skygazer

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by skygazer 6y ago
The iPhone is more like a train than a car. Off-tracking, let alone off-roading, is technically prevented. It’s sort of a buyer-beware situation. I get that you’re unhappy with their chosen business model, design decisions and implementatio
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by skygazer 6y ago
Perhaps it’s more nuanced than my understanding, but sites/companies are sheltered from liability for unprotected (illegal) speech posted by users — that is/was the whole point of the communications decency act section 230. Lawsu
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by skygazer 6y ago
So Amazon, Apple and Google should intentionally keep Parler around as a honeypot to snag right wing terrorists and the rest of society should just pretend we don’t know how they keep getting arrested?
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by skygazer 6y ago
Yes, the fact that they’re allowed to make business decisions about their own platforms and freely associate is the bedrock of capitalism. Read the fine print. Plan accordingly.
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by skygazer 6y ago
parler.ru or parler.nk might be available.
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by skygazer 6y ago
Apple's ecosystem may not be right for you. It's widely known to be curated, and it seems the majority of Apple users appreciate the curation. It's possible you didn't know the state of the ecosystem when you purchased t
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by skygazer 6y ago
Android app was pulled. API service stopped accepting new applicants. API is scheduled to shut down. (iOS app continues to be updated, but API/functionality maybe rolled into iOS in a future version.)
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by skygazer 6y ago
It used to be amazing. You could start a real time text chat even in the middle of the night, and they were so helpful, professional and friendly, and followed up when they said they would. It was shocking and wonderful.
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by skygazer 6y ago
Fun fact: in academic studies of yes/no headlined articles, the articles more often answer yes than no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by skygazer 6y ago
It’s a hold over from 2014. Once a criticism, always a criticism. A tangential quote about the persistence of old, uninformed ideas: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rat
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by skygazer 6y ago
The market is a Paperclip Maximizer.
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by skygazer 6y ago
I used to jailbreak regularly, because so many more things were possible on a jailbroken iPhone. But each year more of my goto tweaks were either incorporated in to the OS proper, or made unnecessary. I don’t know if that pressure release v
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by skygazer 6y ago
It sounds like you’re implying it should be safe to sign any contract you don’t intend to honor, so far as it’s your opinion it’s a ridiculous contract. I’m not certain that’s true in practice.
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by skygazer 6y ago
There are also Lighting to HDMI adapters. I think it’s understandable they don’t support Chromecast for an Apple Watch centered service.
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by skygazer 6y ago
Something similar happened with my two year old, out of warranty iPhone with maxed out storage. It had the original battery swollen. I assumed they would just swap out the battery and charge me, but they said they wanted to send the whole t
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by skygazer 6y ago
It seems to not require an app. Apple calls this an App-less experience -- as if having an app was the still supported but the legacy way. In their description of "step 5" at the below link, users can enter an eight digit code or
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by skygazer 6y ago
It's not that it uses GPS, it's that Bluetooth may leak location. Location may be trivially determined from the list of nearby Bluetooth devices when compared to a database of Bluetooth devices with known locations, and so they ti
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by skygazer 6y ago
The firing for for simply helping a friend seems shocking. I did, however, once know a fellow that did tech support for an ISP, that used his work calls to source his freelance onsite tech support business. Once the main company found out t
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by skygazer 6y ago
Which is all the more impressive given his indifference to carbon footprints, and hostility towards their reduction.
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by skygazer 6y ago
Would it be feasible for Apple to discount their 30% developer/iap fees in app categories in which they compete with developers commensurate with Apple’s dominance in that category? As though they themselves had to pay the same 30% fee
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by skygazer 6y ago
Interesting. My Palm V (palm pilot) had a nice transreflective display 20 years ago. It was great in direct sunlight. I often think of that when using devices that can’t crank up the nits enough to compete with sunlight.
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by skygazer 6y ago
Despite the alarmist tone, this only applies to paying Apple News+ subscribers, and specifically to allow users to automatically read the full article that they’ve already paid to read rather than hit the publishers paywall. It can also be
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by skygazer 6y ago
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3...
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by skygazer 6y ago
Well, that's promising. The US has had such a disappointing response in nearly all respects.
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by skygazer 6y ago
That actually sounds, verbatim, like what Macintosh users used to say to PC folk back when they were on 68000 or PPC.
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by skygazer 7y ago
Since users of evergreen browsers will have frequently changing version number strings, the history of snapshots of these fingerprints is time sensitive. This serves to artificially inflate the uniqueness, as an identical device using the s
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by skygazer 7y ago
I think that you're in agreement; he seems to have meant that it was important that Cloudflare clarify to users that their IPs will not be masked.
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by skygazer 7y ago
several garmin watches have had this feature since May (I think) of this year, requiring a paired garmin compatible phone, actively running garmin app, to work; sends text to selected contact about “incident.” Doesn’t appear to contact eme
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by skygazer 7y ago
The burden of proof is on me to support what "false" claim? That I read the book? That I summarized my recollections accurately? That it's the only book on the topic I've read? To clarify, I am not Jason Fung, the autho
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by skygazer 7y ago
Oh, it's not that I find it controversial, favor an alternative or object to any of it. It seemed quite compelling, and I'm open to it. It's just that I've only read a single book on the topic, and health and physiology

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