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tdkl
10y ago
Because $deity forbid that someone would actually learn something when reading news.
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10y ago
> the app tries to get me to backup my keys to their servers That's the idea for using Authy.
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10y ago
From Matias Duarte, their head designer and inspired by shitshow called Metro by Microsoft.
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10y ago
It's depressing to live under influence of societies impression/marketing that being happy is all it matters and to continuously chase it. Because that's what makes the depression happen.
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10y ago
> Also there's the domain names, or rather web addresses, they are too damn expensive. Really ? A year of a .com, .net, .org costs less then monthly internet bill. Not to mention there have been many services offering subdomains of
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10y ago
The tone of the message is appropriate to the state of acceptance of his initial wish stating "Thank you, no". This kind of behaviour irks me in RL too. If someone can't respect your decision of a polite "thank you, but
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10y ago
Such food chains are well labeled and known for their origin though.
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10y ago
So Facebook, much freedom : http://i.imgur.com/fW7yHG2.jpg
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10y ago
> Regular caffeine use alters your brain’s chemical makeup, leading to fatigue, headaches and nausea if you try to quit. I drank my last drop of coffee three and half years ago, because I was noticing those same symptoms on days I didn&#
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10y ago
> There's some irony here now that Moxie has teamed up with Facebook to work on WhatsApp. And Google with their Allo : https://whispersystems.org/blog/allo/
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10y ago
It's also hilarious that they're protecting their knowhow like this, where Sony imaging postprocessing of taken pictures is really bad. They ship capable camera sensors on their devices and are outperformed by other vendors who us
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10y ago
This was something I did on my cousins G3, but rooting isn't exactly in mainstream users domain.
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10y ago
Might be a G3 thing, that device/GPU is really under powered for the display resolution (1440 x 2560) it needs to render.
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10y ago
> On the other side of this controversy are developers who want to use Vulkan and other features which require hardware support, and they are tired of dealing with runtime API capability checks (A.K.A. "fragmentation"). Imagine
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10y ago
No, they're simply reverting commits. Custom ROMs don't need to comply to CTS. If custom ROMs will perform fine, this will bring a lot of flak towards Google.
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10y ago
Might be, there have been some speculations already[1] and it makes sense. But still come on, I bet most of the users don't encrypt their existing devices. And if Google is trying to do this in the name of security, they've just e
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10y ago
For clarification Google took out support for the popular 800/801 chip from AOSP which meant vendors wouldn't pass CTS if they update to Nougat anyway. Seems that the requirement for N is having a Vulcan/OpenGL ES 3.1 capable
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10y ago
> And when I watch her friends using the tablet in kindergarten, I see educational apps that introduces numbers, letters and simple logic. But couldn’t those subjects have been taught just as well without a computer? Of course they could
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10y ago
Yeah, the social media caters to peoples laziness (hence "connect to all the people you know easier"). But this connection is very shallow and as you said if you're the only one who is trying to maintain a connection apart fr
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10y ago
> I received the email about this, but haven’t been prompted to update my password—what should I do? > If you received the email but were not prompted to update your password, then you do not need to do so. This means that you did not
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10y ago
>it just appeared like we drifted apart. And that's life. Perhaps you weren't that close enough anyway to find about the child. And that's life too. The notion of "being connected" with all the people you knew is
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10y ago
It must be one of the cleanest Android apps I've ever seen, yet alone messenger apps. The settings are well done, it performs great and doesn't even run a service (at least the Play Store version). Think I'm going to try to b
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10y ago
It's not even a web app. It's a CHROME app. A web app would be accessible via any browser. But nice to see the Google propaganda working.
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10y ago
> Signal Desktop is a Chrome app So yeah, the statement from parent still stands.
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10y ago
On the Nexus? I remember that checkmark being disabled for the update notification.
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10y ago
Seems that the endgame now when end to end encryption is well known, desirable and serves as a product advertisement, that they'll just go after metadata and focus on that instead.
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10y ago
I hope that never. Getting a prepaid SIM card with a number I have power over to disclose to only whomever I want is still great in my book.
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10y ago
>Families at the 90th percentile saw their wealth grow by 54% between 1989 and 2013. >Those at the 50th percentile only experienced a 4% rise during the same period. >And those at the 25th percentile actually saw their wealth drop
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10y ago
Seems that a good measure for them not gaining much data about you is to keep logging in an incognito window and not liking much. All the Interests I see are from where I login (mobile phone models, browsers, OS), one Android wrapper app, a
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10y ago
If the updates would contain only security measures - but they don't. So I rather have an "insecure" device instead accepting an update that makes me want to throw the previously satisfactory device into the wall.[1] But this
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