to plug anything else in.

Edit: USB-C only hubs. Everything I've seen is USB-C to USB-A/HDMI/Ethernet/Audio (though that resolves the above problem if the DAC is decent enough) There _are_ Thunderbolt docks (which this XPS 13 supports) which provide USB-C ports but they're pricey.

DanAtC··on Suspicious User Concerns
Welcome to the Internet
DanAtC··on Ask HN: Did Nat Kill FTP?
Try passive mode
DanAtC··on AOL 3.0 reverse engineered
Can't even open that link on iOS without being redirected to download Discord. Pass
DanAtC··on WorldWideWeb.app
Very nice.

On iOS can this listen on IPv6? Some cell providers allow incoming connections on IPv6.

This coupled with a dynamic DNS service could make for a cheap, always-on and portable server. Maybe put Cloudflare in front of it for IPv4 access and use their cache to smooth out TTL expiration between IP changes.

DanAtC··on Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas’s social media moderation law
Free speech absolutists should try Usenet. See how long that remains enjoyable (again).
DanAtC··on IPv6 Support on Android
> Our Android team is now made up of some 77 engineers

> “wow, we don’t want to implement this ourselves. ... If only they would”

> it’s the kind of thing you need an expert programmer to build

> 77 engineers

DanAtC··on Signal Your Support
I'd donate, but the well over half a million dollar salaries they pay themselves isn't a good look: https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/824506840
DanAtC··on The ACLU Has Lost Its Way
ACLU has also been campaigning against San Francisco Prop H (ballot measure to recall DA). Seems way out of their wheelhouse.

https://www.aclunc.org/norecall

DanAtC··on Tell HN: AT&T disabled phone numbers and accounts of users using the old phones
You can't transfer a number you no longer have an account for.
DanAtC··on Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
Which ISP? Name and shame
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