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Out of curiosity, can you elaborate on that?

I love the Amazon X-Ray feature. I wonder if they patented it, because I’m surprised other players like Netflix or cable providers are not offering something similar. I personally find it adds a lot to my viewing experience without being too intrusive.

iCloud mail in iOS uses plain IMAP. The synchronization stack for iCloud is surprisingly based on open standards: IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV.

Satellite is also relatively easy to jam, like GPS.

Oh yes, it surely is, and I didn’t mean to hit at Gmail or any particular player. Additionally, I think it also speaks a lot about how industry did a very good job in constructing easy-to-use abstractions on top of tech that used to be hard to configure for a first-time user back in the days.

I have an interesting story to tell closely related to this. I used to work as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate computer networking course at UBC. As part of the course, we would usually ask the students to write a simple POP email server, in order to practice their socket programming skills. This was an assignment designed by a professor in the early 2000s, when being able to set up an email client was considered a basic computer skill.

Fast forward to 2019, and I can say that roughly 80% of students in the class didn't know what POP, IMAP or SMTP were. Before being able to get started on the assignment, we would have to provide them with additional material explaining how emails are delivered and what an email client does to retrieve them. The majority of students just grew up using the Gmail app or whatever self-configuring email clients they had on their phone/laptop, so they had no idea of what we were asking them to build.

It’s not a bad idea. A randomized IP address at each connection would break many things on quite a few networks (IP-MAC static assignments, for instance).

While your points make total sense and I agree with what you say, I personally believe that letting Chinese firms acquire control of US social media companies is a way greater threat to Western freedom of speech than what we would lose by blocking these acquisitions. Can you imagine a future in which we’ll be unable to post anti-government content online because most Internet properties are owned by Chinese companies which follow their local regulation? That would be the death of freedom of speech.

You do not necessarily need content censorship to keep CCP ideas out of the West. You can keep them out by means of economic policies. And I feel like Western countries are not doing a good enough job at this, whereas the PRC government has been extremely efficient at blocking foreign entities.

It would take them very little to pivot from music skits to a wider variety of videos including news like Facebook does, for instance.

If that non-US culture advocates that democracy is a threat to society, or that political re-education camps are not an issue, I would say that yes, we need to keep that out.

No, this feature used to be there in iOS 4 I believe, but was removed in subsequent iOS versions.

To be honest, there is a private API for it. It is the one the AirPort Utility app uses for its built-in Wi-Fi Scan feature.

In iOS 13 you can only know the name of the current Wi-Fi network, and you require location permission for it.

Based on my experience, uBlock Origin has priority over the built-in blocker.

Instead of trade barriers exclusively based on place of origin, you could have food safety rules that enforce animal welfare standards before the product can be sold in Canada. The U.S. also produces higher quality hormone-free milk just as good as the Canadian one, but the artificial trade barriers put in place by Canada make it almost impossible for foreign producers to sell it here, regardless of its quality. It leads to higher prices for final consumers, and at the end of the day only benefits the local dairy industry and the few families behind it.

You need to be part of the supply management scheme, that is, you need to be producing and supplying milk in Canada. So an import-only business wouldn't be able to do it. I am not too sure on the details, but you can read more about it here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-comme...

Around 2013, the Canadian government considered allowing Verizon to enter the Canadian market by buying WIND Mobile, a small budget carrier which was looking for foreign investors. They were faced with a huge fearmongering campaign orchestrated by the big three carriers, with TV ads like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndQv6wwaNyM

Needless to say that Verizon backed out of the deal immediately.

It's not just telecommunications and air transport. Everywhere you look, you'll find sectors where foreign competition is prohibited or strictly managed in a way that keeps prices artificially high.

An example? Cheese. Under CETA (the Canada-EU free trade agreement), only Canadian dairy producers can import cheese from the EU into Canada. These producers will set its price artificially high as to match the price of Canadian cheese plus a premium. This way, they ensure consumers will buy Canadian cheese instead, as it appears to be cheaper.

It's just crazy how much lobbying can do.

Some Canadian carriers are indeed still selling plans with local calls only. In 2019. It's depressing.

In my opinion, it really depends on the language. I find that VSCode is better than Sublime for web development, but I really prefer Sublime for write and compile workflows (e.g. C/C++ or Go development) which do not rely too much on extensive IDE support.

It’s not written in JavaScript.

Seriously, using native C++ gives it a real performance boost over the other two editors.

Yes, at work we added swiftlint as part of our build pipeline, and we have it reject any usage of force unwraps.

For many Americans, they are not.

Download schedulers, you brought up so many memories of my dial-up days...

This looks a lot like Transit (transitapp.com), which also has a similar crowdsourcing feature. And I believe other apps like Citymapper and Moovit also rely on users’ reports. Does this app have anything new in particular?

Not just that. Say they have a security breach... if there is no data, no data gets leaked.

Yes, that’s something we can do as HN readers, but good luck explaining that to the average lawyer or paralegal.

Source?

It doesn't really integrate the Pi-Hole distribution itself, but by default it uses two hosts file (see https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/blob/master/config.cfg at line 72).

Not surprised. They can't expect people to replace their car every two years as if it were an iPhone.

Which features in particular do you need? If you are interested in the APIs, you might be pleased to know that starting September 14th, 2019, any bank in the EU must provide public APIs by law under the PSD2 EU directive for Open Banking. Most banks are already compliant (although their APIs are not exceptional).

> [...] when you've denoted a tagged item as lost, any Apple device can read the information and you'll receive a notification when someone has found it. That's a clever way for Apple to take advantage of its enormous number of active devices, and give its tag a leg up over the competition.

The network effect is what will likely make this thing stand out from the competition. Exploiting the huge number of iPhones and iPads around is something startups like Tile were and will never able to do.