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by xethos 2y ago
Why not just... do the thing you want? IE, the solution you alluded to in your comment: have a dumb [which here exclusively means not internet-connected] TV with an externally "smart" device like a Chromecast? This is essentially
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by xethos 2y ago
Your six year old source itself states that in 2017, China stopped the import of foreign garbage. Meaning plastic pollution will have dropped in the six years since your source was published. More importantly though, it wasn't even n
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by xethos 2y ago
I honestly don't understand how you came to that conclusion, considering the following from TFA (emphasis mine): > Somewhat straightforwardly, YouTube has chosen to degrade the user experience of the embedded player publishers like
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by xethos 2y ago
IIRC (from mobile), it was a different article from Wired that corroborated this, with a surprising disagreement (from what you mentioned) being that the gig-workers would keep notes that are attached and shared. The notes are per-... rando
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by xethos 2y ago
This reads like an American, once again, deciding to enforce American cultural norms on other nations I'm not defending or condemning any of the artwork in question, just pointing out that American corporations have been forcing throug
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by xethos 2y ago
And following through to the source: > Among the 21 countries with complete statistics, the pregnancy rate among 15- to 19-year olds was the highest in the United States
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by xethos 2y ago
Because iPhones are not layers of glass glued together from either end, with a battery sandwiched in-between. Apple gets a lot of shit (deservedly or not), but they have taken pains to make refreshing their phones (battery, screen, etc) a n
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by xethos 2y ago
Employers used to promote internally, train and up-skill their people, and strive to keep them around for longer than the two to five year stint that seems to be the average in tech Hiring low-level employees requires less vetting. Upskilli
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by xethos 2y ago
The kid in question took a two-week haitus, came back, and made money doing the same thing again
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by xethos 2y ago
Targeting, blackmailing, or extorting a Facebook engineer to insert a subtle backdoor into a closed-source app does seem like a hell of an investment for the Kremlin. Currently stating it's a honeypot is a touch hyperbolic, but I would
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by xethos 2y ago
Things like this are why I keep throwing sidelong glances at Synology instead of QNAP I currently use. Sure, the QNAP is only behind my LAN, and it's job is exclusively to manage hard drives and give a warning when one gives out (or
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by xethos 2y ago
First lack of budget to keep them there full time, then they'll re-skill and change industries due to lack of job opportunities. Sooner or later they won't be able to easily go back, because tools, styles, and publisher and reader
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by xethos 2y ago
Not OP, but I've been meaning to pick up a used business phone and connecting it to a VoIP number for a home phone
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by xethos 2y ago
Per the article, past use of ADHD meds can absolutely prevent someone from signing up > Multiple recruiters on the ground, from different services and locations, are more blunt in their assessments. They say Genesis has ended an applican
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by xethos 2y ago
Spotify even fucks over podcasters a little differently. There is no tracking, no cookies, no Facebook tracking pixels, in the RSS feeds that is podcasting. So how does one know "How big is my audience, how many people hear my ads, how
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by xethos 2y ago
Likely re-wired internally so "left-click" is still actuated by the index finger
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by xethos 2y ago
Presumably because they disagree about what should be kept private from whom, and whether the user should be allowed to be in control of the security of the hardware. Apple will vouch for applications running on, for example, MacOS. They&#x
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by xethos 2y ago
I wouldn't assume this is explicitely to help LEO, but more because this is (AFAIK) the first time this is being trialed by Apple. 72 hours is a touch long, IMO (and based on some comments, it's not just me), but when your update
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by xethos 2y ago
Parent stated "I’ve had trouble verifying that these chips still have reliability problems after the microcode updates" Your video links to Intel CPUs doing remarkably poorly before the latest microcode update. Parent was presum
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by xethos 2y ago
> I don't get it. Why is it bad wanting to see the unsafe version for yourself? Because, as shown in Japan and called out in TFA, even those without a history of seizures can have them. These can be bad enough, even in those with no
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by xethos 2y ago
Of course not. The government reports that lots of articles are based on are free. LibGen (which anyone this service would target likely knows of) holds most of the other reports of objective facts. If people were interested in reading the
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by xethos 2y ago
Zero-to-one-hundred real quick there. The important thing for the general population isn't so much to go full Unabomber, live in the woods, speak to nobody, but to make tracking just a little more difficult. Mabye set Location Services
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by xethos 2y ago
If it were one sheriff, the person driving by in their SUV wouldn't have called the cops. This is a wider phenomenon than you're letting on here
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by xethos 2y ago
But now you've also changed the requirements - it's no longer "All the maintenance a Linux box needs" (which you claimed was the biggest impediment up-thread), now it's the initial hump of getting it installed
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by xethos 2y ago
> I don't think I personally know anyone who has ended up with malware on their phone That's... kind of the point when distributing malware? Not only has the game changed as to what actually happens, but malware is only valuabl
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by xethos 2y ago
> easy for the kidnappers to receive ransom in a way that's very hard to trace back to them after the fact This is actually less true than you assume (barring Monero). Crypto, and Bitcoin especially, is less (less, though not yet co
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by xethos 2y ago
I've been using (and recommended up-thread) Voip.ms, whose services include web-based SMS as an option
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by xethos 2y ago
Oh hey, I've seen people like you. and it prompted me, several years ago, to do something similar with Voip.ms. My "one number" was ported from a telco, and has lived at this paid service, with customer support, for over six
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by xethos 2y ago
For the iPhone itself, sure. Now account for the drop in companion devices (Airpods and AppleWatch work best with an iPhone, and it's pretty apparent when you aren't using one) Then take a gander at Cloud services that no longer p
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by xethos 2y ago
You're right in that it doesn't benefit them financially . Living in some of the few spots in the continental united states that allow for a more passively-active lifestyle (temerate enough to spend more time outdoors without mak

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