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soziawa

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    Comment #40100315

    It is available for me in Switzerland. In fact, it's the number one app.

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    Comment #39590336

    The market share of iOS in the EU is only around 35% though. The market this is about isn't the market for music streaming apps but the market for iOS apps.

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    Comment #39571181

    > There are so many alternatives to Apple Photos, all with this handicap. Apple doesn't allow background execution for third party apps. Can't increase service revenue if you allow…

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    Comment #39027322

    In Switzerland the two major grocery stores have this system. You need to establish trust first, for the first few months you'll get more inspections. But I haven't been checked in…

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    Comment #39027251

    In Switzerland it's similar for one of the two major retailers. For the other one you can pay in the app without every going to a POS.

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    Comment #38097843

    Can you put linux on one of these without any issues?

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    Comment #37196958

    You can exclude certain playlists from the list of stuff that is considered when creating the recommendations. Tap the three dots on a playlist and tap "Exclude from taste profile"…

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    Comment #34721805

    It very much depends on the tags you use. Swift and iOS is absolutely abysmal and questions will be closed as duplicates of questions that have been irrelevant for years. Go and Ha…

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    Comment #33912825

    It also resets custom DNS settings for all networks.

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    Comment #33905095

    But most importantly the whole OS and all of the integrated apps do use pinning.

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    Comment #32775608

    > Someone replied to his tweet by saying he should let Apple know there is a problem. His response was, "I don’t get paid to do free QA." The reply says that he should file a radar…

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    Comment #32472668

    So that means for the duration of the attack active contacts and groups were exposed?

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    Comment #32472659

    Threema seems to manage just well. I guess payment is the natural limiter for spam there.

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    Comment #31640211

    > Terrible advice. If you want e2e you can choose to enable it. It is not enabled because many users choose to receive their messages across multiple personal devices simultaneousl…

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    Comment #31640198

    > Look no further than Signal's supboenas and how they respond to them. With all the information they hold about an account. Which is just the creation date and last connection dat…

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    Comment #29823361

    Only a few years ago the Norwegian army was played by their soldiers using Tinder ( https://old.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/9uos8g/norweigian_m... ) during a maneuver. This is a g…

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    Comment #28716136

    Session is a cool fork from Signal. They adress the two biggest privacy issues, push tokens and IP addresses. But I can't see it gaining too much main stream traction any time soon…

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    Comment #28716119

    It's actually forked from Signal.

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    Comment #28667378

    > Most people I know that started using Signal a few months ago are now back to using Whatsapp. Privacy is a nice feature to advertise, but when both your UX and your reliability s…

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    Comment #28259955

    This is based on pure speculation, but could it be that Apple believes the covid tracking functionality has shifted power from governments to Apple? Many governments (e.g. Germany)…

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    Comment #28219461

    > 6. Apple's CSAM detection then flags these, and they're manually reviewed Is the process actually documented anywhere? Afaik they are just saying that they are verifying a match.…

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    Comment #28127425

    There is some previous discussion about this regarding Facebook here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28119372 The false positive rate does not look great.

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    Comment #28127414

    > Hash collisions would not pass the human review. About the only consequence I can think of for hash collisions is that the person at Apple who performs the human review step has …