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by jammygit 8y ago
I wonder how one would go about finding out which flip phones don't track you, eg, via contact lists or w/e. The answer doesn't come up in google searches.
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by jammygit 8y ago
For people who advocate getting rid of their smartphones, what about apps for: 1. Audiobooks & Music 2. Mobile Authenticators 3. Flash Card apps (anki) 4. Podcasts Is it also valuable to get rid of those things? Are they part of the pro
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by jammygit 8y ago
If the librem survives a few generations, it might change things
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by jammygit 8y ago
I've interviewed at a few startups and worked for one. Never got a whiteboard question, just saw them at bigger companies. Small sample size, but 'universal' might not be accurate here
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Putin threatens escalation re Inf treaty exit(arstechnica.com)
2 points by jammygit 8y ago|0 comments
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by jammygit 8y ago
They won't be selling the hardware, and macbooks don't run linux very nicely lately
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by jammygit 8y ago
Honest question: why is it not viable to run an ARM virtual machine for your development purposes - is it not accurate enough?
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by jammygit 8y ago
OP here: in this podcast episode, some leading free software advocates from the Software Freedom Conservancy give a 'confessional' about the proprietary software they use and how its so hard to avoid compromises now. It comes afte
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Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?(faif.us)
2 points by jammygit 8y ago|1 comments
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by jammygit 8y ago
I had Microsoft do this. They notified me that my account was being suspicious, so I needed to provide a phone number to use it. I had literally just made the account though, zero activity at all. It was just to force me to give a phone num
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by jammygit 8y ago
I get most of my captchas while attempting to access products I've paid for already (very few at purchase time).
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by jammygit 8y ago
Does that actually work? I found the images had to be a pretty close match for it to recognize something
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by jammygit 8y ago
I found umatrix required me to turn so many things on for the average site that I wasn't sure it was blocking anything significant anymore. I suppose I have up after a while
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by jammygit 8y ago
This solution has more or less locked me out of certain accounts, except for when I want to spend a whole evening solving captchas in order to log in. I just don't use those services anymore, which means I've lost paid-for content
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by jammygit 8y ago
Or did they just get better at fingerprinting us?
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by jammygit 8y ago
"I've worked "for myself" for almost 20 years" What were the early years like? How did you get clients, and how long was it until you started making decent money?
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by jammygit 8y ago
Interesting, thanks for the info
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by jammygit 8y ago
Its hard for Google to point to some TOS violation when roughly half the app ecosystem revolves around tracking people in order to manipulate their behaviour (ads, gambling, etc). Their app is doing what most mobile apps are designed to do.
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by jammygit 8y ago
It seems weird to say users are spending the money on apps if this includes Amazon or Uber. The users are not spending the money on the app, they're spending it on the product and/or service with the the app in the middle facilita
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by jammygit 8y ago
This is a thoughtful idea. What is the Brave endgame after they win a new browser war? Their model would encourage users to donate to spread BATs to creators, but it would be a small portion who did it. They could try to add a premium subsc
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by jammygit 8y ago
I meant to ask this myself. Maybe I'm just scared hn will go away one day and I won't have somewhere else to go I found mewe has a couple of good groups. They're a bit small, but some really smart, nice people in them
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by jammygit 8y ago
I read recently that some things are explained in part by a data sharing agreement between amazon and Facebook https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-facebook-reportedly-had-a-sec...
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by jammygit 8y ago
Do they contact you? Most terms of service just say 'revisit here constantly in case we changed something'
924.
by jammygit 8y ago
It was interesting however that it showed how centralized things have gotten. It shouldn't be so hard to disconnect from a mere 5 companies! Edit: AWS in particular was interesting because it shows how much infrastructure has come unde
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by jammygit 8y ago
Apparently almost the entire musician-as-a-middle-class has been wiped out since the internet and streaming got big. Jaron Lanier talks about it fairy often: now, almost everything goes to the top earners.
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by jammygit 8y ago
I naively thought that was how computers worked when I was younger. It still feels weird that it isn't the case
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by jammygit 8y ago
"Mr Samuel, of course, understands that our consent can't be sought before we are born, but insists that "it was not our decision to be born". So as we didn't ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our li
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by jammygit 8y ago
On the other hand, if podcasts find a model where they are able to charge subscriptions more easily, it might really benefit the creators. They say that, due to the subscription model of netflix and co, we are living in 'peak tv'
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by jammygit 8y ago
Maybe a future season of 'Startup' will cover it
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by jammygit 8y ago
"inability to get enough people to know about it, and to understand how it would fit their needs?" Just from visiting the landing page for gumroad.com, I wasn't clear about what the company did. Some questions that came to my

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