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kyelewis··on Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data
Web push notifications do need and use Apple, Google… between the web app and you.
kyelewis··on UseHooks – A Collection of Server Component Safe React Hooks
It’s in the experimental branch - https://github.com/uidotdev/usehooks/blob/d7483140ee803826c3...
kyelewis··on No, the operating system on the new Galaxy S23 does not take up 60GB of space
“ Unfortunately, mobile operating systems would mistakenly report you as having the full 512GB”

What is this weird excuse, as if it’s some kind of mobile technical limitation that the device has to lie about available space?

kyelewis··on Some Ubuntu security patches are now behind 'Ubuntu Pro', a paid product
There's not much context here-

Is this an EOL ubuntu release? In which case this is expected (arguable whether it's good practise or not).

If not, y'know, bugs are also a thing that happens.

Let's see how it plays out.

kyelewis··on Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code
This feels like somewhere that GPT could actually prove helpful- I don't love GitHub CoPilot all that much, but a linter that could warn and suggest where comments aren't matching the code could be helpful to keep 'comment rot' at bay
kyelewis··on Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
It’s a VoIP app, network traffic is likely.
kyelewis··on Git Security Vulnerabilities Announced
Oops, I guess the new version isn’t out yet..
kyelewis··on 1.0.0 Release of the Temporal TypeScript SDK
Have to say, the name had me mightily confused with the Temporal API Proposal https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/
kyelewis··on Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?
As pointed out here, the huge assumption in this article is is:

> If someone installs malware on here - just insert a usb stick or use the recovery mode - then tada we have the next generation of atm skimming.

Which is just not how these payment devices work- they are entirely separate, they are sent a request to make a transaction, that transaction (and also likely the transaction request itself) occur entirely in a secure connection between someone like Verifone, and the device itself.

The PC has has no way to get those card details, only request a transaction and confirm a payment status as successful or failed.

kyelewis··on Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers
So, i was confused about this- the snippet that comes back, is it direct from another site or is it generated from the results?

I searched for "how to set up preact with vite", and I got a passage that sounded incredibly condescending, and half-way through it ignored the p in preact and started talking about react instead- but I was impressed that I couldn't work out if it was directly lifted from a stackoverflow reply, or it was generated in the style of one.

kyelewis··on Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023
Australia does have other examples of these systems though, like poli (https://www.polipayments.com/) which is commonly used by airlines to accept and prove direct deposit payments
kyelewis··on You are using a video conference application mostly developed by Chinese – Zoom
I’ve never had an issue with their MacOS app, what do you mean by “only.. legitimately support windows”?