Vishnyakov Pavel

I guess this article answers the question of when Fitbit will become compatible with Apple Health. The correct answer is "never"

Wondering the same question here. Though QC45 are discounted below 300 EUR right now at Bose (at least in the Netherlands), so they win

It looks like Sony copied Bose’s 700 and QC45 headphones strategy directly, both in terms of design and in terms of pricing.

Sony had two of them in the past (with one having control scheme similar to late PSP Go). Both failed miserably

It would be nice if the cities are planned / re-planned with that in mind.

Law enforcement agents also use guns against, potentially, everybody. Does it mean that they should be prohibited from using guns as well?

Why drones are bad but guns are good? Both are just tools.

Torturing POW by making them swallow the sword

I fail to see how "randomly kidnap people and torture them to give access to all accounts they have" is different to "randomly off people and use their still warm fingers to get access to all accounts they have"

And don’t forget that you still need login information, so it might be useful to keep you barely alive (unless all your logins are written in plain text somewhere in your standard Notes app on your phone)

That’s the main problem.

Everybody has their own implementation of passwordless authentification: Apple, Adobe, Google, Microsoft, LastPass, Synology, Yandex, Amazon, Blizzard… List goes on. Thankfully not all of them are mandatory

Whether it’s your finger or your password, nothing really changes. You could be forced to scan your finger. You could also be forced to input your password (by threatening to cut off your finger, for example).

Too many people would be disenfranchised because they can’t afford a phone or the monthly payments.

Those people will continue to use their old sms-only phones and get their 2FA codes via SMS, same as now. Don’t see a problem here.

There’re lots of people who won’t switch to password less because of different reasons and lots of companies who will still use passwords because they don’t want to switch. Password managers will still exist.

Hopefully it will work on OS level instead of requiring me to install a login app for e very provider. I already have a password manager, Microsoft Authenticator (because of work and personal Microsoft accounts) and a couple of authenticator-like apps for other places that have a very custom 2FA implementation.

I like this idea of "I try to log in, my phone pings me, I approve on the phone and I’m in" but I don’t want my several hundred passwords to be turned into several hundred (or even just several) authenticator apps.

Most tech research has military potential

All research has military potential.

It can be used for warfare. Sure. But it can also be used to search for a missing person in the wild. It can be used for mapping dense environments faster than a human.

For me (or, more precisely, for my parents) the main problem is not the confusing interface (there’s a learning curve there though which I’d rather avoid) but the fact that Calibre is this all-encompassing book management thingy. I like apps that manages files for me (Calbre, iTunes, IDEs etc), but my parents would rather settle for a simple one-button thing that can take in epub and spit out prc/mobi file.

Usually I’m not on board with all those anti-competitive EU rulings that are for greater good in general but bad for me as a consumer in particular.

But this is not the case. Apple Pay integration is a tedious process for banks which is why lots of banks don’t do it at all. If they could just use the same tech but with their own apps instead of going through Apple Pay – it would be great and would mean that more users will get to use the tech in the end.

It’s nice for cameras (all cameras accepting FZ100 batteries can already be charged via USB-C but this allows you to charge a spare without bringing a separate charger).

It would be even nicer for drone batteries.