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FearlessNebula··on Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit
Are these apps able to track location and accelerometer data from the background? Or does this only apply to people who open something like GasBuddy while driving the car?
FearlessNebula··on Flybywire A380x – an open source study level A380 simulation
Flybywire, the creator of the renowned A32nx, released their A380x in alpha today.
FearlessNebula··on Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise
Google uses a proprietary version control system called Piper
FearlessNebula··on The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster
Anton Yelchin was killed due to traumatic asphyxiation when he thought he parked his Jeep and got out of the car and it then rolled into him and crushed him against a gate. Arguably the blame falls on GM for building one of those stateless shifters that always pops back to the center.
FearlessNebula··on The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers
Except for that time it was pointed at a major DNS provider[1] and pretty much killed a good chunk of the internet for the better part of a day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS_attacks_on_Dyn

FearlessNebula··on Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
The market is really difficult right now, most people don’t have the option to just find a remote work company. A significant amount of people who were laid off can’t find any company right now
FearlessNebula··on How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox
I haven't used OneDrive but the iCloud Drive and Google Drive clients are similarly terrible. I one time had 5 GB of complex nested file structure in iCloud Drive and it totally froze up. I tried 2 different Mac's, an iPhone, and an iPad and none of them were able to sync up with the server to get those 5 GB out of the cloud. I had to request a GDPR to get a .zip file of my data... this was the impetus for me to switch to Dropbox although after the way they handled their layoffs I am looking to switch to Syncthing as soon as I have the time to set it up and get familiar.
FearlessNebula··on How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox
Hence why I use Cryptomator to encrypt my data. Apparently OneDrive marks this as ransomware and sends you scary emails but does not lock your account. So far Dropbox does not seem to care about Cryptomator at all.

Edit: Not to defend Dropbox, but just saying there is a mitigation if you need it.

FearlessNebula··on Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option
Was it a self hosted github instance?
FearlessNebula··on Gitlab’s Startup Acquisition Process
Why does everything need to be acquired these days? Why do we consolidate everything into a few big companies? Why can’t we just have technology spread out across multiple players.
FearlessNebula··on Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults?
This is just wrong. First of all, IBS != IBD. Second of all, IBD doctors will flat out recommend high fiber Mediterranean style diets for anybody who is not in an active flair.
FearlessNebula··on Age of Empires 2 is now on Xbox
It’s not, but the controller get surprisingly close in my amateur opinion
FearlessNebula··on Apple: $52,000 Mac Pro Is Now Worth $1k
> Have been thoroughly "osbourned" by the ARM macs.

Moot point, Apple won’t delay the release of their new chips to preserve resale value on customers devices, that’s nonsensical.

FearlessNebula··on Data-Free Disneyland
What the heck is Disney doing with location data inside the park? And why facial recognition? To fight crime?
FearlessNebula··on Data-Free Disneyland
Yeah and what are the odds Disney is correlating their license plate scanners with anything in the park? I’d assume the license plates only get looked at if a crime occurs
FearlessNebula··on Age of Empires 2 is now on Xbox
Was curious what others think. I gave it a try on game pass and the controls are really well done.
FearlessNebula··on FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls
I think AWS has a service?
FearlessNebula··on US general warns troops that war with China is possible in two years
I wonder if we could bring the people and their families over?
FearlessNebula··on US general warns troops that war with China is possible in two years
Devil’s advocate:

Surely we wouldn’t go to war on Taiwan’s behalf solely to support their independence. It would be to guarantee our access to their microchips. So why not produce those ourselves, and end our dependence on both China and Taiwan.

FearlessNebula··on Teardown of the 14″ MacBook Pro M2 with Apple’s Help
Which company and which critical material?
FearlessNebula··on Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group
It’s not about the obesity, it’s about the metabolic disease. We have T2 diabetic children with human foie gras. Why? Because of the standard American diet, accurately named SAD.
FearlessNebula··on Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills
I apologize, it wasn’t my intention to offend anybody
FearlessNebula··on Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills
It’s more that he is affluent. Try to imagine white trash pulling this stunt and it wouldn’t go well either.
FearlessNebula··on Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
What inspirational videos do you see in TikTok? I have never used TikTok but I usually hear it described as entertainment more than motivation or inspiration.
FearlessNebula··on Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
I think you mixed up the headline with this one? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/17/good-night-mal...
FearlessNebula··on Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?
While that certainly sounds like an awful partner, to my knowledge it doesn’t happen to the same extent as we see lonely people
FearlessNebula··on Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?
Yeah everyone seems to be very focused on sex whereas to me the problem is not fostering intimate connections in the first place. We don’t have an epidemic of relationships that aren’t having sex, we’re having an epidemic of people who aren’t fostering those relationships and as a downstream byproduct they aren’t having sex. Pay a prostitute is a bandaid patch on the downstream problem, but it will never makeup for the loneliness hole of the upstream problem
FearlessNebula··on How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2M a Year
Kinda disappointing to see so many people on this post implying that their idea of living life is the only valid approach
FearlessNebula··on Apple Security Research Device (2022)
I wonder which model of iPhone it is
FearlessNebula··on Microsoft held an invite-only concert for execs, 1 day before announcing layoffs
No, of course not. But others seem to be. And in my opinion by the time they decided to do layoffs it would’ve been too late to cancel the concert and get their money back, so you might as well enjoy the concert.
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