benologist

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by benologist 6y ago
Buying your neighbor's surrounding houses for privacy...
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by benologist 6y ago
For months now I have been using youtube-dl to preserve all the concerts and workout videos I like on YouTube because I don't expect this content to remain available and unencumbered. My original plan was to store just the IDs on GitH
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by benologist 6y ago
What if they lied about how much music was worth though? You can stream 10,000+ songs in one month for the price of one album today, in the early 2000s we were asked to believe that was $10,000+ worth of music and their suffering was relat
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by benologist 6y ago
About 400 million people pay monthly for access to music instead of listening to radio, occasionally buying albums or piracy so idk if anything really backfired...
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by benologist 6y ago
This NPM cache been a huge time-saver for me, you can run it locally or across your whole network for a shared cache - https://guides.sonatype.com/repo3/quick-start-guides/proxyin... https://hub.docker.
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by benologist 6y ago
I host mine too because I'm not interested in paying ~$100/year for the rest of my life to access music, this is like welfare for tech giants and record companies and very little even trickles down to musicians. I got a Synology
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by benologist 6y ago
I wish the technology existed so they could just correctly bill you when you get back to your car and you drive away with a receipt instead of a fine... the idea that you have done something wrong and you deserve a financial punishment for
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by benologist 6y ago
Same. This recharger + 4 battery set has been invaluable with my remote. https://www.amazon.com/Lithium-Battery-Charger-Rechargeable-...
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by benologist 6y ago
I have maintained my fitness and saved so much money by switching to videos on YouTube. I think this stuff should at most be a category on Netflix etc it's not worth $9.99 separately. The trainers are all good, the only thing missing
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by benologist 6y ago
You can block a lot of apps individually from accessing the internet with NetGuard - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/ https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard
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by benologist 6y ago
> hundreds of experts working to prevent it Every major operating system has this regardless of whether they force you to download software through one marketplace. You're not less-secure if you use two marketplaces as long as bot
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by benologist 6y ago
In real life on the iPhone we have had apps secretly uploading your address book, copying your clipboard and listening for tones embedded in television ads. And "The Fappening" where many people's private photos were leaked.
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by benologist 6y ago
Apple and Facebook have both been sued for this. Facebook were literally calling it friendly fraud and trying not to prevent it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2019/01/25/facebook-tu... The
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Australia Opens Antitrust Inquiry into Apple's App Store(macrumors.com)
1 points by benologist 6y ago|0 comments
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by benologist 6y ago
Can't they control the quality of external or replaceable batteries in exactly the same way?
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by benologist 6y ago
It is absolutely a deliberate decision by Apple to pressure people to use iPhones and to pressure people not to convert to using Android. Hopefully this will be one of the items on Congress' agenda as they disempower 'big tech&#x
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by benologist 6y ago
Nobody's saying Facebook and Amazon won't get charges too. They and Apple were all part of the same investigation. The investigators say all four companies are abusing their positions but they haven't given a lot of detail
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Apple to drop AMD's lower-end GPUs, replace with own 5 nm GPUs by 2H 2021(notebookcheck.net)
1 points by benologist 6y ago|0 comments
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by benologist 6y ago
They could have a Screentime-type system just for being transparent about what you or your family spent in the last week on subscriptions, apps and in-app purchases, what free trials are ending, what apps have active subscriptions but no us
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by benologist 6y ago
Apple has been sued for games defrauding children thousands of dollars, but what's really ridiculous and amazing is they are not alone. All of the tech giants have gotten in trouble for defrauding children with deceptive in-app purcha
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by benologist 6y ago
Why do you think GitHub does not have this problem? There are actual "hello world" apps on GitHub but literally nobody is adversely affected by it even when they download popular software by other developers.
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by benologist 6y ago
The congresspeople who investigated them for a year and a half also think they are abusive. > the investigation has confirmed that Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook are all abusing their market power to the detriment of consumers http
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by benologist 6y ago
This story keeps floating around but the reality is Apple saw a $0.99 in-app purchase for a one-day pass, interpreted that as a one-day non-recurring subscription, which they don't support, but they demanded subscription billing be use
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by benologist 6y ago
McDonalds didn't want nutritional information on hamburger wrappers, cigarette companies didn't want health risks mentioned, Apple doesn't want consumers to be conscious of how they pay $150/year to Apple for every $10&#
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by benologist 6y ago
This is why NoScript is complementary to uBlock.
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by benologist 6y ago
"The kind of common theme is the abuse of their market power to maintain their market dominance, to crush competitors, to exclude folks from their platform and to earn monopoly rents." - the antitrust committee investigating them
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by benologist 6y ago
Have you tried Thunderbolt accessories? You should be able to add NVMe storage and AMD graphics that might speed things up. I couldn't try this out because I have an nVidia eGPU, but using Apple's TB2-to-TB3 adaptor I can actual
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by benologist 6y ago
Apps being rejected was a talking point for the anti-trust investigations for Apple. I don't think Google is quite so famous for its rejections but they were part of that investigation for other abuse, hopefully any changes that come
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by benologist 6y ago
You can make a virtual machine very easily but it performs very poorly: https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox Or you can lease them online: http://macstadium.com/ GitHub has some kind of Mac
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by benologist 6y ago
I find my dual-core 2013 to still be alright if I SSH into a six-core NUC to work. Visual Studio Code makes this super easy to do and almost exactly the same as working locally, it can be done without it too. I used a remote VM this way a

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