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Have you considered how much money you could loose to credit card chargebacks and similar fraud? How will you stop a flood of scammers trying to use your service to pay a 'freelanc…

"with the latest policy update in 2021, WhatsApp made data sharing with Meta mandatory for all users" "Given the network effects and lack of effective alternatives, the 2021 Update…

I think this would be better with a "How do I use this?" section at the top. Normal people are unaware that the person who wants to receive a file or message should be the one who …

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742556 On-device scanning of files is not "New Tech" This video is someone vaguely rambling about EU chat control.

DRM is "Direct Rendering Manager" KMS is "Kernal Mode Setting"

In Chrome browser on Windows and in Firefox and Chromium on Linux, the text on the /signup page is black. The background is black. That makes the text invisible.

The create-an-account pages have black text on a black background. The text and submit buttons are not visible unless you ctrl+a or drag-select.

It sometimes makes sense to made a distro that is specifically for new or unusual hardware. I point to Asahi Linux, supporting Apple computers based on their M1, M2 and M3 ARM cpus…

VOLMET radio transmissions, which are computer generated voices reading out weather information on shortwave frequencies are getting much less range than usual. Listening on some W…

This creates a booby trap for everyone who avoids using a Microsoft account to log on to their computer. If you use a local account and don't keep a backup of your bitlocker key th…

Debian stable, but my hardware is all old. Hardware that uses a new chip, such as some wifi devices released in the last couple of years, may require using a kernel from backports …

I like that Firefox still exists, despite the questionable management at Mozilla, and this is almost entirely funding it. At least some good comes from this.

Two weeks ago that website said that they are moving their office and lab from one US state to another: http://web.archive.org/web/20240406204554/https://www.greena... The website …

Windows file explorer parses files in the folder you are looking at. It does things like read jpg files to get the date that that a photograph was taken from the EXIF data, read em…

I prefer having a medium amount of RAM, 32GB, because I mainly run Linux with xwindow and many years ago I generally found that it handled out-of-memory condition very poorly. I do…

Perhaps search hnn for "cryptocat" which was an attempt to do e2e chat through a website a dozen years ago. It was somewhat controversial at the time. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cry…

Anyone doing that should be warned that it is not unusual for a new laptop to have the harddrive/SSD encrypted with bitlocker without any notification to the user. If you don't cre…

This reminds me of a thing from a few years ago, my vague memory is that it was by Travis Goodspeed. A smart TV would accept a firmware update from a file on a standard USB stick. …

https://xkcd.com/195/

A radio club in the Netherlands were able to receive it with their twenty five meter diameter dish. https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2024/uhf-signals-of-japanese-m...

Until about the year 1993, 3.5" disks were very reliable if you didn't abuse them. Around the early days of windows 3.11, someone figured out how to make cheaper 3.5" disks and put…

I think the number of UK people who are inconvenienced by not getting huge 5G speed is small. Two of the UK cellular networks are completely turning off 3G service over the next fe…

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quick-analysis-starlink-link-... I don't think that polarization makes any practical difference to how hazardous non-ionizing radiation is. Please sh…

The RF power from Starlink satellites that hits the outside of your body when you are outside is very very tiny. It is estimated at 0.000000294 watts per square meter. That amount …

Discussion at a slightly earlier post about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38808026