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What he said.

Also, what about people whose skin is a shade in between those provided by the skin color emoji?

I mean, if you're not representing those people you're being racist, right?

> For some people, race, fighting for for recognition, let alone equality, is a daily battle.

You don't need to create a new character set to do that.

People fight daily against salmonella and we don't have salmonella emoji.

Also, if you're fighting for identity you're part of the problem -- you should be fighting for ambiguity.

You see, equal rights goes both ways.

If you demand special rights because you're different, that's not equal.

You want equal rights? You got it. Let's have a straight pride parade tomorrow.

Then we'll have a men's rights rally.

Why would you consider yellow to be asian?

Asians aren't yellow...

I don't understand why you need different colors of emoji.

Isn't yellow sufficiently neutral?

> Should the grocery store also give you free food because you didn't ask them to have a store?

Yes, that's why I have food stamps.

All the money that rich people give away comes out of your wallet in the form of tax deductions.

I didn't ask them to have costs or a website.

My reddit use dropped off completely when they began censoring free speech and claiming it was good for the community.

I'm sorry I'm not apologizing for being poor.

Link please?

Apple's other major market is China and they've had six consecutive quarters of losses.

There's no catching him, he's behind 80 proxies.

So which is worse, your VPN provider telling you that they don't store logs of user activity and then very well doing it (as has been proven in multiple cases), or your cell provider telling you they're going to fuck you, then fucking you?

A VPN provider can tell you they're not logging your traffic because they think they aren't but really they are because there's a box somewhere that your traffic passes through that has logging enabled (for example -- and don't hyperfocus on the example, I know how you programmer types like to pick up the example and play ping pong with it for six hours).

So incompetence is a reason to not trust a provider as well.

It's important to consider here that the average person using TOR is not a network administrator.

And that they'll follow the instructions that come with the TOR browser and assume that it's safe.

So when I say that TOR isn't safe, I mean that it isn't safe as it's presented.

Saying that TOR isn't safe if you know what you're doing is like selling someone a car with no seatbelts and then telling them well if you knew what you were doing you'd install seat belts yourself and then the car would be safe.

> Anyone can afford a dollar

At the moment I'm unemployed and I'm literally living day to day just waiting for some kind of break.

It's easy to say "anyone can afford a dollar" while you sit in your $4,000 apartment sipping a late` that was just brought to you in less than five minutes by any of fifty different food delivery services available to you.

But consider that there are plenty of people who have a basic computer or smartphone and internet access who actually can't afford a dollar.

Tor is basically a funnel into the DOJ and has been for quite some time:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/doj-drops-case-a...

They run massive PR campaigns with carefully structured press releases designed to convince the kind of people they want to detain that TOR is private and safe for any kind of activity.

Because of this people tend to get swole when you suggest that TOR is not any good for protecting your privacy because lots and lots of people have been arrested, tried and convicted after trying to use it to hide elicit activities.

The US government has made millions of dollars of investment into TOR:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/29/us-govern...

Pretty much every time the US government is investing in something you can be certain that their intention is not to help you out.

Why do you trust your VPN provider more than your phone carrier?

What have they done to earn your trust?

Was there any point to this comment other than humblebragging about your fiber connection?

All SSH does is move your traffic to a different computer.

When it leaves that computer it's no longer encrypted.

It's not hard to look at unencrypted traffic leaving the computer you've SSH'd into and associate the traffic with the computer you've SSH'd in through.

Verifiably VPN providers lie when they say they don't log:

https://betanews.com/2017/10/09/purevpn-logs-fbi/

Whether it's through negligence or ignorance or intentional lying, it's nearly impossible to not log user activity in some way.

And really, think about this: Even if you try really hard not to log, as a provider you're competing with thousands of forensic scientists who do nothing all day but figure out how to associate activity with the people who committed that activity.

And once a federal agency has identified your VPN traffic, every single thing you've done through that VPN provider is all wrapped up in one neat bundle for them to peruse.

I'm not sure how far that's going to progress.

I don't want a new iPhone anymore. The one I have is fine.

I feel like Apple has peaked and that smartphones in general have peaked and that they have nothing more significant to offer and I'm not the first to say it.

There's a point where more thinner bezels, a bigger screen, fewer hardware components, faster processor, more storage and more RAM doesn't matter anymore because doing those things more doesn't add to the user experience anymore.

Apple has reached a point where they're starting to take things away from consumers to save money and ensure profits.

We're at the point where if I were to swap my iPhone 6S for an iPhone 8, it would actually be a downgrade because Apple took away my headphone jack and didn't add anything significantly better than what I already have, and it's the same with my Macbook Pro.

If I were to "upgrade" to a newer Macbook Pro, I would actually lose a significant amount of functionality because Apple is taking away the SD card slot and all the ports I need and use every day.

Sounds like an opportunity to make a better pacemaker.

Signal jammers work by producing the same radio waves that other devices produce, but with a lot of noise in them.

So it seems like if a signal jammer would interrupt a pacemaker's function, so would being near those devices that produce the signals but aren't signal jammers.

Hi, first comment so please be gentle.

I'd like to point out that this video doesn't actually provide any evidence that Facebook was listening.

They said they talked about cat food all day, then they showed an ad on Facebook for cat food.

There's no way to verify that they didn't make the video of the cat food ad on Facebook and then talk about cat food all day.

Nor is there any evidence that they talked about cat food all day at all. No recording of the conversations etc.

In fact I'm a little confused about how this is even a question.

I'm not a programmer so I don't know, but: Wouldn't it be trivial for someone who knows how to write Android software to monitor if an an application is accessing the audio input device?

I mean, I know that on Linux you can monitor whether or not a device is being opened.

Why doesn't someone check if Facebook is accessing the audio input?