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> The signs also collect IP addresses. Uh, false? What IP address? This sentence is meaningless, users don’t connect to the sign, so there’s no IP to it. This article is just scare…

> in remote villages > the ease with which I was able to make payments I find it hard to believe that handing cash was "hard" in any way.

> there is free WiFi almost everywhere Unless you're one of those people who don't need internet to survive, then this is nonsense. Wifi is far from everywhere and I'm not going to…

Same. I described my dizziness and pointed me to BPPV and 4 others that were quickly filtered out. I also asked how to further diagnose the issue and pointed me to some maneuvers. …

> passively enforce speeding by using toll booth data Some EU countries do that on tollways but don't keep them always-on because they generate too many tickets to handle.

Idea: use a power bank that allows in/out at the same time. It should charge both at high speed while also acting as a firewall. This is also assuming that your powerbank can’t be …

If you can connect your turned off phone to your computer and start a reset, then that’s never going to be enough. If you want data safety, you must skip the data pins. If you want…

Indeed time to eliminate all those people I guess. /s I don’t think you can compare people’s carbon footprint because those people will exist regardless of jobs.

I think that’s a Safari bug with activeTab, you just have to click twice. Regardless, with activeTab you can just inject script into the page itself through which you can open a re…

Sounds like there should be a legally mandated escrow for this kind of hiring. The employer should guarantee 2/3 months of employment if they’re asking someone to move across the w…

I don’t see any changes on the repo. The permissions in your case should just be activeTab and storage. That’s it. You can run the extension via chrome.browserAction.onClick and it…

I assume that’s because a VPN doesn’t let the ISP do any traffic shaping, which isn’t the case for regular CDNs (unless the ISP itself “positively traffic shapes” for) Warp also re…

> GPS looks broken It’s a failure both on the app and Apple side to convey this information properly. Approximate location should be shown with a large circle and the user could be…

> Potentially Unless CloudFlare cables are somehow shinier than the rest of the internet’s, adding one hop almost certainly adds latency. More hops more time. In some instances whe…

And I love it, but it has two issues: - Apps can refuse to work with that, like Google Photos (it used to work during the beta and it was perfect for me) - Apps still offer their a…

With that logic you really shouldn't use your computer.

> For tax and reporting reasons alone, payments practically need to be bound to a given transaction/receipt number. Cash doesn't work like that, so some countries might not require…

Nope, same, they also have one-person street food vendors

file:// can access any file on your computer, out of the box. Localhost cannot (unless you set it up that way, which requires user action) That’s why.

I think people are generally concerned with “badly-designed” TVs and conflate “smart TV” with “bloated TV”. If Apple made an actual TV you bet nobody would bat an eye. In fact many…

Sounds like it’s VNC centered around a remote browser, that loads in your own browser. It has extra features and fewer limitations than a regular browser I suppose, but that’s what…

What's cheaper to program and produce: a speaker or a display and chip? I think that this device is super smart. It's a "cell phone" chip that "reads" the texts out loud when recei…

> it would never work Ask Thailand and their QR-code based payments, TrueMoney and "Thai QR", because that's exactly how they work. Maybe scammers are less prevalent in Thailand th…

If you think Alphabet is nearing “the end” I’m afraid you’re too deep into the AI bubble.

Same exact thought. Imagine dropping 50-100k on a car and getting a UI that looks like pre-alpha. I suppose car owners are used to junk UIs, but this feels like a polished turd.