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My pet peeve: Samsung SmartThings app clocks in at 438Mb https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smartthings/id1222822904

So, Zaas?

> If a Google account invites you, the invite still lands in your old calendar for example - even if that's not where your domains MX records point.

Same thing happens with iCloud. Let’s say your iCloud account is ‘bob@example.com’ but that email (and preferred calendar) is hosted elsewhere. If someone using iCloud calendar sends bob@example.com a calendar invite, it will go you your iCloud calendar whether or not you want it to.

An earlier post shared this https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/ft15pk/use_perso...

Just noticed that the author of the article, Allison Robicelli, is the same Allison whose overnight O’Hare airport adventures went viral back in December. https://www.chicagotribune.com/people/ct-people-ord-ohare-be...

Sadly in the USA the prevalence of wireless cc terminals is amazingly low; even in restaurants you hardly ever see them, although this is getting by better, and (same hypothesis) would likely change if chip and pin was required here

Obligatory HN angle: I’ve often hypothesized that if credit cards in the US were chip and pin (like the rest of the world), NJ would support self serve in a microsecond. Eg no way would customers be comfortable handing their card over then shouting out their pin to rue attendant.

It’s not about jobs; it’s about entitlement. Some years back our governor at the time tried to change this and the vast vast majority of residents (not me) raised hell.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/nyregion/on-politics-outc...

Me, I’m too type A and impatient to wait for attendants and I wish we had self serve.

Not allowed to play this as I live in NJ. :)

Very hacky -- in both a good sense and a bad sense.

Seems like there are tons of SaaS & cloud service offerings which could be overloaded to do this. Eg, why not just use resource Tags in AWS? they are key/value pairs. Or, why not put your key-values in a json file and store them as a GitHub workflow artifact? etc......

From a few years back, but here's an example: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/jimmy-johns-drops-non-compet...

Agreed. I've been a happy Moneydance user for 10+ years.

While I'm a proponent of Open Source software, sometimes it's useful to spend a little to get fit, finish, and support.

[Microsoft employee here, speaking for myself]

>> I don't think azure-docs repo is the right place to ask for help/suggestions This is correct -- The azure docs repo feedback mechanism (using GitHub issues) is primarily for providing feedback on the documentation itself. We try to make this clear via the buttons on the bottom of the page; one is for 'Product Feedback' and the other is for 'Feedback about this page'. I would agree that the distinctions can be blurry, but I see the three categories as: - Product Support: I need help with a product - Product Feedback: Product A is missing feature B, and I want you to add it - Documentation Feedback: The documentation is unclear, has a typo, or the example provided no longer works

For Product support, your best bet is to go through the standard support channel. I'm sorry that you didn't get a better response when you tried contacting support. Do you have paid support? If you're a large customer, you may get a dedicated customer support account manager. Additionally, there are community forums including https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/topics/azure-contai... and https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-compute/bd-p/Co... , which can also be used to submit product feedback.

Right, I’m aware of ACT; I saw this tool whose description seemed more interesting than ACT, but as I posted, it’s been abandoned.

I fail to see the point of a curated-but-unmaintained list when you can just go to the GitHub actions marketplace, where at least there are community stars that let you know how popular a given action is.

Not sure how “curated” this list is. The first one that caught my eye (https://github.com/phishy/wflow) has a “this repo is archived” warning with no updates since 2019.

> How Microsoft could decide to have Bicep compile to ARM is beyond me

The reasoning is explained pretty well in the Bicep FAQ: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manage...

Or Azure Active Directory (AAD)

I realize it’s not exactly what you asked, but you could use a service like https://nip.io to map up addresses to hostnames.

While your point is valid regarding a crazy number of middlemen, I've also paid via the QR code on the receipt at a number of restaurants recently and I love it! No need to flag down a server when it's time to pay; I just scan it on my phone, click on apple pay, enter the tip, and I'm done!

IANAL, but your experience sounds like bait and switch, which IS considered deceptive advertising.

Shrug... so there's an 8 year old VBA bug? I'm sure there are old Windows/IOS/Android/MacOS/Ubuntu bugs that similarly have not been fixed.

Here's a 6 year old IOS bug that affects my old videos that's still around, despite being reported when it first cropped up: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7226531

Not sure why the article is HN newsworthy.... is the implication that because this is a "developer tooling" bug, it's somehow more important, or more likely to be fixed, than any other bug? IMHO, that's not a valid expectation.

The ui is no longer there, but there is indeed a wizard for yaml whereby you can select a task and have it generate the required yaml for you. The very cool thing is round tripping works as well.

That’s a pretty strong accusation to make. Do you have evidence?

Wirecutter says “our writers and editors are never made aware of or influenced by which companies have affiliate relationships with our business team.”

And elsewhere on the site: “The reputation of Wirecutter and its parent company, The New York Times, rests on our vigorous reporting, editorial integrity, and avoidance of actual or even perceived conflicts of interest.”

Are you saying this is a lie / outright deception?

And, fwiw, they indeed still review & recommend Anker changers; see this review where the #1 choice is currently an Anker model: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-multiport-us...

Yeah, the title uses the adjective incorrectly. It should be “… Alaska’s Cold-War era …l

My local Target has started carrying high(er) end coffee beans — Stumptown, Peets, Blue Bottle, Counter Culture, etc. Interestingly, these bags DO show a roasted date on them. When I eyeballed it, they were all about 5-6 weeks prior, so not straight from the roaster but not horribly old either.

Unfortunately, etcher has a long history of privacy violations which I find completely unacceptable (especially for an open source project!) https://forums.balena.io/t/serious-privacy-concerns-with-etc...

As in, even when I turned off 'report usage statistics', it kept making outbound network connections. That was it for me... trust lost; uninstalled immediately.

You can do this with the new version of Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-password-gener... And https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-s...

In what way? I’m a tile user and can’t say that I’ve found their app to be hostile.

iCloud Keychain is ‘good enough’ if you are 100% in the Apple ecosystem, but there’s a lot it could do better, including password sharing as well as password export. Most glaringly there’s no support for storing additional meta data alongside the password; eg all the made up answers to “what was the street you grew up on?”, etc