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heavymark··on Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers
"Advertising is unquestionably here to stay" Often interesting hearing people use "unquestionably" meaning that no one believes differently, rather than a more apt word meaning you personally feel strongly about a certain view point and and don't know other people's point of view and not concerned with it. You also mentioned you find it hard to believe people would prefer irrelevant ads over relevant ads, but of course many people do (since if one has irrelevant ads they will be less likely to engage with them making them less profitable for the advertiser and in the long run making that form of advertising less viable), so sounds like you may want to ask more questions to learn other people's views so that you may either update your views or be able to make stronger arguments for your own. IMHO.
heavymark··on Camera sales are falling sharply
Well I think the title means to say point and shoot (built In lens) cameras falling sharply. Interchangeable camera sales are on the rise, which of course makes perfect sense.
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What does this have to do with HackerNews?
heavymark··on Apple Card can be damaged by wallets and jeans
Or put in another way, credit cards can be damaged by wallets and jeans. Apple recommends best ways to care for your credit card. I don't think the Apple document means their card is more susceptible to damage, if anything I imagine its far less so that plastic, but unlike other card companies who don't have to tell customers the obvious like other objects can scratch an object such as a card, apple has to since unlike other companies, apple knows people will immediately try to put it through stress tests because apple x product has x issue gets lots of ad views compared to other companies.
heavymark··on Facebook Is Getting Rid of “Secret” or “Closed” Groups
Yes, people here know click bait titles work which is why we are all here reading this and commenting on it.
heavymark··on If You Lose Your iPhone, You Can’t Pay Your Apple Card Bill on the Web
Sure, but can't you just call and pay over the phone like with any other credit card?
heavymark··on Adobe shambles – Why subscription software should be illegal
The mass market is use to paying little up front and expect updates and fixes forever for that one time fee which of course is non sustainable, subscription software is/can be. I certainly hope we are not a place where something should be illegal because you disagree with one company/person. How is this on HackerNews?
heavymark··on Trump Says U.S. Ship Shot Down Iranian Drone in Strait of Hormuz
They presumably first read an article on another site such as CNN that mentions electronic jamming: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/18/politics/trump-us-destroyed-i... but then decided to share an article based on it from a particular well known source such as WSJ in this case, that happens not to mention what they included in the title. So yes, the person should have shared the actual article they read and that they based on the title on.
heavymark··on Sugary drinks and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort
You should try Bai’s soda like tasting drinks as far more healthy, and would make the transition to water or flavored water such as with lime and lemon more manageable. Also working out a lot will make you want to drink a lot more water, though adding a significant workout routine adds it’s own set of challenges.
heavymark··on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages
I first noticed Instagram then realized it was Facebook and their other properties such as What's App as well. Is very odd all of these major outages this week. By Cloudflare at least said it was an employee error, so assuming it's not subtle attacks by other countries unless companies like Cloudflare are required to legally provide an alternate story for national security.
heavymark··on Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
Holy crap, cloudflare down, and seemingly all the covers. Major sites such as Digitalocean are all down, and no way to easily disable cloudflare since their site is down.
heavymark··on Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side
I get score of .7 in Safari. .3 in Chrome if not logged in/paused, but a .9 if logged in. Always hate that in non-logged in chrome browsers I have to fill out those picture questions a 100 times seemingly endlessly.
heavymark··on Earbuds are bad for your hearing
Or more accurately reworded (but less exciting) loud music is bad for your hearing. Many people choose earbuds that are not isolating intentionally because they want to be aware of their surroundings and thus don't increase the volume to compensate.
heavymark··on Microsoft bans employees from using Slack, discourages AWS and Google Docs
They ban certain versions of Slack that are not secure enough, they allow the enterprise version (though like most companies building competing products, it's discouraged over their own software.
heavymark··on Apple Plans to Ship 16-Inch MacBook Pro This Year
Perhaps the device will the same size and will simply reduce the bezels on screen, since 15.4 to 16 isn't much more.
heavymark··on Nasa Rover on Mars Detects Puff of Gas That Hints at Possibility of Life
Curious why that would be "dreadful" and I thought most assumed there is most likely water and life on mars (microbial that is), but just under the surface and with the unimaginable number of planets assuming we are the only planet with life would probably be similar to the early thinking the sun resolves around the earth.
