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by jolmg 6d ago
Learning about their tracking web browsing through WebRTC ports from the apps, you have a point on users not knowingly providing that. Still, if you dissociate from Facebook (not having their apps, not being logged on, etc.) then that track
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by jolmg 6d ago
>> alternatives for keeping in touch Phone calls, knocks on doors, emails, regular meetups at places.
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by jolmg 6d ago
It's true they collect more, but I wouldn't say "far, far more". They get the most from what you provide yourself. That's unless you have relationships that share too much about you.
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by jolmg 6d ago
> Healthcare practices that provide necessary care shouldn’t even really be allowed to be for-profit entities if you ask me. The incentives become too perverse as a result. You don't need to disallow them for necessary care to be pr
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by jolmg 6d ago
It's their blog. They can write in 1337 if they want.
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by jolmg 6d ago
> When Facebook was first launched, there wasn't any widespread understanding of the breadth/intensity of their data collection Come on, you're trying to tell me that people didn't understand that when they give someo
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by jolmg 6d ago
The world when Facebook was introduced: "Oh well, I guess I have no choice. There's nothing like Facebook, so I'm forced to upload my family photos to these people. I'm not responsible for doing that. Let me just find so
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by jolmg 6d ago
People can choose Facebook or to get in contact with people individually via phone, email or visits, but they prefer Facebook because it's more convenient to put a message there and count as maintenance of a group of relationships. Peo
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by jolmg 6d ago
What's typical is saying "I have nothing to hide" or valuing a bit of convenience over privacy and other principles.
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by jolmg 6d ago
No, they also capitalize abbreviations like COVID and PIP. I remember having a phase as a teen where I didn't capitalize the first letter of sentences because it just seemed redundant. Periods are there; why need another signal that an
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by jolmg 8d ago
It's pretty great as long as it doesn't evolve into them no longer printing the cards and requiring use of their app, consequently on one of their approved OSes.
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by jolmg 8d ago
.jobs was introduced in 2005, so not by much. Honestly, I'm surprised it's that old. Thought it was part of the new gTLDs.
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by jolmg 8d ago
Nope
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by jolmg 8d ago
It should be useful when trying to type in a vehicle that's shaking a little. Your can tap another key by mistake on a virtual keyboard amidst the shaking, but not really on a physical one where you're grabbing and navigating the
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by jolmg 8d ago
Pinephone and Librem 5 fit. Surprised you said BlackBerry without physical keyboard.
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by jolmg 9d ago
With async communication, the expectation is that they can generally take as long as they need. You put your message and maybe they'll get back to you then or in 5 minutes or in an hour, etc, but they have all the information to orient
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by jolmg 10d ago
No, I was already in the air and walking.
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by jolmg 10d ago
Stuck on 0h 01m elapsed after 12 minutes.
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by jolmg 11d ago
> details that could be captured automatically through web logs You can't be serious. Are you ok? The entire point is that they're trying to tell bots and humans apart. They're trusting email (and how you write your email)
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by jolmg 11d ago
No, it's more like you're requesting something from them and they're telling you they may need some technical, non-personally-identifiable info from you to fulfill your request.
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by jolmg 11d ago
> Asking users to email them with details of their OS, browser, IP address is just crazy. It's surely to serve as data to help tell humans apart from bots. > Changes made by IA shouldn't become my responsibility. They'r
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by jolmg 11d ago
> It'd be great if I could request who sold them my data, then go to that entity tell them to stop selling (rinse and repeat) There are a number of companies (e.g. Delete Me) that offer that service. They wouldn't have caught t
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by jolmg 13d ago
> They tell me in a lengthy statement in part that the department would never issue an ultimatum of pay for the damage or your children will be charged. They tell me quote, "We simply don't operate that way." Rather, the d
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by jolmg 14d ago
It's interesting how the words can be ambiguous like that. If I think of the distinction in the context of e.g. clothes, there's likely more engineering in fast fashion and more crafting in bespoke clothing. With food, more engine
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by jolmg 14d ago
My responding to comments doesn't mean I use them.
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by jolmg 14d ago
You can block Google Analytics with your browser. You can't block needing to ask Google for the URL of the result you want to visit.
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by jolmg 14d ago
Don't know how modern this is, but I remember being disappointed that despite Google claiming it had billions of results, you could only see a few pages' worth. Looking now, I've just noticed they no longer give a count of re
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by jolmg 14d ago
Privacy-wise, it enables them to track the result you click on. Also, though more niche, it would make archived search result pages (e.g. on the Wayback Machine) less useful.
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by jolmg 18d ago
Their point is that weekly downloads may have been on a constant rise for years due to a constant rise in popularity. It's not as constant as absolute number of downloads, but the point is that "breaking record" is still some
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by jolmg 21d ago
> Don't use nomen as a variable name. Seriously. It's a macro for typedef For all the warnings so far about not using nomen as a variable, wonder why not just do "typus_definire", since both "type" and &quot

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