throwhauser
There's something about Bandcamp that seems exactly right. It's an open, fair and creative way to discover and publish music, that is really distinct from the rest of the music business.
I'm struggling to see how that fits into a gigantic video game company. If it has to pull in so much money that it "moves the needle" at Epic at all, I don't see how it can remain anything close to what it is today.
To follow your analogy, if they had a separate office in a separate building that they could use in the event that they get kicked out of the bugged office, they would already be using it whenever they wanted additional privacy.
The only way SWIFT actually forces Russia to be visible is if it's their only option, so no visibility can be lost if they're cut off.
In that case the judgment was whether the telemetry was reliable enough to justify launching a retaliatory strike, with all the grave consequences that produces.
An unambiguous order to launch a first strike might not elicit the same kind of hesitation.
The US Constitution is applicable to anyone within the jurisdiction of the US, regardless of citizenship or immigration status (including undocumented).
I have the generic "Google" app disabled, which I think is the thing that listens on the microphone for that. I don't really know what else it does, so I'm not sure what else is unavailable once it's disabled. I don't expect I'll be missing much though.
Specifically, needed to get rid of:
- Google Assistant
- Google Location Services
- Avoid accidentally signing up for Verizon's "cloud" and "digital secure"
- Disallow Verizon's app from collecting location when not using the app
- Disable and de-permission Verizon Cloud, which has tons of permissions even though I never accepted using it
- Turn off Google "location accuracy"
- Turn off personal results for ads
- Turn off tracking for ads in apps which is a separate setting
- Change the default messenger from Verizon's "Message+" to normal messaging to avoid having my messages copied all over the place
- Get confused by some weird "premium" upsell in the Voicemail
- Turn off "monthly driving stats" in google maps which is enabled even though I have location tracking disabled, what the hell even is this?
And that's just the stuff I remember.
And I still get a nag screen on maps for having web history turned off.
I guess Google wants everybody's data and Verizon wants to sell "premium" things for more money, but I wish there was just one button to shut all this shit off. There should be a "good Android" option that costs less than an iPhone for people that would pay a little more money for less garbage.
If there's no way to 100% establish that all the money has been extracted, an attacker might keep going indefinitely to see if there's more.
If the docs are misrepresenting the details, who can blame the author of the post?
Does it have to be a company in the EU? I thought the GDPR covered any website an EU citizen, resident, or visitor might use, in which case US-based websites might have contradictory obligations to the GDPR and US law.
Can you cite a reference for that? I fully believe that Google is using cookies for this, but that doesn't mean that the legal authority here isn't making the judgment on IP address alone. I believe a recent GDPR decision against Google Fonts was based on IP address alone. [0]
Of course the value of any lockdown policy is contingent on the practical ability to correctly assess the threat of a new disease early enough that such short-duration, non-pharmaceutical interventions could work. But I don't think temporary restrictions are incompatible with basic civil liberties.
EDIT: Removed amateur-hour epidemiology, restated "philosophical" argument contingent on NPIs being effective.
I don't know if the author of the tweet intended it that way (and if he was speaking figuratively I wouldn't fault him, it's just a tweet), but I don't quite buy that anyone could really estimate the number of journalists in an area drawn by someone else by eyeballing a map on Twitter. I also don't quite buy that half of the journalists under 40 live in a specific part of New York City, when Washington DC, Los Angeles and (for nerds) San Francisco also have their own share of that population.
I should not under any circumstances need to enter into a direct agreement with a private entity like id.me in order to access public services. The government might reasonably subcontract out some of the work, but public services need public accountability. The government service itself needs to be the direct counterparty to the public.
Hopefully id.me will get booted from other government agencies as well.
Morality is conspicuously absent, but I'm concerned that devoting any thought to this counts as taking the bait.
I've noticed this as well. People fight like animals when their reputation is at stake. The way that the internet lures people into making public, attributable statements means they can't back down in any disagreement without serious loss of face.
Who is on the other side of that trade? If it's an identifiable DEX then doesn't that only work until cryptocurrencies from that DEX are defined as "bad"?
But if the internet had been developed earlier, we would have debated something like this in the past.
> And Zuck is very smart. The moment I saw the rebrand to Meta I knew that he saw this day coming perhaps years ago. He knows the next frontier is the meta verse
Zuckerberg has been a surprisingly good steward of the one successful idea he came across, the social network graph. His acquisitions (Instagram, etc) worked very well to supplement the social network graph and keep it going longer than it otherwise might have gone. But now that no one gives a shit about what anyone else is doing and just wants to see some jokes, that graph is getting less and less complete.
The "metaverse" is an idiotic, last-ditch attempt to lock people back into the grid by turning them into cartoon versions of themselves in a private-sector universe. It's ridiculous. Facebook is flailing.