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lighthazard··on Enable Pages access control
I maintain several instances of large mediawiki projects which have > 50 extensions/submodules attached to it.
lighthazard··on Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline in Just Two Months
This seems wrong because anecdotally there are people who become full-time care-takers of their Alzheimer afflicted family members and have no luck in change. If wearing a funny hate is all that's needed, sign me up.
lighthazard··on Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul
I'm sorry, I meant a lighter isn't an obstacle to smoking. You can use a household stove lighter, a match, a car cigarette thing.. there are lots of opportunities.
lighthazard··on Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul
Yes.. but they need to source that juul pod somehow - a lighter isn't really an obstacle point for smoking..
lighthazard··on Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns
Why would they run something in-house that takes so much logistics, expertise, and cost?
lighthazard··on Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager
> The ability to share a financial administration with your partner or significant other. Unfortunately, this requires a large change in Firefly III’s architecture and functionality. As an alternative, you could share the login details with each other.
lighthazard··on CSRF is really dead
"easily"
lighthazard··on No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers
So where should I be buying my automotive car parts?
lighthazard··on The Birth of the Semicolon
If there are two independent clauses, why not keep it 2 sentences? I personally use it to connect two separate thoughts that have a related subject.
lighthazard··on Inferno Operating System
This is an interesting concept because I wasn't sure what 'distributed operating system' meant.
lighthazard··on Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee
Well.. that and average iOS users can't easily side load either. They need to jailbreak and that, itself, is a difficult task.
lighthazard··on Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
TIL! Thanks! This is exactly what I wanted.
lighthazard··on Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
Please, Apple, give me a way to disconnect my microphone and webcam on an OS level so apps can't randomly access it.
lighthazard··on VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
Tor has a terrible user experience though. You can't just browse without bandwidth woes.
lighthazard··on The rise of remote working will continue
My biggest reason to work from home has been my son's school schedule. He gets out at 3:00. There's no way I can reliably come from work, pick him up, bring him home, and then get back to work without wasting a lot of time. Now, I moved my lunch hour to that time, I spend the entire hour driving, pickup/drop off, and a little bit of play before I head into my office for the rest of the day.

On a side note - I feel like taking a nap is a bit too extreme for a work at home setup. Maybe you don't need to be available all the time during your work hours, but unplanned naps means your team will be unable to reach you at a time they assumed you'd be available.

lighthazard··on WhatsApp users will start seeing in-app ads within ‘Status’ feature from 2020
I've had no issues with Telegram, and I think, although less secure than Signal, it's a great option to replace Whatsapp.
lighthazard··on Best paid email hosting service in 2019?
ProtonMail's spam filtering is subpar to most of the other suggestions here. The UX isn't that great and the apps are crap. Good/reliable email service though.
lighthazard··on Best paid email hosting service in 2019?
Not as good as Google's :(.
lighthazard··on Sony's Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team
Can you explain why Azure isn't on par with AWS?
lighthazard··on Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
You can't use the app store meaningfully without setting up payments.
lighthazard··on 40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, according to research
It used to be that I would pop open Amazon any time I want to buy anything. Now I have to actively search for my options since Amazon is no longer my go-to option. It's unfortunate but Amazon has made it clear they care about their merchant dropshippers over keeping a measly customer like me.
lighthazard··on 40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, according to research
My $0.99 pack of six combs that took 5 weeks to ship disagree with pricing being not really much better. Convenience.. the time it takes to ship is the only major deciding factor in my online purchases vs in-store purchases now. Do I need a comb tomorrow? No? How about in a week? No? Great, AliExpress.
lighthazard··on 40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, according to research
Yes :D
lighthazard··on 40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, according to research
Amazon is a lazy man's AliExpress in 2019.
lighthazard··on We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

  freeze your funds
This is the biggest reason I don't suggest Paypal to anyone. The fact that you can lose $5k+ because of someone on their end with no fraud issues and legitimate sales (which they can easily verify) is theft.
lighthazard··on Android updates are getting slower and slower, despite Google's best efforts
What do you miss on iOS? I am using it now and feel like I miss almost everything from Android. I like the iPhone's amazing speed and quality, but I miss finger print (yes, I know less secure but any less secure than a face scan?), apps communicating with each other, separate identities/work profiles. Apps that cost < $10.
lighthazard··on Android updates are getting slower and slower, despite Google's best efforts
Lack of notification. So you end up with a giant folder with a single "NEW NOTIFICATION" star above it. Then you have to open it and scroll through the limited 3 x 3 view.
lighthazard··on Android updates are getting slower and slower, despite Google's best efforts
I recently swapped to iPhone after being a long time Android user. After using the iPhone for a few months now, I will definitely be going back to Android. Before I owned an Apple device, I was sure that iPhones got first class treatment in app design/development - this has been a resounding disappointment. Instead, there are a few good apps but most of them are just enough to be good enough and not really amazing. Not to mention Apple's total lack of inter-app communication (iOS's default clock app is not good enough, I installed Alarmy so I can skip the next alarm if I wake up early, Alarmy needs to run in the foreground, won't let me access it in lock screen, and if your kid locks your phone out while the alarm is going, gotta wait the full 5 minutes before you can stop it. Personal anecdotes, but little things like this make me wonder why people like iOS so much when it's so limiting.
lighthazard··on California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartments
So allow for everything but also have rules for everything?
lighthazard··on AirPods Are Now One of Apple’s Most Important Products
That and the smooth hard plastic doesn't have grip either.
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