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Link shortening makes it easier to brute force. Shortened links become trackable by a third-party (less secure), obfuscate the real URL (less secure), and can be brute forced easie…

Sony does not make it's own display panels. They have been buying LCD panels from Samsung of South Korea in a joint venture: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4344101&page…

A Linux niche I have had success selling is "privacy". The Linux crowd, especially decision makers in businesses that run Linux somewhere, are very privacy aware. It's a good diffe…

Starting today at 9:00am PDT and through May 7, .app domains are available to register as part of our Early Access Program, where, for an additional fee, you can secure your desire…

If they are perceived to break American copyright law

Google will keep distrusting your certs. Forcing you to reissue every couple of weeks.

Non power users might have trouble using IRC with the usual clients (mIRC/irssi/bitchx). I've never used Slack but these name drops are all familiar. Back in the good 'oldays of Eg…

Well email is due for a comeback.

Dropbox mentions Microsoft, Google and Apple as competition, because for these companies, file synchronization is just another feature (not a product). Steve Jobs said it himself: …

So, between the two of us, we've now come up with a number of competitors working on similar products that include E2E encryption. We both agree that these competitors still have w…

> Curious, which competition? I clearly outlined many competitors similar to Dbox that offer end-to-end encryption: (SpiderOak, Tresorit, Sync.com, pCloud). NextCloud (open source …

The risk factors fail to mention their inability to offer any kind of end-to-end encryption. Or that E2E encryption is the differentiator that most of their competitors offer. Drop…

I wonder if Bitcoin has more utility (potential) compared to gold though? For example, if you purchase SaaS products with Bitcoin, you don't need to trust that the service provider…

Try Firefox Focus.

The touch bar will evolve into a touch screen keyboard.

As an illustrator I dabbled with the iPad Pro when it first launched. Pencil was great, but lack of RAM was really noticeable when adding layers on a high resolution sketch in the …

I care. My first car was a 1989 VW Golf GTI. Loved it. Second car was a Golf GL. Third car was a Jetta TDI. Ran all these cars close to 400K KM. Always loved the fact that VWs are …

Product innovation doesn't always have to be a new feature, or a paradigm "shift" with new technology like AR. Smartphones could be due for a substantial reduction in price (there'…

"Serverless" So is this 100% client-side, or is there a (server) dependency?

Is there a Licecap equivalent for Android mobile?

We've got a bunch of Win 8 computers at work, but we missed the free upgrade. So were stuck. Would be nice to get the free upgrade back.

A third of cigarettes sold in Ontario are contraband, study suggests: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/01/23/a-third-of-ci...

It's an operating theatre though. These and other features may require our systems to access, store and scan Your Stuff. You give us permission to do those things, and this permiss…

Wasn't Steve Jobs biological father a Syrian Immigrant or Refugee?

This. It may take a couple more decades but it really does feel like today's Programmer will become yesteryear's factory worker. A large chunk of what we're building is rebuilds, o…