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by tcd 7y ago
Fines are the cost of doing business, you need to do more than that to see meaningful change.
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by tcd 7y ago
I mean, computers are vastly better than humans at many things, I think you need to accept that and find the fun in sharing a game with a computer involved or with another human whose playing with another human in a like-for-like match with
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by tcd 7y ago
People have purchased - and installed - Google Home (and Mini's) and Alexa's in their homes. They think they're "cute", and offer a valuable service to them. They are a microphone controlled by data raping giants. P
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by tcd 7y ago
Twitter et al IS a historical archive of information however - Imagine if Donald Trump's handle was to EVER be recycled, who'd get it? what would the consequences be? What about news pieces that embed or screenshot his tweets? I f
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by tcd 7y ago
So is what Equifax did, but guess what, they're still in business. You can see the "settlement" at [1]. And guess what? "Whether or not you choose to get free credit monitoring from Equifax, the company will continue to
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by tcd 7y ago
The best approach I feel is how [1] does it. A list, what features each provider has, and leave it to yourself to make the judgement. If you're being told why it's good there is bias involved somewhere along the line. Of course, y
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by tcd 7y ago
No media outlet is immune to posting what may be considered factually incorrect information, for example, earlier this year as highlighted in [1]. Deciding what is "true" or not these days is incredibly difficult if not impossible
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by tcd 7y ago
The GDPR is a failure anyway. US tech giants are still globbling up masses of data even if the individual hasn't consented. For example, the "contacts" permission should be disabled on OS's in the EU as it's impossi
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by tcd 7y ago
No surprise more and more entities want that delicious browsing history data, it's extremely valuable and profitable. These days you need to really understand your threat model when it comes to using the internet and who might be able
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by tcd 7y ago
However, what's to say the archive will even be accessible in 10,000 years time? The entire archive may not be readable/usable due to fundemental changes in technology/language/society etc.
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by tcd 7y ago
I feel the term "deleting" is misleading. It's more akin to "hiding" - to me, deleted means unrecoverable, by anyone, at any time. Even your OS doesn't "delete" files, until the actual sector on the d
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by tcd 7y ago
No. It's only encrypted "so only you can see it" if it never touches a remote server. Anything that ever touches a server you must assume is done so in plain text (including passwords).
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by tcd 7y ago
I can't believe any organisation can be this tone deaf considering the awareness of privacy abuses that are practically in the news on a daily basis. Respect your users and respect yourself, roll back the change, make an apology PR pie
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by tcd 7y ago
It's amusing - I feel it's almost like causing a media "storm" is part of the whole "AI powered" process they've got going on. Create Reddit/Hackernews/tech blog outrage and maybe a human might
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by tcd 7y ago
Unsurprising - Google obviously wants you to be within their walled garden. You could probably add an in-app purchase but this has been a known thing for a while now.
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by tcd 7y ago
Except even if you pay you're still the product. Data is a currency, they'll happily take it if you offer it :)
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by tcd 7y ago
Wireguard isn't even stable yet - it's not even been mainlined by the Kernel which is one of the main selling points that it will eventually be included. It's alpha level software at this point and should not be relied upon o
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by tcd 7y ago
Links to the rules please? BBC didn't share a link to the legislation. Google yields nothing.
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by tcd 7y ago
> and as a professional you'll have to deal with it. Yes, by not supporting those users. If you want to use IE 11 that's fine by me, doesn't mean I need to go out of my way to ensure it works for them.
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by tcd 7y ago
Yeah, sorry buddy, but that's just not how modern software dev works. Platforms change, code gets outdated, and whilst older platforms "work", they're likely not taking advantage of all the features that have been added
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by tcd 7y ago
That still doesn't answer the question of the fact there _will_ be different models and how that affects software support. For example, Chestnut says: "improved power management", will all previous models get that? In Birch i
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by tcd 7y ago
One of my concerns about this is fragmentation. They've essentially announced 6 different phones released over a staggered time period. Will all batches get updates for the same duration? Will they all get same day software releases? H
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by tcd 7y ago
Yet they don't mention Android, where the security is so lax you can also be fingerprinted and data sent to a remote server without you ever knowing, where Chrome on Android doesn't even allow you to use ad blocking tools? This is
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by tcd 7y ago
> but I feel very much more in control of my Microsoft box that I am of my Apple or Google one. Hahaha, you haven't seen the data MS collects on Windows 10 users? Try enable full telemetry and download their tool, every damn URL get
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by tcd 7y ago
I mean, anyone who bothers to take the time to do a Google Takeout and actually looks at the data in the JSON files can see just how much information they are storing, and it is quite alarming. Thing is, companies keep data about you even i
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by tcd 7y ago
Maybe 20 years ago we had the same comment "who needs 1gb? You can fit everything in a floppy!". It's called innovation and progress, thank God you are able to be corrected and change your thoughts as with your approach we&#x
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by tcd 7y ago
Not many people will watch shows where D&D are involved I suspect
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by tcd 7y ago
We need new measures to not allow these certificates to be installed unless they're verified, or at least the OS shows a massive giant warning "DO NOT DO THIS unless you accept this cert gives $identity access to all your data&quo
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by tcd 7y ago
Yup, people are cheap. Just go on Amazon and look at the cheap Smartwatches. I actually tore down an APK of one "WearHealth_v1.0.55_apkpure.com_source_from_JADX" and it contained some really dodgy URLs to Chinese servers. Nothing
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by tcd 7y ago
Yup. These days the law doesn't really factor in the consequences of code/programming as it's almost impossible to legislate that. For example, you could run NPM update that installs a malicious package that is somehow able t

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