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by Forbo 5y ago
> Its only a matter of time before the wrong people get their hands on all the data that big tech has been unscrupulously mining for years now. An authoritarian's wet dream. This is typically my go to for any discussion regarding pr
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by Forbo 5y ago
I thought the Bluetooth thing only applied from the quick menu. I've been told if you disable it in Settings that it will actually turn it off.
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by Forbo 5y ago
Here's hoping the change is genuine and not just a surveillance front.
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by Forbo 5y ago
Would we be having the same conversation if they had stock in GAFAM instead of Bitcoin?
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by Forbo 5y ago
Additionally, lots of factory farmed beef doesn't involve grazing. Instead they feed them corn and soy. Factory farming makes up 98.66% of meat production comes from factory farms. 70.4% of beef comes from factory farms. https:/&
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by Forbo 5y ago
> If you care about privacy just don't carry a phone. I feel like this position is unrealistic. Privacy is possible with a modern smartphone. Using an alternative OS on Android devices can help facilitate this. I've been using
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by Forbo 5y ago
OsmAnd allows you to record your movement and leverages OpenStreetMap.
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by Forbo 5y ago
I have paid for splitting a ride share, tipping open source projects, donating to development funds, etc. I use it because I hate the trend of surveillance capitalism you see with crap like Venmo and even credit cards.
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by Forbo 5y ago
Sorry, can you expound on this?
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by Forbo 5y ago
Feeding animals for slaughter requires an order of magnitude more plant destruction, simply for the fact that you're passing those plants through another trophic level. If humans were to eat the soy that is typically used for feed, tha
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by Forbo 5y ago
Welp, looks like this is going to be another avenue by which a major corporation engages in mass surveillance capitalism. I'd rather my financial activity not be constantly monitored, profiled, and sold off for advertising or whatever
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by Forbo 5y ago
I'm reminded of the "GNU plus Linux" copypasta.
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by Forbo 5y ago
Am I missing something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Supra
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by Forbo 5y ago
> 100% BULLSHIT. The fees on Bitcoin, on chain, have been less than 75 cents the entire year of 2021. The average tx on chain the past 9 months has been about 10-15 cents. By your own sources your original claims don't hold up. So m
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by Forbo 5y ago
I think the complaint isn't that the content exists there, but rather that it makes up the vast majority of what is found there. If the majority of Netflix content is trash that I wouldn't want to watch, why would I continue using
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by Forbo 5y ago
Pretty sure different companies competing in similar sectors aren't above stoking FUD about their competitors, no matter who they are or what industry they are in.
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by Forbo 5y ago
Tor, I2P.
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by Forbo 5y ago
Relay and exit node IPs aren't private, so admins will often collect them and just block them en masse. This causes problems, because a lot of that same IP space will often be shared with things like pool.ntp.org nodes.
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by Forbo 5y ago
Is it apparent to the sponsor when someone is watching using youtube-dlp versus a regular view? I'd imagine most sponsored segments are negotiated based on subscriber count or view numbers.
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by Forbo 5y ago
You're ignoring the part where Samsung TVs are actively connecting to open networks.
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by Forbo 5y ago
See previous discussion about this problem here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27701977 TL;DR- TVs are using their own cellular connections and/or neighboring open wireless networks.
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by Forbo 5y ago
Opt-out dark patterns strike again! Even then, it still doesn't shut off all telemetry.
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by Forbo 5y ago
> the latter is uncollectable since it's just streaming from your own server. Except smart TVs take screenshots of what you are watching and send it back for content analysis and correlation. So even if all you're doing is usin
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by Forbo 5y ago
I vouched for your comment. A lot of the rise of Discord can be attributed to convenience, network effects, and pretty features like animated reactions, but ultimately it is still surveillance capitalism. Unfortunately, it appears that the
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by Forbo 5y ago
You see the same pattern of behavior with the IRS, where they've determined it's easier to go after individuals committing tax offenses rather than massive corporations.
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by Forbo 5y ago
> "...we found that the answer has several components, including power shifts at the Department of Justice, a high-profile trial loss, civil lawsuits and punishments that did not include jail time." Too long; didn't read (
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by Forbo 5y ago
For those wondering, this is a reference to Idiocracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPmNM0IF7Y I believe the direct quote is "Why come you got no tattoo?"
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by Forbo 5y ago
We already have systems for notarization, perhaps we could try to leverage that, updating it for more modern purposes. I could see them issuing things like smart cards. Then again we have some pretty hardcore religious zealots who refuse to
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by Forbo 5y ago
They DO have a big enough budget, they just choose to spend it on overtime and militarizing their forces instead.
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by Forbo 5y ago
> To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was some kind of lack of social skill on De Greys side rather than actual sexual predatoriness? I really take issue with this defense. Just because someone has NPD for example, doesn&#x2

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