thekyle

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by thekyle 7y ago
Does Apple have a feature in their app store that allows developers to mark their apps as "Monetarily free but you have to sign in with Google"? If not, how exactly do you expect developers to comply with your demands when Apple p
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by thekyle 7y ago
> Do you feel like you're in control on your Android device? Absolutely. I have hundreds of different independent ROMs to choose from many of which are completely FOSS. I get to add or remove any app I want and don't even have
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by thekyle 7y ago
> probably not nearly as competent I'm not sure this is a good argument for Yahoo! being better for privacy. Sure it means they're less likely to keep track of your purchase metadata from emails but it also means they're m
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by thekyle 7y ago
> It's actually quite useful to be able to send large quantities of money anywhere in the world without needing a series of intermediaries. The problem is that the vast majority of businesses do not accept Bitcoin and right now Bitc
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by thekyle 7y ago
I use WhatsApp without giving it access to my contacts list to chat with one friend who refuses to use anything else. On Android you just have to deny the contacts permission and everything else works fine.
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by thekyle 7y ago
For me the Chrome Web Store is the first result. It's actually somewhat strange since I'm on Firefox and you'd think Google would know better.
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by thekyle 7y ago
Yes, I agree. Even if social media had never taken off and everyone got their news via RSS, I believe filter bubbles would still exist.
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by thekyle 7y ago
Perhaps this isn't true for every university, but mine has multiple cafes in our library.
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by thekyle 7y ago
TD Ameritrade offers free trading on most ETFs and M1 Finance offers free trading on all stocks and ETFs.
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by thekyle 7y ago
Yeah, and of those accounts that are funded I'd guess that many don't have more than $100. Personally I know my Robinhood account only has a couple of bucks in it and I just haven't bothered to close it. I use TD Ameritrade a
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by thekyle 7y ago
> Is there even a way to export your gmail archive? 1. Use Google Takeout to download your emails as MBOX 2. Download your emails over SMTP or POP using an email client and import them into another email account. I believe Thunderbird ca
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by thekyle 7y ago
It works on Linux but not Windows or Mac installs. I assume that repo maintainers use different compiler options than the official Firefox binaries.
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by thekyle 7y ago
That's really bad because it means it also effects Firefox ESR which is what lots of large enterprise users have installed.
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by thekyle 7y ago
If a company is caught taking on additional risk that they explicitly said they weren't then that is a very good case for shareholders to sue.
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by thekyle 7y ago
I have uBlock Origin installed and it works fine with the default lists.
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by thekyle 7y ago
Maybe Medium or running their own WordPress install?
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by thekyle 8y ago
Its up to individual channel owners to enable it. If you don't know about it, that's probably because nobody you watch uses it.
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by thekyle 8y ago
HN isn't a place for personal attacks. Try to be more polite.
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by thekyle 8y ago
I really don't understand why these new feature phones don't take better advantage of modern voice transcription technology to make those old clunky dialer keyboards obsolete.
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by thekyle 8y ago
Machine summarization is still a very active research topic and is nowhere close to being robust enough to produce a full write up. The state of the art is able to write headlines correctly most of the time but not much more.
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by thekyle 8y ago
> Brian Acton and Jan Koum decided that free, secure messaging should be available to everyone, so they sunk $500M into Open Whisper Systems so it can be a nonprofit with a warchest. I believe it was $50 million not $500.
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Android’s browser and search ballots for the EU(arstechnica.com)
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by thekyle 8y ago
Another nice thing about F-Droid is that it uses Linux style "repositories" meaning that individuals/companies can setup repos for apps without needing to build their own custom app store. There are also multiple independent
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by thekyle 8y ago
I use the Google Maps PWA and never really used Waze to begin with. For email, I just use the stock Android email app which looks and acts very similar to the old Gmail app before the recent redesign.
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by thekyle 8y ago
Well I'd say Google Play's dominance is mostly because it is default. Additionally, there is a natural vendor lock-in as you begin buying apps since your purchases won't be available on other app stores. There are other apps
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by thekyle 8y ago
> i want no part of it. when a phone maker comes to the market without this locked down model i will buy it, and if windows goes this route i will drop it for linux. > and yea i know you can sideload on android, but the unwashed masse
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by thekyle 8y ago
Same with me, apparently being able to change the background of chats is an "essential feature".
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by thekyle 8y ago
I'm not trying to take sides in this but here is a relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
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by thekyle 8y ago
I use LanguageTool which is open source, although I don't know how bad their privacy policy is compared to Grammarly. It also has native LibreOffice and Google Docs extensions which I believe Grammarly lacks. https://languag
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by thekyle 8y ago
The one thing I've been frustrated with using ActivityPub for blogs is that it is push based instead of get based like RSS. Basically it means that the responsibility is on the website owner to send out notifications for new content an

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