Hacker News
- uTorrent tricking users into changing default browser settings? http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=139892 147 comments
- DHS warns iPhone users to change settings over zero-day vulnerability https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-agency-warns-millions-of-iphone-users-to-change-settings-now_5059459.html 4 comments
Lobsters
- Twitter API Changes Set Maximum User Cap for 3rd Parties http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/08/17/twitter-4/ 13 comments api
- Allow users to change Solidworks settings without admin? None 6 comments sysadmin
- Chromium Edge GPO settings user can change https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/iyb87c/chromium_edge_gpo_settings_user_can_change/ 4 comments sysadmin
- VScode user settings very basic code change help for nube https://youtu.be/yE9v9rt6ziw 6 comments learnprogramming
- A Facebook bug changed the privacy settings for 14 million users https://www.recode.net/2018/6/7/17438928/facebook-bug-privacy-public-settings-14-million-users 6 comments privacy
- Apple invention changes iPhone user authentication settings based on location. http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/07/03/apple-invention-changes-iphone-user-authentication-settings-based-on-location 24 comments apple
- Changing a users' UPN value in O365 using Set-AzureADUser - Did you notice a change recently? https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7bumvs/changing_a_users_upn_value_in_o365_using/ 8 comments sysadmin
- Facebook users aren’t changing their privacy settings, despite uproar https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/13/facebook-users-aren-t-changing-privacy-settings/ 6 comments technology
- Facebook users aren’t changing their privacy settings, despite uproar https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/13/facebook-users-aren-t-changing-privacy-settings/ 8 comments privacy
- Android Users, Change This Setting to Stop Facebook's Collection of Your Call and Text Metadata https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/android-users-change-setting-stop-facebooks-collection-your-call-and-text-metadata 3 comments technews
- Android Users, Change This Setting to Stop Facebook's Collection of Your Call and Text Metadata https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/android-users-change-setting-stop-facebooks-collection-your-call-and-text-metadata 3 comments technology
- It's 2022 and we still cannot change default SSL policy nor set user managed SSL policy as default https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/117145129 8 comments googlecloud
- Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users; facial recognition is enabled http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/07/facebook-privacy-settings-facial-recognition-enabled/ 12 comments reddit.com
- Microsoft Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, ignoring default browser settings in Windows | The change does not affect Outlook users on Mac https://www.techspot.com/news/98549-microsoft-outlook-teams-open-links-edge-ignoring-default.html 3 comments technews
- New regulatory changes in Canada will allow users to buy as much BTC/ ETH/ LTC / BCH as they desire while setting a limit of $30k per year for everything else. What? None 29 comments btc
- Google Sets Limit on How Long It Will Store Some Data: The internet company has long been criticized about how much information it keeps on users. The change applies only to new accounts. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/google-data-storage.html 3 comments technology
- Twitter users are changing their location setting to Germany to clear their feed of white supremacist tweets https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-users-germany-hate-speech-1452684 156 comments politics
- EU iPhones will be able to change the default phone and messaging apps soon | Apple will let users easily set new default keyboard and password managers or even delete the App Store app. https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24226110/apple-iphone-ipad-default-apps-eu-competition 294 comments technology
- EU iPhones will be able to change the default phone and messaging apps soon | Apple will let users easily set new default keyboard and password managers or even delete the App Store app. https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24226110/apple-iphone-ipad-default-apps-eu-competition 63 comments technews
- Google Just Revealed How Many People Use Its Privacy Checkup Tool. It's Not Good News Almost no one changes the default settings. That's bad for users but very good for Google https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/google-just-revealed-how-many-people-use-its-privacy-checkup-tool-its-not-good-news.html 5 comments privacy
- If You Care About Privacy, You Should Change Your Twitter Settings Right Now - The policy is being run on an ‘opt-out’ basis, meaning that if users do not actively change their settings, these policies will automatically be applied to their accounts http://theantimedia.org/privacy-twitter-settings-change/ 8 comments privacy
- Do users change their settings? Less than 5% of the users we surveyed had changed any settings at all. One category of people who almost always changed their settings: programmers and designers. If you’re a programmer or designer, then you’re not like most people http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/09/14/do-users-change-their-settings/ 26 comments web_design
- "Valve just made a change to their privacy settings, making games owned by Steam users hidden by default. Steam Spy relied on this information being visible by default and won't be able to operate anymore." https://twitter.com/steam_spy/status/983879694658437120 313 comments gamedev
- I needed to have all the labels in my existing project to change font size according to user's phone OS setting. How can I do that while I didn't subclass UILabel? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uifont/scaling_fonts_automatically 6 comments swift
- Microsoft is changing how Alt-Tab works on Windows 10 - Instead of tabbing between apps, Microsoft is experimenting with allowing Windows 10 users to also switch between the tabs within the Sets feature inside the Alt-Tab interface https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17330702/microsoft-windows-10-new-features-announced-build-2018 19 comments microsoft
- A Privacy Researcher Uncovered a Year’s Worth of Breakups and Drug Deals Using Venmo’s Public Data - Unless you change the settings yourself, the stuff you do on Venmo is publicly visible. “Public by Default” explores the easily accessible details of Venmo users’ lives. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5n8wk/public-by-default-venmo-privacy-settings 10 comments technology
- Does anybody know how to get Desktop Background slide show working in conjunction with "Prevent changing desktop background" GPO set to enabled? What I want to happen is a folder of images to cycle through but still stop users from just changing it, so far all I can get is one or the other. http://www.dkszone.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/disable_changing_desktop_background_10_.jpg 6 comments sysadmin
- The Making Of Diaspora --- Four young coders are trying to change social media forever. Their vision? Users set a preferred networking provider but can still interact with friends using other services. Could this "federated social web" destroy Facebook? http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/the-making-of-diaspora/0 117 comments business