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Yeah, pointing to the problem is quite easier than figuring out a solution. As far as I'm concerned, I actually read the popups and having to click okay about five or six times in …

> The idea that ROMs from questionable sources make your device safer sounds very strange to me. It's about owning your hardware, not safety. A person that's willing to go through …

As with any Apple product ever, this is not a "completely new tech product". This is a long established market that Apple believes they can do better than everyone else. For an exo…

It's literally mentioned and linked to in the first paragraph.

Predictable audience? Absolutely not. It's easy for a story or two to go viral (as in, slightly easier than on other platforms). What's not easy is to retain that viewership. Simil…

In any case, thanks for mentioning it. Thoroughly enjoyed Story of Your Life and Others and had no idea he released a second short story collection a few months ago. It's going str…

> and no, sending a reset command via apps is not feasible (what if you've lost the account password and you've accidentally paired it to your neighbours wifi?) Hubs save all the p…

I couldn't agree more. I can't help but feel like the Venn's diagram between people who suggest "move to a more rural area" and people who never lived in a rural area for a prolong…

The answer is so simple it's brilliant: you need a permission from the local police in order to organize a protest on a specific location at a specific time. In most of the cases, …

Almost as if that was the point of me including the words "but its price is not publicly available" in my comment.

GitHub does offer self-hostable enterprise edition, but its price is not publicly available.

I have never touched their air purifier, but I did three other gadgets (TV box, some indoor camera, some light bulbs). If privacy is your concern, I wouldn't recommend them. If sta…

I don't drink much, but a $5 wrench would probably work on me.

Did you add any friends lately? Do you know those "greetings" that Facebook pushes into Messenger whenever you add a new friend on Facebook? I've recently noticed on my SO's phone …

Yeah, it's just the title. I was on top for like 16h or so because I had a catchy title and some way of supporting that title within the content. Comments were far different. Almos…

Where did I claim it's the only thing needed to stop a person like that? You gotta start somewhere. This is a nice and easy way to do that's completely within the reach of the tech…

Maybe to you and me, but we're not its target audience. Its target audience is other 8chan users, some of which might be just a step away from committing such atrocities themselves…

Yeah, I agree with the other comment. > "For us, in order to be able to cover our server costs, we ask our users to contribute a tiny amount if they find the app useful. Donate to …

That's just shifting the problem one inconvenience further. How do you purchase cryptocurrencies without Visa/MasterCard/PayPal?

> A public blockchain is a mere write only database Precisely. It does nothing to address who can write to it. Ideally, it should be people who are eligible to vote (citizens of th…

The problem is that they'd require a payment method to rent the server somewhere else or to use a non-US company that doesn't offer a generous free plan. The most prominent payment…

You mean like this one? https://www2.meethue.com/en-us/support/dimmer-switch I know about it. I have it. I've used it as a trigger before. I've replaced it with NFCs because they a…

You'd think so, but NFCs are far easier to program and re-program. One of the NFC tags on my work desk triggers "focus mode". Lights change to bright white, a (non-local) radio sta…

Countries don't have direct representation, political blocs do. Each country picks its own members (at minimum, six of them in the European Parliament), those members congregate in…

It's almost as if the EU has 28 members, none of which should have an authoritative say in any of the things the bloc does. Want something changed? Build a support within a bloc. D…