"planting seeds" and "rolling the dice" on future products that will just "blow you away."
Sure hope we don't see them mustering more "courage", next thing you know they'll be removing the keyboard and telling us to type with our credit cards.
Thank you for the data point.
I ran across this post that has a solution to at least one person's sleep issues (haven't tried it because I don't own a unit just yet):
https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPo...
The page you linked to (thank you for that, btw) has me confused: are they actually selling units now, i.e. that they will ship within days to you if you order... and if so, how is one supposed to be able to tell? (And if not, why does it seem to suggest that they began production a year ago...)
I have a GPD Win 1st version dual-booting Linux & Win10.
I have looked and have not found online documentation of any procedure for successfully installing linux on the GPD, other than people saying they did it but there are all kinds of driver quirks remaining to conquer. Can you point me documentation of someone doing it and concluding with the vibe that it's solid and ready to go?
About one-third of all 285 data breach notifications had some variation of the line. It doesn't show that companies care about your data. It shows that they don't know what to do next.
"We take your privacy and security seriously" is the data tech equivalent of saying "We send out thoughts and prayers". It means nothing concrete, and is meant to end inquiry/discussion into what actions should in fact be taken (or should have been taken).
Other former employees argue these security measures are justified by Facebook's reach and the intense emotions it can inspire. The company has 2.7 billion users across its services. That means that if just 0.01 percent of users make a threat, Facebook is still dealing with 270,000 potential security risks.
Nonsense.
There are 6 billion people on this planet. If just 1 in a million of them decides they need to hurt me, I've got six thousand people coming to hurt me. Therefor I need to have a permanent police escort, and patrolling of my house, and wear a bullet proof vest at all times. And there's probably some more.
The Verge's Nick Statt decided that it was "the appropriate moment to hop on the backup phone bandwagon"
Sounds like he first decided to make up said "bandwagon". Then will come the "backup to your backup phone" bandwagon. The only part I can't figure out is why the phone industry would promote such a concept... oh well, I'm sure it'll come to me if I think about it long enough.
You are not paying for their service. Therefore, you are not the customer. You are the product.
Ok, but only in the sense of being exposed to ads. If that makes me the product, then I know about the extents and times when I am said product and can make an informed choice.
They are no different than facebook or any other 'free' thing.
Facebook, by design, is a privacy-invading/selling ethics-free piece of shit. They sell all kinds of thing about you to people behind your back, make inferences about you that you have no idea of (and in many cases are not supportable, yet are packaged as "truths" to the buyers), and would deprive you of oxygen if they could think of a way to do so for profit. Being "free" does NOT make everything equivalent, and if your post was earnest then frankly I'm embarrassed on your behalf that you would see such a grand equivalency... wake up.
Ok, but I'd rather they have 1/100th the info on me that they otherwise would. Ergo I don't use facebook, barely use any phone apps at all, have rooted my phone and use a firewall, and usually keep my phone off. When I surf the web, I use noscript and other blockers. I use a different disposable email address for the rare service that I sign up for.
You're right that I can't prevent them from having SOME info, but I can make the picture very very blurry.
"... we collect from IP addresses... to ensure we are providing people with a good service -- [like] ensuring they see Facebook in the right language"
Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Because I should always be served ads in whatever language I'm geographically surrounded by, rather than the language I speak natively and could easily specify via preference. I *totally* buy it.
Let's not lose sight of the fact that it's not "the internet" that completely screwed the pooch here, it is *specifically* Facebook, and their long history of leaks, "oopses", non-apologies, etc is going to go on because their whole business model is premised on gathering and selling private data, and they have even less decency than most.
My version of this advice would be "Choose a much better partner than Facebook in your quest for control over your data."
Agreed. And I just had a flight of fancy where Trump himself gets arrested and held in China, and when they make demands for his return, we just shrug and say, "whatever, you can keep him." Now THAT would make my day.
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"planting seeds" and "rolling the dice" on future products that will just "blow you away."
Sure hope we don't see them mustering more "courage", next thing you know they'll be removing the keyboard and telling us to type with our credit cards.
Thank you for the data point. I ran across this post that has a solution to at least one person's sleep issues (haven't tried it because I don't own a unit just yet): https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPo...
Have you gotten sleep to work reliably?
