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by screamingninja 3y ago
> TSA has caught 0 terrorists Where do you get these statistics? Is it a fact or a personal opinion?
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Speculation without a source lacks credibility. Without a reputable basis for speculation, the information is unreliable. Speculate all you want but do not expect to be taken seriously.
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by screamingninja 3y ago
I do not have personal experience and it appears that the f-droid versions have no anti-features, but those comments at Play store were specifically talking about their data being held hostage.
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by screamingninja 3y ago
> “I’m having a baby, Keith.”
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Many of us upvote seemingly useful titles before reading the article. This one turned out to be clickbait.
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Hacker News, of course! :) I am curious though, why human generated only? AI is getting better at summarizing everyday. Does it really matter if you cannot tell the difference?
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Most of the article appears to be about what does not work. Here is the relevant part from the bottom of the page- > The real secret is to save your energy for the people who are most likely to be interesting to you. > The sweet spot
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Developer's response to several of the negative reviews complaining about their data being held hostage: > Hey, it is just a tiny one time payment, you will never have to pay again :) lf you uninstall the paid app within 2 hours, yo
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by screamingninja 3y ago
> Until you can't. The Chrome team routinely remove options from settings, usually keep them for a few months until there's no way of changing them.
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Source?
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by screamingninja 3y ago
The tax code is very complex, changes quite a bit every year, and a FOSS developer could not guarantee the accuracy of the generated tax forms. On top of that, each state has a different tax code, which further complicates any development e
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by screamingninja 3y ago
> They are paying more for materials but less for manufacturing costs and overhead I suspect this is a complex, wicked problem. What about the marketing costs, subscription management overhead, and the ensuing PR damage?
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by screamingninja 3y ago
> I would imagine that having features installed in all vehicles provides a less taxing testing regime than having a physical option. Curious to learn the underlying economics, but not sure how software-locking features would make testin
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Your concept is mathematically sound, but if there exists an opportunity to double dip to boost profits, what would make a corporation turn it down? As you noted in case #1, companies are paying much more for the materials. Consumers are st
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by screamingninja 3y ago
I find it highly impressive, but that's just me.
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by screamingninja 3y ago
> battery and beyond can definitely be justified where appropriate How do you define "appropriate" and how do you possibly justify initiating violence? Tolerance is not the only other alternative. You can vehemently oppose extr
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Does anyone have experience with self-hosting this? Curious to learn what worked and what did not.
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Any plans to launch your service in the US?
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by screamingninja 3y ago
> I think it's largely a solution for bad UI, both in the web and in the browser. Agreed, several of my friends hoard tabs instead of using the "bookmark" feature. I suppose it is because bookmarking is one more step and o
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by screamingninja 3y ago
> This sound like a huge waste of money for something that should just be completely on-device or self-hosted I can imagine this argument being made repeatedly over the past several decades whenever anyone makes a decision to use any pai
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by screamingninja 3y ago
> a rule that annoys me None of these are meant to be "rules" in my understanding. The post starts with "In most instances", so it leaves plenty of room for "exceptions" to the list based on what you intend
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Translation: not E2E
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Any insights or lessons learned would be greatly helpful. Several people I know, myself included, are about to go down this route.
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by screamingninja 3y ago
> We do not use audio, video or chat content to train AI models Could you please tell us what you do use? Uploaded files? Screenshots from screen sharing?
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by screamingninja 3y ago
There was a big controversy around Zoom calling it E2E with their server being one of the ends. Not sure what their new narrative is but I do not trust Zoom to do the right thing regardless.
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Those pesky popups keep reappearing on each visit until you hit accept. Once you accept, they never bother you again. Not sure there is a way around besides aggressive anti-tracking extensions / DNS servers etc.
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by screamingninja 3y ago
Please correct me if I am wrong, but is this not a straw man argument? > spending 6 months learning the nomenclature and structure of linux > become a proper user Care to elaborate? My parents have been using Ubuntu successfully for o
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by screamingninja 3y ago
> Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update. You trust Debian, and yo
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by screamingninja 3y ago
The title gives the impression that one typo led to the leaking of millions of emails from the US military servers, which is not the case here. - Presumably each typo led to one leak. "Typos leak emails" would be more appropriate

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