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The picture metadata exploit is interesting. It would be trivial to guess the user's home and work location given enough photos with EXIF data (locations and timestamps).

I'm curious how this works on iOS. Granting complete access to "Photos" always seemed overly broad. It should be possible to limit an app to only save images, and/or limit accessing images to photos from the last 3 days etc, or only the images the app has created.

Allowing an app to grab literally years of time and location information (via photo EXIF data) just to do something as simple as saving a filtered picture or opening a screenshot seems bad.

But as someone who loves metadata, I'd can't see myself disabling it altogether. Does anyone know how this works today on iOS? Can an app wholesale upload thousands of pics (or just the metadata) in the background without the user knowing?

Clearly the author has never had to arm a population with glitterguns against an impending Cyberman attack.

Would it be that hard to just have both a Touch Bar and a row of keys? At this point the Touch Bar component can’t add that much in terms of manufacturing cost. An entire A10 iPod Touch is only $199.

I love that the design is vaguely reminiscent of the original Honda Civic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic_(first_generation)...

Not a business center, but if you ever get the chance to go to the The Wieliczka Salt Mine just outside of Krakow, Poland don't miss it — absolutely stunning (and easily accessible by local public transit).

Supposedly, it was one of the Tolkien's inspirations for the mines in the Lord of the Rings. And because it's a salt mine, the air is very clean. They used to send asthma sufferers into the mines as a form of therapy.

Shout out to the lonely node on Smith and Douglass! Howdy neighbor.

Lessons From The Screenplay (LFTS) is great also — in addition to Every Frame A Painting and Nerdwriter.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCErSSa3CaP_GJxmFpdjG9Jw

Beyond YouTube, you might start with something like "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112120/

I honestly had no idea HP still made laptops — or that they were still in the consumer hardware business at all.

I don't think, it's "2 rooms left at the hotel" or even "2 rooms in the hotel left (at this price)". I believe it can be "2 rooms left on [whatever booking site]" — perhaps because there is additional room inventory withheld from the web site. Or that additional rooms are currently "unpriced" in the database, and that price is generated at display time.

So after you book the room, another room can be added to the available inventory, and now there are "two rooms left at this price" again.

I did a bit of traveling last summer (mostly using Hotels.com ). There were times when I booked the "last room" and then checked again after booking and there was magically another "last room" available at the same price.

Apple bought Final Cut Pro from Macromedia in 1998.

https://nofilmschool.com/2011/12/avid-apple-excerpt-timeline...

Yes, I think so. Or they just assumed someone selling a pro video camera might be in production and have more equipment.

I almost used Turo once, but the whole thing seemed very ambiguous wrt liability, exact condition of the vehicle, etc. I don't drive normally, so am I even insured? The car owner's insurance likely covers lending the car out, but probably not renting it out, and they likely aren't even aware of that.

The information asymmetry and friction with these niche p2p sharing services just isn't worth it. You're basically learning the rules of an entirely new industry with each one - a significant amount of mental bandwidth to discover whether or not it will even work for what you need.

Sharegrid reached out to me once (because I was selling a camera on Craigslist). I looked over the site for about an hour and still would have had no idea about this "voluntary parting" issue.

My girlfriend took her 12-inch MacBook in for its 2nd(!) keyboard replacement. When she asked about a loaner, the employee actually recommended buying and returning a new one. She got the new retina Air for a nice 5 day test drive — and now we're both pretty sold on it.

At this point I'm just rooting for them to get together. They're like star-crossed lovers: Romeo Corp and Juliet Inc.

This reminds me of a couple local bulletin board systems back in the day. They would only be online overnight, when the sysop's parents didn't need the phone line.

I've used a packing list for travel for a while now. My current method is to set everything up with checkboxes, uncheck them all beforehand and then recheck them as I pack or as I decide I don't need them for this trip.

I used to just group items by category (outerwear, electronics, etc), but now I've found it better to group items by where they're going to be packed (pockets, under-seat backpack vs carryon / checked bag).

Below that, I have short supplemental lists for things like camping, international, trips with swimming/beach, formal (wedding, etc), or trips longer than a week.

Also, a "Before You Go" list that's stuff to remember when literally walking out the door (take out the trash, shut down home theater computer, etc) that isn't realistic to pack or do in advance. Still a work in progress, but it really helps free up mental energy.

My girlfriend and I travelled through Europe last summer and I was hoping to take overnight trains as much as possible, unfortunately the train strike in France killed a lot of that plan. Still, we were able to take two overnight sleepers. Rome to Turin and Budapest to Prague.

