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For the past 2+ years I've been working on this project on and off (mostly off as of late, but I'd love to get back into it again)

MusicLink - a third party music app that does song matchup across streaming services. You can message a friend a link to a song and the app will automatically translate the link to their preferred streaming service. No more getting links to songs on services you don't have and manually looking up music.

That's the core functionality but I'm also building in generative playlists & music discovery tools.

Apple Cash 4 years ago

Why is this on the front page..? Apple Cash has been around for years. It doesn't even look like they've added anything new unless I'm missing something?

Hey Ted, I currently use google domains and while I'm pretty happy with that one service I would like to switch away from Google entirely and that is one of the last services of theirs I use. What case can you make for why I should switch to namecheap?

That is not at all what is happening here. They are not 'remotely editing' your hardware any more than a corporate website who puts a support banner on their website for some cause. Siri, much like websites, is a service. Like a website, you are free to not use it if you so choose. Nothing has changed on your device, and if anything this is less of a feature than a banner on a website because you have to specifically invoke these actions.

I would love to get rid of my Echos and lock down my network, but I can't find a self-hosted & open source smart home voice solution that can match the Alexa ecosystem. I do have my smart home on a separate network that's highly monitored, but I really wish I could completely lock it down so it couldn't talk to the outside world at all. I would be totally willing to pay for a self-hosted solution to Alexa just for smart home automation/control

No to Chrome 7 years ago

Still holding out hope. I'll have to look into the suggestions again then! Maybe I could figure out a way to migrate keychain

No to Chrome 7 years ago

Literally the day Firefox finds the way to be able to use all my passwords in keychain/suggest and generate new ones, I'm switching to it full time. I loved safari, but killing extensions is crossing a line.

No to Chrome 7 years ago

The dev tools available in the Firefox developer edition are honestly way better than chrome's in every possible way (as far as I'm concerned) recently switched myself and couldn't be happier!

I found a vulnerability in linkedIn a few years back that allowed anyone to access a private profile (because client side validation was enough for them I guess..?)

They didn't take my report seriously (still not completely patched) and I feel like that told me all I needed to know about their security practices.

Apple protects the message in transit. What you are talking about is the equivalent of letting someone borrow your phone, then getting mad when your carrier delivers sms messages to your phone number while someone else was holding your phone. Apple has done their part, it's up to the users to enforce security of their endpoints as well.