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by gerash 6y ago
What would you say if there was a law that said everytime you made a purchase from a shop that uses a credit card reader then there had to be a lawyer present from the business to walk you through 50 pages of legalize that you had to read,
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by gerash 6y ago
What Apple does is partly "privacy theatre" in my opinion. They shame third party apps you have given background location permission for using your location in the background (eg. gps dog collar app) while never alerting you when
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by gerash 6y ago
I don't mind good regulations but last time Europe wrote a law for the web this is what users ended up with: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1180978631054508034?s=20 Let's clean that up first before
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by gerash 6y ago
A non conspiratorial interpretation is if an app uses a bunch of upstream libraries that change their behavior every time someone checks in a change you want these labels to be automatically updated because you don't want media article
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by gerash 6y ago
I assumed you're implying mal intentions. Otherwise, sure it is ad supported and not a charity.
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by gerash 6y ago
I'm all for regulations to avoid these account closures with no recourse. That said, why do people care so much about Google using Gmail data for ad. You either trust Google or not. If you are convinced that random humans won't re
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by gerash 6y ago
They only allow you to invest up to $1K immediately even if you transfer larger amounts. to be able to use the rest you need to wait.
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by gerash 6y ago
Things are often less intentionally sinister than they look. In this case I believe they're following the policy of removing a mob like review attack. However the effect is still undesired where a group of unhappy users can't expr
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by gerash 6y ago
Cryptocurrencies are also extremely volatile but I don't see them disabling the "buy" button when the prices shoot up. I personally am going to switch away from them to some other brokerage. Their app is very well made though
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by gerash 6y ago
Whoah, folks like you use free ad supported services but just don't like the ad part and don't want to pay either. Interest based advertising is simply optimizing ads for conversion rate. Slow down with all the philosophy.
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by gerash 6y ago
They are not telling a democracy! what to do. They are saying if you want to do a money grab we're out.
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by gerash 6y ago
Can someone ELI5 the ramifications of this change? The WhatsApp FAQ says only chats with businesses are affected. Also what happened to the "if you're not the customer you're the product" mentality. Do people expect some
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by gerash 6y ago
Your extension sounds cool but what I'd love is a system to suggest if I should go premium or cheap on an expense. For example I'd go super cheap on wired earbuds but premium on a set of knives. Or super cheap on knives but premiu
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by gerash 6y ago
It's a WSJ article about Google. I wouldn't hold my breath
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by gerash 6y ago
I'm not fully informed on what content triggered these decisions by Google and Apple but if people are worried about too much power concentrations then the right approach for Parler is to sue and see how the court system decides whethe
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by gerash 6y ago
I believe users should demand the old payment option back from Whatsapp where they can pay for the service if they don't want their data to be used. Obviously users aren't entitled to a service free of charge. in addition, even th
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by gerash 6y ago
We need legislation here where businesses cannot have all these hidden fees anymore. Right now the food deliveries like DoorDash take a cut from the restaurants, add a delivery fee, a service fee, a small order fee, a city fee (if the city
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by gerash 6y ago
Some folks get way too entitled about a product that a private company puts out for free.
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by gerash 6y ago
Google maps also has this visual localization without using GPS which the competitors don't have. It helps to quickly localize in a dense urban area
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by gerash 6y ago
Then it definitely is not that funny of a joke. He could've added "and I am 10 meters tall" without affecting how funny his joke is
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by gerash 6y ago
Obviously the individual who was let go loves the fame but I see most news website are pretty much looking for some sensational story to run mainly because doing more thorough analysis doesn't pay for itself. That's the problem.
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by gerash 6y ago
I think Google made the right decision here. From what I've read from her posts and elsewhere she does not act or sound very professional
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by gerash 6y ago
I didn't know Gebru much before her Twitter argument with LeCun. After that I didn't have much respect for her.
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by gerash 6y ago
Instagram IG TV and TikTok are video repositories, aren't they? They're not searchable though.
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by gerash 6y ago
Unpopular opinion here: I do want an entity I trust at a given time (eg. Google, Apple, some credit union, etc.) to mine the raw data they have on my account and do something useful with it as long as neither the raw data nor the derived on
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by gerash 6y ago
Refactoring is an essential part of software development. sed is not gonna cut it. The same way that inserting a newline character every 80 or so characters cannot be called source code formatting
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by gerash 6y ago
There has to be regulation with regards to account closure in this day and age. I'm sure large companies don't want to screw their users over and have to shut down accounts to follow some other regulation but at their scale Google
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by gerash 6y ago
The title says "Privacy friendly alternatives that don't track you": Then there are entries for Google authenticator -> Authy, Google weather -> DarkSky (whose Android app was killed), Google Scholar -> Arxiv, etc. I
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by gerash 6y ago
I've lived in other less developed countries and it's not like a raspberry Pi is the most people can afford there. Have you lived in the places you've listed?
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If they get too efficient with signals folks are going to push back because ads become too targeted and feels their privacy is at risk. I personally feel the best solutions are either ad-free services that are paid for either one time or th

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