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jankiehodgpodge··on Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products
For most people, rooting makes them less secure not more. It all depends on who you're securing against.
jankiehodgpodge··on Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away
To be honest I remember Windows Media player 9 or 10 having really good library management. Used it until I switched to GPM.
jankiehodgpodge··on Did Apple build MagSafe so that cases can “stick” to the new iPhones?
As someone who doesn't use iOS often I have to agree. Changing the brightness on an iPad took me a minute because I had to work out which corner to swipe from. Such poor design.
jankiehodgpodge··on Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground
Is there any evidence for that? I know that for example women are more likely to be injured in car crashes because most car seats/interiors are designed around the average man so if be surprised if a human half didn't need to be raised or put in a safer position.
jankiehodgpodge··on Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday
Not that I use it but Outlook in Office 365 is radically different. Has full integration with M365 groups etc.
jankiehodgpodge··on Someone has stolen my Instagram account
It's a part of Google one, no idea how good it is though.
jankiehodgpodge··on The fresh smell of ransomed coffee
That functionality also allows someone to turn your oven on while you're on holiday, but worth the risk in my opinion.
jankiehodgpodge··on Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
Most kids only experience computers through a smart phone and a collection of social media apps.
jankiehodgpodge··on Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
Boost is a brilliant app, never use the desktop site because it's junk in comparison.
jankiehodgpodge··on Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?
Windows 10 on a core 2 duo and an SSD is still pretty quick, it just doesn't run well on HDDs.
jankiehodgpodge··on Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI?
There are some good electron apps and some bad ones.
jankiehodgpodge··on Chrome, Firefox extension that blocks NSFW images using TensorFlow JS
You can easily enforce installations of extensions via Chrome's admin templates.
jankiehodgpodge··on Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
I mean it's pretty easy to prove that's not true. Just stick it on a network and check the network traffic.

The bandwidth required to do that would be immense anyway for basically no benefit.

jankiehodgpodge··on Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
Because they're cheap, low powered devices.
jankiehodgpodge··on How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
I've seen hundreds of enterprise networks and you'd be surprised how many of them have passwords in public shares, no configured firewalls or software policies and only file level backups. We obviously can't know right now what Garmin's setup was but I'd wager they were guilty of something.
jankiehodgpodge··on Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
If you're deploying office anyway you simply remove teams from the config XML for the installer. Pretty simple really.
jankiehodgpodge··on UK Formally Abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court
Failing to mention the massive tariffs on many products.
jankiehodgpodge··on Microsoft Outlook is crashing worldwide with 0xc0000005 errors
There's different rings for different customers like government and military. I imagine their updates are deployed slower.
jankiehodgpodge··on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
There's was also providers in the UK who's bad video compression made the picture so dark it was unwatchable.
jankiehodgpodge··on Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
Because it would undermine trust in their system.
jankiehodgpodge··on Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
A privacy feature on a Huawei laptop...
jankiehodgpodge··on Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows
Maybe not for hosting but I think the Active directory server at the heart of just about every company would disagree with your statement.
jankiehodgpodge··on Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution
Depends on the station. Some stations are broadcasting 32Kbit mono audio which certainly doesn't stand up to FM.
jankiehodgpodge··on Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy?
Any private company in China is by default a business partner with the state. If you believe that the government doesn't coerce companies to comply with their wishes you are mistaken.
jankiehodgpodge··on iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
I'm pretty sure that's the OS itself analysing the highlighted text and offering suggestions on which app to open it with.
jankiehodgpodge··on Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
You can't take attendance in Google classroom because schools use MIS/SIS software to track attendance/assessment data etc. Without links back to the schools MIS data it gets held in a Google silo where it's not useful to anyone.
jankiehodgpodge··on Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use
Depends on the application, Torx doesn't cam out for example which in some cases could be undesirable.
jankiehodgpodge··on Netgear 0-day vulnerability analysis and exploit
Draytek
jankiehodgpodge··on It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
I couldn't think of anything worse than having kids. Don't project your life choices onto others.
jankiehodgpodge··on I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves
You probably want to bump that toRAID 6 at least. Rebuild times on arrays that big can be long, especially if it takes a while to get a replacement drive. Plus most RAID controllers can protect against bit rot when in RAID 6 because it determine if bits get flipped. On RAID 5, you don't have that option.
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