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by dessant 6y ago
What are the implications for you and your dog being scanned/captured by self-driving cars during these tests? Is biometric data usually discarded from these datasets before further processing and storage? Do you have any right to cont
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by dessant 6y ago
Newspapers can be legally liable when they knowingly spread false information. Facebook is profiting from and amplifying hateful content and false information, causing civil unrest, sickness and death, and the services they put up for users
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by dessant 6y ago
Both obvious nonsense and nuanced misinformation can be harmful, they are just targeting different audiences. Not sure why one has to pick and choose, you can report any content you deem harmful.
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by dessant 6y ago
We keep reporting antivax 5G content on Facebook and the posts stay up. Same goes for entire groups dedicated to discouraging people from getting vaccinated through a constant stream of false information. This cancer of a service is destroy
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by dessant 6y ago
I remember seeing her tweet as I was struggling to migrate away from Firefox for Android since I also got surprised by the half-baked release, and closing the Twitter tab in disappointment. https://web.archive.org/web/2
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by dessant 6y ago
It sounds rather expensive to halt all releases for months, just to more efficiently update privacy labels. The scenario you describe would mostly likely go differently: they'd continue to update at least flagship apps while working on
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by dessant 6y ago
What other angle is more plausible for Google not updating any of its iOS apps for the past two months, than the one presented in the article? https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/google-llc/id281956209
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by dessant 6y ago
I'm still awaiting the promised post-mortem [1] of a retracted blog post [2][3] which has annnounced the deprecation of the GitHub Developer Program. > There must be quite a story behind this - will you be putting up a post-mortem ?
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Hi, I'm glad you found it useful! I don't feel that strongly about the issue to make a case for it, it was just a bit sad to see an article become less informative because of an editor's paranoia, and me being denied immortal
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by dessant 6y ago
I was quite happy to see one of my projects mentioned on Wikipedia for the first time, in the reCAPTCHA article. I've discovered it from the list of referring sites shown by GitHub Insights, and then the mention disappeared. Looking at
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by dessant 6y ago
It should have been flagged for human review. People are taking issue with the automated takedown, not that automated detection can produce false positives.
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by dessant 6y ago
Google only cares about privacy, when it disproportionately hurts the competition. Meanwhile they are using their leverage to infect web standards with a tracking proposal, and they market it as a privacy win. Features used exclusively fo
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by dessant 6y ago
This proposal coupled with phasing out third-party cookies inconveniences competitors, while allowing Google to continue gobbling up user data without disruption, because their tracking capabilities are way past needing any cookies, or this
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by dessant 6y ago
You cannot access the link to request permanent deletion once your Facebook account is banned. The web is full of unsolved threads with people trying to find a way to permanently delete a banned Facebook account.
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by dessant 6y ago
If true, that practice is also illegal in the EU, because requesting account deletion must be as accessible as creating an account.
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by dessant 6y ago
Facebook appears to store the personal data of banned people indefinitely, you can log in a year from now and you'll be greeted with the same message. There is a link to download your account data, but they offer no option to permanent
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by dessant 6y ago
They actually don't delete the account. The account may remain forever deactivated, with your personal data intact, but you stripped from your right to access it, or request its deletion. There are several reports about people logging
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by dessant 6y ago
OnlyFans has been floated here and in past HN threads, and it perfectly encapsulates the current state of open source software funding: a site used predominantly to distribute porn is a better channel for funding open source developers than
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by dessant 6y ago
Browser vendors don't take clearing browser data seriously, see how Firefox has implemented the browsingData extension API [1]. These bugs compromise the security and privacy of Firefox users, but fixing them has not been a priority ov
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by dessant 6y ago
The site appears to be down, here's the archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20201031080857/https://www.oldco...
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by dessant 6y ago
Only nonprofits are allowed to use in-app purchases on the App Store, while other apps must use Safari for fundraisers, read the guidelines in their entirety. > One of the reasons why I do not gift money to WireGuard developer(s) is that
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by dessant 6y ago
Having a link to an external web page to receive donations is not considered a violation on the App Store, this is a mistake by a reviewer. Collecting funds "within the app" means that the payment flow is completed without leaving
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by dessant 6y ago
Jason was planning to challenge the App Store rejection after the fix for the WireGuard regression has been published, though I'm not sure what's the current state of the issue. The rejection is wrong, because the App Store review
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by dessant 6y ago
Security researchers will disagree with you. This payout amount is considered exploitative for a bug that could cause major financial loss to clients, and reputational damage to Google. Most companies are exploiting security researchers and
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There's something more tragic than the shareholder's losses: 346 people have died in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes.
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Signal has no web client. > I thought basically no one used android tablets anyway Tens of millions of Android tablets are sold every quarter.
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by dessant 6y ago
I get your point, but moving people to Signal has been an accomplishment on its own, you get to say "we should move to this new private app" only so many times, before your friends and family grab their torches.
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Allowing modding and forks does not mean you have to provide support for them.
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> forks ... may not use the official Signal network Is it technically prevented or just frowned upon? The former would be strange, because fixing a bug in your own private fork would also exclude you from the network.
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by dessant 6y ago
Our quest to fully convert to Signal has hit a major wall, Android tablets are not supported as linked devices. Supporting tablets would allow us to chat and send files across devices, without resorting to apps like Messenger.

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