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by hellcow 7y ago
Not doordash, apparently. Their CS agents and supervisors were completely unaware of GDPR and unable (or unwilling) to delete accounts.
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by hellcow 7y ago
"SQL Server 2000, save the things that matter"
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by hellcow 7y ago
No, you are mistaken. I have no Facebook account. Spotify phones home to Facebook the moment the app is opened. This can be confirmed with a no-root firewall like Netguard on Android.
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by hellcow 7y ago
I don't even have a Facebook account. That doesn't stop Facebook's SDK from phoning home every time Spotify is opened.
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by hellcow 7y ago
For the privacy-minded, Apple Music doesn't notify Facebook each time you open the app. Spotify does.
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by hellcow 7y ago
TIL the engineering director for Chrome comes from the NSA and CIA. Surely he cares deeply about everyone's privacy now, though... As for me, I'll use Firefox.
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by hellcow 7y ago
Not in theory, but in practice why would any creator encourage people to give them money on a platform that pays out half of the other one? They would push all people to the one with double payouts.
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by hellcow 7y ago
There's nothing generous about it. Microsoft is well behind Patreon and this is a way to get creators to swap to using GitHub for donations.
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by hellcow 7y ago
Thankful | Venice, CA | Principal Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | https://www.thankful.ai Thankful delivers exceptional customer service for the world's fastest growing eCommerce companies. We use NLP and Machine Learning t
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by hellcow 7y ago
Yikes. I hadn't heard of this either. Reconsidering my email host right now, and that's a shame because I really liked Fastmail.
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by hellcow 7y ago
I cannot express how much I love this service. Firefox Send is flat out the best way to send files securely over the internet by giving someone a URL (and optionally a password).
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by hellcow 7y ago
If a "friend" won't install an app (a 2 minute commitment?) to remain in contact, then I'm honestly fine without them contacting me. To each his own.
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by hellcow 7y ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear, but I couldn't care less what they use to message their dentist. I care that they use Signal to message me.
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by hellcow 7y ago
I agree. However email metadata isn't secure, so that's a nonstarter. I'm rooting for Matrix but thusfar Riot's UX to get an encrypted conversation going leaves a lot to be desired. No way are the non-technical people I
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by hellcow 7y ago
I've told the important people in my life that if they want to message me, they will need do it through Signal. It takes 2 minutes to set up, I show them how, and tell them that I won't reply to any SMS. Many switched, including t
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by hellcow 7y ago
Last I checked, Chrome on desktop stores all your passwords in plaintext on disk. Unless something's changed... I wouldn't use that. Firefox at least offers you the ability to set a master password to encrypt all the rest.
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by hellcow 7y ago
Adding !s for startpage is a good option too. Google results without the tracking.
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by hellcow 7y ago
Free in this context means "free as in speech, not as in beer."
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by hellcow 8y ago
> Housing isn't like manufactured goods where the marginal cost decrease the more you make. Since the more you build in one area the less available space there is. If you want to decrease cost you have to supply more space. This was
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by hellcow 8y ago
The whole Nexus brand springs to mind. The best mid-tier phone available was killed and replaced with nearly the exact same specs at the highest price possible. Sent begrudgingly from a Pixel.
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by hellcow 8y ago
Clearly you've never driven in Los Angeles. :)
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by hellcow 8y ago
Every price listed on that site has an asterisk pointing to "Prices include gas savings." So no, these are the gas spitball prices GP was asking about.
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by hellcow 8y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Speaking for the "hobbyists" out there, it'd be great to have that as an option in Ardour itself and not have to fiddle with setting up client/server/bridges just to plug in a microphone (
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by hellcow 8y ago
I've tried using Ardour, but I've never been able to get it to work with my USB Snowball mic. It starts with audio out, but once I configure my mic, it's input only and I have to restart the program to hear anything I've
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by hellcow 8y ago
"The TLS protocol" wasn't included in the distribution. "The TLS protocol" isn't a package a distro can version-lock and support. OpenSSL is. If you want versions as they become available use a rolling release.
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by hellcow 8y ago
That's exactly why I uninstalled Robinhood, Spotify, Venmo and half the other apps on my phone. Netguard showed me those apps were notifying Facebook every time I opened them. Facebook has no business knowing when I'm making trade
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by hellcow 8y ago
Yup. Thanks to TLP I have 9 hours and 35 minutes left at the moment (88% battery) with 70% screen brightness, bluetooth and wifi enabled, several local dev servers running light workloads, and Firefox, Slack, Libreoffice and various other s
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by hellcow 8y ago
Agreed. I would have preferred a 2K screen, but I needed the better specs of the 4K model, and in practice having 4K didn't affect me. With TLP I get 8-10 hours of battery life on Ubuntu with the 4K display, and Ubuntu/Gnome handl
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by hellcow 8y ago
That's correct. It only syncs between nodes you configure.
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by hellcow 8y ago
It means you need both computers to be on at the same time to sync between them. Alternatively you can spend $5/mo for a server to handle the syncing between laptop and desktop in the way the grandparent described.

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