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by pacala 8y ago
The _title_ of the article says "Google tracks users who turn off location history", and the article further develops the claim. Yes, Google offers the option to "turn off Location History". No, turning off Location Hist
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by pacala 8y ago
The article claims otherwise. > Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you’ve been. Google’s support page on the subject states: “You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the pla
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by pacala 8y ago
Employee A has no clue which person to target. Nor does he know which emails to pay attention to. His search tools are primitive. His brain's processing power is limited. OTOH, Google's core business is scalable search.
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by pacala 8y ago
Employee A reading email X does not scale. Google reading everyone's email with ever-better AI systems does scale, and is a much bigger threat to freedom, political or economical.
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by pacala 8y ago
Skipping the first sentence would be a good step forward.
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by pacala 8y ago
I've recently seen http://scip.zib.de/#license . " You are allowed to retrieve SCIP for research purposes as a member of a non-commercial and academic institution.". Could help keeping alive an academic commun
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by pacala 8y ago
This is not about API vs. not API. It's about hiding critical APIs among benign APIs and training users to click "Accept" on a regular basis. This is a dark pattern if there ever was one, perhaps the darkest of all. It's
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by pacala 8y ago
There is quite a bit of friction when setting up IMAP/POP access to an email provider. If I go to the trouble of setting up IMAP/POP, it's likely I know what I am doing. To the best of my understanding, the article is about 1
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by pacala 8y ago
Sandboxing. There is no network access, other than access to Google IMAP/SMTP servers. The app must operate locally on the device, full stop. What desktop apps have been doing since forever [I hope!]. This is about peace of mind. As a
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by pacala 8y ago
Absolutely. Even better, just not use GMail until they start taking data protection seriously.
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by pacala 8y ago
Because that's what's happening. Having an app with both "read email" and "network access" is basically saying "this app will siphon your email to an unvetted and likely unsecure third party location"
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by pacala 8y ago
How about sandboxing apps with access to sensitive private information from network access? I don't want my email to leave my desktop / mobile phone / Google's server, is it really that hard to have that as an option?
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by pacala 8y ago
What if there were a permission to "read and withdraw from your bank account"? If 1% of the users are cleaned after absent mindedly agreeing to 10+ permissions on a random app, would that not be the API provider fault?
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by pacala 8y ago
There is a difference between "the app can read email", i.e. this piece of software that runs on my computer / my phone / in a Google datacenter can read emails, and "the app can read email", i.e. the app sipho
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by pacala 8y ago
Cute, but why should one care about ⊥, aka bottom, aka nontermination [0]? Let's write programs that terminate... [0] https://wiki.haskell.org/Bottom
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by pacala 8y ago
It's a she. http://www.crisbeam.com/about
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by pacala 8y ago
Gaslighting. Only well-connected networkers are worth 10x, or more. Engineers should just build the product, and stop being jerks asking to sit at the big guys table.
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by pacala 8y ago
An LISP with structured data and a data inheritance. Trivially embedded in a host language. Sign me in.
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by pacala 8y ago
Try https://jsonnet.org/ . Supports comments, plus a handful of additional useful features.
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by pacala 8y ago
Given the proliferation of CDO executive roles in contemporary corporate world, it's pretty obvious which one is corporate.
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by pacala 8y ago
The error messages are quite good. There are extensive logs. There are plenty of probes in the system. Just the other day we `kubectl exec <pod_name> /bin/bash` to test network connectivity for a new service. To the best of
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by pacala 8y ago
You are correct on Google self-interest in the matter. Not so sure that Google's self-interest is so divergent from the average developer interest. Kubernetes is hard to run by oneself. Worse, self-cobbled setups are also hard to run b
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by pacala 8y ago
Given GKE or AKS, not quite sure how "shell scripts, the AWS API, and cron" is "much simpler" than: $ docker build . -tag gcr.io/google-samples/hello-app:1.0 $ docker push gcr.io/google-samples&#x2
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by pacala 8y ago
Name one.
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by pacala 8y ago
My team runs a grand total of 1 server, 1 daemon and up to 5 concurrent batch jobs. Sometimes we bring up 1 extra server for experimentation. It is handy to not break the bank and use GKE autoscaling for the batch jobs. Surely we could setu
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by pacala 8y ago
As a layperson, this is so confusing. On one hand, we have Higgs Bosons "giving" particles mass, presumably in a nondeterministic quantum manner, on the other hand we have relativity theory that says mass "warps" space-t
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by pacala 8y ago
The Cloud/BigData business, which is the strategic thrust of Amazon/AWS, Microsoft/Azure and Google/GCP, is simply 2nd degree surveillance. BigData is code word for "ever more detailed logs of every human on the pla
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by pacala 8y ago
facebook.com is the largest social media site out there.
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IP, browser signature, topic browsing patterns, linguistic mannerisms. Not too hard.
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by pacala 8y ago
If I need quadrocopter parts, I'll search for quadrocopter parts. I don't need your ads to push quadrocopter parts on me on the hope that I might be slightly more interested in them than an 80 year old grandmother. I need you to b

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