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ajscanlan

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    Comment #41005091

    it would be crazy not to at least investigate migration paths away from Crowdstrike, or better redundancies for yourself

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    Comment #41005023

    valuable 2 cents is there any writeups from the pentesting side of things that we can read to learn more?

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    Comment #22503636

    If the app doesn't ask, they can't send them. They're opt-in.

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    Comment #22502258

    Notifications are blocked by default.

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    Comment #22502237

    If you had the option to block the marketing notifications but still receive the important ones, would you do that?

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    Comment #22502228

    Yeah this works really well on Android, I'm surprised Apple hasn't taken a similar approach. You don't want ads from Uber but still want a push when your ride arrives? Just block t…

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    Comment #22474440

    The apps don't have permission to do that either unless you grant them.

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    Comment #22441797

    On Android it does.

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    Comment #22441703

    I found this, not sure how reliable it is but it mentions a photographer being extorted $350. https://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag05/may_05/webspecs/...

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    Comment #22318164

    > a) you speak something roughly approaching English Whoa there, down with that sort of stuff now friend. That's not a nice thing to say.

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    Comment #22297392

    > That person is currently in prison. But isn't Anne Sacoolas walking free? You haven't "basically gone through this", since person that killed your sister was held accountable for…

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    Comment #22200437

    What kind of music are you looking for?

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    Comment #22170782

    If the iPad was a standalone business, and had no access to the Apple ecosystem or brand, do you think it would still generate ~$20B/year? Obviously we can't know, but the point is…

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    Comment #22066389

    I believe that's the Barnum effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

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    Comment #22054546

    > Apple makes no distinction between companies on it's platform that compete with it and those that do not, they are all treated the same, so it's hard to see an argument that this…

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    Comment #21663364

    > And as for the organs, much of the west ( especially in europe ) take people's organs without their explicit consent (it's called opt-out organ "donation". I feel like equating t…

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    Comment #21605796

    > There are objectively right and wrong answers in politics. What would be considered objectively right or wrong?

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    Comment #21592867

    > And oh boy, did they ever. I cannot wait until the MBP 2025 with the whole keyboard replaced by the touchbar.. Who needs tactile feedback?

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    Comment #21592749

    `CMD + Shift + F` applies formatting. Unfortunately it must be done every time, no autoformatting by default it seems.

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    Comment #21407176

    >It’s easier to make vague funny one liners which reach the top of the page, drowning out that 8 page report on the telecom industry. >Bashing a political candidate? Channel crushe…

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    Comment #21343223

    > which we know from statistics What statistics?

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    Comment #21334543

    Why do you not see mobile the same as general purpose computer? What's the difference besides form factor?

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    Comment #21334470

    What apps do this? How do they distribute on iOS without the App Store?

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    Comment #21334393

    None of which you can opt out of. I'd happily host my own apps and pay the hosting/bandwidth than pay the $99 a year for Apple Developer Account + 30% of all sales. But Apple won't…