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by iudqnolq 3y ago
WhatsApp has video calls. WhatsApp also has a significant user base amount illiterate people. They've built a clever intuitive system where you hold a button down to record a voice message. Obviously it shouldn't be recording with
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
AMBER is generally a waste because it's oriented towards kidnappings by strangers. But kidnappings by parents aren't always no big deal: parents sometimes lose custody because they're a serious risk towards their children.
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
depending on what you mean by hours that sounds like significant battery drain compared to screen off and asleep?
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Whether it's illegal or not depends on the specifics. for ex if you'd gone into their driveway to take it back that could be trespassing. regardless that sounds dangerous. I guess if my car was worth a lot more I might take that k
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
If so that will be revealed by the ongoing investigation. I'm going to wait a bit before speculating. In general I'm skeptical of the value proposition. You can't record too much without tanking the battery life. They already
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
Not exactly the stat you wanted but more than 99% of kidnappings in the USA are by a parent who lost custody or a family member. See https://www.terrycralle.com/missing-children-statistics/
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
> What worse is every crypto dork at these companies is pretending like the main use case _isn't_ recovering your stolen stuff. Lets be real: "finding your lost stuff" is a secondary use case. "Theft Recovery" is
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
These books like irritatingly philosophical. What is there to discuss about "The Leader who had no Title"?
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WhatsApp says it's an Android bug, Google says they're investigating. This would be a better url. https://www.engadget.com/whatsapp-bug-is-making-some-android...
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The URL should be changed to https://www.engadget.com/whatsapp-bug-is-making-some-android... > Dabiri is not the first to notice the issue. WhatsApp blog wabetainfo highlighted the bug a month ago, describing it at the t
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
Indexing cost doesn't scale with number of searchers
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You say that as though it's a good thing. But you could just as well be describing a random number generator. (But to be explicit once again this does not at all justify using the military against him. But just because he's been w
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It might have been flagged because it's unnecessarily verbose and reads like it was generated by GPT.
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Your source is pre-covid. I did a cursory search into their Covid activities and found an expansive report based on an alleged whistleblower[1] and a narrower admission by the Secretary of State for Defense that they > [use] publicly ava
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
You're right that the focus of the article arguably doesn't fit the classic definition of trolling[0]. However, I think that this is a reasonably extension of the classic definition to fit newer problems. Rather than post the spec
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
> You may think it's silly or pedantic, but it's not for us to decide If we thought it was silly or pedantic you'd be right. But we think it's wrong. I have no desire to repeat the exhaustive discussion recently on t
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Murder is a big deal, even if done from a distance
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But this isn't punishment. It's a warning. Apple is getting advance notice that they can either voluntarily comply or they might be required to comply in the future. Would you rather be surprised?
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> If [it's any] consolation, about 150K messages were received here from your system explaining it can't deliver X for the last four hours, but it will keep trying for the next five days, each with a copy of the as-yet undelive
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
Luckily it turns out capitalism is amazingly good at solving problems with the following characteristics (unlike many other problems): We need to incrementally invest money in expanding capacity. The investments will be profitable along the
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
I've noticed the same thing. So many proponents of AI don't validate their results. I'm reminded of the Microsoft "make more robust" AI feature in VSCode. Their flagship example screenshot was flat out wrong. The st
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
Fair point on the work hours bit. But I think there has to be some limit on the kinds of investigation allowed. I think society is better off if nobody is allowed to purchase advertising data that identifies specific people and use it to un
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
If an employer purchased data from a scummy tracking company about the use of apps on a personal device outside work hours I'd be outraged too. Even if the company discovered actual wrongdoing. The ends don't justify the means. a
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
Proponents of ActivityPub talk a lot about how flexible it is. I think that's the problem here. Sure you could implement BlueSky-over-activitypub, but would it be usefully compatibile with mastodon-over-activitypub? If not, why add the
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
Here's a practical example of a group purchasing this kind of data to do harm. > Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests. A group of philanthropists poured money into a Denver nonprofit that obtained datin
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by iudqnolq 3y ago
The fact I don't want a Mother's day email isn't that sensitive. The specific reason why is. > maybe some platforms don’t expose this to advertisers, but they all collect that data. They all collect interest data, sure. Th
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I used to be skeptical of this sort of hack but I recently heard a very convincing argument: Congress writes a budget for the government. The government should follow that budget. If Congress wants the government to borrow less it should wr
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To clarify 996 refers to requiring employees to work 9am to 9pm 6 days a week.
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If you wanted you could also purchase and strip DRM. All the big ones are cracked.
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That's a mistake by the fire truck. You aren't supposed to preemptively run a red light to help them, they're supposed to order you to do it right away if that's what they want.

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