lanerobertlane

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by lanerobertlane 9d ago
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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by lanerobertlane 3mo ago
It's literally at the top of the post.
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by lanerobertlane 4mo ago
I have notifications enabled for my bank because it may alert me to transactions which were not made by me, and because it does not abuse that permission to send me marketing spam. I have WhatsApp notifications enabled because it is the pri
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by lanerobertlane 4mo ago
If I order an Uber, I already know it is coming. I was the person who ordered it. 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
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by lanerobertlane 4mo ago
If my phone interrupts me, it should either mean someone genuinely needs my attention right now or it should not be disrupting me at all. That's my notification set up. Apps allowed to receive push notifications Phone, Messages, Wh
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
in the UK, where the journal is based, I think the libel laws would more than cover 'a law which bans this'. English libel law permits individuals and companies to go to court to defend their reputations against the harms caused b
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
> https://facebook.com/?sk=h_chr That's just the "Most recent" option from the left hand menu (or the burger menu) on the Facebook website? https://i.imgur.com/NQlh7lZ.png
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
When people argue against the 'news feed algorithm' they mean anything other than a reverse chronological feed of posts from the people they follow. status updates, and interactions between people/pages you both follow. This
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
a bit NSFW: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/HgkP pussygasm pussy·gasm excessive or erotic fondness for one's genitals "he shared a cocky but disgusting puke and was subjected to even more pussygasm in
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
I'm not sure there's a consensus, I expect it depends on your astronomical area of study. If you study the whole universe, than our solar system at 4.5B years old is pretty recent compared to the 14B years of the universe, so ther
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
As the strapline says, recent is relative in astronomical terms. For example the margin either side of it being 2 billion is 59 million years either way...
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
That's why they sell them to the police and military and put guns in their hands instead.
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
I'd just like to use this comment to show appreciation of Nirsoft's stuff. Great useful single function utilities for practically anything, for free, without any catch. Many times I've needed to do something that seems simple
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
The problem is the 'pop sci' reporting. "Earth-like" or "second earth" could easily be swapped for "Venus-like" or "second venus" in 99% of cases where pop-sci uses "Earth like" an
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
Off topic, but Deep Space 9 was not a federation starbase. It was a Bajorian Republic station under Federation administration following the Cardassian withdrawal.
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
> When I open a program, I want to use that program. I don't want to update it, I don't want to see all the new features, I want to USE it. I opened it because I had a task to complete and all this junk is getting in my way. Jo
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by lanerobertlane 5y ago
It's very nice of the UK Government to give a nice ordered list of pirate sites to use, as long as you take the 30 seconds required to change your DNS or use a VPN.
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by lanerobertlane 6y ago
This wouldn't generally help with that, as these record meteors that are passing through the atmosphere. Potentially Hazardous Objects have to be modelled from quite far away and have their courses plotted. Most PHOs would not show up
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by lanerobertlane 6y ago
I found my way to escape doomscrolling is to never user the homepage of Twitter. Instead I have lists set up for Friend, Interests (People who tweet science / tech news), and News outlets. I then bookmark those 3 lists, and only read t
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by lanerobertlane 6y ago
I remember Dungeon Master on the Atari ST having fuzzy bits. There was also another game, I can't remember which that instead of locking up or not loading on detecting that the fuzzy bits were not fuzzy (and hence it was a copy) change
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by lanerobertlane 6y ago
The NHS are currently texting and sending letters to everyone classed as at risk. If you're at high risk, you will be contacted by the NHS by Sunday 29 March 2020.
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by lanerobertlane 7y ago
As someone who uses a spoofer app for Pokemon Go, the anti-spoofing is pretty limited. There is a "you can't go 500 miles in 10 seconds" style check, that checks your displacement against your previous position periodically t
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by lanerobertlane 8y ago
But if Fake News institutions like Infowars-types were required to be members, the IPSO would have to revoke their membership or face ridicule and undermine the trustworthiness of the rest of the members. And if Infowars wanted to be publis
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by lanerobertlane 8y ago
There is no need for a creation of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, it already exists and over 1500 print and 1100 online outlets in the UK press are members (notable exceptions are The Independent and The Guardian). Independen
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by lanerobertlane 8y ago
Regarding what is and isn't fake news, could they not lean on existing organisations. For example: Legitimate news are members of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, or have a licence to broadcast from Ofcom, or something sim
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by lanerobertlane 8y ago
Could Apple, in a software update, put Facebooks apps in a sandbox, or wrapper, or VM type thing? Not sure of the technical term, whereby the device would only return encrypted or dummy device data? So that regardless of what permissions FB
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by lanerobertlane 8y ago
Anecdotal, but I've ran ads cold, targeted and re-targeted ads on Facebook for clients and eventually dropped re-targeting from the service I offer because it's extra time to build the campaign, extra cost and little to no benefit
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by lanerobertlane 8y ago
I think part of an overlooked view is many millennial aren't interested in owning a property and more than happy to rent for life. I know that in some countries renting is the default mindset and it seems like within the UK priorities