Xelbair

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by Xelbair 7y ago
Article itself is behind paywall so i cannot comment much, but i would really hope if such ban would be implemented that it would be permanent one, along with other forms of tracking. On the other hand it is EU tackling it, so we can expect
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by Xelbair 7y ago
If i remember right when there was a 'scandal' last year - where journalist worked with transcribing voice data from google assistant recordings. They found out that it activated plenty of times without the key phrase(it is easy t
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>override scroll speed if anyone does that I'll find that person and kill them with dull spoon. There is nothing more infuriating than that little thing - why would even anyone do that? what's the use case? why waste dev time o
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Nor the opposite is true. Both, or i should say all options, are probable, but not sure.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Yeah, and you cannot 'bundle' consent.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Looking as you cannot completely disable telemetry in windows 10 i fail to see how it is opt-in, or even opt-out. It is always on.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>That is how this argument is portrayed to the public. "Well if you aren't hiding anything then you have nothing to worry about!" If government has nothing to hide why getting anything out of FOIA is nearly impossible?
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by Xelbair 7y ago
That sounds like absolute nightmare - at least keep a convention.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
get 50%, or lose 100%? which one you would prefer?
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by Xelbair 7y ago
I wouldn't mind paying if that meant i was free from all forms of tracking, selling my data, and ads. Which isn't the case as folks paying for such services are the most valuable to advertisers.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Do you georeference them by grid coordinates and corners of the map or are doing something not so simple?
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Same here - i keep all the deadlines and use the spare time to better myself. Or even implement new ideas in production code. Also latter half of Friday is officially, by company policy, set up for such tasks - learning, and finishing inter
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>Stingray use requires a warrant and every case should be dismissed where one was used without a warrant. I'm sure that's the main reason they want to hide the use of stingrays, they know they're doing something wrong. the
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by Xelbair 7y ago
I don't - my boss is great person, good manager and great programmer. My team, boss included, is one of few reasons keeping me at this company.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>First, that their app is a better mobile experience. And I'd agree, actually, but I understand why someone would disagree. From their perspective it's an easy download and it's native app and it's way better. It is s
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>My impression of it is that it's an "API" that's masquerading as a dumb relay, essentially giving almost datastore-level access to the frontend client (even though they don't market it that way). And this is don
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by Xelbair 7y ago
I would agree, but somehow ebooks cost same or more than paperback books... and they also come full of DRM. Not to mention licensing nightmares - i wanted to buy one ebook in english.. and i couldn't because someone else had rights to
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by Xelbair 7y ago
I cannot stand brightly white paper - i had some books with it as a child and it was basically impossible to read in sun - contrast was blinding... it didn't help that some of those books had glossy paper. The yellow-ish/brownish
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by Xelbair 7y ago
just in guide mention it as a community patch :)
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>if you train in something, you aren't playing. Training is actually the total opposite of play; you need to do things that are not fun but are beneficial for your goal, and it sucks. You have to do a lot of tedious study and memori
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by Xelbair 7y ago
I expect them to work under the assumption of "innocent until proven guilty", not vice versa(which is easier: just do a huge banwave, and restore few complaining people as others won't care to fight for it)
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Oh i have nothing against prior research, but when issue just happens - why would you care for a reason as a customer? I do not trust any corporation.. well i do trust them - that they'll do everything they can to profit the most. Tha
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>Decide if you are comfortable with your current skill level or not. If you want to get better, train up. If you are happy with your skill level, then keep losing. That's fine, and I think its healthy to decide to place limits on yo
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Exactly - craft beer has been taken over by IPAs over here - and variations about them. I personally love stouts and porters - yet there is a severe shortage of them. There was a 'whiskey/bourbon barrel aged RIS" craze short
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Wild guess.. refunds happen in separate department, and do not affect his/hers KPI.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
And why would customer care about that? seriously, why?
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>As for the video takedown... you may underestimate the consistency of human moderators. They are often under intense time pressures and mistakes are made all the time. There is also the potential for individual moderators to apply their
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by Xelbair 7y ago
It is not about evidence, it is about sure you are about your argument, and as it was stated below - Galileo wasn't the first one to propose heliocentricism.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Well to be honest if antivaxer asked a doctor to compare vaccines to essential oils you would probably do the same, or flat earther asked you to compare theory of flat earth vs cube earth vs geoid earth. Although one could expect trouble wh
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by Xelbair 7y ago
If someone dumps a trash on your property do you take it out?

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