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Re:Apple HomeView on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:43AM (#50089479)
I wonder if the lack of apps right now is because they want their developers fully focussed on iPhone Duo support. Maybe next year they'll open up an SDK for HomeView?
Re:Monzo Stand-In on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:41PM (#49493145)
Monzo is nothing more than a science project
Re:Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network on Monday August 17, 2026 @01:37AM (#49326897)
Unfortunately whenever I see the name, I am always reminded of part of the anatomy
Not really practical to exempt Spain even if they wanted to, with Spain being within the EU and therefore able to freely move goods and services to other EU nations.
What’s with the ‘cock and balls’ emoticon?
Re:Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence? on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:26AM (#41485442)
The Open Rights Group - https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/ - is probably a reasonable place to start.

Curious about what is scaring you btw.

Re:Did you lose your AirPods? on Saturday August 24, 2024 @12:30AM (#41335648)
They may have meant AppleCare+ which covers accidental damage

https://www.apple.com/support/products/headphones/

Well over a million ordinary people protested against the Second Gulf War and it may zero difference.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/15/politics.politica...

They do [0]. You can also do it in their app if you are on a contract and therefore over 18 by definition.

[0] http://ask3.three.co.uk/srvs/cgi-bin/webisapi.dll/,/?new,kb=...

Re:Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011) on Saturday September 03, 2022 @01:49PM (#32704278)
I remember them publicly demoing the BlackBerry clone from this article https://www.pcworld.com/article/464050/original_android_prot...
On the Golborne Link, I think they had a fair bit of help from the NIMBYs too
Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020) on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:58AM (#31679705)
How about the time when one pay TV company (Sky, owned by News Corp at the time) was said to have hacked a rival and released the hack on the internet for pirates to use?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17522112

Re:Home Assistant OS Release 8 on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:59AM (#31555864)
...which is another OSS project from the Home Assistant team :)
Re:Vuescan – Software support for 6500 abandoned scanners on Thursday March 24, 2022 @07:39AM (#30788488)
Another long-term Vuescan user here. From memory it was the Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X transition and lack of vendor support for the new OS that caused me to seek it out. The only thing I would love for them to add would be a way for the app to self-update.
Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:59AM (#30731776)
Not blocked here on 3. You’re right in that the networks often have the “adult content” filter (porn, gambling etc.) turned on, but you should be able to turn it off pretty easily. I suspect it’s that filtering that’s blocking archive.org for you
And to think they had it in their hands in 1997 with StrongARM
Re:Apple Joins Blender Development Fund on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:46PM (#28867513)
Re:Microsoft is ditching Electron for Teams on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:23AM (#28849248)
There is no 'native' Mac app. Also everyone I've worked with at MS uses Teams in the browser. So I suspect not many at MS even use the desktop app.
Re:Ask HN: How do I move up my career/life? on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:56PM (#28647080)
There’s a lot of self-deprication in your post. “Sorry if I wasted your time” and “Maybe they decided I might never improve”.

You are worthy and this random internet stranger cares. Imagine for a moment you have the opportunity to ask anyone you imagine to be on HN what they could give you. What would you ask for?

Every day someone is born who has never seen The Flintstones
Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code? on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:21AM (#27590740)
Somewhat related - here's [0] a report on the QR codes that public venues in England can display for patrons to 'check in' using the NHS COVID-19 app to assist with contact tracing

[0] https://www.revk.uk/2020/09/how-not-to-qr-nhs-c19-app.html

> There's nothing that prevents productivity on remote work that can't be handled with the right tools, skills and attitude

Firstly, congrats! It's something I'm working towards myself, and the pandemic looks like it will be a significant opportunity to try and achieve it.

However, perhaps you're minimising your expertise here and the learnings and experience that the employer and the worker need to go through to make it work.

Anything to share here?

:s/misled/lied to/g

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