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by webmobdev 5y ago
"I think privacy and security is of paramount importance to everyone," Vestager said. "The important thing here is, of course, that it's not a shield against competition, because I think customers will not give up
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EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition(appleinsider.com)
173 points by webmobdev 5y ago|175 comments
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If you know SQL, all you got to do is understand the specific quirks of the database you use (e.g. In SQLite, specifying a data type for a column acts like a "hint" rather than a real constraint). The SQLite website has a pretty t
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by webmobdev 5y ago
Thanks for pointing out an interesting aspect of US constitution. It however doesn't change what I said. When fighting political causes, anonymity doesn't help - Gandhi or Rosa Park or Martin Luther King continue to inspire us tod
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by webmobdev 5y ago
It doesn't inspire confidence that they don't reveal who they are - neither their About Us page nor their Contact Us has any relevant information. In a democracy, there is no reason to hide behind anonymity while fighting for
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by webmobdev 5y ago
I was very interested until I learnt that you use AWS to host your services. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple etc. are parasitic tech companies that try their best to access and mine our personal data. Privacy conscious techie individuals t
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by webmobdev 5y ago
Give them time - Apple (and other smartphone makers) have shown how profitable it is to lock down a system and make it unrepairable. Once even more custom ARM processors appear on laptops and desktops, we can forget about the kind of "
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by webmobdev 5y ago
I don't think it has reached that stage though - so far, they have been clearly labelling the full model name of the product on the box and / or on the product. (I think it may be illegal for them to do otherwise as they have to o
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by webmobdev 5y ago
Amazon tacitly supports this scam because it only cares about sales. It doesn't really care about the sellers. It also knows that positive reviews have a huge influence in increasing sales, and negative reviews really dampens sales. Th
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by webmobdev 5y ago
Russia did help India a lot in developing its nuclear capabilities - both for peaceful purposes and for its military. From what I remember reading on the subject, the US actively helped us in the beginning, in the 60's, and even gave u
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by webmobdev 5y ago
In India, nuclear power is part of the country's energy policy. A decade or two after independence, India was one of the few countries that focused on nuclear energy with the support of the US, and went on to build nuclear power plants
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by webmobdev 5y ago
we don’t modify and distribute your application code without your knowledge and approval º Notably, this person used “don’t” and “will not”… as opposed to “can’t” and “cannot” º So the next stage in the plan for the tech gian
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by webmobdev 5y ago
On the same topic - Communist Party powered by history? Why China's one-party rule is facing a legitimacy crisis - https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/18...
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by webmobdev 5y ago
There must be some huge incentive for Reddit to push users toward the mobile app. - Data-mining: a mobile phone is a major repository of personal information that every advertising platform wants access to. - Ad-Targeting: a mobil
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by webmobdev 5y ago
And the kind of upstaging we see in the name of nationalism is also quite understandable as imperialism was often justified by the "superiority" of the white man's culture and religion. Revisionist history in the colonies was
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by webmobdev 5y ago
I am talking from a purely political perspective, and since China has a one party system with only one broad political ideology allowed, I thought it would be obvious that I meant the political leaders of the Communist Party of China. (I ca
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by webmobdev 5y ago
That actually sounds the right way to do it - do you really want your phone to ring everytime someone in a group initiates a voice or video call?
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by webmobdev 5y ago
Except for the huge red flag that WhatsApp is owned by Facebook.
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How to Uninstall McAfee Antivirus – Featuring John McAfee Himself(youtube.com)
1 points by webmobdev 5y ago|0 comments
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Lol (and gross!). My mom used to freak out when my cat used to bring such "gifts" for us (mostly mouse, occassionally squirrels that my mom would ask me to rescue, pissing off the cat) or just try to show-off to us what an apex pr
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Note that a billion dollar didn't go missing - they attempted to steal a billion dollar but only managed to get $81 million, out of which roughly a quarter has been recovered by Bangladesh. As the article points out, the cover-up start
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by webmobdev 5y ago
You have to trust them with your Apple ID (from the FAQº): Why do you need my Apple ID? Apple allows anyone with an Apple ID to install apps they’ve built themselves onto their devices for testing. AltStore uses your Apple ID to communica
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by webmobdev 5y ago
I believe the poor UI situation is holding windows back from gaining market share. I hope you jest. Windows has far bigger problems than the uniformity of their UI - there's the whole forced update thing, the whole "w
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by webmobdev 5y ago
As they should be - laws and regulation, in a democracy, is definitely the right way to go about it, rather than tech giants determining what information you have access to. (And, ofcourse, it goes without saying that anti-child-porn laws n
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by webmobdev 5y ago
It does apply to the OS too - that is why Microsoft (and others) offer LTS (long-term-support) for their OS and pubilicise an end-of-life date for every version they release. (And sometimes some businesses continue using it even after Micro
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People who are downvoting you don't realise that sometimes corporates even spend millions of dollars to determine such small things, like even choosing the right word or colour to determine how to best influence consumers.
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Microsoft's insistence on maintaining native backwards compatibility with software some of which is as old as me is so perplexing. This is why Microsoft has such a huge presence in corporate - unlike you or me, most corporate
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- It shouldn't be the job of Microsoft, a corporate, to censor search results. The law should do it. - Can probably be used to catch the Pedophiles. - Indexing and identifying child porn hosts can also help the authorities shut them d
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by webmobdev 5y ago
One guess I can make for the "hate" BTRFS gets is probably because everyone loves their data and doesn't expect to "fight" with a file system to get access to it. E.g. Sailfish OS is perhaps the only mobile OS I kno
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Phone Depreciation: How Your Phone Value Drops (2019-2020)(bankmycell.com)
1 points by webmobdev 5y ago|0 comments

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