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by strooper 7y ago
All android smartphones data are exploited by Google through google services, by manufacturers through uninstallable bloatwares and by app providers through apps. If a user disables a permission, the app refuses to work. The cheap smartphon
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by strooper 7y ago
From “Climate Change: How Do We Know” from NASA, mentioned in this article, there is a carbon level rise and fall graph which looks almost periodic. Perhaps the previous cases of cause and effect help us to be aware of the present situation
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Ask HN: Effective customer management system for SaaS startup?
1 points by strooper 7y ago|1 comments
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by strooper 7y ago
I have seen the army in my country to emphasize on having total control on each and every equipment they have. They boast on being able to completely disassemble and reassemble all the mechanical war machines. I wonder how that works for so
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Google to stop listening in temporarily after data leak(businessinsider.com)
9 points by strooper 7y ago|1 comments
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by strooper 7y ago
Stopping Apple from listening to Siri, stopping Google from listening to Google Assistant, stopping Amazon from listening to Alexa, stopping Google from collecting data from android devices - these sort of articles and arguments seem flawed
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by strooper 7y ago
Is there a way to know that the present chips are not backdoored? Or, backdoored by US? Why should the world be concern about Chinese backdoors and not US ones?
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by strooper 7y ago
This housing crisis is going on for long time. I was wondering why don't these tech giants build housing complex for their employees. It would definitely solve a lot of issues, including controlled and balanced housing cost for the emp
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by strooper 7y ago
Dear Iranian devs, let's learn to take advantage of the situation instead of complaining about it. Why not learn from the devs in China?! To my knowledge, China blocks no less online service than Iran. China monitors citizens' on
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by strooper 7y ago
> "Palantir software is instrumental to the operations of ICE, which is planning one of the largest-ever targeted immigration enforcement raids this weekend on thousands of undocumented families. Activists argue raids of this scale
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by strooper 7y ago
> If you're intellectually driven then looking after two young children isn't fascinating. However, I love them and they rely on me. I feel you. My wife and I are managing two kids and I work from home, meaning I am home almos
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by strooper 7y ago
Apart from the article, Pew research center data is full of made up numbers [1]. I remember one particular research on sharia law [2] where it mentioned that 82% people in Bangladesh support making sharia the official law, yet, the fact is,
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by strooper 7y ago
"I" of IoT literally means internet. How does barring your IoT devices from communicating over the Internet make sense? Wouldn't it make total sense to get rid of all your IoT devices instead?
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by strooper 7y ago
Web crawling by search engines shouldn't be far from web scraping in terms of data collection. I am wondering what is the legal boundary of web crawling for search engines? While web scraping sounds sneaky, why isn't web crawling
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by strooper 7y ago
Its an interesting project. I wonder how they keep earthworm or other insects out of home.
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by strooper 7y ago
Not related to this package delivery drama, but the way we are observing the live demolition of the world largest networking equipment maker and second largest smartphone maker (by number) in the name of trade war will never bring back the
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by strooper 7y ago
Sometimes it feels like the conflict is partially about the 5G technology implementation. What does 5G technology have that is making everyone so sensitive? Will it require complete overhaul of the existing hardware (so big business opportu
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by strooper 7y ago
Living outside US jurisdiction, I strongly believe, my data will end up in the hands of the interested party, specially when/if I am targeted, no matter what setting I choose. I rather get some services running smoothly in my devices w
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by strooper 8y ago
On another note, 265.com, a Google subsidiary in China, has no SSL certificate set for the domain, making the site access effectively http only.
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by strooper 8y ago
The idea, "work from anywhere", helped me leave big, dirty, over crowded, complicated city for a small, clean, friendly one about four years ago. From my experience- the upsides are- relaxed lifestyle, friendly environment. The do
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by strooper 8y ago
Like most comments, my strong advice is to go for a light laptop with long battery life, and setup servers in AWS/DO/Linode as per your requirements. You will always be able to destroy the server instances to save significant amou
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by strooper 8y ago
Once the personal data is out, it is out, we can do nothing about it. It is not only credit card number that matters, our personal information matters the most. Unfortunately, we haven't seen any exemplary punishment for the responsibl
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by strooper 8y ago
Facebook will not be the same without the masterminds (Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and others). Practically, the business there is all about finding monetary value of the user data. Whether very few of us like that or not, we keep goin
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by strooper 8y ago
I don't see anything wrong for a company of a particular country helping their military. GE, Siemens, Mitsubishi and all tech giants of that era did that with pride during WWII. Then why can't Google, Facebook for USA? Perhaps the
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by strooper 8y ago
I switched from MBP 2010 to Windows 10 after using it for 6 +years only because of disappointing MBP updates with higher price tags. I was so confused that it took me several months to decide. I got a good bargain for HP Envy x360 15.6&quot
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by strooper 9y ago
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Reddit, and Google.
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by strooper 9y ago
We didn't choose, we just didn't prevent. However, the impact was much greater than we had imagined. The sense of responsibility increased my work efficiency (income) at least five fold, the affection bound us all together like no
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by strooper 9y ago
While these anti ad blockers may succeed confusing pattern matching ad blockers, how are they going to work against domain/IP list based (i.e. hosts file) ones?
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by strooper 9y ago
While the media portraits Rohingya Crisis as religious conflict, it is actually ethnic crisis. UN describes it as ethnic cleansing. Although most of the Rohingya are muslim, Bamar (major ethnic Burmese) hate them calling them "Bengalis
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by strooper 9y ago
From the philosophical point of view, we cannot avoid these security breaches in the digital world. We need to leap forward to analog or quantum computing to leak proof our information. I wonder if there will be any information private by t

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