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Comment #30633831
There's no reason to believe these are a bad idea beyond lowering entry cost to GPS trackers. It seems like there's a bug going on here - otherwise everyone would have the same iss…
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Comment #30633808
They use the same system
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Comment #30305516
does this distinction matter at all, in any way to the point they were trying to get across?
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Comment #30107072
It appears when you get the first alert - click to silence it, and choose "indefinitely." That option only appears for Family devices.
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Comment #30025304
If you're in the same family account there's a button to turn off those alerts. It worked for my family.
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Comment #29922172
There are projects, like for Node there's a dotenv package, that can load these files. If I have multiple machines, I manually sync them since that's usually the easiest way to man…
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Comment #29895677
Credentials/tokens go in environment variables. For development, the convention is to make a `.env` file that's in `.gitignore` and load it into your environment variables. In depl…
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Comment #29452564
Low power mode doesn't affect autoplay for me in Safari
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Comment #29395817
Yes, at least in Safari on iOS. If you properly mark it muted it will autoplay when asked. I believe the user can change the setting to "Never Autoplay" instead of "Stop Media with…
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Comment #29249045
Yeah, that app store stack icon is a little funky. It's meant to represent a stack of apps - which that bar is, an app launcher for within messages.
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Comment #29241797
Apple's view provides a photo library icon and shows as a half-screen popover unless the user starts scrolling, keeping context.
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Comment #29230112
Correct
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Comment #29230110
Hmm, that page says WebRTC is disabled but I can use Google Meet (which I thought used WebRTC) without any issue https://i.imgur.com/b1NPYmr.png
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Comment #29228040
How does WebRTC reveal my IP address in a way that regular browsing does not? Can you point me to a site to see what is being leaked?
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Comment #29228022
Well given that this uses WebRTC, not surprising
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Comment #28869826
You can't open a bank account with just a VPN. You also need an address in the US. And even if you do, how do you get money into that account? Do you think your employer in the Net…
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Comment #28869800
>If you are a “US Person” you may find it impossible to invest, or deal with certain financial institutions and products at all. That's literally taxes and paperwork... indirectly,…
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Comment #28869788
Paying $1,000 a year to file a form that says you don't owe taxes doesn't seem like a problem to you?
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Comment #28686205
You could ask the same about Apple Pay: "Is the end Goal to make Apple Pay the only payment method supported on the internet and kill credit card numbers" Not only is there nothing…
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Comment #28595234
The point of the priority system is that it isn't based on what you're doing ("camping") but instead on the actual network conditions. If Starlink is ranked above 5G, then it'll ne…
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Comment #28487206
The other thing is that travel planning is flexible and uncertain. Computers are inherently specific. Creating a program that doesn't interfere with this "maybe we'll do this, and …
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Comment #28450171
Oh I hate Google as much as the next guy, but that's not something they've shown any interest in doing.
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Comment #28396738
> rather ineffective against Delta I mean, this isn't true... less effective, sure. But it's not ineffective by any measure.
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Comment #28080481
That sentence is wrong. It simply isn't accurate of the current system. It relies on future changes to the system, not just changes to a database. The iMessage feature is not a dat…
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Comment #28079797
If you read the article, you'd understand that among ALL the issues, this is not one: - Photos scanning in Messages is on-device only (no reporting to govt.) and doesn't turn on un…