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Forced two factor auth can often solve this kind of thing though.

reviconon Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

Whatsapp message content can be pulled via a subpoena along with a lot of other private data. Signal's can not.

FBI doc on what messaging apps can provide via subpoena pulled by a FOIA request...

https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=2111...

reviconon Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

Right up until you want to share that YouTubeTV subscription with a family member via their "Family Sharing" feature. This is not supported and their support directs you to cancel your subscription and establish a new one using a regular gmail account.

reviconon Serverless Framework to begin charging per service for orgs with >$2M ARR

I guess similar to Docker requiring orgs with more than 250 employees or more than $10 million in revenue to buy a paid subscription.

reviconon Apple’s failure to build a key part for its new iPhones

Apple's gross margin percentage for its services segment (App Store, Apple Music, AppleCare, Apple Pay, iCloud storage services, AppleCare warranties, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, and the Apple Card) is almost twice that of the products segment.

In 2021, the gross margin percentage for the services segment was nearly 70% as compared to the 35% gross margin percentage from the products segment.

https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/technology-media-an...

reviconon Apple’s failure to build a key part for its new iPhones

Apple really really really wants to make more money from software subscriptions rather than hardware.

They have a much better chance to do this in their walled garden environment of iPhones and iPads rather than on OSX where they face competition from other vendors.

They have no incentive to make it easier to be mobile on your macbook when they would much rather you be on your iPhone and iPad instead.

Someday they would really love for macbooks to go away and for everyone to use iOS for everything as they will own the entire environment and competition is much less.

reviconon When the yogurt took over (2010)

Direct link for Netflix subscribers: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80223954?trackId=14170068

reviconon FBI rescues abducted girl with the help of a Nintendo Switch

reviconon Apple Maps Gradually Winning over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests

The macrumors link is an article about an article which feels like a waste. Here's the WSJ article macrumors is "reporting" on...

People Have Begun to Love Apple’s Most Hated Product

https://archive.is/9FkNS

reviconon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://www.mattcrampton.com Mostly software development posts

Edit: Now with an RSS feed!

reviconon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://www.mattcrampton.com

Mostly software development posts

reviconon Is Google reCAPTCHA GDPR Compliant?

Hows that?

reviconon macOS command-line tools you might not know about

I wrote this a while back to document managing WIFI connections using the command line.

https://www.mattcrampton.com/blog/managing_wifi_connections_...

I use these commands a lot when I'm in a coffeeshop and I'm trying to fine-grain control which wifi connection my laptop is using and dealing with passwords.

IMO OSX's UI for wifi network picking is clunky when you're in an area with >50 wifi networks in range, command line tools are much easier to deal with.

reviconon Is Google reCAPTCHA GDPR Compliant?

Remember that Google reCAPTCHA v3 is invisible to the user. No accessibility issues.

reviconon Is Google reCAPTCHA GDPR Compliant?

Google reCAPTCHA v3 has worked pretty well for us, we saw many instances in our logs where v2 was solved by scammers on our site using some automated tools that had a 25% success rate (plenty for automated scammer scripts) but upgrading to v3 stopped all the automated attacks. So far we haven’t seen successful solves of v3 in the wild and we’re a payments company so we see a lot of attempts.

reviconon Thousands of Rollbar customers receiving email alerts from one user

Followup from the Rollbar team: https://i.imgur.com/BwHChrc.jpg

reviconon Thousands of Rollbar customers receiving email alerts from one user

I have no idea why but HackerNews malformed the url I posted. It should have been https://twitter.com/search?q=rollbar&f=live

reviconon Thousands of Rollbar customers receiving email alerts from one user

The tweets about it keep rolling in this morning.

Apparently the alerts were supposed to be sending to https://twitter.com/lifeofkaashe.

Tough morning for the Rollbar team I would imagine.

reviconon Rock engravings made by Homo Naledi ~300k years ago

The statement "Large variances in human populations come from different hybrid compositions" seems a particularly provocative statement. Is there a source where this comes from?

reviconon Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office

What are these "contracts" you're referring to? I've worked full time in tech for 25 years and I've never had a contract of any sort that I'm aware of.

reviconon Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”

Feels like an enhancement to a sitemap.xml could be a better way to go here.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

reviconon How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed

This is why I don't subscribe to Sirius XM even though it's built into both of my car stereos. They have no way of cancelling online and there's no way I'm playing phone tag with a company to stop them charging my credit card, I'll put it off and forget about it. Every time a Sirius XM sales person calls me I tell them the same thing. Maybe if more people made this a deal breaker for them companies would change.

reviconon Windows Sandbox

They specially call out that files are retained during a reboot of the sandbox to allow for the “restart required” condition

reviconon SVB in talks to sell itself after attempts to raise capital fail

I hadn't heard this particular bit of info yet, but doing a quick search and yup, since last night.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-10/us-regula...

reviconon The mission to discover if Jupiter’s moons support life

The last lines are the best...

  But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool.

  “In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”

reviconon EV startups from Lucid to Rivian see demand fade, supply chain issues linger

I really want to get an electric Ford Transit van but the range is just so tiny its not workable for me. Is there some technical reason EVs don't support consumers adding big battery extension packs to increase range?

reviconon AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements

I own this one as well. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how well it works and how quickly I can see changes when it alerts me to a CO2 buildup and I go open some doors. It’s satisfying to be able to see the effect fresh air has on my environment watching their charts.

I picked this one because it also monitors Nitrogen Monoxide which gas stoves give off which many other air monitors do not test for.

I haven’t tried their IFTTT integration though, that will be next.

reviconon Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?

I mean I'm literally building an AWS lambda function that outputs HTML when it's called via API Gateway. So someone hits https://mydomain.com/mycoolpage, then the MyCoolPage AWS Lambda function is executed, does database queries or reaches out to other lambda functions I've built as microservices and then outputs <html>whatever</html>.

If you're interested, I use https://middy.js.org/ as a middleware engine for my AWS lambda functions which I find helpful.

I use the open sourced serverless framework for doing deploys https://www.serverless.com/ though I'm probably going to move to using AWS SAM in the future.

reviconon Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?

Front end: Is SEO relevant? YES: AWS Lambda generating server rendered HTML behind API Gateway. NO: Vanilla React.JS app hosted on S3

Back End: AWS Lambda behind API Gateway

Database: AWS DynamoDB

This stack will reduce down to zero usage costs when there is no traffic and will scale up to much more than I will possibly need for anything resembling an MVP with no interference required by me.

reviconon Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps – I spent a week to find out why (2021)

My read is that Apple would very much like to move in the opposite direction where more people are in a locked down walled garden environment. I think if anything we’ll see macOS slowly moving more toward an iOS experience rather than enabling less lockdowns on apple devices.