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It seems to be /very/ slow to load, google and ddg both seem to load in < 1s where startpage averages around 3-5 seconds, I wonder if it provides any advantages over say using a grease monkey userscript to strip the tracking?

You’re not alone - I do that every time I copy or share a URL too, it’s a good habit to get people into and sites that fail to provide working HTTPS don’t really have an excuse these days.

Slightly ironically the TLS is broken on that nfcring website.

I very much appreciate the OLED high contrast, wide colour display.

I have yet not watched the release and read the technical details but I am more than slightly concerned about “Your face becomes your password”, while it’s obviously optional so security conscious people by no means have to use it, I’m not confident that it’s a sensible idea to promote the widespread use of what is known not to be a secure, private piece of information that you can change or choose not to use.

However, in my opinion Apple is by far one of, it not the most security conscious large corporate manufacturer of hardware and software and generally tries to know as little about your personal data and promote encryption (FileVault, forced phone encryption etc) as much as possible while maintaining practical use for general public. So I am very interested to see what makes this so different from Samsung/Google’s failed and easily bypassed face unlocking they were very vocal about but ultimately was an embarrassing security and PR failure.

My vote would easily go to Gitlab w/ Gitlab CI

I couldn’t agree more, I absolutely /hate/ when I have to use their products, especially Jira or bitbucket. They’re so awfully clunky and slow, they seem to lack any understanding of workflow or UX design and they’re so JavaScript heavy that many parts of the UI are flaky at the best of times.

I don’t want to start a flame war of any kind here but I did want to state that I very much dislike googles designs, I find their UIs very hard to navigate and generally ‘displeasing’ to the eye.

Yes, it’s an annoying, misrepresentative marketing term.

Having Google as such a huge controlling force over the operating systems on so many mobile devices has scared me for a long time, given Google’s business model of the customer and data about individuals - I welcome any well managed projects that set out to offer more ethical alternatives.

4.4 is old. Technology - especially software moves fast and it’s been 9 months since 4.4 was released. There’s been a lot of security, performance and feature improvements since 4.4 was released.

Major and/or userland problems don’t tend to occur as the kernel gets developed and released. There are major advantages in accepting new subsystem code over patched ‘legacy’ code.

I've switched from Google maps to Apple maps as of about 6 months ago, I find that in Melbourne (Australia) recent street changes seem to be updated more frequently on Apple maps, I also find the app to use less battery. I'm sure it differs city (or maybe country) by country.

I absolutely support this move, I've been trying to rid myself of AMP since it was released and this at least stops me from having to clean up URLs when sharing them.

Interesting, uBO and Privacy Badger on Firefox here in Australia gives the paywall, as does 1Blocker on iOS (safari)

And on an iPhone 7 running iOS 11.

Blocked behind a paywall if you have privacy add ons / tracking protection enabled.

Yeah I’ve noted that quite often, similarly on motorbikes I’ve seen people ride with flip-up number plates operated by a lever or cable on the side of the bike that when actions - flips the plate horizontal so it cannot (easily) be read.

Yes especially when and how long people are parked for, couple that with face and/or financial tracking and you can target marketing to people or locations.

Are there any privacy guards that can be applied to number plates that are effective in protecting you from being tracked?

I’m immediately reminded of Jon Ronson’s article ‘Who killed Richard Cullen?’[1] where companies such as Experian sell relational geo-data on people to whatever companies want to use that data to target and potentially manipulate people.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2005/jul/16/creditcards.de...

Not strictly related to public radio specifically but still interesting on the topic of broadcast radio (and rather disappointing to say the least) - here in Australia we have a big problem with the (lack of) advancement of broadcast quality, while we have DAB+ broadcasts - the stream audio quality is so bad due to the low bit rate - you’re actually better off switching back to FM.

The average Australian DAB+ radio stream is... 24-48Kbps! Yes it’s generally AAC+ which is about 30% more efficient than MP3 but it’s not even close to FM sound quality.

I used to use the BOM’s app, but I’ve gone back to using the default weather app as of iOS 11, I find it to be as accurate as anything else tbh.

Good to see lower power usage but the one thing I still feel is missing is widespread support for ECC on the desk(lap)top.

> 'Serverless is an architectural pattern resulting in: Functions as a Service, or FaaS'

Then call it FaaS - it's not serverless and that term is misleading, marketing bunk. Even the title of the post describes the servers used in it's deployment, I'm quite sick of this term - I don't find it at all helpful when describing application architecture.

Interesting question, strangely enough I kind of wish waffles melted when I give thought to it!

I’d like to see some scientific studies with decent citation (and potentially well sized sample sizes) around the health impacts of eating / digesting said compound. IMO there is a huge difference in taste between ‘simple’ ice cream recipes vs complex highly manufactured ice cream, I’m weary of adding another state controlling compound to the mix.

Title reads as clickbait, while repos didn’t appear due to the caching issue it was quickly resolved and they didn’t disappear and it isn’t still happening.

This site puts the article behind a $40USD/yr paywall if you use privacy browser addons / anti-tracker protection.

Indeed and there's many methods for this that are being used to restore many old films from archive. Modern film cameras used by major networks record at 4K-6K (full open). Beyond that even if the cameras on set are recording at 3.2K or 2K pro-res etc... it doesn't mean that the post-production and up-scaling upon rendering doesn't benefit from a final output of 4K. Finally - we must think to the future and not hold back technology to the lowest common denominator.

Personally I found it incredibly slow, the interface is riddled with high latency input and response.

Sorry - HN doesn’t support standard markdown (un)ordered list style syntax, I’ve reformatted them for you without the pre block

That can’t be right, I’m fairly certain I tried 4K streams on my work / home iMacs (5K) and on my MBP (3.5K)