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by spsful 7y ago
Open Whisper Systems has one of the most secure messaging services on the planet. The US military is rumored to have been telling operatives to use it instead of text on their government phones[1]. Edit: a word [1] https://www.mi
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by spsful 7y ago
So the music app might work fine without bluetooth access, but his point on the Sony app is valid. If you need to set up a new pair of headphones, Sony needs bluetooth permissions to handle device pairing. I presume you may pair outside of
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by spsful 7y ago
Thank you for responding with logic and sense here-- it seems this Twitter user does not understand the history or context behind these privacy choices. Perhaps he should be complaining about his wife, since she was the original perpetrator
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by spsful 7y ago
Exactly. And he complains about not being able to search for apps that have location set to "Always" or "While Using", but it is hardly a bother to scroll through the list of installed apps and do a once-over to check th
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by spsful 7y ago
I wasn't saying that to suggest a practical use of this "bug", just to point out that if it were as intentional as the above commend suggested then it should have been expanded to other methods of listing the file directory l
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by spsful 7y ago
Can't forget the migration to APFS. For me that was reason alone to upgrade from Sierra.
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by spsful 7y ago
By the same logic, typing out the filename should make the same permissions change, no?
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by spsful 7y ago
I feel like this violates Apple's brand guidelines..
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by spsful 7y ago
Oh wow I just wrote a very similar comment before reading the previous replies. All good points!
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by spsful 7y ago
I would agree but there is quite a benefit to having these smart devices connect to technology already in the home. With the absence of a proprietary radio, it's easier for me to control them as well. I currently have firewall rules on
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by spsful 7y ago
I hope this doesn't sound naive, but what does the M in VzM stand for?
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by spsful 7y ago
Same thinking here. I don't believe the FDA is forcing drug prices onto the public; it seems to be a system enabled by congress and abused by the public sector.
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by spsful 7y ago
The biggest thing is you don't have to contribute actual money. Instead of watching the website's intrusive, tracker-ridden ads, you're receiving custom ones from Brave tailored to you based on a local machine learning profil
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by spsful 7y ago
Agreed. Brave has extensively documented the process of their in-house ad network, and I have yet to see a better privacy-preserving alternative!
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by spsful 7y ago
If you buy BAT you will indirectly support the system Brave has created but you will directly support each and every website you choose to donate to. As for "ad fraud" and "click farming", I think we can leave the work o
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by spsful 7y ago
That is also true. I did agree with the author's position that Dorsey should not be the chief executive of both Square and Twitter. That's probably his strongest case towards removal. But your point about Twitter's uniquenes
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by spsful 7y ago
Can someone summarize the article/link? I can't view it.
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by spsful 7y ago
>...but with crappy keyboards and systems that can't be upgraded it's just was not worth the price tag. >Right now it seems they are coasting on good management and design Are you saying Apple has poorly designed keyboards y
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by spsful 7y ago
> From a consumer point-of-view, it’s hard to imagine Alexa becoming so useful that we’d come running when it summons us. But Alexa‘s primary mission will always be to gather data. Simply put: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all trilli
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by spsful 7y ago
The article frustrated me because it contradicts itself several times. >When it's moderately busy, for instance, the authors found the ants actually speed up, accelerating until a maximum flow or capacity is reached. Then from the n
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by spsful 7y ago
I think he reasons that a drug so old would have no debt left over from its research expenses.
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by spsful 7y ago
He didn't say it was an excuse, though; he just provided another perspective that may explain why Apple made the new Podcasts app that way.
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by spsful 7y ago
You can disable this functionality in the privacy settings for Twitter-- not sure if Facebook allows it, though. Either way I totally agree that it's a dumb feature to have turned on by default.
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by spsful 7y ago
This distinction does not seem very useful. Regardless of whether it was a good idea, developers had to decide at some point whether they should prepare for the transition or cease macOS development (unless they wanted to continue supportin
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by spsful 7y ago
A caveat: the notarization is not forced. Apps can still run even if they aren't notarized, it just takes an extra click.
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by spsful 7y ago
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Half of these aren't even problems?
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by spsful 7y ago
I'd like to see more testing done to see if that's actually happening. Since Apple has a very vocal stance on privacy, I would really hope that is the case.
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by spsful 7y ago
This is why I happily set Brave Ads to show me the maximum amount of ads per hour. Brave is serving ads in a privacy-conscious implantation which uses local machine intelligence to determine interests. There's no broker trying to sell
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by spsful 7y ago
...Political?
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by spsful 7y ago
Exactly. I see it from those exact same perspectives. The USA took steps to actually protect property in its founding, something the Supreme Court has interpreted to include privacy as well. From this perspective, the rights of citizens wit

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