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> Why do I never hear about this ‘feature’ from American products like gmail which 99% of the HN audience is using? Isn’t USA a member of Five Eyes? There is lot of hate toward Goo…

This. I would have loved if this original u2f existed. Google has even removed this from their accounts.

For ages I am using Chrome password manager. Made my life easy - especially passkeys are sync-ed across devices. (For this discussion, I would temporarily skip the privacy or do-no…

do the meta employees that code these stuff also get tracked?

Agree... There should be some penalty to sites that want to show off their reports only to people with high end devices...

they do. You do lose 2FA with shattered screen. Android phone can be used without google account (I do it). You cant even use Apple iPhone without.

Have you tried configuring secure boot - with - every single protection on Ubuntu /any distro? Just google: Mathew Garrett On The State Of Boot Security implement everything and co…

No. They have more in common. I would assume this is an internal joint project.

People can install Google Services in them. Once you sign into google account then you self-certify the device. https://www.google.com/android/uncertified/?pli=1

Often people get emotional and try to baby sit (new and users that don't want to learn basics). Having a disjoint but strict, timely, disinterested connection with support forums i…

Wait few hours. Some CTO or PR guru will post a message here. - We are totally revamping our processes. This never happened out of incompetence. Humans make mistakes. We are contac…

Those working in Google (AOSP) that write these code should be ashamed of themselves. Eventually they are doing a bad thing for the society.

Then ask all the billionares or people like you to give jobs/salaries/allowances/holidays at SV level to everyone in the world. Lets all build yachts. I am happy to get that level …

Once you do illegal then that is a different issue. Even if your company does such stuff... the number of cameras per street is far fewer then one sees in the UK or USA.

The logic of putting roof over the head is a point that is too broadly used is not at all valid for things like tailscale as... eventually most businesses at that level (tailscale …

All over Europe is generalisation. At least in France, Germany, Switzerland it is too much pain and paperwork to get any camera installed. If you are worried about chinese then ser…

> Screens are getting bigger and bigger, yet they make things smaller and harder to click on. Totally true. I have some some UX designers daily driving 4k monitors with 2k resoluti…

if you search NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture you see how often this feature gets broken and type some other flag or install 3rd party app.

I wish this executive (author of that post) https://xcancel.com/laparisa?lang=en will show their browser in REAL LIFE everyday use. Really do they use it?

> people have access to old computers from ewaste imports at a reasonable price, Are you joking? One can get super good condition Dell latitudes with 8th gen Intel with 8GB RAM and…

Please delete my account. Thanks

- How different is this from Fedora BlueFin or silverblue? - it looks like they want to build a ChromeOS without Google.

For all those people saying negative please see all the comments when RedHat was acquired by IBM (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884 - Linux is better now - Nothin…

See this: THE SUPREME COURT: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-…

The only thing I worry is DJT will ask Google Apple Amazon etc to impose a 10 % fee on sale in Rest of world to fund his bank accounts. In a sense I am happy. All empires decline. …