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by egdod 7y ago
This is all lovely as a matter of the platonic ideal of an operating system. But... the users have spoken. They don’t want their software to break. Worse is better, and Microsoft got this one right.
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by egdod 7y ago
“National treasures” lol. And Disney isn’t quite as consumer-hostile as FB.
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by egdod 7y ago
My privacy matters to me.
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by egdod 7y ago
That’s literally exactly what happened here. So... maybe?
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by egdod 7y ago
The jury isn’t limited to awards that the parties suggest.
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by egdod 7y ago
They could have awarded nominal damages, $1 or whatever.
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by egdod 7y ago
Yes. Why wouldn’t they be?
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by egdod 7y ago
Not really. If he turned out to be an actual pedo, that would’ve been a pretty good argument to bring up in court. So it was worth looking into.
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by egdod 7y ago
>especially I mean, if there is a fire, it’s probably ok to yell about it.
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by egdod 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LbxDZRgA4#t=33s
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by egdod 7y ago
Advertising revenue should dry up.
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by egdod 7y ago
I assume that’s what most IoT devices ultimately are.
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by egdod 7y ago
The website works just fine on mobile. Why in the world would I download another app?
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by egdod 7y ago
He got a ton of free press and zillion pre-orders. I’m not saying he planned the window thing, but if he had, it could hardly have worked out better for him.
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by egdod 7y ago
TVs are only as cheap as they are because the cost is subsidized by the data they collect. A dumb TV would be more expensive to buy, and most people would balk at that.
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by egdod 7y ago
I give money to the SAF as well, and even GOA. SAF has done fantastic work, but most people haven’t heard of them.
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by egdod 7y ago
Not exactly a charity, but... the NRA, mostly. I’m not a fan of some of the scaremongering they do, and I wish they were more gun-centric and less Republican-centric. (And I say that as a Republican.) But at the end of the day, they are the
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by egdod 7y ago
I’m involved in a couple of IRL groups where Facebook is the only way events get announced. I don’t think there’s a good way to delete Facebook and still learn about those events.
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by egdod 7y ago
San Francisco is becoming a third world shithole, but with first world rent prices. Why would anyone choose to live there? Do people enjoy stepping in human feces and getting their cars stolen?
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by egdod 7y ago
Jessie’s blog gets posted here with some regularity.
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by egdod 7y ago
I did similar recently. I emailed the support team with a screenshot of task manager showing what process it was, and I identified (with 30 seconds of googling) what product it was associated with. I like to think that saved everyone an hou
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by egdod 7y ago
Hardly surprising. What did he think was going to happen?
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by egdod 7y ago
A happy, healthy daughter. A son on the way.
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by egdod 7y ago
But that breaks the streaming functionality.
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by egdod 7y ago
And when the smart TV gets a little smarter and starts using DoH?
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by egdod 7y ago
I assume not long. And there’s no good way to stop that.
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by egdod 7y ago
And then everybody starts collecting data via AWS or whatever.
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by egdod 7y ago
All analytics should be blocked.
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by egdod 7y ago
It is indeed unreasonable to expect me to waste my battery life to run your tracking scripts so you can stalk me against my wishes and without my consent.
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by egdod 7y ago
It’s also easy to enable it for that one interaction.

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