tempted to go into my nearest big box electronics store and then sue them when they don't tell me the LG tv's they have on display are eavesdropping on me.
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I have WhatsApp notifications enabled because it is the primary way people communicate where I live. If my elderly mother messages or calls me, it will most likely be through WhatsApp.
Both of those notifications contain genuinely important or time-sensitive information which may require action on my part.
That's the distinction between them. A person contacting me is fundamentally different from a brand attempting to engage me. Transaction alerts are fundamentally different from “your order is out for delivery”.
The criteria is not “did a thing happen”. It's whether the notification gives meaningful new information that is important or time-sensitive, and requires me to take action.
Most app notifications fail that test completely.
This is how taxis worked for decades before smartphones existed. You phoned for a taxi, then remained vaguely aware that it would arrive shortly.
The question is whether a single “it has arrived” notification is worth the surrounding noise: “driver accepted”, “driver is nearby”, “rate your driver”, “here’s 10% off your next ride”, and so on.
In most cases, it is not. The useful information is either already obvious (you can see the car outside) or you have re-opened the app to check where they are.
Operational and marketing notifications should never share the same permission. Until that is enforced at the OS level, I will treat them all as unnecessary spam.
Apps allowed to receive push notifications
Phone, Messages, Whatsapp, Apple Health, [brand] bank.
That concludes the list.
There is no reason any other app needs to be able to instantly ping me. Most apps are not notifying you because something matters; they are notifying you because they want your attention.
I do not need notifications about streaks, sales, recommendations, delivery updates etc. All that can wait until I choose to open the app. It is not urgent enough to justify interrupting me.
English libel law permits individuals and companies to go to court to defend their reputations against the harms caused by false and defamatory publications made by others.
Since the statement that this is misleading, and a 'HOAX CLAIM', it would fall into "A statement is defamatory if its publication has caused or is likely to cause serious harm to the reputation of the claimant."[1]
That's just the "Most recent" option from the left hand menu (or the burger menu) on the Facebook website?
This article mentions that they turned the news feed off but people were still hiding posts from pages they don't follow, which friends had commented on. These shouldn't appear in a news feed that is not curated as they are not following that page, and is one of the things people are complaining about in the algorithm.
They didn't test the algorithm vs no algorithm, they tested the current algorithm vs another algorithm.
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"he shared a cocky but disgusting puke and was subjected to even more pussygasm in his younger years"I'd say if you studied the moon, anything that happened in it's early lifetime is ancient so the protomoon and first billion years into it's existence, maybe.
I guess it's similar to how people studying evolution class Humans as a recent event, but people who study humans class the the Pyramids as ancient history.
For example the margin either side of it being 2 billion is 59 million years either way...
Many times I've needed to do something that seems simple but isn't exposed easily, and rather than figure it out myself there's a gui or cli app that just does exactly what I need.
However, Wobbles and Transit photometry are done over time and plot trends which definitively show that something with a certain mass is orbiting with a certain period around the star. There isn't really anything else it could be except an exoplanet, unless our understanding of how physics works was way off, which we know it isn't.
as for Spectrography brabel sums it up in their comment very well.
Jonathan Blow did a talk similar to this a few years ago, about how "software is terrible".
In a part of it, he double clicked on a .psd file to open in Photoshop and timed how long it took to open the image. It took around 8 seconds for Photoshop to display that image on screen. But the first thing the app did was show a splash screen image, almost instantly.
His argument was, "Why, when I double click this image file that I want to view, does it instantly load an image which isn't the one I want to view, and then take 8 seconds to load the one I do want to view. If it can instantly load an image when I double click the file, why isn't that image the one I double clicked?"
Potentially Hazardous Objects have to be modelled from quite far away and have their courses plotted. Most PHOs would not show up on cameras such as this.
There is a "you can't go 500 miles in 10 seconds" style check, that checks your displacement against your previous position periodically to makes sure it's realistic,
something that makes sure your GPS is always drifting a little, like a normal phone GPS would report (which the spoofer app builds in),
and other little things such as if it has camera permissions and you take a photo in game, the location in the photo metadata matches your in game location.
I usually play in my house in the North of England and regularly spoof the app to be in London, New York, Paris Mall or Tokyo.
For example: Legitimate news are members of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, or have a licence to broadcast from Ofcom, or something similar. Media on social platforms will be subject to the same standards as those broadcast on television, or written in print. If videos online are 'fake news' then ofcom deal with that the same as they would on television, or ISPO the same as they would in print.
For foreign news, they could rely on similar organisations in host countries, or an affiliation with a member.
In that regulation, Facebook & Google would agree to revoke the account of the outlet in line with the regulatory organisations guidelines.
Any news outlet that is not a member of the independent organisation, or a licencee of Ofcom is considered fake news.
In my internal "how reliable is this source", that's pretty much the first check I do in my head.
Say, FB wants to get your location, even though FB has location permissions a pop up says "Facebook is attempting to find your location. Do you consent to sending your location to Facbook?" "Facebook is attempting to read the Names, Telephone Numbers and Addresses of everybody in your contact list. Do you consent to this?" every time facebook app makes the request?
I'd be a bad user experience, but Apple could say it cares about privacy and blame facebook.
I know that in some countries renting is the default mindset and it seems like within the UK priorities are shifting among that age bracket. I'd assume that's partly due to them not seeing property ownership as a realistic goal thanks to the price of them.
As a Guardian opinion piece [0] points out: "Abandoning the hope of home ownership represents freedom for many millennials: it frees up cash that would otherwise go towards buying an asset into living in the present. That can mean renting a more comfortable room (or flat) in a nicer area, it can mean the difference between having enough money to go out or not, and it can even mean hiring a cleaner to make the overpriced rented flat a good deal nicer.
Home ownership is almost universally seen as a life goal, or a milestone of success. It needn’t be – not owning a home can be a real benefit for many younger adults. It gives us the freedom to move with work, and try to build savings for other purposes – insurance against getting laid off, for travel, or even for a 'fuck-off fund'."
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/20/millen...