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by jeroenhd 6mo ago
It means you can use a decently fast DNS server like Cloudflare without the major privacy problems of using Cloudflare. Or DNS4EU, or any non-ISP DNS server really. Your ISP snooping on you with SNI logging is something people using normal
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Google's Gemini features differ per region to a massive extent. There's a good chance privacy laws prevent Google from providing me with the same Gemini you use. Object detection is mediocre at best. Circling things and using thei
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Other websites with similar societal impacts and responsibilities have already been covered in Dutch news before, from governments to health information websites to healthcare providers. The 113 suicide prevention hotline works together wit
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If you buy the Google Gemini AI Agentic Laptop or whatever they will market this as, you're going to want to try AI. What else is the point of buying a Chromebook, as nice and slick as it may look, when similar or even better alternati
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by jeroenhd 6mo ago
Their video is completely different from what Gemini does now. It analyses mouse movements, like circling around things, underlining things with the mouse, pointing at things to indicate where they need to go. It's a lot like the inter
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That page shows "vintage" products, which is a category they apply after "5 to 7 years". It describes replacement parts and (bought) maintenance service in store locations. They don't state how long they will provid
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As was disclosed on Google's product support pages the day of launch. These days, Google promises at least 7 years, which is longer than most iPhone people seem to use theirs. There's no doubt their limited support windows sucked
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I don't have most of those, but from the entire list I only recognise Stadia as something that stopped working entirely, and I got my full purchase price back for that. Chromecast still works great.
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The Gemini app has been backported to at least Android 14 as far as I could tell (that's the oldest OS I saw it on), probably further. Hard to say they're going to keep giving you new features, but buying a device for the future t
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The little indicator stays for a while after activation to prevent apps from pinging the camera for a few milliseconds without a trace. It doesn't necessarily mean that the camera is still being used, though it could be if it stays aro
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If you want that, you don't want Debian. Other people do. Some people will even run Debian on the desktop. I would never, but some people get real upset when anything changes. Debian does regularly bring newer versions of software: t
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That's mostly an iPhone problem. Plugging in an Android phone still works, and wireless exchange with QuickShare also works on most devices. With Google reverse engineering Airdrop, I hope they can get the Android <-> macOS exper
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The video they show (which is probably exaggerated by cutting out LLM generation time) is pretty sci-fi. I don't know how it works in practice, but it looks fun to try out. If this could run locally, I'd love to have a feature lik
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by jeroenhd 6mo ago
I know people in general hated it, but I found Stadia to be quite good. I'm not too upset because Google paid me back full purchase price, but it's almost a shame that they managed to mess up cloud gaming that badly.
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by jeroenhd 6mo ago
So does Windows. macOS locks you into a company that hoovers up your data but pinky promises not to sell it and will fight tooth and nail to have prevent others from doing the exact same thing on their operating system. If you care about pr
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by jeroenhd 6mo ago
Their hardware is usually fine when it comes to support. Google announces the support lifetime of their devices and sticks to it, with feature updates coming to things like phones even after the support period ended through things like app
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by jeroenhd 6mo ago
Go to security settings and disable face unlock. If you want to be extra safe against Google, go to the advanced security settings, find the "trust agents", and disable the ability for Google Play Services to unlock your phone. Th
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RCS is not SMS. RCS does have a fallback to SMS in some rare inter-carrier cases, but it won't fall back if you're stuck on 2G or anything. SMS also isn't free. Many contracts contain "free" texting, but that's
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by jeroenhd 6mo ago
There are services online dedicated to temporary account activation phone numbers to bypass Google's requirements, but most of them can only receive messages. Requiring the user to send an SMS seems like an excellent method to get rid
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Exchanging SMS messages with any sort of reliability (like not losing your messages when you go through a tunnel) requires running an SMSC. That costs money. Furthermore, carriers still charge each other for exchanging SMS traffic, though m
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Adding brute force resistance to consumer hardware is pretty useful. Now your password can be John1985 without fear of getting brute forced within seconds. "I don't use a TPM in my computer so it shouldn't exist" has alw
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Attestation isn't even the problem. I'd love to be able to verify that my server's kernel hasn't been tampered with. The problem lies in companies like Apple/Google/Microsoft rejecting attestation that they do
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This is the technology behind the digital wallet/age verification app. A challenge with these systems is that card readers that actually support this kind of thing are excessively rare and expensive for what they do, especially when us
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Buying alcohol online without having to show a website or a delivery driver my social security number is a challenge that needs solving. Same with picking up expensive parcels from package drop-off points in my country. You can debate wheth
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> Why is age verification connected with identity verification? With the EU's current approach, disconnecting the two is the exact point. There is no third party, the government ID you already have can be used to verify your age dir
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Lots of small businesses are operated from home. Their business information is scraped, transformed into personal information, sold to spammers and scammers, and in some cases abused in an automated fashion along with thousands of others. R
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GrapheneOS will stop releasing updates when Google stops supporting a device. They put an emphasis on security and unpatched drivers or firmware (which they can't/won't/don't have the resources to patch) are a major
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by jeroenhd 6mo ago
Depends on how you see the role of a VPN. VPNs, at least originally, were designed to provide access to private/business networks across another network. Office to office, home to office, that sort of thing. VPNs were only later turned
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Part of the problem is also that Google wants to permit crawlers to do some things but jot others. Their announcement is full of buzzwords about "agentic" things. Detecting LLMs is one thing, but imagine the power of being able to
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Their product page is full of info about how this works with "agentic" cruft. They're still permitting your regular old scrapers and bots for as long as they like you. Hope you're not thinking of running an independent s

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