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Neat! I have wondered how much of a foothold "retrograde" tech will take in the next 10-20 years. Decision fatigue, nostalgia, attenuation — call it what you will. At some level we…

My 6yo has an iPhone which arrived OOTB with a News widget, accessible by a single swipe, including similar "breaking" content. No sign-in required. Just an internet connection. Wh…

Convey a singular point with intent. Below is first paragraph rewritten. Just my 2¢. --- Essays should be persuasive. But we can aim for something more ambitious: that an essay sho…

Anecdotal: was setting up some Hisense TVs at work the other day and the unit came up with a message that "all Network features" would be disabled if you declined the EULA. Immedia…

Dipping into whimsical analogies: this is a digital abattoir where the meat = content. Now, as before, no-one wants to see how the sausage gets made. Especially those selling it. C…

Also have a professional proofread your posts. 'Around the bend' is not the connotation you were looking for.

Just static route Google DNS back to your gateway. Works fine for me. As others have said though, who buys a Google device thinking it's not gonna talk to Google?

Ironic that participants were initially contacted via FB ads. In light of the recent "Research" app disclosure, and that in both cases a fee was paid for participation, it makes me…

Every now and then I rise above the temporal miasma of popular web culture and think: why is this surprising? BBS, AOL, Netscape, MySpace, Tumblr, FB, Insta, Snap... Why are we sur…

Honest feedback: I don't see how this succeeds without integration with existing applicant workflows. The cognitive overhead of another app to store data, manually update status et…

Unfortunately, in the Enterprise space, this setup is likely to be a zero sum game, as the challenge email would get dinged 90% of the time for spammy wording like "quarantine" and…

No. This won't fix anything. It is flying in the face of social norms and basic, narcissistic inclination. What is verboten will become desirable, and circumvention will be lauded …

Working in this space, I'm convinced that email will eventually evolve from a default "blacklist" model to "whitelist" in the next 3-5 years. There's simply too many bad actors and…

It surprises me in a way that "big internet" (AT&T, Verizon, Comcast etc) and associated large enterprise interests have not been more staunch proponents of IPv6, at least for fixe…

While this sentiment is applicable (and agreeable) now, I can't help but think it is a little short-sighted. Can we really say will do or not do 'X', or has some immutable policy '…

> There’s an alternative to the Play Store for Android. F-Droid is an open source app “store” (repository would be a better term here) which only includes open source apps (which S…

> In other words my current smartphone will be unsafe for everyday use after September 2018, but it may have some life left in it by protecting its operating system with some netwo…

I spend a fair amount of time on HN. Among many, I think this article is probably the most succinct endictment of ADHD-ridden "modern" web programming/ecosystem practices I've read…

I work in a role where a bunch of Huawei devices have been deployed to non-technical end users for a particular business purpose (against my advice). This doesn't surprise me in th…

If they get you using an app that evades in-browser ad, tracking blockers etc... so $$ is the primary reason, basically

How visible is that issue though? How likely to be digested by the masses? "Tech company takes money and screws over customers" is a headline that writes itself.

In the next installment of "How To Make A Successful Exit While Not Give A Flying Füçk About Your Existing Customer Base Or Industry Rep. That Got You There 101" Is anyone else as …

It occurred to me recently that successful startups are essentially the winners in a predictive wager on our near-term future. So: where will tech be 10 years from now? What were t…

Try this: http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/caffeine/ Use it all the time when working from home/moving around and I don’t want my laptop to lock every 15.

I completely agree. I do find it interesting though, as someone who through work has deployed a lot of cell phones for field ops - the situation seems to be kind of, sort of gettin…