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Re:Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen? on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:53PM (#49744258)
Happened to me, I was able to get SMS and recovery codes, but Google still required additional verification on now lost phone :D. On the end I acutely found the phone and was able to restore access. So what they do after couple of days of failed attempts the require additional verification, lets call it 3 step.
Fair point is actually “less is les here.” It’s more of an alternative to Gitea than to GitHub, where managing Git is almost an afterthought. Or maybe you haven’t used GitHub recently. But sorry you cannot cal this better GitHub.
Re:Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:55AM (#46869339)
True :). Although I bought a new Android tablet, it’s confusing that Gemini isn’t installed, but there is Gemini as an embedded support assistant.
Re:Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:46AM (#46807041)
Only PMs at Google need this. They still don't get how AI is used...
Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:21AM (#46797405)
I just want to mention that most apps that would be laggy on Wine just work via https://flathub.org/en/apps/ru.linux_gaming.PortProton. Install PortProton double click .exe install app and off you go.

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Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn on Monday December 29, 2025 @08:35AM (#46420593)
This is the place where AI needs to take over, no more excuses!

For example in country 400k€ was spend on executives (200 hundred people) Christmas dinner for publicly owned company.

While the scheduling and company management is similar issues as DB. I think we ned a new word for this kind of clusterfuck!! They are "rulesfull", rules that hinder the system and make the user scream in pain and agony.

Re:I just want working RCS messaging on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:27PM (#45982214)
Btw Google also stopped providing RCS proxy or whatever that was for small mobile providers. Message in settings will just say RCS is not supported, funnily that also breaks Gemini in Messages app, with infinite spinner.
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @12:22PM (#45890112)
Yep We need iPhone mini. Every year the phone is bigger which is worse. Android is the same.
This happened to my phone, original battery but it had health around 81%. Installing public beta just dropped battery health to 0% and charge to 1% instantly, and 99% usage is suddenly credited to Settings. Charging does not work at all, and you have to restore from backup in DFU mode.
https://radar.cloudflare.com/as14593?dateRange=1d shows a sharp drop in traffic, but no BGP changes before the drop. We can see BGP changes after the drop, so maybe some datacenter/control plane thing.
Re:Boeing 787 software may have caused AirIndia crash on Monday June 30, 2025 @04:45AM (#44420926)
The https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCFfibo9uR4 has interesting discussion about how FADEC had a bug in 2019 [https://avherald.com/h?article=4c2fe53a] and only five years later in 2024 [https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-21144/p-13] quote: The NPRM was prompted by incidents related to erroneous A/T behavior during a balked landing with the A/T engaged (FADEC), potential erroneous readings from the LRRA(radar altimeter), and possible deficiencies in low airspeed protections and crew alerting systems.

The only known fact is that both engines had shut down simultaneously, as confirmed by the Civil Aviation Minister. This either means a fuel problem or a software glitch; FADEC will not allow pilots to shut down engines in flight, but it has authority to do that on it's own.

Speculation: So you have a low-flying plane with electrical issues (blinking lights were reported by the survivor); it loses power after takeoff (survivor reported “plane hung in air”). RAM deploys and FADEC gets readings that are near the ground, it commands engine shutdown.

On Jun 29th 2025 India's Civil Aviation Minister said: "It has never happened that both engines shut down together." Investigators are analyzing the black boxes from every angle including engine issues, fuel supply problem or something else including sabotage. A preliminary report is to be expected in three months.

Oh wow, this is cool. Yep this would make USB Serial work on Firefox with a simple extension.
USB Serial is such a great thing, finally ending those annoying Electron apps that are only used for one thing. There’s a list of tools that now use the browser to set up devices, and it’s fantastic.

ESPHome(+ hundreds projects that use it as a base), Betaflight, ELRS, Flipper just to name a few.

I understand that WebKit lacks support since it’s developed by Apple, and I would also be cautious if it granted any access to peripherals.

But Firefox? Firefox has severely lacked support for hardware "connections" and has been unfriendly for developers for a long time, so I simply stopped using it (one of the reasons). Reason they state for not adding support it is that user consent is not enough to access the device, which is just nonsense, they could have made it enabled under the developer flag or similar. Blink proved that it can be made secure.

I have a filling they are stubborn for no reason and are not seeing use cases that would make their browser usable.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Serial

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

This is a issue that may also affect Airbus aircraft, but so far, it has only caused problems on two Boeing planes. Like MCAS, it was not disclosed to pilots, prompting the FAA to recommend design changes and notify flight crews.

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-cfm-international-update-737...

Re:WP Engine is not WordPress on Sunday September 22, 2024 @09:46AM (#41617050)
Indeed :)! It's not well thought feature. Also WordPress.com limits to 25 revisions, for exactly the same issue. https://wordpress.com/support/page-post-revisions/
Re:WP Engine is not WordPress on Sunday September 22, 2024 @03:07AM (#41615180)
I would agree if revisions were enabled by default just for posts and pages.

Here’s a common example: you have a blog with 20 pages and 20 custom plugins (quite a standard these days). In a year of hosting that one, you’ll end up with millions of revisions in the database, which is really resource and speed issue for MySQL servers as the developers of WordPress never considered sharding; everything is stuffed into one table, with no indexes by default.

So, usually, the size of the DB and resources to run it go over what you would expect, so naturally, you limit it to a more sane value.

TLDR; In pristine WP env with no plugins unlimited revisions make sense. In a WP with many plugins they don't as other plugins declare them but not use them and thus we end with a system that uses huge amount of resources for nothing.

Oh and revision in WP is not like GIT revision as is full copy of the content.

Re:GPS spoofing messing airplane clock on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @06:00PM (#40652102)
Starts at https://youtu.be/wm9B-oofY9g?t=306 and follows with more examples.
And PHP project run as extension on Nextcould is not? Cmon.

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