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hundchenkatze··on Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter
Sure, they can try to claim that now. It's pretty clear that they blocked it for everyone and people have email them to be whitelisted.

"So we have a solution if you or your family would still like to be able to connect to Facebook or Twitter please let us know and we can add you to the allowed list to be able to not be blocked [...]"

hundchenkatze··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
You're offering the information, the least you could do is provide your source.
hundchenkatze··on Blërg, a microblogging platform
I don't think the error is intentional, the site was created 10 years ago. My guess is that something happened to the repo since then.

https://bytex64.net/blog/e2302

hundchenkatze··on Blërg, a microblogging platform
Just so everyone is aware, Blerg was created about 10 years ago (4 days to go) https://bytex64.net/blog/e2302
hundchenkatze··on Blërg, a microblogging platform
The minimum length may work for good-faith actors, but how would you prevent trolls from pasting in 500 characters of lorem ipsum or other generated text and then adding their one-liner at the beginning or end?
hundchenkatze··on Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine
It's probably not the best idea to go against established conventions, but I think it'd be pretty cool if you used tilde instead of exclamation marks for waves. :)
hundchenkatze··on Terms of Service; Didn’t Read
Here's a case between Uber and a blind person [0].

TLDR:

- Someone is suing Uber for discrimination because drivers didn't allow the person's guide dog in the car.

- Uber's terms state users can't sue Uber and must go through Uber's arbitration process

- Uber's terms were presented in the "By continuing you agree to these terms" fashion

- Person claimed they never agreed to arbitration and that they should be allowed to sue Uber, and a state court agreed

> But the broader impact of the ruling is to put companies on notice that they can't bind users to restrictive terms merely by linking to those terms somewhere in a site or app's registration process. In order to create a legally binding contract, a tech company has actually put the terms in front of the user and get them to affirmatively agree to them.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/court-says-uber-...

hundchenkatze··on Clubhouse uploads all your contacts
Awesome! It seems that most of the references in search results are around interactions between Apple and developers. But it definitely looks like the best place to send violations as well. Thank you!
hundchenkatze··on Clubhouse uploads all your contacts
The terseness of their permission request does not meet Apple's review guidelines. It's almost identical to one of Apple's unacceptable examples.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#5.1...

Is there a way to report the app to bring it to Apple's attention?

hundchenkatze··on I am closing down the Cordless project
It's nothing specific to bots. Discord's TOS doesn't allow you to use a thirdparty client. This has been the case since day 1 (I think) but they haven't been enforcing it. Now the creator of this client has had their account banned, so it seems that Discord may be cracking down on the use of unofficial clients.
hundchenkatze··on Apple releases open source modules of Big Sur
Ah, seems it would have been more helpful if they explicitly said that.
hundchenkatze··on Apple releases open source modules of Big Sur
Why add the scare quotes? I don't know what you're implying.
hundchenkatze··on Setting User-Agent Field? (1996)
Now I'm convinced! Thanks.
hundchenkatze··on Simple Bank Is Closing
I started out on ING Direct as well, but I stuck with it through the Capital One transition. Overall I'm still happy with the checking/savings account features, no maintenance fees etc. The mobile app/website is pretty good. However the "desktop" website is annoying as it's just a scaled up version of the mobile one, but it still gets the jobs done. Unfortunately they've removed the ability to easily add multiple savings accounts for budgeting, or at least I can't find a way to do it. Luckily I still have the ones I created back in the ING days.
hundchenkatze··on Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
What happened was NOT a protest.
hundchenkatze··on Memory access on the Apple M1 processor
Per core I think, emphasis is mine.

> It looks like a single core has about 28 levels of memory parallelism, and possibly more.

hundchenkatze··on Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project
There's also a GH Sponsors page: https://github.com/sponsors/marcan
hundchenkatze··on Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage
DDG can exclude by domain:

    -site:pinterest.com
hundchenkatze··on Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage
You can also exclude by domain:

    -site:pinterest.com
hundchenkatze··on Termux no longer updated on Google Play
You can disable Google's Advanced Protection

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25645981

hundchenkatze··on Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
...some people don't know how or even care to use the command line.
hundchenkatze··on Firefox not planning on supporting PWA
There's nothing stopping apple from blocking app installs from specific domains/subdomains.
hundchenkatze··on Firefox not planning on supporting PWA
Bluetooth does have privacy issues, but again, that's no different than a native app. If I install a native app, it doesn't get free reign over BT or any other device feature. In order to use any hardware feature a native app has to request permission to use it. I don't understand how a web app is any different in that regard. A PWA could specify the features it wants to use in the manifest.json just like a native app does with the Info.plist. Then iOS could prompt the user in the exact same way. If the iOS permission system isn't a good design (I think it is) then why do they keep using it and expanding it for native apps but not use it for PWAs.
hundchenkatze··on Firefox not planning on supporting PWA
But a FF contributor did say:

> there is currently no plan for PWA support in Firefox.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682593#c8

hundchenkatze··on Firefox not planning on supporting PWA
I don't see how supporting push notifications for native apps is any different than PWAs. The user would still have to explicitly enable them for the installed PWA, and could revoke it at anytime. Safari for desktop actually supports push notifications [0]. So why not mobile Safari? Even the their aggressive deletion of local storage could be handled with a permission request. Once you've installed the PWA it could ask the user to store data for longer. Basically what I'm getting at is that Apple already has a robust permissions system that could easily be extended to support PWAs and the necessary features, but they seem to choose not to do so.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/notifications/safari-push-notifi...

hundchenkatze··on GoDaddy employees told they were getting a holiday bonus in a phishing test
I was replying to greencore's theory that Godaddy sent the email and then changed their mind, and is using the phish test as a cover. If that had been the case, then the email would have been sent from godaddy.com not gocladdy.com
hundchenkatze··on Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
You don't need to be signed-in to track someone with a cookie and provide targeted search results.
hundchenkatze··on Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
That's true, but it's not Google's intent. It's just another source of ad/promotional revenue. The POIs show up before I search anything. A more user focused solution would wait until I selected a destination, detect that where I'm going is a less frequented, and then display something along the lines of "Hey it looks like this location can be difficult to find, here's some near by stores to look for <insert recognizable brands>."
hundchenkatze··on YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason
Yeah, but most places will put your storage unit into "default" for some time, usually 30 days, and make multiple attempts to contact you before auctioning your stuff. Generally speaking, in the U.S. most states have lien laws that dictate how and for how long a company must attempt to contact you before they can auction.

Youtube could do something similar, by providing you 30 days to download your content.

hundchenkatze··on GoDaddy employees told they were getting a holiday bonus in a phishing test
Except the email was from an external domain.
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