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by Ansil849 5y ago
How is this a scam? It sounds more like a case of using outdated business listings.
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You completely ignored the "doing unpaid labour for a megacorporation" portion, which is the "sarcastic" point the author is making. Unpaid individuals should not be doing content moderation for Google.
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> Digital goods are still considered property so its far from ridiculous That is precisely what makes it ridiculous.
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> To a recent years, lot of films where banned We are not talking about films which are specifically banned, or content which is generally illegal. We are talking about content that is 'normative' and generally legal around the
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Because in 2021, culture is global. Your examples also don't really make any analogous sense, at all. You are free to learn whichever language you want. Under the corporate geofencing intellectual property regime, you are not free to w
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Could someone give a bird's eye view summary of why 1Password moving to Electron is bad? Are there documented security risks, or is it more just a UX/UI aesthetic issue?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
It is absolutely ridiculous that anyone's physical location should impact the content they are allowed to watch. Full stop.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> a nice bus driver guy who also really didn't know english that well. As opposed to the nice bus drivers in English-speaking countries who know Korean really well?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
It's already like that. Tracks are deleted from Spotify left and right.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Why is this comment being downvoted? This is absolutely the correct approach to take. If there is content that you value, you need to personally archive a copy, because it may be gone for hundreds of reasons next time you try to access it.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
It's pretty straightforward: conspiracy videos generate a lot of views, which is ultimately profitable for youtube. Videos which point out that the conspiracy videos are garbage have the potential to adversely impact their astronomical
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Again: > I don't see the point of this stretched hypothetical. If it were to come up, then you could deal with accordingly - for instance by getting the update and then blocking the ad server somewhere upstream in your network path.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> The problem is that the vast majority of people do not behave in this manner. Precisely. It's why shit like this continues to happen. Because the stark reality is that most people do not care. And a large percentage of the ones th
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> telling consumers to "not buy smart devices" is putting an disproportionate burden on them, given the market conditions as well as the actual consumer expectations and desires. This is true for all consumer goods. The disprop
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Literally any device can force you to update, by the simple means of not letting you access the service without the latest version of their app. This is literally not true.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
It will never end so long as consumers will keep buying the products. In other words, it will never end, period.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you got some tips, and here's another site with some options: https://pointerclicker.com/best-dumb-tv/ My comment to your post was just a general observation that I find it d
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> And if a fix for a critical vulnerability and an ad feature are both in the same update? Can you point to actual real-world examples where this has been the case? I don't see the point of this stretched hypothetical. If it were to
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by Ansil849 5y ago
They are not hard to find at all. Sure it's more 'difficult' than searching for 'TV' on Amazon, but if you spend ten minutes doing a web search, you will find some brands. Here's one site to get you started: h
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by Ansil849 5y ago
If you buy a product that someone can remotely control, then you are setting yourself up for a world of hurt. Whether that is advertising or having all your data wiped (like is currently the case for those Western Digital Live Book hard dri
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> So, don't buy anything capable of receiving a software update? Not quite. Don't buy anything that forces updates. Updates are obviously important for security, compatibility and a slew of other reasons. But updates which are
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by Ansil849 5y ago
People still bought products that had the capability of ads being inserted retroactively. If you don't want the potential of ads being inserted into hardware you purchase, then don't purchase hardware that allows it. It is very st
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by Ansil849 5y ago
It's very straightforward: do not buy products that have the capability to have ads added to them retroactively. There is zero way any of the three televisions in my house will have ads added to them unless someone physically comes int
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by Ansil849 5y ago
The way to combat this is not to buy products that have this and then complain about them. The companies that make them do not care, they have already gotten your money. The way to combat this is to not buy products that have this in the fi
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by Ansil849 5y ago
This person seems to have absolutely no grasp of the concept of forgiveness. People make mistakes. Penalizing people for arcane ordering snafus for prolonged periods of time seems like the classic definition of power tripping, nothing more.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Does using a stolen cookie allow you to bypass account 2FA in Slack? Or did EA's slack not enforce 2FA for all accounts? I feel like this is an important question because if the former, the security lapse here is on Slack; if the latte
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> their most infamous “games” were just poorly-animated movies on a PS2 disc Those animations look magnitudes better than modern CGI animated children's programming.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
When someone quickly walks by your desk, unless they happen to be a really big surrealist connoisseur, their first thought will not be 'oh, they're looking up Magritte's Olympia, how lovely'. The first thought of a casua
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Was the equipment not insured? This is the underlying point of theft coverage: the realization that even if police investigate a case, they will likely be unable to get the stolen items back.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Today, we’re announcing that the ability to upload video is generally available for everyone across GitHub. Now you can upload .mp4 and .mov files in issues, pull requests, discussions, and more. Is there a filesize limit?

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