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Remembering back to when I was a kid, Scratch was absolutely fantastic, and definitely helped me put me on the path I am today. Fantastic work. With that said (and apologies on usi…

As someone sitting kinda on the outside of fintech/finance, it just feels like there's a lot less value add and market oversaturation these days from "hipster app with Bancorp acco…

CoD games do use different apps. Steam has apps, packages, and depots. Package: the store page, the actual entitlement purchase App: the entries that show up in the steam library D…

They're just spongebob texting "gamer".

My unfounded speculation is that the 3060Ti limiter (which was mostly bypassed due to an accidental leak of dev drivers) acted as a bit of a test balloon to see how it would be att…

The Pentel Energel mentioned upthread is also pretty good at not smudging.

The authentication method is knowing how to fly said plane and getting in said plane in the first place. The planes that are relatively accessible aren't flightworthy without effor…

Because it's a group MMS instead of a group iMessage, it falls back to sending those as messages instead of sending them as metadata.

It's definitely doable. Dolby Axon (which shut down a few years ago) had positional voice chat.

Yeah, they're all covered with safety covers to avoid bumping.

But imagine telling your licensor "hey we had to put a warning that says players may see inappropriate body parts made out of Lego brand bricks". That would go over like a lead bal…

1: it wasn't a backdoor 2: it wasn't a backdoor

Yes and no. Yes, it puts 1Password as the only point of failure iff 1Password security is compromised. This would require knowing my Master Password, my Secret Key, and 2FA with ei…

It's just using the accessibility privileges to look at the contents of the screen like a screen reader would, and copy the shown code. This isn't quite as advanced as "stealing yo…

That’s what nextDNS offers (basically pihole in the cloud). And that only works by hitting a specific subdomain or endpoint on nextdns.io. If you’re hitting cloudflare, it’s just h…

I'm actually curious on this: how broad is the coverage on say computers? This is HN, so would say a home server be covered?

I think the implication is that an unlinked and appropriately aged Github/HN account can be compromised to get 20 bucks by compromising and linking. I'm sure if someone actually re…

The compatibility definition document for Android gets it pretty secure, but realistically the only secure Android devices are Pixels in my opinion.

In that case, I'm going to hazard a guess that your iCloud email address was actually compromised, and is being used to send it to every address in your contacts.

It's the problem with leaning into a niche viewpoint. You have to continue to lean harder and harder into that viewpoint as the times change in order to keep the people who also be…

I think it's one of those situations where he has the ability to wax poetic from his ivory tower simply because he doesn't have to exist in the real world in terms of technology. I…

Bad idea in search of good idea, start with power, some sort of bumper car style power distribution system. You could do something similar to the newer floor pick up system, where …

Honestly, I just prefer the days when he talked through repairing a computer, and wasn't standing on a soapbox while he did it. It was really relaxing and interesting to watch, but…

iMessage doesn't even warrant a dialog in OOBE on iPhone IIRC. Not sure what pop-up you're talking about then.

I've also had decent luck on Craigslist. (ymmv, my Craigslist is close enough to SV where the availability is there)