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Android user here, using SMS only for OTP and all my friends use WhatsApp. While I'd prefer something that's not Facebook owned, it's hard to see RCS ever becoming a better option,…

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IIUC, SHA-3 isn't actually better in any known way, it's just meant to be a vastly different algorithm so we'd have an alternative to the other ones.

IIRC "The Design of Everyday Things" makes a point that most devices have poorly explained errors (beeps, error codes etc) because nobody chooses what to buy based on how it acts w…

Do you believe Chrome should remove the developer tools to protect users from harming themselves? I mean, it's literally one key press away.

This repo explains some of the bluetooth headset issues on Linux: https://github.com/pali/hsphfpd-prototype > But because neither audio server is interested in implementing functio…

From the spec: > The email client strips out the text/x-amp-html part of the MIME tree when a user replies to or forwards an AMP email message. This is why it is important that an …

They can only hit a JSON endpoint in the same DNS zone (eTLD+1) as the sender's email, e.g. if the email is from sender@mail.example.com, it can only hit endpoints on example.com a…

The full list of supported AMP components is here: https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/amp...

Ads in Gmail are not related to your emails: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603

> Email is still an open platform Open in what sense? For example, there's no open standard (to the best of my knowledge) for the HTML used in emails right now and different email …

Emails only support a subset of AMP, so iframes and any form of JavaScript (other than the whitelisted AMP components) are not allowed.

> there's a technical commitee, but your input will not be heard. What makes you think input won't be heard?

I just disabled Windows Update completely (by disabling the service) after 3 such incidents. I'm aware it's a security risk, but I also keep nothing of value on that machine nowada…

She also sits in Alphabet's Board of Directors: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/board.html IIRC, she's been there since 2012. Her role in Google [Cloud] came much after.

With like 6 different apps, you can.

I actually had some trouble finding it, but I had strong memory of reading the answer to the wireless question in the past, since I wondered the same. Have you considered adding it…

Regardless of whether you like the keyboard or not (or have no opinion), I strongly recommend you check out their blog: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/blog They gave a very th…

According to Laci, power + modules made them decide not to go with wireless: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3tkyme/iama_lászló_mo...

I've been using it for a few months now. I didn't know how to touch-type before it arrived and I forced myself to learn. Without that, this keyboard is not very useful. That said, …

You can easily remap escape on the "Mouse" key (which is where Caps Lock is on most keyboards) using the agent software that comes with it.

Lots of people, myself included, received it. You can find some real photos if you search for the #GotMyUHK hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/GotMyUHK

I think what you're looking for, good as it sounds in theory, wouldn't work in practice. There are minimal frameworks, containing e.g. just a grid. People often use one of these an…

I agree, but where to draw the line? I don't use Facebook, but I use Messenger Lite. Am I a user of social media?