heavymark··on Microsoft bans free Slack and discourages AWS and Google Docs use internally
The enterprise version they note is secure enough but still discouraged because it’s less about security and more about perception. Why would customers want to use the Microsoft equivalent if even their employees don’t.
heavymark··on Microsoft bans free Slack and discourages AWS and Google Docs use internally
Always silly to force employees to use your own software. It was better or even close the employees would use it. Instead they should promote using the best so they know how to improve their own. I understand banning free slack if it’s a security concern but saying they recommend not using the grid is just a poor practice.
heavymark··on Apple's Shock iPhone Cancellation Makes Sense
What non sense he is talking about? Can someone point to the actual quote from Kuo, and by cancelling iPhone XS do they simply mean the next iPhone XS will have new name (as it does every year) and maybe a little smaller like the SE? Certainly doesn't sound as exciting when you put it that. Author seems very desperate for clicks on this one. Or maybe he's being sarcastic?
heavymark··on Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing
They also provide a form for you to mail yourself and looks like they are only asking for info that Chase requests (chase does not require a social so that wouldn't be on this =).
heavymark··on Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing
As they mentioned checkout the FAQ where it outlines that process under the aptly named, "How does this site work?" and they also offer a template for you to mail yourself if your prefer.
heavymark··on Apple’s $1000 monitor stand is a massive and unnecessary PR fail
They said all along that the Mac Pro would be for users that the iMac Pro isn't powerful enough. Since the iMac Pro maxes out pretty high, a 3K base Mac Pro would make absolutely not sense as thats not even iMac Pro entry pricing but rather typical pricing for a consumer iMac.
heavymark··on Apple’s $1000 monitor stand is a massive and unnecessary PR fail
I imagine many will be using the Vesa mount in this market, so if they did what you recommend, then I imagine people would have been much more upset that they are paying for a 1K stand they will never use, which would have been even worse. From a PR perspective people might not have made that connection right away, but shortly after the event still would have been horrible reaction, since its one thing it itemized its another thing to charge 1K more for no extra value. Now what they should do is the same thing they do with iMac, is sell a version with the stand for 6K and one with vesa for 5200. Problem solved, no PR issue. The reason they didnt presumably is they have no idea how many want vesa vs not vesa so they may end up with a lot of unused inventory or not enough of one. And of course makes logistics for making and selling harder, etc, but I think had they known the reaction they may have considered it. They will probably ride it out but if it continues they will simply switch to that iMac method of selling it.
heavymark··on Google Trips app to be discontinued on August 5
Loved the concept but like most all of these new apps from Google, got no love, and lacked many basic features. Google continues to released half baked products don't give them love they fail because of it and then they kill them. Rather then devoting to continuous updates to make it something everyone uses. And these days I personally avoid most of the new apps, because there is such a high chance they will be killed off once you start using it.
heavymark··on Apple Sued by App Developers Claiming Price Fixing
I thought Made By Sofa went away because they got bought by Facebook, not because they weren't making enough money because of the app store, unless I'm mistaken?
heavymark··on Apple Is Finally Killing iTunes
Thought it was quite revealing as shows it’s more just an update to iTunes and renaming of course rather than a completely rethinking of the app structure and layout. That’s why all these killing Itunes headlines are odd since it’s an iTunes update/renaming and moving non tunes related things to their own apps. If it were removing iTunes aka the ability to buy and store your own music that would be new app but I haven’t heard about any new major functionality compared it current iTunes.
heavymark··on Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year
That world exists with ad blockers. Was viewing a friend's computer who didn't have an ad blocker installed and almost forgot what it had been like to see ads plastered everywhere online.
heavymark··on Apple Pay will support NFC tags
I assume will only work with approved partners not with any nfc sticker.
heavymark··on Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019
This is why we invested in Apple Home, since that is the least likely to go away completely off all the options. Any Google service other than Gmail and Google Maps may come and go so while they offer amazing features at the cost of invading your privacy, there is no guarantee they will there in the long term.
heavymark··on Nearly all 2020 presidential candidates aren’t using a basic email security
With domains registered at Google Domains it's very easy to enable. All domain registers do not support it. Mayor Pete uses GoDaddy and very easy to setup at that register as well.
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