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5941.
by autoexec 4y ago
I agree that if something can be explained in text I'd much prefer it over a video, but if you need (or expect some people will need) to see a video a GIF seems like the weaker option for how to present that.
5942.
by autoexec 4y ago
When is an animated GIF showing a series of complex steps better than a video of the same? The video has the advantage of offering things like audio, higher quality playback, the ability to be downloaded locally and played in VLC (where you
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by autoexec 4y ago
Even if the devs don't accidentally flip the switch themselves, they'll screw up the implementation so some enterprising hacker will be able to do it.
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by autoexec 4y ago
> And unlike with climate change, there is no conceivable plan to prevent any of this. If quality of life declines far enough too quickly people will simply revolt. No matter what the resources of the 1% are, if the 99% were actually to
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by autoexec 4y ago
> short of a small locked ward that's attached to a real hospital where they can spend every day after 38 weeks. But that gets expensive fast. Yeah, I'd guess if they're too far from a hospital to be safe it'd be bes
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by autoexec 4y ago
No doubt apple is better than Roku. Roku is possibly the worst when it comes to privacy. A while back Mozilla reviewed some products for privacy and even then it wasn't pretty: > One of the researchers working on this guide said, &q
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by autoexec 4y ago
Apple collects much of the same data (and more) and they use it to push ads at you and for whatever else they want. They also sell that data to third parties including "information about your transactions and viewing activity, as well
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by autoexec 4y ago
That or the desperate. Seems like there are a lot of people who'd be willing to risk spending a year or two at a company with a very high salary even if there was a chance that in that year they might end up in some minimum security pr
5949.
by autoexec 4y ago
Who is the CISO at Equifax who is currently in prison for leaking our data?
5950.
by autoexec 4y ago
Who is the CEO at Equifax who is currently in prison for leaking our data?
5951.
by autoexec 4y ago
You just have to be aware of what your external boxes are collecting. Roku for example takes multiple 4k screenshots every second and uploads them to their servers to analyze so that they can see and track what you're watching and when
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by autoexec 4y ago
This isn't limited to smart TVs. Every internet enabled device can do the same thing. When you allow someone other than yourself to remotely access and modify the software running on your devices they stop being "your" device
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by autoexec 4y ago
> They probably want to make sure that the women have actual medical care when delivering, rather than having a baby when nobody is around. there should never be a time when someone we've locked in a cage is in need of medical care
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by autoexec 4y ago
I think a lot of our current practices in the prison system fall under "cruel and unusual punishment". A large segment of Americans are obsessed with punishment and at every opportunity they push for harsher sentences and the crue
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by autoexec 4y ago
Depending on how philosophical you want to get, there'll be people who derive pleasure and purpose from sharing what they know or building something that is enjoyed by others. There'll be people who gain pleasure from being known
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by autoexec 4y ago
It's interesting to see where it came from, but why does it persist? Is consuming English language media and the largest internet sites uncommon for English speaking people in India? I imagine I'd notice pretty quickly that Englis
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by autoexec 4y ago
> Of course, that means I’m not going to go through the effort of other useful-to-a-few and more-useful-than-entertaining videos that I found no video on...But no, not going to waste my time unless YT cuts me in on the revenue. Why would
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by autoexec 4y ago
I'm sure either way they all end up as microplastics in our environment and, ultimately, our blood and organs.
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by autoexec 4y ago
> If you raise the cost of doing business for a corporation, the cost of their products and services is going to rise accordingly. It doesn't always have to. Some companies make so much profit that they could easily choose to absorb
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by autoexec 4y ago
The reason surveillance capitalism will always win out is because with direct payments people only have to pay for something once. Even if (and I hope this never happens) we had some "perfect system" where every website was automa
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by autoexec 4y ago
Companies are constantly testing to see what they can get away with. It's a race to the bottom to provide you as little as possible while charging you as much as possible. If we're willing to keep paying for 2 day shipping when we
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by autoexec 4y ago
Enforcement, transparency, and accountability are critical to regulations working correctly, which is why companies lobby against them at every opportunity. If they can get a toothless regulation on the books companies and politicians can a
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by autoexec 4y ago
This is the problem. The data could be used for good: to improve the education being provided to the students, and to improve conditions for those working for the university, but history tells that most of the time it will end up being used
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by autoexec 4y ago
Netflix doesn't make that impossible. If your friends feel the same you could coordinate. No need to wait a full week either. When services withhold episodes of a show I won't even start it until they're all out. I may or may
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by autoexec 4y ago
> Kids often continue to live with their parents well into their 30s. But this is mostly due to a shortage of new housing. That just seems really awkward. By their 30s people are often having kids of their own! Does italy have something
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by autoexec 4y ago
Speeding cars aren't too much of an issue you've taught your kids how to cross the street safely and they're older than toddlers. Random strangers aren't much of a threat either unless you're in an area with lots of
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by autoexec 4y ago
Yeah, the culture around stranger danger and satanic panic really had a lot to do with it. Part of the freedom my generation had also came from the lack of tech to keep track of us, but the culture itself really changed. My parents occasion
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by autoexec 4y ago
Depends on your definition of monopoly I guess. AT&T, Amazon, Comcast, Google, Paypal, Exxon, Microsoft, Philip Morris, DuPont, Facebook, Monsanto, Electronic Arts, and United Airlines are all very much hated and there are "alterna
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by autoexec 4y ago
> Is not having support really worth the damage this causes to a brand? Once you reach a certain size the reputation of your brand is almost meaningless. Some of the largest and most successful companies around are almost universally hat
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by autoexec 4y ago
> Did you not see Storj's canary? I hadn't seen the old one, just the empty one they have published now. It was a lot more specific than other comments suggested! > Although, with Storj, the signatures didn't expire, so

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