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Re:HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support ...
on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:21PM (#43121078)
Not only insurance companies, but many others.
Airlines do it too. One dark pattern I experienced during Covid was that the airline call system was automatically set to hang up after 30 minutes. If you were lucky you'd get to speak to a representative at around minute 25, but never get your ticket rebooked.
Re:End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem
on Thursday October 10, 2024 @06:37PM (#41804285)
We use Syncdocs (https://syncdocs.com) to do end-to-end Google Drive encryption.
The keys stay on the client. It is secure, but means the files are only decryptable on the client, so keys need to be shared manually. I guess security means extra hassle.
An Ode to My 5-Year-Old Samsung Galaxy S10e
Re:Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the...
on Saturday July 27, 2024 @02:28AM (#41084804)
It is a pity it does not apply in Australia. They search 40,000 devices a year there, and consfiscate your device if you refuse.
Re:Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:54AM (#38429053)
Many of the technical and science stuff is still pretty good. Not like it used to be, but it's a recurring theme, when the Internet expanded, UseNet also became rubbish, "infested by AOL'ers and spam" was the complaint in 1996.
Re:Google Drive has lost user data
on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:25AM (#38428881)
You can use Rsync to copy everything from Google Drive as a cron job. If you want copies of your Google Docs and Sheets you'll need something like SyncDocs to download and convert them to MS Office format.
Re:Australian customs searched more than 40k devices in 5 years
on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:17AM (#31774661)
And while they've got your device, in Australia, the government can legally install rootkits on your phone or laptop without informing you.
Australian customs searched more than 40k devices in 5 years
Re:Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Complia...
on Thursday June 02, 2022 @08:36PM (#31602560)
OK, I will so in future.
I tried to summarize the article in the title. Will follow the guidelines from now on.
Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)
China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs
Pop _OS 22.04: New kid on the Ubuntu block starting to show real muscle
Plastic Grocery Bag Bans Boost Sales of Small Plastic Bags
Re:10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for ...
on Sunday April 24, 2022 @10:46PM (#31150311)
There are quite a few clients for Linux, I use Syncdocs https://www.syncdocs.com/ as it has built in encryption.
Non I've seen do a proper job of mounting as a drive, NFS or SMB would be nice.
Re:BBEdit is 30 years old today
on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @07:45PM (#31009589)
Ah world.std.com, the first ever ISP.
Re:WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app
on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:33PM (#31007250)
The Mullvad app is huge ~100MB which is odd for what it needs to do.
Re:Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders stored in multi...
on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:32PM (#31007241)
Unless it happens on the backend - which is what the article appears to say.
I'm on Linux with Syncdocs for syncing Google Drive so will wait and see how it handles things.
Atlassian Jira, Confluence outage persists two days on
Re:AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking
on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:41PM (#30927477)
Yes, it's odd, that a driver which should be small enough to fit in kernel memory comes in such a package (for Windows at least) that is a few hundred mega-bytes.
AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking
Re:Phantom OS
on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:05PM (#30816489)
A review of Phantos OS from 2009
Re:Vanced has been discontinued
on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:11PM (#30666708)
For those who have the ability to do so, please make an Archive of all the Vanced Versions before the download links are taken down
Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:06PM (#30066002)
Syncdocs is also an easy end-to-end encryption/sync app for Google Drive
A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”
on Saturday July 17, 2021 @03:50AM (#27864226)
You can encrypt stuff to Google Drive. You can sync a Truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) folder or use something like Syncdocs (https://syncdocs.com) that does the encryption/decryption automatically.
Do Google Drive Terms now prohibit encryption?
Taiwan Semiconductor Is Hiking Chip Prices Up to 20%
Scientist Unerases Deleted Google Cloud Early Covid Data to Help Explain Origins
Re:Google Workspace for everyone
on Monday June 14, 2021 @03:31PM (#27507119)
We're forced to used GSuite. I find https://syncdocs.com useful - it lets me collaborate using MS Office on top of GSuite