Whether you can turn them off depends on your operating system. Most of them allow you to turn them off. What are you using? And if it really bothers you, why don't you switch?
The point XorNot made (and I agree) is that "it is switched on by default". And then you need to go to 5 different settings to switch them off (OS update, App update, iCloud login, iCloud sync of Backup-StockApps-Messages-etc).
The "welcome" should not be "all your data are belong to us". It should be "Hi, iCloud-Y/N, AutoUpdateOS-Y/N, Backup Message-Y/N, Backup Notes-Y/N, etc.).
I get it that for MANY reasons Apple wants everyone to run the latest OS/Apps versions, but.... did they ASK me?
Exiting their ecosystem is painful. Apple/Google rely on this. There are plenty of discussions on 'how to exit' and alternatives, but this is HN. The average HN-er is not exactly the same as the average smartphone user.
Honestly it's more that there's no reason to think any of those buttons do what they say they do. Why should they? I haven't inspected the source code which controls them, I didn't build the firmware images which go on my devices.
Without reproducible builds from multiple sources, how can we be sure of anything?
If there's a service we have a desperate need for, it's a change in ecosystem priorities that core functionality - OS's, chipsets, etc. - are open source, and updates go out as inspectable patches which get pulled into reproducible build farms and bittorrented out to users.
Start with C compilers and work your way outward from there, but I should be able to cryptographically prove to myself that the firmware update going into my Android phone was independently reproducible from public source code from users in a few different nations.
For Pixels they only provide images to paying customers. They were mad about people resellling flashed devices because it violated their noncommercial license and even disabled the update servers for Nexus devices entirely for a while.
Wouldn't the criminal in this case be able to intercept the letter with the PIN also and replace it with a letter that looks the same but has the wrong PIN? The receiver would not be able to find out the PIN is wrong because the cards chip does not work at all.
I have never received the pin by post. My bank sends me the card, then I have to go online to activate it and set the pin on the website - the card never has a pin assigned to it by default.
Pins are generally mailed separately before after mailing the cards. (In this case I'm speaking of debit cards) It might make it difficult to map the pins to the chips, but maybe not since it seems these are bulk mailings.
Wow, people are butthurt. It's a wildly known fact in the industry. A simple google search for benchmarks or a PDF like this would have satisfied them. But they didn't want the truth they wanted to be butthurt.
In basically every chart and graph, OpenCL is slower.
OpenCL has a higher level of abstraction, so it's got a higher penalty for it. But, you get cross-platform support. nVidia doesn't optimize for OpenCL either because they don't want you to use it over their own competing framework.
But 'dats cool, keep downvoting, guys. Sources aren't real if you can downvote 'em enough. God, I love Hacker News.
Would you kindly raise the level of discourse here? You have useful information, so thanks for sharing it. But please leave the swipes and complaints about downvotes and HN members out of it. It worsens discussion and is against the guidelines. You’ll likely receive downvoted for that, more than anything else.
There is no way to determine what 95% of the community want for the future of Bitcoin. There is no community voting in Bitcoin. Only miner signalling. People can stop using Bitcoin after a change but there is no way to get their opinion in advance.
VPN tunnels that go over port 443 SSL are difficult to throttle w/o affecting other services. They'd have to throttle by destination address, which can be more complex when available VPN endpoints are geographically distributed.
This is not what he described. Removing any of these permissions must be handled by the app. The app shouldn't even know I removed a permission. It should just get empty or fake data.
This is a denial of service attack against the user, at most should be an innocuous overlay that alerts the user when an application using a privacy reducing api when that user has it disallowed.
The app should never know the user declined usage of an API. When any app uses a privacy reducing API, the user should be able to know when that occurs. Microphone, location, etc, should be a small overlay like maybe the battery indicator icon where they can know when the app would have violated their privacy.
Yeah but the first time, the user has to decide whether he wants to allow or disallow. It's system dialog, the app can't interfere with it in any way. The icon you want is then shown in the notification area.
The Bitcoin network cannot know or should it care about a fiat exchange rate. Which currency should it look at? Dollar? Euro? Why?
If the block frequency of ten minutes is not met, the difficulty is automatically adjusted after 2016 blocks (ca. 2 weeks) up or down.
I think miners have to know and care about a fiat exchange rate, at least until electricity can be paid for in BTC. So that's where I thought a threshold for miners running their equipment without losing money might come from - and thus a never-come-back dropdown limit. I really don't know, just curious. But probably automatic adjustment takes care of this, as you said.
