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by nulbyte 5y ago
I don't think Zoom's here choice has anything to do with privacy but rather incompetence. They didn't even bother trying to solve it until users intentionally flooded them with tickets.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
Can you elaborate on your issues with VNC? I'm not sure what you mean by not being able to 'steal a session. Are you using Wayland or X11? I understand there may be some differences, but haven't explored them. GNOME has deskt
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by nulbyte 5y ago
What did the ads supposedly say? I am having trouble finding more details. And why isn't iHeartRadio also being sued? That does make sense. If Google bought the ads, iHeartRadio provided them.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> ...there are apps in KaiOS Store... A phone that can run apps doesn't count as a dumbphone on my book. Do I use the term differently than most people? When I think of dumb phone, I think of the StarTAC, probably because it was my
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> It's easier to create many disposable email addresses than "real" email. The difference between real and disposable is manufactured. A novice could register a domain, sign up for email hosting, and set up a catch all for
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> that's not really how it works. If you create something and unless you license it permissively that product is yours and you get to set the terms and conditions. It's exactly how it works, if you want to succeed. If you don&#
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> I think that someone who doesn't want to give their real email address to try out a service is even less likely to trust an unknown service with their credit card number. I think you'd be surprised. Credit cards are easier to
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by nulbyte 5y ago
That poses the potential problem of circular reasoning. How do we arrive at this estimate of 1%? Maybe it is more than 1% of the actual value because the estimate is wrong.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
Not only can you reply, but you can compose new messages using an email address as a recipient.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
I recently did exactly the same. Sadly, the local library system uses these gateways, but that's a sacrifice I was willing to make to cut out a ridiculous amount of spam.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
I'm not sure it is a community in the sense that you or your friends would recognize, but it is there. I use AntennaPod, and it relies quite a lot on RSS and Atom feeds, as do other podcast apps.. Submitting your podcast to major servi
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> ...the bank still accepts the cardholders claim that they do not recognize and did not authorize the charge they are trying to chargeback and won't budge unless we can FAX the signed receipt. This is not true. Of course you won&#x
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> How does anyone (issuing bank, acquiring bank, Upwork, or contractor) figure out whether "the client was authorized by the cardholder to use the card"? This is a reasonable question, but the answer is quite simple: The bank a
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by nulbyte 5y ago
As someone who works for a bank, I can shed some light on this. > ... he said this is a bit of a mess-up as he forgot that there is “a credit card connected in his account that wasn’t actually his”. The typical chargeback is for a billin
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> They are tracking consent popups. Not when the only choices they present are to allow or disallow nonessential cookies.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> Cookie banners should be made as much annoying as possible so that people hate it and begin to protest that law. This is exactly what the advertising industry wants: You are confusing GDPR requirements with advertisers' malicious
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> TCL's lists are multi-valued Can you elaborate? I am not sure what you mean.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> This is like driving your neighbor to the airport and thinking that you suddenly have insight into what it's like to be an Uber driver. Except for the part where you aren't just doing a favor for your neighbor because you are
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by nulbyte 5y ago
Copyright violation at scale across state lines is indeed a criminal matter, as the MPAA likes to remind you before every showing of a film.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
The title says day 15, but the video is actually for day 18.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> Sega deserved to be punished, but these VPN twits have clearly committed a crime I think the rest of the sentence makes it clear the author didn't intend to support defacement as punishment.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> The reporter did the equivalent of noticing a lock was rusted through and barely hanging on. He poked the lock and it crumbled to pieces. No. The reporter did the equivalent of opening a book available to be read by the public and havi
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday expressed his opinion the Cole County prosecuting attorney would bring charges in the case of a Post-Dispatch reporter who alerted the state to a significant data vulnerability. The actual headline reflect
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by nulbyte 5y ago
I don't think dialed-in has to be lofty. Keeping in touch with family is a perfectly fine reason. My point, and I think the point of the author, is that thinking about it before, not after, offers an opportunity to deepen your understa
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by nulbyte 5y ago
Not really. By definition, a blacklist is a list of things to block, and things not found on the list get a pass. Most use IP address or domain. Unless someone has reported something, they don't get added. The only real exception I can
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by nulbyte 5y ago
I also have serious doubts about Google's spam fighting. While they catch a lot of spam in the spam folder, they are simultaneously overzealous, catching normal emails that I receive and read regularly, and underprepared, as if putting
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> If you have a vague answer, dial it in immediately. I think this covers most people's use of social media. Many at best have a vague notion of why they are on social media, or at worst have not even considered the possibility of n
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by nulbyte 5y ago
Both are a problem in their own right. Tracking visitors to make up for your lackluster business model is abusive, but cookie banners as usually implemented are but one way to comply with regulations aimed at curtailing this. And in my book
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by nulbyte 5y ago
The local cable co. has set up shop in random places throughout the closest grocery store to me for a number of months recently. I can't stand it; it's like walking onto a used car lot to buy groceries.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
Which interpreter? There are multiple. I found pypy to be quite reasonable; often faster than the standard C python interpreter.

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