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Comment · 3 years ago
Insanity, a person in their free time, out of the working hours discover a bug, doesn't summit it immediately, the google engineers proceed to call it 'an apple engineer' instead of saying the name of the person, this is politics 101.

Funny to see output of years of promoting politics inside a company.

Comment · 3 years ago
8. Using android phones that haven't received any security updates in the last few years because the vendor stopped releasing updates a couple of years after the release.
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Comment · 3 years ago
For me, being able to block/remove all the videos in the main page, shorts, the other people also..., the video recommendations and all the crap that Youtube have these days is so important.

I would pay a lot for a service that gives me the most useful answers instead of what is most likely to make me watch for longer, I know that is their business model to maximize view time to sell more adds but I wish they would sell me a subscription that allows me to customize the UI to show only a search bar, show only educational content when I use the search function and when I'm watching a video don't show me any recommendation or try to pull any tricks on me to spent more time in the platform, nothing more, I would gladly pay 50$ a month for this type of service on Youtube, until then uBlock origin to the rescue, my attention span and productivity is worth more than all the crap the Youtube team tries to pull.

Comment · 3 years ago
Proton, the company that still in 2023 doesn't allow to cancel the auto renewal without losing access to the services you have already paid, the most anti-consumer thing I have seen in my life.

Here is how it works: 1. You pay for example for 2 years of access. 2. After a few months you decide to remove the auto renew and just use the remaining time of your subscription, your only option is to cancel your current subscription and lost access to any premium service you paid for, they give you credits for the remaining time of your subscription, that you can use if you contract other services.

So you are force to cancel the subscription before the renewal time and hope you don't forget to cancel it.

Run from this company.

Comment · 3 years ago
I havent seen a single server or workstation running rhel in the data science field, the most used distro in ds already was ubuntu and with the launch of pro covering the universe repository for security updates, I cant understand why redhat is making this move, cant see the endgame.
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Comment · 3 years ago
If this device delivers 80% of what they showed, this is insane.

Like with iOS, the devs that adopted early where able to make a lot of profit, 3.5k looks way too cheap for what they showed.

Legit makes me want to work for apple.

Comment · 3 years ago
Neo-Luddism.

Like they are going to stop China or any other country outside US or EU.

The most they can hope to do, is to force some companies to move off-shore.

Wonder where was all this people when Elon Musk started releasing betas on FSD.

Self-appointed 'Center for AI and Digital Policy', nothing more to add.

Comment · 4 years ago
365 is the cloud base suite of Microsoft Office, you can still use the Microsoft Office 2021 Professional or older versions.

365 is a nice way of collaborate at work, if you are a small business is a nice product, for the big companies this is just going to be more headache for their I.T department, so now instead of relying in the Microsoft servers to allocate and store the documents, they will use any other server from who knows what company and hosted who knows where, some will be hosted with e2ee including at rest while others will end up using some shit show of servers from a company owned by some dude from not so friendly countries.

I understand that privacy for companies is a big risk, but regulating it this way can easily end with a cobra effect.

Comment · 4 years ago
It wasn't true even without the unique identifier, Apple can always correlated all the other data they sent to their servers to identified you.

Most people thing of anonymity like a boolean when is most like a gradient, for example, Tor not only needs onion routing, it also need to to present each user to the net alike, that is why they configure their version of firefox in a specific way and even a simple thing like changing the resolution of the window make you less anonymous. Even in perfect conditions you still vulnerable to correlation attacks and if you are the US, you can probably just use network flow data to deanonymize an user, obviously to do it the resources and implications would be enormous.

In the end is just a gradient of being anonymous to who? The ad conglomerate? A big state?

It would be literally impossible with a standard iphone to be anonymous to Apple, is just PR by Apple.

Comment · 4 years ago
11 years for literally putting lives at risk due to medical fraud, forget the money part for a moment. Someone may have lost a love one because of her, maybe it was a few? Hundreds? Who knows. But we are over 8 billion people in this world, do we really need people like this ever having a second chance to life? Medical fraud should be life sentence, at most, give her the opportunity to work from prison for the rest of her life.

This type of people prey on the ingenuous and naive, nothing wrong with being ingenuous but for the rest of us, we should also call out the predators like Holmes and try to keep this predators out of society.

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