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by markovbot 5y ago
Most likely google will just turn off that silly opt out functionality. It's not like anyone's going to stop using their spyware browser.
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by markovbot 6y ago
not that it WILL pay each adult $13.5k/yr, it'll just go to the few billionaires at the top, while the rest of us can pick up the scraps.
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by markovbot 6y ago
I have no doubt Amazon will be highly innovative in making healthcare worse for everyone long term
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by markovbot 6y ago
for-profit corporations should not own our communications infrastructure.
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by markovbot 6y ago
it gave me a very zoomed in view of what I assume is Null Island (GPS coordinates 0, 0). Zooming out several times eventually reveals map elements.
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by markovbot 6y ago
sounds like the system is working as intended
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by markovbot 6y ago
Probably a pretty good reason not to get whatever the hell a "Neuralink 2030" is
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by markovbot 6y ago
This is excellent, and remarkable! I'm hopeful that similar legislation will be considered by other cities. It is unfortunate that providing people such basic protections from some of the worst evils of surveillance capitalism.
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by markovbot 6y ago
And no one would ever lie about such things for a profit.
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by markovbot 6y ago
No, it does not. It demonstrates that they were successful at getting a lot of people to install their dangerous software
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by markovbot 6y ago
> Are there databases that could be lost without consequence except to their owner I would certainly hope the owner of the insecure database would face massive consequences. IMO there's not _nearly_ enough of that. This sort of brea
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by markovbot 6y ago
Only if the government tells us when they find a back door, which they obviously would not do.
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by markovbot 6y ago
I assume they won't be doing that to the main-stream spyware pushed by US companies.
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by markovbot 6y ago
I was not trying to suggest defeatism, just sick of hearing voting in the current system as a reasonable response to anything. Not saying don't vote, just saying stop suggesting it's the way to fix specific problems. Voting probab
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by markovbot 6y ago
I'm not proposing not voting. I'm just sick of hearing it offered as if it's somehow a solution to the increasingly obvious fact that the US government is fundamentally incapable of doing the basic things expected of it by it
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by markovbot 6y ago
This is a pretty common response: just vote for the other guy. Too bad no one trustworthy is running for the executive office.
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by markovbot 6y ago
I would find it very problematic if the US government attempted to interfere with it's citizens downloading whatever software they want. I absolutely do not trust the US government to be the arbitrator of what app's are "safe
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by markovbot 6y ago
Actually, it only impacted the part of the web that is trying to track it's users. Things that didn't have cookies aren't impacted. The only world in which your statement makes sense in one where user tracking is assumed to b
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by markovbot 6y ago
We should encourage websites to stop tracking us.
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by markovbot 6y ago
non-amp link to story: https://www.wcvb.com/article/3-million-masks-ordered-by-mass...
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by markovbot 6y ago
What are your concerns about TLD "pollution"? opening up TLDs for sale seems like a (somewhat) logical way to expand the available namespace for domains. We have zillions of hosts, why require them to conform to one of a few rando
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by markovbot 7y ago
They also don't mention that Venmo (and presumably PayPal also) won't actually let you sign up with a Google Voice number. They check to make sure it's an actual cell phone.
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by markovbot 7y ago
What parties are trusted to spoof? Having a telecom industry group play favorites with who is and isn't allowed to spoof anyone's phone number sounds like it would be bad.
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by markovbot 7y ago
is there any reason to believe this is anything other than the next step in a long, slow-moving process? SHAKEN/STIR has been being rolled out for a few years now, IIRC most major players said they were going to have it deployed by the
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by markovbot 7y ago
are you asking if this will impact Google Voice? If so, I would imagine the answer is almost certainly that it will not at all impact Google Voice. Google Voice works by acting as a proxy for outbound calls. You dial your friend's numb
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by markovbot 7y ago
> Have you actually read anything about either of those APIs or are you just reacting to the names? I admit, this is exactly what I did :( appreciate the info
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by markovbot 7y ago
How about the upcoming "SMS Receiver API" and "Contacts API"? Those look absolutely terrifying, and as soon as Chrome implements it, every shitty ass newspaper that is currently refusing to display their articles in priv
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by markovbot 7y ago
Amazon is profiting off a global health crisis. How could one not be cynical?
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by markovbot 7y ago
no, this is microsoft "embracing" (buying control of) a huge point of centralization in a software distribution ecosystem, positioning them to have greater power over a huge number of developers.
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by markovbot 7y ago
>that may or may not actually be paid. Please tell me, how do I avoid paying overage fees? I have zero moral qualms about defrauding Comcast to the maximum possible extent.

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