mihaaly

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by mihaaly 11mo ago
The tech sector is for people, and not people for the tech sector! If they cannot do without exploiting people for their organizational benefits, then they can go to China and USA, they do not care about living standards over there! That is
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
So compromising identities might happen - this seems to be a leading reason to verify devices - but can device verification be compromised too?
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
They are strangled by rules in using personal data on algorithmic advertismenet? GOOD!
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
I do not care about 100s of startups and how they want to use my data for advertisement or other things they benefit from. I care about keeping my personal data private so it will be more difficult to use for profiling me for whatever (what
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
Wild west of light usage makes cycling habits in UK bad as well. Several thousands of lux lights are pointed towards the oncoming cyclsts switched to strobe mode. Rear light are comparably strong and distracting by all the very creative pat
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
Legal systems are so convoluted and so colossally heterogenous - also very protective of their ways - around the globe that miniscule collaborations require grandiose efforts to initiate and maintain. No chance these fast paced adversaries
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
It was interesting to read that the record breaking attack caused no glitch whatsoever in the service MS provides. Which is so slow normally that I start to wonder if that is a strategy, having headroom for these kind of situations, no-one
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
Miniscule sideline thingy here, but thanks for your insightful thoughts nevertheless.
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
> This is always what efficiency leads to, higher resource consumption. The phenomenon was described already in the 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox Completely wrong an irrelevant analogy! I see w
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
I purchased a Phillips fan in a shopping spree. It was hot outside, needed something, did not pay much attention beyond that it worked and was not noisy. At home my eyebrows went halfway on my forehead seeing that there is a remote and the
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
I am dreaming for righteous 'small' employees too, those who carry out the dishonourable practice of implementing privacy intrusion following instructions, for money. Corporates are built by thousands of ignorant grey workers.
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
All big. 5 the same size category, barely different. Then they push a tiny-tiny device, the watch. Inbetween? Empty desert. They do not do things smartly but by force. Like the omission of physical home button, notch, no jack, clud first, a
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by mihaaly 11mo ago
As someone moved several times in my life I could support (potentially several) personal uuid with global post routing service. Having declaring new postal address to all essential and random places one by one where I was mandated to give o
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by mihaaly 1y ago
This is the last I pressed the update button (I only allow notification, no automation). And will speed up the study of other browsers (like Brave, Orion). This sneaky delivery of unnecessary but questionable privacy nonsense, also pushing
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Keyboard troubles?! I wonder if this is related to what I experienced. After the update (update and shoutdown reliably updates and restarts again, does not shut down) a parctice of mine switching Control and Fn keys on my Mac so Control key
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by mihaaly 1y ago
> don't think there is a file manager available on any platform as good as Windows file explorer Good joke, made my day! : ) (very sorry, it is late, would love to collect and expand in a dedicated thread later. a prime reason for
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Oh, Jesus!! This f shameless pretention of doing something noble - barely helpful above normal practices btw. - while manipulating clueless users into turning on mass-surveillance is revolting and disgusting. And ordinary employees figured
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by mihaaly 1y ago
I already have problem with negligent people using products like Ring that is to surveil anyone around without control, with uncontrollable and unreliable level of standard handling collected data (no high hopes here). But when I find it ve
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by mihaaly 1y ago
I am holding off for the red wine flavoured one.
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by mihaaly 1y ago
What I recently experienced on asking for a string manipulation routine that follows very arbitrary logic (for a long existing file format) that it forgots things like UTF string handling (in general, but also its subtle details requiring s
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by mihaaly 1y ago
I wish they gave more attention to the many bugs. One is the many many years old renaming trouble, renaming a file in Windows Explorer inside the OneDrive sometimes select all while I am alread typing extension to the end of the file name,
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by mihaaly 1y ago
I feel that the algorithmic listeners problem will not be solved with this. Nothing to solve there actualy. That's how some paople are, and that is all fine. They will not become more engaged in conscious music listening. And those pa
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by mihaaly 1y ago
You are right. Children today can be as conscious music listeners as we, who collected and sought out music of our own in our youth in the 80' and 90'. Or as unfastidious as those listening to top chart hits exclusively (including
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by mihaaly 1y ago
I assume this would be a ... call it feature for now, so a feature not available in the EU due to GDPR violations.
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by mihaaly 1y ago
It is difficult to say 'we' here for me, when the common ground with these remarkable people are only the country of origin and most of the time the language spoken. Also when it is based on achievements that are mostly theirs, wh
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by mihaaly 1y ago
I also believe that this peek into the mentality of the organization leadership makes doubt in customers if the organization can be trusted again. I, personally, will think more than twice before choosing them again. This will be several ye
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by mihaaly 1y ago
They promised. Possibly even pinky promised! (hackers too, to never steal data from them)
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by mihaaly 1y ago
"Listening on normal conversations can uncover serious crimes being executed or planned" - just an imaginary excuse from the future, along the small gradual steps taken, like this one.
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by mihaaly 1y ago
> as long as the government wants to have a domestic passenger airline manufacturer. and they pretty clearly do want that. Now. Opportunistic politics mixed with the religion of infinite profit maximization produces a turbulent swampt to
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by mihaaly 1y ago
May we look at it please? pure curiosity - also have similar thoughts you had. : )

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