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> It took a long time to realize that the most compelling devices have good, well maintained software. I continue to hold the view that Tesla's success is because they are really a…

My wish list: * HTTP/2 (3?) (on the roadmap) * a refresh of the dyno line-up - at least pass on some of the cost savings of removing/supporting free tier by reducing dyno pricing o…

>If you used your previous password on any other sites, we highly recommend you also change your password on those sites. This is the most concerning part of that email, as it impl…

Reading the other trending article on LAPSUS$ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30774406 ), access to Slack suits their MO perfectly in terms of mining it for data for more so…

> Support engineers use a number of customer support tools to get their job done including Okta’s instances of Jira, Slack, Splunk, RingCentral, and support tickets through Salesfo…

Exactly my point. However the European Commission has released "Approved" SCC's in June 2021. Does this case now invalidate those because "the DSB has rejected these measures as ab…

Has Google Analytics now adopted the latest European Commission approved SCCs ( https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/inte... ) and does that mean using GA with t…

My ideal goes further than that. All I want is a reasonable data plan with non extortionate roaming rates from my existing provider (phone service is not important to me these days…

I don't know the rollout process but perhaps it involves taking servers offline, putting more load on the still live unpatched servers, increasing the probability of the race condi…

My favourite use is turning them into coffee shops https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/lon...

My recent experience of trying to get DMARC set up. 1. Don't use strict (adkim=s; aspf=s) if you expect your emails to be forwarded ( https://www.dmarcanalyzer.com/forwarding-withi…

Scottish Mortgage (SMT) in the UK does this and has a stake in Stripe ( https://citywire.co.uk/investment-trust-insider/news/boost-f... )

Definitely. The EU had the same opportunity with BioNTech which was funded by Germany. But they allowed a partnership with Pfizer and now the US gets most of that production.

A lot of their problems seem to come down to the fact that they aren't experienced in vaccines so have made multiple missteps along the way because of that on the procedural side o…

The origin of the UKs priority access to the AZ vaccine was due to their early funding of the Oxford vaccine on condition of 1st priority. This was before AZ even got involved. In …

I just chose a random big user facing site and it has similar anti class action terms https://www.uber.com/legal/en/document/?name=general-terms-o...

Can anyone explain why Robinhood don’t appear to have an anti class action clause in their terms? E.g. like this one https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/cla...…

The killer feature for me which lead me to me switching away was Fitbit Pay. They just don't have the take up by banks that the competition (Apple and Samsung) have. Maybe that wou…

I don't want my TV to run any platform/OS that would be the main source of content. Mainly because when I buy a TV it generally lasts for 10 years or so. My current Sony TV (around…

"As of December 21, 2020, the Company holds an aggregate of approximately 70,470 bitcoins, which were acquired at an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1.125 billion" Curre…

I wonder if because the Oxford vaccine has taken an already tested and approved vaccine approach it has a higher chance of safety than the other 2 which use a new approach that has…

Moving your SSH port isn't really about security. It's about reducing noise in your logs from annoying port scanners constantly hitting common ports. Although that does then have t…

Dyndns to solve the static IP issue, and if not all ports are blocked setup WireGuard on an open port and connect via that. To be honest I prefer to not expose a lot of these home …