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by markovbot 7y ago
When I signed up for internet, I asked the representative for unlimited data because I was aware of this option. The representative flat out denied that it existed and refused to even tell me the price for such a thing.
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by markovbot 7y ago
Here in the US, my Comcast internet connection comes with a 1TB (up and down combined, i think) per month cap. If you go over they give you a warning the first few times, then charge some outrageous amount per gigabyte that you go over. If
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by markovbot 7y ago
and then what, run the spyware on my main phone, so it can have all of my data and my friends data?
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by markovbot 7y ago
Why would someone buy a whole new phone just to use a shitty advertising network they explicitly did not want to use?
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by markovbot 7y ago
Both the "Prev" and "Next" buttons seem to show the next page
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by markovbot 7y ago
Perhaps you haven't been paying attention recently to how things go in the US. If there is any kind of regulation, it will be loophole-ridden and only implemented after consulting with the absolute worst offenders to make sure it won&#
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by markovbot 7y ago
>It pushes added responsibility on the upvoters to think before they upvote, but perhaps that is a fair request to make of forum participants. That's nice in theory, but there's no clear guidelines for what you're not allo
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by markovbot 7y ago
> they have no plans on changing that I think you might be wrong on that, based some of the code changes made to Signal over the last few months. They are internally moving to have users be identified by a UUID and phone number. I suspec
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by markovbot 7y ago
Most people aren't 'happy' to commute 1.5 hours each way, but will 'put up with it be afford food'
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by markovbot 7y ago
From the article: >Apple said it could prohibit employees from bringing any bags or personal Apple devices into its stores altogether but gave them that benefit. The California Supreme Court said a ban on any personal items would be “dra
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by markovbot 7y ago
Is there some law against them collecting your information from your friends without your consent? I'm not a lawyer, just an observer of how these sort of things regularly go, and I'm going to guess that what they did here was 100
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by markovbot 7y ago
Unlikely to succeed. This sort of invasive, drag-net data collection without user knowledge or consent is considered standard practice. All twitter users "agreed" to it when they created their account (via the legal fiction that h
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by markovbot 7y ago
The post's title includes an emoji and doesn't make sense without it. I tried using that but HN stripped out the emoji, so I wrote my own title that doesn't need an emoji
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Signal introduces support for reactions(signal.org)
4 points by markovbot 7y ago|1 comments
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by markovbot 7y ago
>The owner of this website (www.lowtechmagazine.com) has banned your IP address ([redacted]) Anyone else seeing this? Looks like they allow me to access it via https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-susta
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by markovbot 7y ago
Could you please elaborate on why those groups aren't "anti-gay"? I've never heard of "Fellowship of Christian Athletes", but the Salvation Army is absolute anti-gay.
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by markovbot 7y ago
those are called .us locality domains. ci.<locality name>.<state>.us is assigned to the city, there are several other similarly non-obvious assignments, anyone is permitted to register one. I found this page that talks about it
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by markovbot 7y ago
You issued a charge back with your credit card company for that, right?
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by markovbot 7y ago
To be clear, "keep politics out of the workplace" is another way of saying "I'm okay with the status quo, and if you don't like it I don't want to hear about it at work".
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by markovbot 7y ago
As I understand it, there is no way to validate caller ID when it comes from another carrier. They're testing STIR/SHAKEN which supposedly fixed this, although I'm unclear on how long that will really take to roll out and act
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by markovbot 7y ago
If https doe not mitigate MITM attacks, what is the purpose of it?
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by markovbot 7y ago
But its obviously a lot more likely to be around long term if they don't blow all their cash in a short term attempt at grabbing a few more users and hope to get more later.
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by markovbot 7y ago
> Certain keywords in searches would prompt email notifications too. That is so unbelievably disgusting. This kind of abusive invasion of privacy should be a crime.
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by markovbot 7y ago
That'd probably be ideal but in reality most people don't do that.
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by markovbot 7y ago
Why would it need a visible UI component? Just put it in a cron job
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by markovbot 7y ago
sure, but they have to have the hardware for that ready to go, and they have to get people deploy each site and prevent it from being vandalized or disabled
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by markovbot 7y ago
Deploying and maintaining radio jamming devices is _way_ more difficult and expensive than telling an ISP to shut down service.
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by markovbot 7y ago
CloudFlare isn't in the business of enforcing laws, they enforce whatever arbitrary decision they make.
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by markovbot 7y ago
Alternatively, don't buy samsung TVs on principal.
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by markovbot 7y ago
That's never stopped them before

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