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> Google employs _engineers_ to figure out the truth. and people say hacker news has no sense of humour

> Can't imagine using MTG to learn a language. Note that he's starting from N2 Japanese, which is already a high level of Japanese proficiency (although it does not test writing/sp…

No, it's an affectation.

Both of these only apply for US citizens or permanent residents so no, it's not just about paying some amount of money to avoid the theatre.

This site works fine in safari/mobile safari, it is not ‘chromium only’

> if I turn off Lock Screen notifications and turn on time sensitive notifications then will I get no marketing notifications, and only notifications about my driver turning up? It…

> Something that isn't talked much about IPv6 and I believe has subtle and indirect influence on it's adoption is that it is far far far less human-readable than IPv4 What? This co…

You can still backup iPhones to your desktop instead of iCloud. At least for now.

Here's exactly what it means: Someone at Facebook, when creating the listing for the Threads app on the appstore, told Apple that the app might possibly collect Health data (etc). …

This link says absolutely nothing about Flutter usage. It's about apps that are already written in native iOS code, which are currently using custom Material Design components (whi…

i don't find it too compelling, but this test could potentially help you understand, to some degree, how important battery consumption of an app actually is to users. so you run a …

I’ve seen arguments that dark mode is important for accessibility, which seems reasonable to me, and depending on the company might be a dealbreaker.

I've mentioned this in another comment but: this update will permanently disable any 32 bit iOS apps you have on your device with no recourse or downgrade possible. So, reason not …

This upgrade will break any 32 bit iOS apps you might have on your device, and you have absolutely no recourse and downgrading is not permitted. I've lost access to several _paid_ …

> GP’s question was whether the app will still save your queries and submit them once a connection becomes available just to scratch that data collection itch. disclaimer: googler …

> It turns out that there is no way to sign into the Google Keep app without also signing into Google in Safari! If you're wondering why you're getting downvoted it's because this …

There's one major reason to care - the AppStore has a threshold (200MB i think) over which it will warn users about the app's size if they are on cellular connection (IIRC it used …

The ars technica article about this has some additional info from the hacker about sony not really being able to do this: "CTurt stressed to Ars that it would be nearly impossible …

> Apple Arcade is a good example of this. With the subscription, they have a bunch of games which used to be gem games, but had that part of the monetization removed. And all of th…

This is iOS, right now, and that's a fairly substantial number of users. It's not ideal but we also aren't hearing regular reports of iOS users being compromised en masse despite t…

No it isn't. It's a bug that web browsers had FTP support in the first place - that's the job of FTP clients , browsers should just be handing off the link to one of them. cf the '…

Yes, the blogpost (and most of the HN comments here) are completely missing the point. This is just about deprecating a library for implementing material design on iOS, not depreca…

Nope. You can see a preview of what Jeff's talking about with iOS Chrome, which has already done its own iOS-ification (de-materialization?) Also, the existing MDC components are a…

> You can avoid that with precheck. No I can't, I was born in the wrong country and therefore may never be trusted enough to fly unmolested in America.