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>If you're not a car owner, how do you get around in vehicles? With a subcription for the trams/trains/busses in my area. I use taxis sometimes, but not Uber. On holidays I like to share a car with others. If you share the
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I don't know. The police in the city of Basel bought seven Teslas. It seems this wasn't OK regarding data protection. And I don't know if it's OK now or if the police were just allowed to keep the cars because they had a
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Yes, but it's in flight mode usually, except once a day. If I've missed a call I call back the next day. My main issue are the spam callers. I turn the cell phone connection on temporarily when needed, for instance for using http
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I'm not a car owner but I wouldn't buy a car from Google or a car that is connected to the internet / saves data into logs that can be read in a garage. I wouldn't buy a car from Google because of this [1]. Even if Googl
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Is it actually the law? Is there actually a virus that is so bad that factories have to be closed, but so harmless that grocery stores are open? And if not, can it be legal to close businesses?
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Maybe coincidentally after the 10 minutes YouTube changed something? Once or twice NewPipe stopped working for me suddenly but an update helped. BTW F-Droid gets updates of NewPipe a bit later than GitHub it seems.
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/1100823/coronavirus-case... Is it possible that the C virus is (almost) over but there is a collective anxiety attack? And if this collective anxiety attack existed, is it possi
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/ Tech/science news, written in a funny way.
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The visitor cannot be sure that he really is connected to git.cypherpunks.ru. But doesn't encryption work anyway?
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>It might be more economically efficient (and convenient) for the strong and healthy to purposefully self-infect If someone told me I should deliberately catch a cold I'd say no. What about Ebola? I'd say no! A germ that I don&
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So the Prague 6 district council decides to move the statue of a Soviet. Then the Russians get angry and send a man carrying a poison into the Russian embassy, the embassy next to the mayor of that district, for the plan to poison that mayo
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I'm currently on Kubuntu 19.10. I don't have any snaps. So they can't autoupdate. BTW: After installation of Kubuntu there were automatic security updates. But it was possible to turn these off in the Muon Package Manager (Se
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It wouldn't help now but could restaurants make their own platform that every restaurant can join or leave? Not sure what the legal form would be. Also, maybe they could found a bank too that has a payment system. I'm not sure if
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>They also use payment processors that I'm already using What about good old cash? >a more browsable and legible menu with consistent layout across other restaurants. Couldn't you use these menus to decide what to order and
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>A pan-CoV antiviral drug could have been developed through human phase I trials, and stockpiled for the next pandemic. Would it make sense to test this drug on 80 year old people who are also ill? Usually young healthy people get the dr
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I think only public stuff like archive.org are intelligent clouds. Private stuff should not be put into a cloud. It's possible to encrypt data, but what if the provider suddenly loses the data? I lost an email account once just like th
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After the contact tracing updates, there will be more unGoogled android devices and unGoogled ROMs from the manufacturers or from /e/ etc. There will be a chance for new app stores. Apple will sell fewer devices. I've watched
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I think that a few terms appeared that describe superstitious beliefs. These terms are (not a complete list): * tracking app * social distancing * self quarantine * lockdown Life is not a video game. There are no game designers able to deci
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The C virus is as severe as a severe flu. It makes no sense to turn devices into surveillance devices a little bit / a lot / completely. Google and Apple will also lose trust if they do it. Edit: The C virus is a deadly disease an
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It should be possible to install older versions of an app, at least the versions the user had installed in the past. This would also allow users to downgrade if a new version didn't work on their devices or all devices.
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According to a diagram [1] of the Robert Koch Institute the effective reproduction number was already down to 1 two days before the measurements of March 23. It also didn't go down further in this diagram. [1] https://www.rk
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I panicked a bit in March, partly because I watched a video of a mathematics YouTuber, who I think is pretentious. Usually I don't watch his videos, because I think he's pretentious. But I watched his video about exponential growt
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Sounds bad. The government could tax Google and Facebook and decide to subsidize the media. Subsidizing the media would look weird probably but it would be more honest. Or am I wrong?
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What if the laptop was hollow where the battery cells are. And what if something that looks similar to the Nokia 5165 battery would be put into this place. The battery would contain the same bag shaped cells.
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>Built-in batteries allow for custom battery shapes that increase battery life or allow for thinner computers at the same battery life. Why not putting these bag shaped battery cells in a plastic case? Couldn't this case still have
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If I could just remove and replace a battery then I wouldn't have to give my laptop to someone else. I always put in a separately bought SSD in a laptop, so that I am able to remove my data in case of a (warranty) repair by someone els
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Can I not get this update by disabling the "Google Play Store" app? I've disabled that app. There is also an app called "Google play services" where the options "disable" and "force stop" are gre
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I don't want this functionality/software on my phone. Will it be possible not to get it?
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Noob here. Could this work as a benchmark and tell us how safe RSA-1024, RSA-2048, RSA-16384 etc. are? BTW, why shouldn't everyone switch to RSA-16384? According to https://wiki.gnupg.org/LargeKeys "elder versions
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