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plttnon Windows gets a new terminal

That's not too bad, considering the primary use of a better terminal would be for WSL use. Can we expect the stable app to launch at the same time as weeklies/nightlies, or will there be a delay?

plttnon Windows gets a new terminal

I think what he's asking is when we download Terminal, will Powershell or WSL just launch Terminal when invoked rather than conhost?

Also, how stable/unstable will the preview be?

plttnon Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials

https://twitter.com/bad_packets/status/1124429828680085504

Looks like someone was scraping for `.git/config`

plttnon Cops can force your finger onto an iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge

On Pixels at least there's an optional lockdown button in the power menu. Disables all biometrics/smart lock, hides all notifications on lock screen, and more importantly doesn't say anything like "locked manually".

plttnon Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]

You're putting the cart before the horse on the heated seat argument though. It's cheaper to have one factory line for the seats. Ideally you would pay the same price for the car without heated seats whether or not the hardware was physically there.

It's the same thing they ran into with the software locked batteries. The goal is to have minimal overhead to try to drive costs down on Model 3, and making the SR just a software limited version of SR+ actually ends up pushing the overall cost down, rather than having to set up an entirely different line that does the cloth seats and the aluminum roof.

plttnon Smoke seen for miles as SpaceX Crew Dragon suffers anomaly at Cape Canaveral

Generally anomaly when referring to rocket test fires/launches is an unplanned/unexpected big boom of something that isn't supposed to go boom.

plttnon IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery

Given the context of that scene, it was more an indication of how much characters A and B had been affected by the situation.

plttnon Arabsat-6A mission [video]

Yup!

One is from the engine bell, one from the widest part of the body by the landing legs, and the third is the grid fins.

plttnon Your Android Phone Is a Security Key

Hey, thanks so much!

plttnon Your Android Phone Is a Security Key

As there's very little documentation on this right now: couple of related questions (feel free to ignore them I don't want to guilt you into it)

1. It doesn't seem to be using the Titan M flow on my Pixel 3 currently

2. After reinstalling GMS on my phone to try and get the Titan M working, it stayed registered as a key, but the prompt never shows up on my device.

I guess this is more of a "flag for internal review" vs a "please provide me with answers".

plttnon Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm

It's a corp machine, and we're the IT department, and my boss has already said that if it happens for a third time, he's going to tell our rep to swap it out for an 18 SKU with the butterfly v3.

My understanding is that the best they can upgrade you to is if you're on the v1 keyboard is the v2, as the battery shaping on the v3 bottom case doesn't align with the 2017 logic board, so they can't actually upgrade you to the keyboard with the rubber crumb condom.

plttnon Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm

I don't have the patience to go through that, especially considering I had my keyboard swapped last week and keys are already behaving differently again, and I've got a new Genius appointment for tomorrow.

plttnon W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins

Yes. Multiple U2F devices are possible. I have 2 yubikeys connected as well as the Google prompt.

plttnon Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline

Simple (https://www.simple.com/) might be the closest to this in the US.

It doesn't have no fee foreign exchanges, no rounding up, but does basically everything else there.

plttnon Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens

I'm 95% sure that URL is safe.

plttnon Show HN: Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look

Gmail now has snoozing, you could probably use stars and filters to get 95% of the way to pinning.

plttnon Show HN: Hallo.business Business phone for 21st century

I'm curious enough to ask (and I don't mean to sound snarky with this), but what's the value proposition?

If I'm a customer, what benefit do I gain from this? Phone numbers are easily recognizable and they're already in use. I'm going to have to fight with an IVR either way, and I can Google the number.

If I'm a business, I'm trusting a third party with my IVR to not disappear after 3 months of not making money, my agents aren't really seeing any improvement in customer connection (either through inhouse IVR or hallo, by the time the customer gets to me they should be at the right department). So how do I gain anything as a business by pushing my IVR to you?

plttnon Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parking Minimums

Considering that a local government can't just spend the money allocated to "national defense" even if they wanted to, I'd consider that a pretty tenuous argument to make.

plttnon Why I’m done with Chrome

Yes, this pauses sync when you sign out of Gmail.

plttnon Basic security precautions for non-profits and journalists (2017)

Buy a Pixel, set a secure passcode. There you go.

plttnon Google is discontinuing Inbox

The only source I can find is Verge quoting an anonymous PR person for background. https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17848500/google-inbox-shu...

plttnon Google is discontinuing Inbox

Yes. Gmail got Smart Reply, snoozing. Bundles are coming soon, and Smart Compose built on Smart Reply.

plttnon Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates

You can imagine how ridiculous this sounds right? If Google had blacklisted these certs in April as you claim, would that have not been a massive shitshow for everyone involved, and would have been on the top of HN?

plttnon Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates

Your anecdotal evidence doesn't prove they didn't respect it. I was just able to load PayPal with a Symantec cert on Chrome 69 on Android, which I realize is dueling anecdotes, but I'm just reinforcing the status quo, you're the one making a bold claim.

plttnon Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (2015)

But the gauge cluster screen is connected to the infotainment system.

plttnon Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port

My assumption is that if Google (which deploys the Yubikey Nano across their employees) is willing to make the leap that there'd be no way to trigger the button press via USB, then assuming Tomu has done their due diligence, it's impossible to do so on here.

plttnon ‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200M Game

They are though. You can go from flying a spaceship, land, get out, shoot some friends, get back in a spaceship and fly away. The module concept hasn't really been a thing for a while.

plttnon Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU decision

To be clear: when they say paid, it would be a license to install Android as the OEM, not the end user directly paying for Android.

plttnon Building the Google Photos Web UI

I've got 30GB+ of photos/videos in my Google Photos (unclear count due to Pixel free upload). I launch Google Photos, I see the most recent photos. I scrub down to 2011, there's the photos in 2011. It doesn't try to load the entire library in one go.

plttnon Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

If I use an adblock on desktop platforms, have YouTube premium to block ads, do I really have attention being focused on ads more than a passing glance as I scroll through the internet on my phone?