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by tdkl 10y ago
Someone on a more popular tech site needs to pull this out and write a piece about it (Verge, Ars).
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by tdkl 10y ago
Make people WANT to upgrade You know, being faster and cleaner, added features, reverting what they borked up with 8. What they managed to achieve is a public disgust when someone mentions "windows updates" (in case Windows wasn&#
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by tdkl 10y ago
It solves the problem of people not upgrading their PCs. /s
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by tdkl 10y ago
That's what they say. One of the urban legends was also that USA government agencies don't collect data at bulk and they were lying about it. We know the truth now. Facebook has been caught with the hand in the cookie jar too many
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by tdkl 10y ago
The fact that the site doesn't tell anything about the framework, nor it showcases it. It's megabytes and scrolling for nothing except a actual paragraph of content. [1] [1] http://idlewords.com/talks/website_
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by tdkl 10y ago
> I think Amercians are as deceived by propaganda as the Chinese. The best video on this topic is this fake North Korean mockumentary called "Propaganda" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tLK449NdmA Just as t
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by tdkl 10y ago
It's not a sole reason, but let's start bringing more options to people to buy the apps/content in the first place. Same thing with movie/music/TV piracy: - either services aren't available, - they are but the
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by tdkl 10y ago
+1 app on MS App Store.
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by tdkl 10y ago
It could do better if Google would pull their head out of the ass and bring Play gift cards to countries where there are less credit cards used on Play because people in majority don't have one by default (East and Central Europe for e
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by tdkl 10y ago
Of course, they're a favorite of the USA to make themselves a stronghold in the Balkans. But they still don't seem to get that Kosovo isn't capable of holding their own country economically. Being part of Serbia had it own be
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by tdkl 10y ago
And Google will be glad to deliver all those types of cameras, because they can't bring StreetView in your home - yet.
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by tdkl 10y ago
Which is awesome, because you'll have more time looking at ads and buying pizza from your Android Wear watch.
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by tdkl 10y ago
So you're unconsciously conditioning yourself to select what an AI feeds you to save a second? Yeah, this will come in handy in the future. This and indoctrination of presence of surveillance is the problem with all those features.
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by tdkl 10y ago
In the future our attention will be sold. [1] ~Mark Manson [1] http://markmanson.net/attention
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by tdkl 10y ago
> In practice, I weep for a third party that has to read the dumb shit I chat about. I weep for my future, because there is a growing majority of people who give out their dumb shit data to everyone who makes a fancy app with smart AI to
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by tdkl 10y ago
"What if surveillance looked cute and lovable?" [1] ~Aral Balkan [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8supIUj6c
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by tdkl 10y ago
> If Google wants people to believe it cares about their privacy They don't, it's just more easibly marketable this way since it's a checkmark on someones Powerpoint slide. > but it should make it easy for them to use i
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by tdkl 10y ago
For Google privacy is a problem, since they want as much data they can get. So they've put in "incognito" so it sounds modern enough what competitors have with E2E, but they'll try and make it inconvenient and not defaul
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by tdkl 10y ago
Email messages you describe are formal and generic replies can be useful. But hitting canned replies to my friends and spouse is a bit sad.
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by tdkl 10y ago
2016 - Google reinvents ActiveX. If I don't have app X installed it can mean I don't know the app. But also it can mean I find it a resource hogging, data gathering piece of turd and that's why I'm using a website. It se
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by tdkl 10y ago
> conversational AIs Because I always wanted a chat app that I could talk to AI with, not my actual real life friends, as they're too busy not giving a fuck at another $chatapp from Google and are still mad at me at the last two I
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by tdkl 10y ago
Todoist Android app runs a WearSync Service all the time, despite I never went past one. After 6 months and two emails, they still didn't manage to fix that. Strava Android app runs a GoogleNowAuthentication Service 24/7. I stoppe
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by tdkl 10y ago
It also learns users that time investing into their apps doesn't last, which is basically company suicide.
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by tdkl 10y ago
It's a classic Google delusion - they produce keynote demos, not products. This Allo app doesn't solve the problem of people (that actually means all people you talk to) having to opt into it.
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by tdkl 10y ago
I've been syncing basically the same profile for 6 years now. FF lacked that at the beginning. The Android FF app is also unusable since it doesn't support bookmark folders when using sync, which I don't even want to know wha
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by tdkl 10y ago
The same and also Chrome Sync is basically the most reliable piece of software I ever saw, specially when connected to the mobile Chrome. FF (or anyone else) doesn't do that.
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by tdkl 10y ago
It also had an advantage of being a friggin' fast browser. I switched in 2009 and never looked back beside occasionally trying out FF and nope'ing back to Chrome.
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by tdkl 10y ago
Is it possible to implement the myfitnesspal API in the way user can scan the food and it gets entered in their food log on MFP ?
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by tdkl 10y ago
> Nowadays if you are on android you touch the phones together and the file is sent by "magic" Well this magic is actually mostly BT, because not every phone is Wi-fi direct capable. > and if you are on iOS you send an email
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by tdkl 10y ago
RCS is in works and it's the only thing that makes me excited for the future instead of all these messaging silos.

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