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Re:How uv got so fast on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:40PM (#46398882)
I wish this were enough to get the flake8 devs to accept pyproject support PRs.
Does tvOS user switching do anything at all? I tried recently, and all the third party app data was shared across users.
Cloud gaming is great when you are stuck without a console or gaming pc. It runs in the browser, so it works on phones and cheap laptops.

That said, the steam deck provides a better gaming experience than a cloud gaming on a phone.

Re:An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:01PM (#30981116)
Some services even accept it to create an account, but not to log in.

One never let me change my email or password when I used the +.

Re:The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:20AM (#24637986)
> One of the websites doing this, SunTrust Bank, sent the user name and password we entered to a third party, Jornaya, which says it encrypts and discards the data it collects.

Wow. Deep down the page is a nugget about suntrust just giving away your username and password. Big reminder to use unique passwords of every site.

Re:Copying is not theft, but censorship is (2012) on Sunday April 19, 2020 @02:01PM (#22917557)
Interpretation as in a sign language interpretation.
Re:Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client on Saturday March 28, 2020 @08:52AM (#22710838)
You can listen to the iPhone with wireshark using OWASP zap as a proxy.
Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:18PM (#21284910)
That does not appear to be the case.

There is a video circulating these comments. It shows someone register their finger without the screen, slap the screen protector over top and unlock with a different, previously rejected finger.

Edit: https://twitter.com/sta_light_/status/1184475413252210688?s=...

Re:Software made me loathe my car on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:01PM (#20833045)
Unless they start doing the same thing the article describes, charging a subscription for CarPlay.

They literally added extra systems to disable it so they could charge rents.

Re:Software made me loathe my car on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:57PM (#20833012)
Does Tesla support CarPlay or Android Auto?
Let’s not forget Time was purchased by major right wing political influencers.
Re:How a Bitcoin is not a Dollar on Monday May 21, 2018 @12:21PM (#17119486)
> There is no (intentional) intrinsic value to the problem you are solving when you mine a new BitCoin. If you were looking for interesting and valuable solutions to compute, you would almost certainly not pick any of the ones have been found as a result of BitCoin mining.

I agree that Bitcoin doesn’t have an intrinsic value, but I think he is missing the argument people actually make. The value isn’t in the problem they solve, but the power spent to solve it. At least, that is what I have always heard.