Thank you
The page you linked to (thank you for that, btw) has me confused: are they actually selling units now, i.e. that they will ship within days to you if you order... and if so, how is one supposed to be able to tell? (And if not, why does it seem to suggest that they began production a year ago...)
I have a GPD Win 1st version dual-booting Linux & Win10.
I have looked and have not found online documentation of any procedure for successfully installing linux on the GPD, other than people saying they did it but there are all kinds of driver quirks remaining to conquer. Can you point me documentation of someone doing it and concluding with the vibe that it's solid and ready to go?
About one-third of all 285 data breach notifications had some variation of the line. It doesn't show that companies care about your data. It shows that they don't know what to do next.
"We take your privacy and security seriously" is the data tech equivalent of saying "We send out thoughts and prayers". It means nothing concrete, and is meant to end inquiry/discussion into what actions should in fact be taken (or should have been taken).
Other former employees argue these security measures are justified by Facebook's reach and the intense emotions it can inspire. The company has 2.7 billion users across its services. That means that if just 0.01 percent of users make a threat, Facebook is still dealing with 270,000 potential security risks.
Nonsense.
There are 6 billion people on this planet. If just 1 in a million of them decides they need to hurt me, I've got six thousand people coming to hurt me. Therefor I need to have a permanent police escort, and patrolling of my house, and wear a bullet proof vest at all times. And there's probably some more.
So they do know where the data ended up. Just restore it! You know, like in the movies?
"Computer: enhance!"
The Verge's Nick Statt decided that it was "the appropriate moment to hop on the backup phone bandwagon"
Sounds like he first decided to make up said "bandwagon". Then will come the "backup to your backup phone" bandwagon. The only part I can't figure out is why the phone industry would promote such a concept... oh well, I'm sure it'll come to me if I think about it long enough.
Very interesting setup you describe. What tablet do you like, and what OS do you run on it?
And before you say fork, i say spoon.
To quote Neo, there is no fork.
New Satellite Network Will Make It Impossible For a Commercial Airplane To Vanish
"The plane is gone? Inconceivable!"
Elon Musk Wants To Put An AI Hardware Chip In Your Skull
And I wanna fuck Angie Dickinson. Let's see which one of us gets lucky first.
and you have the reasons why it's a complete failure and nonsense
Hasn't stopped religion, and -- I predict -- it won't stop cryptocurrencies.
You are not paying for their service. Therefore, you are not the customer. You are the product.
Ok, but only in the sense of being exposed to ads. If that makes me the product, then I know about the extents and times when I am said product and can make an informed choice.
They are no different than facebook or any other 'free' thing.
Facebook, by design, is a privacy-invading/selling ethics-free piece of shit. They sell all kinds of thing about you to people behind your back, make inferences about you that you have no idea of (and in many cases are not supportable, yet are packaged as "truths" to the buyers), and would deprive you of oxygen if they could think of a way to do so for profit. Being "free" does NOT make everything equivalent, and if your post was earnest then frankly I'm embarrassed on your behalf that you would see such a grand equivalency... wake up.
You're right that I can't prevent them from having SOME info, but I can make the picture very very blurry.
On a rooted Android phone with a privacy guard, firewall and a good blocklist, no app can get or send data anyway.
Note that as long as your phone is talking to cell towers, your location is being catalogued, and those catalogues are being shared/sold.
Zuck Fuckerberg and zuck bookface. Never touched it, never will.
And I'm also afraid of the internet, let's burn that too.
...a Beowulf cluster of these?
"... we collect from IP addresses... to ensure we are providing people with a good service -- [like] ensuring they see Facebook in the right language"
Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Because I should always be served ads in whatever language I'm geographically surrounded by, rather than the language I speak natively and could easily specify via preference. I *totally* buy it.
Shamoon is one of the most dangerous strains of malware known to date.
Well, then if I see it come up on Tinder, I'm swiping left.
Don't post it to the internet!
Let's not lose sight of the fact that it's not "the internet" that completely screwed the pooch here, it is *specifically* Facebook, and their long history of leaks, "oopses", non-apologies, etc is going to go on because their whole business model is premised on gathering and selling private data, and they have even less decency than most.
My version of this advice would be "Choose a much better partner than Facebook in your quest for control over your data."
Agreed. And I just had a flight of fancy where Trump himself gets arrested and held in China, and when they make demands for his return, we just shrug and say, "whatever, you can keep him." Now THAT would make my day.