phishfi

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by phishfi 7y ago
I'm betting this is going to appear the same way as it does on Waze, which shows fast food logos along your route, as well as popup ads whenever you're stopped. Annoying, but not intrusive enough to be considered a driving distrac
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by phishfi 7y ago
Magisk fixes this problem, though. Most users I know who run custom ROMs also install Magisk to allow those apps to install and run without issue.
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by phishfi 7y ago
In my experience, the ads are only present at initial setup. Once you remove the shortcuts (and disable suggested apps), they don't show up again.
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by phishfi 7y ago
Is it? I didn't think Hyper-V allowed separated windows. The only resource I've found that does this effectively is X410.
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by phishfi 8y ago
I'm talking about the report from a few weeks ago banning top level government officials from using Huawei devices for personal use. At the time, they were considering banning them for all military members as well... But there was no m
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by phishfi 8y ago
I'm so torn with how to see Huawei. The dealings with Iran seem pretty cut and dry, and the laws in China are impossible for Huawei to ignore. On the other hand, their consumer products are very different from the commercial routing an
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by phishfi 8y ago
For those who don't know, Oath is Verizon.
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by phishfi 8y ago
Can't a password manager use the TPM to encrypt/decrypt the passwords in real time, a la Windows Hello?
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by phishfi 8y ago
Is there a chance that both are true, cause the weather here was pretty shitty on my way into work...
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by phishfi 8y ago
> But gender isn't inherently binary, even if many but not all cultures have tended to ascribe gender from a binary pallette. You say that, but based on what? It's not a construct that makes any sense, except with regard to m
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by phishfi 8y ago
For my Google Assistant, I've made it a point to select a male voice, and I always refer to it as the Google Assistant or just Assistant. The choice in voice gender was so that my wife could keep the default female voice, and we would
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by phishfi 8y ago
I think you're heavily discounting the amount if actual labor involved in finding and getting into those magazines, schools, shows, and shops...
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by phishfi 8y ago
I think it'd be cheaper and less effective. The benefit for advertisers on Facebook is that the rate of click throughs is significantly higher than the more shotgun-style advertising that was in use before Facebook and Google started m
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by phishfi 8y ago
Where's the proof that this would increase the GDP?
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by phishfi 8y ago
Plus, this idea that 70% off the top 1% is still nowhere near enough to pay for any of this. The numbers I've read suggest that taxing 70% of the $10mil+ earners would amount to around $80bil in revenue, assuming no changes to those ea
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by phishfi 8y ago
Or better yet, a service existed that paid per view. Microtransactions, for example, could pay per article read in a similar way to Medium's system (although it would be better if there was just a wallet that it paid from, without a m
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by phishfi 8y ago
Not to mention how much of Medium is behind their paywall...
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by phishfi 8y ago
With Android Pie, users can just set the DNS to dns.adguard.com and be done with it at the DNS level. Works great on my Pixel so far (past couple months).
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by phishfi 8y ago
I rarely like or dislike anything, unless there's some significant reason to do either. The best example I can think of for when I've happily disliked something was the 2018 YouTube Rewind, which was absolutely atrocious a Google
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by phishfi 8y ago
Spotify is the company best positioned to fix this, although I'm not sure they'll be able to. The real issue is that podcasts run on old backends like RSS, and there's no reason for creators to change that without a functiona
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by phishfi 8y ago
Man, I really wish this anti-GMO movement would stop and look at the science. Instead of just associating all GMO with risk, we need to conduct legitimate studies to determine what possible risks the may be for any given GMO. I suspect the
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by phishfi 8y ago
But they shouldn't. If there are people who want and like 75% of the videos I watch and like, I'd really prefer that YouTube avoid recommending me videos that those people have already watched and disliked. The only disliked that
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by phishfi 8y ago
I don't even have the app installed, but I see similarly relevant stuff occasionally when I browse to FB, which tells me that there gathering enough knowledge Annie me from a plethora of other sources.
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by phishfi 8y ago
I hate these anecdotal stories and how they're used as absolute evidence that something like this is happening. Google would never allow the data from their back end recording to be seen by other apps, for the same reason that this art
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by phishfi 8y ago
The US also takes DNA and prints from arrestees and maintains it in a federal database (CODIS for DNA, FBI for prints).
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by phishfi 8y ago
How about the fact that AOL basically got entirely pushed out of the messenger business for making their messages only work on their messaging platform (this gave Trillion and others a way of including AIM in their software). Fast forward t
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by phishfi 8y ago
> If people cared about privacy, they wouldn’t be using Facebook of anything Google made. Except both of those companies still track your activity across the web, with or without an account... In order to care about privacy, a user has t
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by phishfi 8y ago
I think it all comes back to two major issues. First, Microsoft jumped into Edge way too fast when it really wasn't in a position to complete thoroughly enough with Chrome or Firefox. For users interested in the touch interface (I pref