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by freebuju 6y ago
Every person you swap hardware with is a chain leading back to you. It also becomes tricky to convince someone to lend you their phone in my country since ID cards are required to register any SIM cards. As someone else above said, adding m
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by freebuju 6y ago
Simple. They can control TV stations & newspapers. Facebook & Twitter, not so much. At least, not yet.
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by freebuju 6y ago
You'll be surprised how far misinformation goes. Even among the non-stupid (smart?) people. Some form of Internet literacy needs to be done. We'll be fighting some of it very soon with deepfakes made by AI, and we are still not pr
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by freebuju 6y ago
Interesting, so you've managed to create your own Internet bubble. Isn't this another example of confirmation bias? I would think it would be better to just scroll past the content you are not interested in engaging in. It certain
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by freebuju 6y ago
Blaming ads for people's choices isn't fair nor is it any accurate due to how simplistic this attribution is. Remove the ads of out the equation and people will still go for that Pepsi. That's what they want.
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by freebuju 6y ago
Just from a debate that is almost similar in nature. One person posed a question: would you leave a high-paying job that is in a toxic workplace? Not so many were in the affirmative. Someone even added that they would rather stick with it a
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by freebuju 6y ago
Can also corroborate this. While working in the field for a news agency and sending in the news as an intern. Whenever any of the stories made the news, I was most times left with the same feeling. "This is not what I reported". T
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by freebuju 6y ago
the word opsec is a foreign concept for the average Joe. A good 95% of the audience who throng such places. Doesn't matter who gave out my ip or metadata. I'd be pissed anyway. Even if my data wasn't leaked, what ever happene
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by freebuju 6y ago
Not supporting Parler's ideals or anything but if HN leaked my ip address to the FBeye (and the FBeye later informed me of this) I'd be equally pissed. I'd be doubly pissed off if HN snitched on themselves about this disclosu
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by freebuju 6y ago
The best part of using a flip phone is that you slowly realize that none of the notifications we are constantly distracted by are that urgent. It's a good way of cutting down the social media fat. Most of the digital interactions we
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by freebuju 6y ago
Part of being an employee means towing the company line. Even when you don't feel like it. It's a sham you are collectively expected to endure. Is it any wonder that the most successful employees are the ones who succeed in readin
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by freebuju 6y ago
Yeah. Reddit are gearing up for an IPO about to launch soon. They need to convince investors of their ability to push ads. Reddit ads most of the time just look like posts. Sometimes (top) posts themselves are cleverly disguised ads. In sho
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by freebuju 6y ago
I think they've already done so (worst case scenario) or they're just incompetent (best case scenario). And if am not wrong, they should be publishing the final report based on this research.
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by freebuju 6y ago
I'd prefer they focus on doing research with actual data & figures that actually matter. And getting it right while at it. IMO the 100% effective xxx was absolutely unnecessary. It becomes easy for anyone to tear down this report
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by freebuju 6y ago
100% effective against hospitalization is 100% obvious BS. I don't need to be a statistician to make this conclusion.
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by freebuju 6y ago
> The vaccine, developed with Oxford University, was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic illness in the large trial that also took place in Chile and Peru, according to the data. It was also 100% effective against severe or criti
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by freebuju 6y ago
Maybe you should be asking yourself this question; Why am I feeling powerless against a Google notice to move my data to some location I do not approve of? Once you are able to answer the above question. It should be clear what steps are
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by freebuju 6y ago
Yeah. Backblaze are addressing this "blunder" only because they got caught. Not because they give 2 shits about their customer's privacy. The smug tone in this joke of a response to the issue proves this.
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by freebuju 6y ago
I don't see any reason why Google can't pay for using your website's content on their search engine. Looks to me exactly like the same deal they've been cutting with media owners from Australia & France. The law shou
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by freebuju 6y ago
Your argument totally ignores the fact that this pre-installed app reads the user's data and communications from any app they use on that device. So they are not only effectively losing their privacy, but the app is also surveiling the
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by freebuju 6y ago
Source for this?
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by freebuju 6y ago
This article reads like an episode of Black Mirror. What is wrong with India... This whole practice is despicable. And extremely predatory on the uneducated masses. Wouldn't be too far-fetched to see shady companies buying this data an
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by freebuju 6y ago
There's no such thing as internet permission. The only way to turn off this "juicy permission" is to not use any internet connection. Though you can get away with firewall-ing any app you don't want connecting to the int
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by freebuju 6y ago
All these aren't requirements for app functionality AFAIK. If any app needs a certain permission you should get a prompt to accept or deny any of them individually. If denying permissions isn't possible on nougat (don't know
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by freebuju 6y ago
While these concerns are valid depending on who you ask. Am curious to know how the author came to the conclusion that gboard required let alone requested for GPS permissions. And other ones he claims to be sensitive . Also, 200M installs
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by freebuju 6y ago
I disagree. AI banning an app on content violation grounds is just a terrible and shameful dystopian reality. If not a lazy excuse for absolving big tech as they get away with cutting corners and other costs. I don't know about you but
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by freebuju 6y ago
For Apple that would be akin to committing suicide
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by freebuju 6y ago
From what I understand, this CAID will be an effective replacement of Apple's IDFA. It will allow partner advertising groups to tag iPhone users directly without relying on any of Apple's identifiers.
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by freebuju 6y ago
> Printed/saved backup codes are still an option Vast majority of users don't bother with such complexities. SMS is the easiest minimum entry barrier to 2FA. It is better than having just passwords.
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by freebuju 6y ago
They fired all the Servo devs. (And) probably increased their CEOs annual salary and bonuses. At this point, Mozilla is just hell-bent on a path to completely destroying whatever's left of Firefox. It being the only non-Blink browser a

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