Hacker News: ajscanlan

New comment by ajscanlan in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

ajscanlan — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:22:11 +0000

it would be crazy not to at least investigate migration paths away from Crowdstrike, or better redundancies for yourself

New comment by ajscanlan in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

ajscanlan — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:15:18 +0000

valuable 2 cents

is there any writeups from the pentesting side of things that we can read to learn more?

New comment by ajscanlan in "Apple now allows iOS developers to send ads using push notifications"

ajscanlan — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:09:23 +0000

If the app doesn't ask, they can't send them. They're opt-in.

New comment by ajscanlan in "Apple now allows iOS developers to send ads using push notifications"

ajscanlan — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:43:17 +0000

Notifications are blocked by default.

New comment by ajscanlan in "Apple now allows iOS developers to send ads using push notifications"

ajscanlan — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:39:15 +0000

If you had the option to block the marketing notifications but still receive the important ones, would you do that?

New comment by ajscanlan in "Apple now allows iOS developers to send ads using push notifications"

ajscanlan — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:37:50 +0000

Yeah this works really well on Android, I'm surprised Apple hasn't taken a similar approach.

You don't want ads from Uber but still want a push when your ride arrives? Just block the ads channel in settings.

As you said I'm sure there's some bad apps out there that only have one channel, but I haven't noticed any. The big apps seem to support this quite well.

New comment by ajscanlan in "LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app"

ajscanlan — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 13:59:22 +0000

The apps don't have permission to do that either unless you grant them.

New comment by ajscanlan in "Things about the new Firefox browser for Android"

ajscanlan — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:18:16 +0000

On Android it does.

New comment by ajscanlan in "Apple wont let bad guys use iPhones in movies, director says"

ajscanlan — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:57:34 +0000

I found this, not sure how reliable it is but it mentions a photographer being extorted $350.

https://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag05/may_05/webspecs/...

New comment by ajscanlan in "I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit"

ajscanlan — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 09:58:17 +0000

ack

New comment by ajscanlan in "Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings"

ajscanlan — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:57:52 +0000

> a) you speak something roughly approaching English

Whoa there, down with that sort of stuff now friend. That's not a nice thing to say.

New comment by ajscanlan in "Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax"

ajscanlan — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 10:22:27 +0000

> That person is currently in prison.

But isn't Anne Sacoolas walking free?

You haven't "basically gone through this", since person that killed your sister was held accountable for their actions.

Anne Sacoolas was not held accountable, that family has no closure unlike yours.

> If it wasn't an accident or if she was in fact negligent, that's another story

She is to be charged with "causing death by _dangerous_ driving", not an accident.

All that being said I'm sorry about your sister and I hope you're doing OK.

New comment by ajscanlan in "How to Find New Music"

ajscanlan — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:06:45 +0000

What kind of music are you looking for?

New comment by ajscanlan in "The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10"

ajscanlan — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:21:46 +0000

If the iPad was a standalone business, and had no access to the Apple ecosystem or brand, do you think it would still generate ~$20B/year?

Obviously we can't know, but the point is success is relative.

Some people might expect better from Apple and so their standard for success is higher than $20B/year on one of their flagship products.

New comment by ajscanlan in "How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”"

ajscanlan — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:00:43 +0000

I believe that's the Barnum effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

New comment by ajscanlan in "Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it"

ajscanlan — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:46:49 +0000

> Apple makes no distinction between companies on it's platform that compete with it and those that do not, they are all treated the same, so it's hard to see an argument that this is mainly targeted at their competitors holding water.

There was that story last year about them ranking their own apps above competing 3rd party apps when searching.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-dominates-app-store-searc...

New comment by ajscanlan in "Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law"

ajscanlan — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 10:02:57 +0000

> And as for the organs, much of the west ( especially in europe ) take people's organs without their explicit consent (it's called opt-out organ "donation".

I feel like equating the forcible harvesting of organs to opt out organ donation is extremely disingenuous.

New comment by ajscanlan in "Study of “moral grandstanding” helps explain why social media is so toxic"

ajscanlan — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:28:34 +0000

> There are objectively right and wrong answers in politics.

What would be considered objectively right or wrong?

New comment by ajscanlan in "Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible"

ajscanlan — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:30:28 +0000

> And oh boy, did they ever.

I cannot wait until the MBP 2025 with the whole keyboard replaced by the touchbar..

Who needs tactile feedback?

New comment by ajscanlan in "Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible"

ajscanlan — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:04:33 +0000

`CMD + Shift + F` applies formatting.

Unfortunately it must be done every time, no autoformatting by default it seems.