MForster | 3 years ago | on: How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
As opposed to not linking "find my phone" to "find AirTags".
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MForster | 3 years ago | on: How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
Thanks for pointing out the encryption. Would be nice if the original article did explain a bit what's actually going on...
MForster | 3 years ago | on: How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
Thanks for pointing out the encryption. That changes things a bit, IMHO.
Would have been nice if the article explained a bit what is actually happening. The wikipedia article doesn't mention it either...
MForster | 3 years ago | on: How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
Sorry for coming across as using bad faith. It's just that I didn't understand the overall model. And the article didn't explain it.
Also, I wouldn't blame the victim. I'd rather blame Apple for making their users opt in.
MForster | 3 years ago | on: How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
Ah, so Apple is linking the feature of finding _my_ phone with reporting on lots of others? That explains why people turn it on, but I find that creepy.
MForster | 3 years ago | on: How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
So, enough iPhone users opt in to surveillance to make this a globally useful method for stalking? Wow.
MForster | 3 years ago | on: How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
And the iPhone will share that information globally without asking for permission? I can see how that is a privacy concern.
MForster | 3 years ago | on: How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
Can somebody explain how the stalking actually works? As I understand, the wireless technology is short-range? How does the stalker know where the tag is if they're not next to it?
MForster | 3 years ago | on: The Airbus A380's Quietness Made Sleeping Harder for Pilots
I agree. While a quieter cabin may sound nice (pun intended), I found it noticeably harder to sleep on an A380 than on louder planes.
For me it's not even that you hear more of the other passengers (my experience is mostly in business and first class, which are less dense and rarely have babies). But the monotonous noise from the aircraft engines really helps me sleep.
MForster | 3 years ago | on: Falsehoods programmers believe about email
Facebook used to reject my email address, because the local part was "email", i.e., "[email protected]".
I was not amused.
MForster | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you find Discord completely disorienting?
That's s false dichotomy. Why not support different types of users at the same time?
Zulip is more of a hybrid between a forum and a chat service, and I think it does that really well.
MForster | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you find Discord completely disorienting?
The problem I have with Discord (as well as with IRC and Slack and other "chat" services) is insufficient structure to get a good overview of what's going on. Maybe it's not supposed to be used in a completionist way, but that makes me really uncomfortable. What if I miss something important!?!
It's even worse when a large part of the community is in a different time zone. I just come back every day with too big a pile of discussions and no way for me to make sense of what happened.
I understand the sentiment that I'm not supposed to read everything, but that's just not how I roll.
As a great example of a chat service that works well for me, take a look at Zulip. The UI takes some time of getting used to, but the way how all conversations are grouped into "topics" makes it so much easier to filter.
Discord threads could be used in a similar way, but they just never are. I blame it on the UI.
MForster | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you care about release notes on app updates?
I do.
But I don't care about having a full list of changes. I rather want the top changes and features explained in a lot of detail.
I think the [VSCode] release notes are a great example.
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