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Don't Windows Services run behind the login window (when configured to do so)?

Could you set up Docker that way?

I expect that Signal encrypts the notification data prior to sending it to Apple, then decrypts it on-device using a Notification Service Extension – this is a common pattern to avoid trusting Apple with any sensitive data.

That would mean Apple stored the cleartext on-device after decryption.

That was texts.com, not Beeper

did you hear about the DSP engineer who remodeled the entryway in her house overnight?

it was a fast foyer transform

https://twitter.com/caraesten/status/1284232296497770496

Triaging notifications will be my main use for it - doing so on mobile before wasn’t great, and the new UI is even worse on mobile.

Tried the app for this and it seems great!

That's fair – the process has since been revised, and on https://automattic.com/work-with-us/how-we-hire-developers/ we now say "This work is paid, part-time, and designed to last between two and eight weeks, for a total of around 40 hours of work".

It's still a commitment to be sure, but we try really hard to make it as accessible as we can.

The 10 hours are not within "normal" business hours – it's a fully remote company. In fact, it's best if they're not – it's a good test of whether someone can communicate well asynchronously (critical for success working remotely).

Source: I work at Automattic

I think Matt mentioned it on the Vergecast recently, so it's not a secret – we have a team of top folks working on Simplenote and are continuing to invest in it.

Source: I'm on the mobile team at Automattic and just spent a week hanging out with the people working on it :)

The Canadian drug and medical device certification process is far more stringent than that of the USA.

Do you also show them the part where it says "Significant Locations are encrypted and cannot be read by Apple"? They're local to the device, not sent back to them.

I would _love_ to see that talk if you can dig it up - SQLite's stability story is fascinating.

Actually, yes. I was pitched by ad reps from the largest carrier - they claimed to be able to send an SMS when one of their customers enters a geofenced area.

Usually this is done in cahoots with the carrier - you’re typically buying the advertising from them. At least, that’s how it is here in Canada.

TL;DR (from TFA): No. We show that another option, called "Always allow scanning", when activated, makes a device send Wi-Fi frames which can be used to track this device, even if the Wi-Fi switch is off. This option is not clearly described in all Android versions, and sometimes even not deactivatable. Besides, the Google Maps application prompts the user to activate this option.

Possibly a dumb question, but if it's this embarrassingly parallel, wouldn't this be a workload more suited for calculation on a GPU? I'm assuming there's a good reason he's not using one, so could someone who understands this a little better explain it?

I'm super hopeful this could simply be used in my microwave, stove, car, really anything with a cheap clock in it to sync the time between them to some accurate source, and automatically apply DST.

Used to be true, but now, ads for any CarPlay-enabled vehicle seem to almost exclusively feature the stereo as the key selling point.

A notable holdout: Toyota, who has arguably the garbagest entertainment system.

I've never watched an Elon Musk livestream that started on time. Not sure if I'm spoiled by Apple keynotes always starting on time, or if live stream start times at SpaceX are just as loose as the company's other timelines

It's because each province maintains their own health care data and many of them refuse to share anything with the others - whether from a paranoid privacy standpoint or a bureaucratic inability to make it happen.

Are you referring to something like this? https://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/benefits.h...

Actually maybe they do - they just brought back Cherry and Vanilla coke in Canada. I for one will be contributing to an increase in sales.

Do this as well. It makes my wife slightly crazy but I never end up with clothes where the zipper failed

"To be on the safe side, criminals who go to D.C. to violate federal law should run for public office." - Best thing I've read today

URL to this? XKCD is always relevant.

Serious question, can someone explain why a team using Hipchat should switch to slack?

This is only an issue to people on the left hand side of this: http://xkcd.com/538/

27" has always been user-upgradable, new 21.5" design isn't

I could be mistaken, but I don't think the integration is through the cloud. It looks like it's built on the same tech as airdrop, using bluetooth 4.0 to exchange bonjour data then build an ad-hoc wifi network to transfer data (might skip the wifi for tiny transfers like email contents)

Otherwise, the stuff like instant tethering wouldn't work because the devices would never be able to connect - also it seemed too fast in the demo to be making the round trip to the cloud, though that is the nature of demos