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by McDyver 6y ago
> While it’s difficult to pin down their exact impact, a rush of inexperienced traders tends to cause alarm among institutional investors, who take increased retail trading as a sign of rising speculation and worry that a sudden turn in
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by McDyver 6y ago
If, for example, you bought a movie and downloaded it to watch on a plane when you can't have access to streaming, why wouldn't it be legal?
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It seems like people have normalised "paying in exposure" (by keeping the artist's name), and the fact that someone actually pays for art is outrageous...
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With Firefox focus it shows the same, and I can't browse. With FF and ublock origin + privacy badger, and it works. Both on android
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> People don't seem to realize that you need both attack and defense. This war on encryption is not being waged by "people". This is not something that can be rationalised to be avoided, otherwise it wouldn't even be
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by McDyver 6y ago
Not to advertise, but easywhois.com have a no front-running policy, which prevents exactly this issue. I'm a happy customer
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by McDyver 6y ago
It bothers me that these apps like BankID don't work on rooted phones. I should be allowed to control and choose what I share with any app. To use this, I had to install it on a dedicated older phone, and I'm running out of older
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by McDyver 6y ago
The fact that some ISPs, and even VPN providers, block p2p connections means that there is a lot of interest in doing so. Not necessarily by the "populace", but pushed by whoever feels their interests are being affected.
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I think the parent means centralizing in one single company
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I understand that, as a consumer, you don't want to be bothered to know all the implications of your choices, if you had to make them, so you're happy to delegate them to Apple. But who's to say that Apple has your interests
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by McDyver 6y ago
The next generation tracker will have to be something like what doctors do with "assisted suicide" instead of "euthanasia": Different independent entities, each performing an action that is legal, that in the end lets th
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by McDyver 6y ago
This issue is due to copyright claims being enforced by Rights Alliance on behalf of big studios. The Pirate Bay has a different view on copyright, file sharing and civil liberties. This different in points of view is mainly ideological or
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by McDyver 6y ago
> If it was possible to side-load apps, then those advantages go out the window. Who's to say what constitutes an advantage? From this discussion, half the people here consider it to be an advantage to having the possibility to load
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by McDyver 6y ago
> It's like saying I bought a petrol car but I should have a legal right to fill it up with Diesel or make it work with electricity. It's not, no. It's like buying a petrol car and being limited to using BP to fill it up,
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by McDyver 6y ago
If you already downloaded if from outside the app store, why do you need to use an in-app payment provider? At this point it's just like any software on your computer, you can pay outside of it, and use a code or similar to indicate yo
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Reflections on Trusting Trust – Ken Thompson (1984)(win.tue.nl)
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by McDyver 6y ago
The problem with relying on a single private company like SpaceX is that it still is a single point of failure. Who's to say that Musk, or whoever will own Starlink next, won't side with an authoritarian regime, and do the same?
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If every physical line is blocked then I don't see another way around it. I meant for international numbers to be available. Unless the isps block all numbers, including "unlisted" numbers, then there could still be some hope
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I had already commented this 7 months ago when Russia did the same thing. "In the interest of the people everywhere in the world, there should always be dial-up access points available, in different countries. The "national intere
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I agree with your position. People have become so entitled in all aspects of life, that they forget that there are people on the other end of their abuse. The capitalist motto that "the customer is always right" has created the mo
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by McDyver 6y ago
I would be very surprised to see any T&C for a consumer grade app or service explicitly stating that they serve a specific purpose or solve a specific issue. Usually the T&C state that the service is "as is". You are entit
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by McDyver 7y ago
You can still uninstall apps, even without root access: https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatwa...
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by McDyver 7y ago
So a lot of fluff and no actual reply. Users can be tracked without cookies being sent, while "access to the data is kept secure". Call me a cynic, but I lost my trust in google a long time ago.
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by McDyver 7y ago
From their T&C's page "you may provide us with information about your contacts (such as names, email addresses, etc.)" Whoever installs this app consents to sharing the information of their contacts, who might not consent
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Norway's top 2 exports are oil and fish. It's a bit ironic to be surprised about the outcome.
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by McDyver 7y ago
In the interest of the people everywhere in the world, there should always be dial-up access points available, in different countries. The "national interest", for whichever country, should always be the people's interest; an
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by McDyver 7y ago
Very broadly, when scuba diving you're breathing gas at the same pressure of the depth at which you are. So the deeper you go, the greater the pressure of the gas that is being dissolved into your tissues. You don't feel this pres
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by McDyver 7y ago
Would it be ok to scrape google's results and distribute them, while saying you don't accept their TOS? It's a bit like not paying taxes and saying you didn't sign up for that. Who knows, maybe that's the way forwa