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Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:35AM (#50269394)
iCloud will sync your contacts, Notes, Keychains, and other data on macOS.
What's weird is that they are still pointing at the Automattic (WordPress VIP) IP address and redirecting via a WP plugin. So the content is likely still there.
Re:Don't use "click here" as link text – W3C on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:35PM (#44450362)
People are _still_ doing this shit. Unsubscribe links. Official government site. Fucking terrible.
Re:Google DMARC Policy Changes? on Monday June 02, 2025 @09:43AM (#44158781)
I've seen "DMARC: 'PASS'" on Show Original for a long time (years?).
Re:Amazon won't accept written communication on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:29PM (#42224075)
Per https://www.elliott.org/company-contacts/amazon/ you can email [email protected] or an exec listed there.
Re:Ask HN: How do I stop political SMS spam? on Thursday April 25, 2024 @12:47PM (#40159852)
How are you answering? Is responding with STOP not working?
This is great! Suggestion: it shows 10 trains per station, which means fewer stations per screen. Perhaps show the first 3 and show the rest under a disclosure? Or add a settings for this?
Nice to see there are humans here!

- Going from the beta to the prod app erases all of my favorites

- many stations (like Atlantic Ave-Barclays) have to be added two or three times under favorites

- under nearby, each bus location is listed twice (one per direction, cluttering up the list)

- would love to see a view that showed me all trains from the nearest N (three? let me pick) stations, so I could decide which one to walk to — currently have to swipe/tap back and forth between multiple screens (which typically lose state/position)

- in settings, two menu items refer to AAR. I am sure 90% of the users don't know that's "Access-a-Ride"; there's also no way to turn that off for the people who don't use it

- contact us isn't integrated into SalesForce, so you have to re-enter your contact info each time, and there's no way to follow up on tickets from the app

- would be nice to have live chat to customer service (like you can via WhatsApp)

- if you enter text into the search field, then shrink the window height by dragging it to the bottom, you lose your search field contents

Product-wise, you are still structuring this around the physical infrastructure (what's at station XYZ) vs the user need (how do I get to place ABC).

Hopefully you'll bundle TrainTime in soon, as well as add OMNY card management.

It is amazing (but not surprising) that MyMTA (which is ≈6 years old) was "unmaintainble" and had to be thrown out. Can't decide if it was because the city only paid $40K/year and couldn't hire anyone good or because they paid some consultant who is friends with DOITT staff $5MM/year.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:38PM (#38535090)
I’m hiring a mid-level or senior engineer for Terraso at Tech Matters. Principals only (no agencies/recruiters/job shops).

Tech Matters is a tech nonprofit that builds open source software to help solve social problems.

Title: Software Engineer (or Senior Software Engineer)

Company: Tech Matters

Type: Full Time

Location: Remote (Americas)

Salary: $70-120K (based on location/experience)

Apply via https://jobs.lever.co/TechMatters/e7acca51-8ba8-40ea-8b5e-83...

Not requiring security keys for staff in 2023 is inexcusable.
The EFF can help. Send an email to [email protected] and say you want some Coders Rights advice.
Re:Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:27AM (#32920794)
I ran into a problem formatting numbers in the Italian locale back in 2014: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+...

It turned out to be a low-level bug in glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10797

It got fixed five years later, long after I had worked around it and left the job where I found the bug.

Re:Ask HN: IT Security Checklist for Startups? on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:59AM (#32664044)
Mandatory Yubikeys should be on your list.
Re:Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate on Friday August 26, 2022 @10:38AM (#32608117)
Amounts should be $20-39, $40-69, $70-99 to avoid overlap.
The EFF has a cooperating attorneys list. They can refer you to someone who can help.
Globant was mostly low-paid low-quality folks. Probably not a good fit.
Re:Public Apology to Jeremy Howard on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:19PM (#24945854)
This blog post is unsigned. They should have put their names on it.
There are a number of Chrome extensions to facilitate instagram downloading.
Re:An Apology and an Update on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:14AM (#18739057)
I want to see a post-incident analysis, like GitHub published: https://blog.github.com/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analy...
Re:What web developers should know about SSL on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:07PM (#10775761)
I've compiled lots of resources for moving to HTTPS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EJKAoa4Hxc4AyH0znuA_AApl...
Re:Cookies Lack Integrity: Real-World Implications on Friday September 25, 2015 @02:19PM (#10279761)
Why isn't cert.org using HTTPS by default?
Re:Presidential candidate website tech, compared on Monday April 13, 2015 @12:39PM (#9368662)
Nice username.
Re:Presidential candidate website tech, compared on Monday April 13, 2015 @12:39PM (#9368653)
CDN origins usually aren't public. I found the Ted Cruz one by checking the DNS history.
Re:Presidential candidate website tech, compared on Monday April 13, 2015 @08:45AM (#9367269)
Green check mark means its presence is good (i.e. HTTPS support). Red X means its absence is bad

Footnote [2] explains SNI support (where the red check mark is “bad.”)

California law requires that you be paid every two weeks.
Re:Schwab password policies and two factor authentication on Monday December 22, 2014 @02:01PM (#8784489)
True. I was so confused when I got my token — it didn't come with instructions, and there was no activation link on the site.

I ended up calling support to figure out how to set things up.

Re:Schwab password policies and two factor authentication on Monday December 22, 2014 @01:42PM (#8784376)
Schwab does let you enter your token code on a separate screen. If you enter your username and password (without appended token code), you'll get this screen: https://www.flickr.com/photos/paul/16079572151/
Re:Schwab password policies and two factor authentication on Monday December 22, 2014 @01:36PM (#8784349)
After receiving unsatisfactory responses from my local Schwab rep here in New York and the customer service staff, I complained to Schwab's CISO, Bashar Abouseido <[email protected]>, on September 1.

He never replied.

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