sawaruna
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
It's maybe my perception, but I don't know if 'is this cheaper form of payment directly to you less safe?' is a question many users would be having. To me anyway, it seems like an excuse to namedrop a bunch of services where direct payment is offered (again, primarily for physical goods) so users can have a list of these in their mind provided Apple cracks down on this.
Comment · 6 years ago
Maybe you're thinking of FandangoNOW? AFAIK Fandango does not let you 'buy movies'.
Comment · 6 years ago
No, I'm asking if they will allow people to buy digital PC titles on EGS via direct purchase to the developer and bypass the percentage EGS takes. People are bringing up digital currency or IAP, but if Epic is arguing for 'direct payments in all apps', why would this be limited solely to digital currency and not the digital item itself?
Comment · 6 years ago
>Does a new payment method on mobile mean purchases there are less safe?
>No. Thousands of apps on the App Store approved by Apple accept direct payments, including commonly used apps like Amazon, Grubhub, Nike SNKRS, Best Buy, DoorDash, Fandango, McDonalds, Uber, Lyft, and StubHub. We think all developers should be free to support direct payments in all apps. [0]
All of these services provide something physical. You can't buy Kindle Books, for example, on Amazon's app on iOS. This a bit disingenuous.
>We think all developers should be free to support direct payments in all apps.
Does this mean Epic will start allowing users of the Epic Games Store on PC to directly pay game developers and bypass the EGS cut?
[0] https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/fortnite-mega-drop-faq
Comment · 6 years ago
Figures there would be some obstacle.
Comment · 6 years ago
>The vulnerable application is the interactive chat application that allows to send messages to other passengers.
A bit of a side note here, but does anyone actually use this? I remember seeing it on an ANA flight and thought it was a funny feature. I suppose the intent is to message someone you know if you happen to be seated far away, but the thought of sending random unsolicited messages to any seat (assuming there isn't something to prevent this, e.g. message receiving is off by default unless you allow specific seat numbers) is a bit fun / odd. 'Seat 24B here, anyone else can't sleep?'
Comment · 6 years ago
Buying an HHKB and typing 70-90 WPM does not make one an "Expert Typist"
Comment · 6 years ago
The lowering of the planet’s albedo through melting ice sounds like the most worrisome runaway effect.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's from April, but a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q_DDXpzQgw
Comment · 6 years ago
>Also important to remember is that GPS is not the same as location services. Even if GPS and cellular data are unavailable, a mobile device calculates location using Wi-Fi and/or BT. Apps and websites can also use other sensor data (that does not require user permission) and web browser information to obtain or infer location information.
Wondering what kind of sensory data they meant here, I had a look at the citation[0]. If anyone else is curious:
>We describe PinMe, a novel user-location mechanism that exploits non-sensory/sensory data stored on the smartphone, e.g., the environment’s air pressure and device’s timezone, along with publicly-available auxiliary information, e.g., elevation maps, to estimate the user’s location when all location services, e.g., GPS, are turned off. Unlike previously- proposed attacks, PinMe neither requires any prior knowledge about the user nor a training dataset on specific routes. We demonstrate that PinMe can accurately estimate the user’s location during four activities (walking, traveling on a train, driving, and traveling on a plane).
Comment · 6 years ago
No doubt. Enjoying & (feeling like compared to others I was) excelling at finding information was what made me get interested in information science in the first place, but I often felt advances in ML and NLP would allow for anyone to find exactly what they wanted (which would be great) even considering the increasing amount of information to have to search through. Google’s ‘I’m going to ignore half the words in your search query’ seem to be moving away from that for whatever reason.
Comment · 6 years ago
> mac presentation: Prepare MAC for presentation: minimize all apps, close browsers, send files from desktop and downloads to trash and set not disturb mode
This sounds like a terrible idea, just because of the chances of accidental trash emptying. Why not just a folder in a Documents or something?
Comment · 6 years ago
Might be my librarian career bias but I'm always surprised at how few people know about query operators. Ironically as Google search seems to be ignoring vital parts of people's queries, they are becoming more needed now, whereas years ago I would have assumed a constantly improving Google search would get better at determining what I was looking for.
This is unrelated to them supporting their 'direct pay to developers' stance on their own storefront. And no, people can't 'buy PC titles anywhere they like' as every game is not multiplatform / storefront.