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by pmlnr 6y ago
Android 8 user here, because I got tired of hunting for half-working internet supported releases for my phone. Plus, to be honest, I lament the 2.3 times: apps were literally 100x smaller, and the OS was much simpler from every perspective.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
My hammer - a tool - doesn't want me to look at more ads. No, FB is not a tool.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> all the major players allow people to send money AND people are using those platforms to send money. So if major players jump off a cliff, everyone should always follow? > the minimum feature set required to be considered viable now
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> Helping people with severe diseases is still far away from creating the perfect humans. Not as far as it looks. Honestly, it looks closer, than real self driving cars. > You turning this positive into a negative is distasteful. I&#x
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> That may violate the TOS of the original connection but probably wouldn’t come up. How? If that were true, WiFi range extenders would violate TOS as well.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I honestly thought my generation will not yet live through Gattaca; seems like I was wrong.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Well, FB doesn't allow me to export my own contacts' details - email, phone number, etc - with it's data export, so no, this is a leak.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I genuinely don't understand how Equifax is allowed to exist post-hack.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Yeah, but the b.com leak involved credit card data which changes everything in the eyes of regulators. Sadly this is not true for "mundane" data like phone numbers, email addresses, or even physical addresses.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
origin != domain level. See https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> A lot of these comments are just manifestations of the kneejerk HN "crypto bad" reflex. Nope. It's a reaction to "who the f* asked for this in a messaging app?!".
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by pmlnr 6y ago
"Signal Server code on GitHub is up to date again - now with a freshly added shitcoin!"
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by pmlnr 6y ago
That was never a thing: Pidgin & the rest had to write their own implementation for many of those protocols, starting with AIM. There was a tiny period, somewhere in 2006, when many services were XMPP, maybe even federated, but due to t
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> Which is 100% better than the rest of the payment apps because they are closed, for profit, and sell your data Riiight. A shitcoin scam is 100% better, than a banking system that has been polished to what it is by learning the hard wa
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by pmlnr 6y ago
No self hosting, so not federated/decentralized.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
It's rolled out in the UK with one if the best banking systems in the world. Plus like hell Signal is anonym, it still relies on an sms capable phone number, which is hard to get in many countries.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Pre-MS skype was so far peak IM.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> Also video calls still don't synchronize orientation. This is insanely annoying in real life.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Did you ever try to salvage data off a dead phone? Many of us only buy a new device when the old is fubar.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
No, it really is not. Matrix or XMPP.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Internet reviews are all becoming unreliable as f* to be honest.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
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by pmlnr 6y ago
500px also disabled it's API when this happened.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Maybe https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/ is worth a shot.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
And how would that make any difference when it comes to radio firmware?
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by pmlnr 6y ago
FTP-it to a friends' server.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Show me one coutry who pays unemployed benefit at the level of the job you need to leave because of that insane hire fast fire fast.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I feel like I have to mention an 1951 novel: Stanisław Lem - The Astronauts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronauts ) [ SPOILERS TO FOLLOW ] which plays with the idea that Venus was fine, inhabited, with sentien
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26383321 You can uninstall any app by using adb shell: 1. sudo apt-get-install android-tools-adb 2. Connect phone using usb, choose file transfer 3. In terminal typ
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> Btw if anyone here forks FF and enables customization also plz add bookmarklets! Would pay for that... https://www.palemoon.org/

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