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Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @04:34PM (#45893202)
I think they meant in the sense of it being worn away and destroyed as an intended use.

Adjective definition 3 from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ablative

I'm assuming the cure for paracetamol-related autism is equal parts bleach, ivermectin paste and hot sauce.
Re:Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver on Saturday January 18, 2025 @11:42AM (#42749524)
The user’s password would protect the disk’s key, but would not necessarily derive it, I think.
Re:Apple squandered the Holy Grail on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:49AM (#42643570)
> No good music players for MacOS for instance

Slightly OT but Doppler is quite good in my opinion.

Re:How to Fix the Crowdstrike Thing on Friday July 19, 2024 @09:50AM (#41006581)
My physical workstation (a Precision laptop) was affected and a single reboot fixed it. Most of my colleagues weren’t as lucky.
Re:Open Source Python ETL on Thursday June 20, 2024 @09:59AM (#40738878)
To be fair, the only place the words ‘open’ and ‘source‘ appear in the readme are once in a sub-heading, where it’s phrased ‘open-source’. It’s clearly labelled ELv2.

Possibly more of a subtle miscommunication or misunderstanding than a deliberate lie.

Re:Anonym Joins Mozilla on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @09:26AM (#40717595)
I don’t feel optimistic about this.
I’ve been using NearlyFreeSpeech.NET since for 15 years or so and have never needed to consider moving.
Re:Understanding QEMU Devices (2018) on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:49AM (#40597359)
> QEMU is a large project and doesn't have much formal design or API documentation.

This is bonkers to me considering how it’s used in industry.

Which comments sounded entitled? I didn't get that from any quotes in TFA.
Re:The theory versus the practice of “static websites” on Saturday July 15, 2023 @10:25AM (#36737063)
> if you accept no input, you can't attack that system

But this is a side channel attack, right?

Re:Microsoft Subdomain Takeover on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:20AM (#34307416)
Do you mean Truffle Security or Microsoft? Bonus points for any explanation (purely out of interest).
This looks cool, and thank you for using rust and not js/npm.
100% agreed. I switched from Google to Fastmail about 8 years ago and it has been wonderful.

In that that time:

* I have not had to worry that I’ll inadvertently trigger an account ban and lose my email account/all my email with no recourse.

* UI updates have been gradual, subdued and useful.

* Support requests have been answered promptly and have been extremely helpful, including one case where the web UI wasn’t loading through the corporate proxy, we determined it was the proxy (not their service) and an engineer STILL helped me with a fix after the ticket was closed.

* No significant (if any) price changes.

* No significant outages (that I can remember).

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password on Sunday March 13, 2022 @06:22AM (#30659910)
+1 for bit/vaultwarden. Nice mobile apps, nice browser plugins, nice web interface. Regular updates, easy to install. Using it for a year + (two years?) no issues. Super grateful.
Re:Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:52PM (#28554853)
eBay forced its Australian users to pay with PayPal a few years ago: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/accc-probe-of-ebays-paypal...

I’m still annoyed about that.

Re:Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:21PM (#26683903)
> This vulnerability was reported to Apple in Dec 2019, and it got patched somewhere in 2020. I don’t know why a CVE-2019 ID is given.

FYI: The year part of a CVE ID is either when the ID was assigned or when the issue was publicised: https://cve.mitre.org/about/faqs.html#year_portion_of_cve_id

Not (as I had assumed) when the vulnerable software was first published.

Re:Do You Love Me? [video] on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @02:57PM (#25574070)
Really scary. Whenever I see the latest Boston Dynamics video, I’m always thinking ‘and now imagine it’s hunting you’.
Re:Jonathan Blow on Windows Terminal (video) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:16PM (#25223212)
TL;DR: What is wrong with the world that software that prints text to the screen has/needs a special project by a megacorp to make it perform/operate acceptably.

But you could say the same thing of browsers.

Isn't this kinda what Brave/Brendan are doing?
Re:Humble Bundle Books: Artificial Intelligence on Monday March 12, 2018 @03:19PM (#16570616)
Does IGN review books now? I genuinely don't see any conflict here.
Re:Firefox bullshit removal on Friday January 12, 2018 @07:23PM (#16137479)
Where did you get that idea? His stance on SSM aside, Brendan Eich is not a guy I typically associate with evil.

The whole raison d'être of Brave is to restore privacy to consumers of advertisements while being fair to publishers.

The codebase is all MPL2 on Github. Nothing stopping you or anyone forking it, yada yada.

Deep condolences to you and to their friends and families. x