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kevinslashslash

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    Comment #32904621

    It's just the iPad doesn't have a default calculator app https://www.howtogeek.com/820792/where-is-the-calculator-app...

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    Comment #31114240

    > deny access to the App store if using the permission if you want, I don't care, as long as there is an option to do it for power user. That's what the article is about. It's a po…

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    Comment #30409828

    > The greatest scam of Google and Apple is convincing millions of developers to learn Swift and Kotlin to make apps on their stores that can be swiftly (pun intended) removed from …

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    Comment #29801746

    Ironically, when testing an example Google search from this thread, this thread came up. So HN doesn't block Google completely, but maybe has poor SEO so it rarely shows. 4th resul…

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    Comment #29732804

    The original response was essentially blaming affected users, saying it was credential stuffing. Now they changed their story. If there is any credibility to the credential stuffin…

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    LastPass Login Attempted Activity Blocked – More Information

    Just got this email from LastPass. I'm not satisfied with their explanation though. As part of our ongoing commitment to security, we regularly monitor our services for actual, sus…

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    Comment #29720826

    I'm one of the people that replied yesterday. I haven't used LastPass since, at the latest, 2017. I had actually deleted all my passwords from my LastPass vault, but originally kep…

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    Comment #29710051

    I got the "Someone just used your master password" email too Time Monday, December 27, 2021 at 3:05 PM EST Location São Paulo, SP 01323, BRAZIL IP address 160.116.190.69 I haven't …

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    Comment #28318765

    Excellent comment. For "constructive separation", if giving him benefit of the doubt, the relevant employment term seems to be Constructive Dismissal (or discharge or termination).…

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    Comment #26461886

    There is an about:config setting called privacy.resistFingerprinting that does a handful of things, I believe including canvas fingerprinting. It also disables site specific zoom t…

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    Comment #22241761

    The non-nightly Firefox Preview for Android doesn't support add-ons. I imagine the title is just to emphasis that add-ons such as uBlock Origin work with this nightly.

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    Comment #21609210

    And Apple bought NeXT which is what macOS and iOS are based off of. A purity contest of "from scratch" isn't really relevant. Google clearly put, and continues to put, a lot of ser…

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    Comment #21401806

    Well yes but also they forgot about gmail. It requires @google.com not @gmail.com

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    Comment #20802756

    Because "red curry with tofu" is just called "red curry with tofu", not "vegan red curry with tofu". Same with chana masala, hummus and veggie sandwich, pasta marinara, etc. But a …

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    Comment #20771977

    I had a similar experience. A friend gave me a free shell account so I built a little battle.net chat bot in Perl. Later I branched out into AIM bots, one had jokes/fortune but als…

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    Comment #20771921

    I remember sending people a link to change their buddy icon

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    Comment #20303999

    Not OP, but I believe he's talking about how the iPhone's large notch size is due to additional hardware used by face id. Having that size notch on the left/right side wouldn't be …

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    Comment #20088101

    Gingerbread, Android 2.3, was released December 2010 for phones. Honeycomb, Android 3.0, was released Feb 2011 for tablets. It was a radical new UI and introduced several new APIs.…

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    Comment #19607917

    It's a fork of https://github.com/impallari/Libre-Franklin so it'd be a bit against the spirit of things (if even legally permitted) to relicense it to a non-free license. It'd als…

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    Comment #18859820

    Why don't animal eaters want to eat something that looks like an animal? Meat does not get a monopoly on being a blob of brown stuff

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    Comment #17520925

    I really hope they change the name. Chicago already has a loop affectionally called "The Loop". This Boring system is really point to point anyway, it's just the skates don't stop …

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    Comment #17487978

    Veal is a byproduct of dairy

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    Comment #17464834

    My guesses would be handling unsigned hex https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-4749 And bitwise operations https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/when-does-bit-fiddling-come... And ma…

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    Comment #17286033

    > produced by females of various mammalian species only. Like coconuts

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    Comment #17198454

    https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?visit_id=...