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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:35AM (#23059239)
that was forced on some cheap androids between version 3 and 4.

after 4.4 they dialled it back to instead of required now they only apply some seven dark patterns to try to trick users into thinking it is mandatory.

same effect to most users, zero regulatory consequences

Re:Firefox 75.0 on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:31AM (#22833363)
and companies copying features no user asked for from the top competition is even more expensive and dumb.

it's like gnome giving up all its good differentiating features during the great rewrite just to mimic osx, no matter they were in a cargo cult mindset copying even the flaws, shortcomings and bugs.

here Mozilla is copying Chrome's abusive forceful use of google's services from the UI, no matter if the user wants or not

Re:YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @09:51AM (#22812934)
good guerrilla marketing though.

everyone is again talking about recently-forgotten 5G.

again, i hate apple. but you are being disingenious.

if I replaced your screen with a malicious one that stores images and touches to later steal your pins, i could just wait the low time limit, give it to you and hope you never checks the buried down setting screen.

this way it brings the evil-maid-attack down to zero, as the user have 15 days to see the atack. and the forever-setting is only meant for ppl buying a new device.

Re:Why Russia fears Sweden’s submarines on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:24AM (#22802226)
rigth. my point is that the sea is huge and lots go down there between navys that we hear little about even in specialized media.
wait, if i read that rigth it will just show a notification. what's wrong with that?

I hate and never buy apple devices for many reasons, but telling me the device was tampered with, with no side effect (heck, they used to brick devices before for even less than replacing the display)... but I mean, if they really cared about the users they would also show the new serial, hash, whatever they track so that the user can keep the same tampering protection after they got one replacement

Re:Coronavirus and Credibility on Monday April 06, 2020 @08:46AM (#22793206)
my hot take: this is all because we are engineers designing social networks.

think about it. email, twitter, etc. it all works like any network protocol meant for machines. it is cheap to spam. there is no middle ground between anonymity and spam. each node must handle their own peers. etc.

what if it was designed by actual sociologists or people that actually deal with human, instead of engineer. one would hope in such world tweeter would reduce exposition to all those accounts, because people around me that I trust do not engage with or outright block them. also I could have means to benefit of all that network without rendering all my information to the service. etc.

in summary, we are to blame for most of it.

Re:Notion hits $2B valuation in new raise on Sunday April 05, 2020 @04:01PM (#22788180)
who pay for a service like what they offer?!

makes no sense. unless they have the best salesman in the universe for a very niche market like legal or health. is that the case?

lament not working on mesh networks and praying my failing will be cut short by the internet getting back up soon.

in other words, the same as everyone here.

why a state fed is making those predictions?
so after aplitting korea into north and south (as they are know all around the world), the US will again split north korea into west/east. will it be east korea? or north east korea?
Re:Why Russia fears Sweden’s submarines on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:40PM (#22782123)
because you turn off all the parts with moving fluids. a nuclear you cannot turn off the cooling, i guess.
Re:Why Russia fears Sweden’s submarines on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:39PM (#22782117)
yesterday a german ship rammed a Venezuela navy ship.

a month before an oil tanker went down north of brazil, still zero clues which tanker it was, at all.

the sea is a very big place. we barrely hear all the weird stuff in the mainstream media. well, maybe not the baltic, that one is not so big and have too many eyes... i see your point.

LOL. downvoted with no comment pointing why it would not be.

alas, it was the rigth prediction and Exactly that happened.

Re:Cash Is King: Flows, Balances, and Buffer Days on Saturday April 04, 2020 @12:42PM (#22779394)
i mean exactly "us small business" which is a title almost all companies ofering 401k managed accounts have.
php was never anything serious until it lived on top apache.
Re:History of Erlang and Elixir on Saturday April 04, 2020 @12:40PM (#22779379)
elixir is mix. mix is hex.

hence elixir is npm for erlang

Re:History of Erlang and Elixir on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:47PM (#22760924)
elixir is npm for erl.

the single example you need to know to snub it:

   x = 1
   x = 2
thats valid elixir. you're better off using javascript or php at this point
learn to buy hardware with decent drivers.

hint: it's not nvidia.

the only thing C missed was a stdnet lib, with things like starting a network daemon and http parsers. oh and a decent list stdlib that everyone could agree on and build the rest on top.

had that happened a while ago, we would never have seen php et al.

Re:Cash Is King: Flows, Balances, and Buffer Days on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:17PM (#22720670)
wonder what most "US small biz funds" (required on most 401k programs ) are doing these days
people in this forum pretty much control if any SaaS live or die.

if we care enough we can compile a simple list of layoffs happy companies to boycott.

too good to be true for long.

just like fisa, they will extend on monday after no deliberation.

Re:Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call on Friday March 27, 2020 @09:17PM (#22708388)
by your logic everyone should have been living pay check to paycheck when interest rates get low.

but that's not even the craziest thing in your comment. it's that you are probably a salaried worker making excuses for the boss. it's a crazy crazy world.

in other news: let's put a turbine on an open faucet!
for webrtc the load is on the clients. the server load is for "poor connectivity" clients. the ones tha need nat transversal and proxing of kinds.

in summary, if you have first class clients you can "host" a million person session in a raspberypi. if you have two bad clients, you better have tons of cpu and bandwidth!

why would a "hacker who wants $100mi for stolen code" post it all on github?

regardless, amd will finally win the video card wars now thanks to open source drivers:)

Re:Intel SGX has been removed from Rocket Lake-S CPUs on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:37AM (#22684369)
thinking of sgx. DRM needs it. it won't go away.
Re:Things in tech you need to know today on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:34AM (#22684350)
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