Rome to Turin would have been fine, except the air conditioning barely worked, which would have also been okay except (unlike 20 years ago) the window only opened about an inch. We had been backpacking all day in the hot sun. If you have trouble sleeping when it's hot, and you're traveling during the summer, this is something to consider. It made the night pretty miserable. I can't imagine how bad this would have been in a 4 or 6 person couchette. The Italian train was about $200USD total for both of us.

For Budapest to Prague we were able to book one of the three deluxe sleepers with a private toilet and shower. The trains were both newer, cheaper ($150USD total for both of us), and the AC worked better. Whether the deluxe is worth it is a toss up. You'll get bounced around a lot in the shower (part of the charm?) and having the private toilet, while convenient, gives the whole room a vaguely gross smell similar to sitting near a restroom on a plane.

- Sleepers will not save you money vs a cheap hotel + day train (although the 4 or 6 person couchette might save a bit), and the trains shake and vibrate a lot.

- Booking tickets is a pain until you get used to it (for each new country). The "English" version of whatever train site is often about 60% English at best (cough, ItaliaRail...). The Hungarian website (MÁV-Start) is a UX disaster. But you can often book on the destination country site, as well as the departure country. Luckily, we were able to book on the Czech site (CD) instead.

- You will sometimes need a printed ticket that can be physically stamped for part of the journey. Check in advance.

- Sleepers on popular routes book up quickly. They often either get very expensive or sell out completely at peak times.

- seat61.com is an absolute lifesaver.

Still, with all of the "challenges" there are tons of little charming elements about overnight trains: differences in the layout of the spaces, the adorable/offensive gendered gift boxes (I got a razor and my girlfriend got a pink sewing kit), disposable paper slippers that I ended using for 2 months...

Anyway, happy to answer any questions from my limited (but enthusiastic) experience.

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Zenni Optical does, as well as several other online retailers.

There have been a few good HN threads on the topic previously. Here are a couple I had bookmarked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091936

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15373992

> “MacOS fixed the specific vulnerability we used to get administrator access in macOS 10.12.4 in 2016”

USB-C Macbook Pros we’re only announced on Oct 27, 2016. Not sure what version of 10.12 they shipped with, but seems like it was a pretty fast fix.

Seems like the ideal place for Tesla to run ads.

Interesting. Thanks for the information!

Has anyone used the Sperti UVB vitamin D lamp? https://www.sperti.com/product/sperti-vitamin-d-light-box

It appears to be the only FDA approved one.

These "light therapy" lamps don't. They just supposedly improve mood from the exposure to bright light itself and don't claim to produce vitamin D.

Or... lack of $10 accessory on the vast majority of smartphones disproves theory that smartphones are too big.

Seriously, I would like a larger phone — about the size of a Kindle or an iPad mini (without the bezels / home button). Right now I have an iPhone and a 9.7" iPad that I'm regretting purchasing. They both do almost exactly the same thing. The iPad is a second-class citizen, both for apps (no Health app, weather app etc) and for the physical camera which is always a few generations / features behind. It has a larger screen and a longer battery, and is better for reading letter-size PDFs. That's about it. It will not replace my laptop in any reasonable way. So, now I have 3 things to carry, charge and keep in sync.

The great one-handed experience of the iPhone 4 through 5s/SE isn't lost on me, but I don't spend the majority of my life hanging on to a subway pole (though it seems like it sometimes). I just want a bigger phone. I promise to only use bluetooth for calls and not to hold it up to my face like a modern-day Gordon Gekko.

> They also say that expenses for ramping up anti-fraud/theft security measures, to make payment processing safer, need to be covered.

Or they could implement Chip & Pin like the rest of the planet – with the side benefit that we might be able to reliably purchase a train ticket from an automated kiosk overseas on occasion.

It can be changed to another search engine without even opening Safari.

Webcam with an Orwellian sense of humor. https://www.insecam.org/en/view/638839/

Paul Fussell's book, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System is one of my favorite non-fiction books. I consider myself lucky to have discovered a copy at a used book store 20+ years ago. Unfortunately, it only has a 3.95 on Goodreads, so I guess it's going in the trash.

The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison only has a 3.63 and I don't think she's really an "expert" in any of the specific topics she writes about. It's brilliant ...but maybe I can still return it?

This system is a great way to hyper-optimize for narrow-mindedness.

"Record the screen" could be more precise. I assumed the article was saying apps were literally recording a video of the screen, complete with alert popups etc (like the Screen Recorder app).

I realize there isn't functionally much difference within an app. But unless I'm reading it incorrectly, it's not recording the screen it's just the UI of the app. That's not nothing, but I always assumed (sadly?) that a lot of apps have been doing that for years to hone their UX dark arts.