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marindez··on Dutch Data Protection Authority: Microsoft breaches law with Windows 10
Or an N version again.
marindez··on Google shuts YouTube channel implicated in Kremlin political propaganda ops
>this is microtargeting, death by a thousand cuts

Nah this isn't. This is a failed propaganda campaign.

marindez··on Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico devastation
Gates as a candidate would work as well as McAfee
marindez··on Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing
I don't understand why is this called Firefox Send. Shouldn't it be called Mozilla Send?
marindez··on What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die?
>If a population is too poor to support its municipal costs, the solution cannot be to let the suburb rot. There is no creative destruction option. If you let the suburb rot, all you’ll have is a more rotten suburb.

A rotten suburb is not a problem if nobody lives in it.

marindez··on CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens
Reminds me of those who never forget to mention Mastodon in every thread about Twitter. They make me believe the Mastodon community is full of know-it-alls who pity us the peasants who are too stupid to leave Twitter.
marindez··on iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking
I know Apple uses curly quotes for EVERYTHING so that raises an instant alarm in my head.
marindez··on 37k Chrome users downloaded a fake Adblock Plus extension
Then people will use cyrillic letters, etc. That approach simply does not work.
marindez··on Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp
It's free (unlike SMS or MMS) and back in the day it was the only service that worked reliably on all mobile platforms and didn't use PINs or usernames--just the phone numbers in your contact list so it was plug&play: just install it and you can talk to everybody.
marindez··on Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp
What I don't like about WhatsApp is that even if you hide your last connection time, everybody gets to see whether you're online.
marindez··on KB4046355 Deletes Windows Media Player in Windows 10 Build 16299
Yes, Groove Music (by default installed, too) plays those.
marindez··on Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
An official WhatsApp app has existed since forever and is actively maintained. You probably mean Snapchat?
marindez··on Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
>For more niche apps they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc.

I remember they were giving Lumia 925's to computer engineering students here years ago if they made and uploaded an app. You can imagine the quality of the apps they were uploading. Most of them were slideshows or just a wall of text.

That's not how you incentivise app developers, that's how you inflate your numbers.

marindez··on PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker
How do you catch criminals like these (in this article) if you have strong anonimity?
marindez··on PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker
That's one way to put it.

Another way is: there are two options. Either we have strong anonimity on the Internet, or the authorities have the power to catch criminals. Which one do you think would win in a vote?

marindez··on Debian 9.2 released
As someone who hasn't used CentOS much, when I've had to use it I've found the package selection (packages/versions) to be lacking, requiring me to use one of the countless 3rd party repos that may or may not contain what I need
marindez··on The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15418764
marindez··on The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies
I’ve heard this argument many times now and I still fail to see how we’re feeling sympathy for these people. Every time this conversation is brought up I see 0 solutions and people that very low-key suggest these people have to die because coal must disappear, because outsourcing to China is good because we’re living in a global economy, because they vote Trump and they don’t share our liberal view of society and they might not like black people or feminists, etc.
marindez··on MySql fixes autoincrement bug after 14 years of users complaining about dataloss
Now for #20786 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAiVsbXVP6k
marindez··on Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer
Obesity is obviously unnatural and unhealthy and I still don't see how it is obviously linked to cancer.
marindez··on Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer
In what way is it obvious that obesity leads to cancer?
marindez··on How a South African ISP Hacks Its Subscribers Each Month
And those horizontal scanlines on all images really bother my eyes.
marindez··on AIM will shut down after 20 years
>Somewhere along the line the presence feature got dropped, and now we're always 'Available' even when we're not.

Before you were only available when you had your PC on, you were connected to the Internet, and your IM program was open. Now you carry your perpetually running IM program in your perpetually on and perpetually connected mobile in your pocket.

marindez··on Beijing Bytedance founder tries $1M pay for engineers
Or we can resort to protectionism.
marindez··on Uber app can secretly record your iPhone screen thanks to special ‘entitlement’
It's trendy to bash Uber.
marindez··on If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint
Ah, God. And they just added that header to WhatsApp. They show no respect to 4" phone users.
marindez··on Firefox Focus privacy scandal
I don't use Android. I don't understand why did Mozilla add Klar to the stores of those countries only.
marindez··on Firefox Focus privacy scandal
Is it overly harsh to be pissed at a company that claims to herald privacy but then sends your data to a third party?
marindez··on Firefox Focus privacy scandal
Klar is only available in those stores, but not worldwide.
marindez··on Firefox Focus privacy scandal
The fact that a Mozilla product sends my data, even if it is only my IP address, to a third party, is a disgrace. I don't really care what the data is.

I understand they need analytics and telemetry. They have the money, they have the power to build all of those in house. They should not be sending my data to a third party, whatever that data might be. That's all. I expected better from Mozilla. Pocket integration was a letdown, this is even worse.

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