I've been thinking for a while that this is the kind of thing that needs to happen more to get people to actually care about their privacy. Maybe a timed worm that'll gradually install itself on all sorts of these devices, and all at once start sharing recorded conversations with strangers. Or a smartphone virus that randomly takes pictures of people while they're facebooking on the toilet and posts them.
There is a common tendency among experts of every domain to absolutize their field : particle physicists tend to make every physical effect into a particle. Evolutionary biologists try to explain every behaviour as a result of natural selection. Clinical psychologists make everything a result of their chosen theory of mental health. Economists make economics the ultimate cause and solution of every human problem.
When you spend your entire life digging deeply into one topic, you start to see the world through the lens of your expertise. Sometimes this can lead to great discoveries. But it often leads to harmful overgeneralizations, or making a fool of yourself in public. This is one of those latter cases.
If you have root on your phone, which must be the case for these users, since the app is triggering a root request, then you should have access to remove system apps.
Nobody said open source is a panacea to make software secure, bit it *is* a prerequisite for a user to verify that a piece of software is secure. It's like politicians that don't reveal their tax returns: those that don't do it aren't necessarily crooked, and those that do aren't necessarily honest. But one of the criteria for being certain that they're honest is to be able to audit those returns.
Try opening the page in Firefox, then click the little reader mode button in the address bar. Honestly, reader mode is the best feature in any web browser at the moment...
> Whatever would come out would be a shell of the story, the characters lifeless, and the plot unable to be followed by the majority of viewers. A tv show is the only way to approach Asimov's story since it allows for longer development of plot lines and encompass the time involved.
Honestly, the characters were already lifeless. I have read and loved a lot of Asimov's writing, but characters were never his forte, and the characters in Foundation are downright flat.
Do email notifications of messages still exist? They stopped working for me a couple years ago (I never went on FB except when I received one), but even before that it was unreliable, notifying me of maybe 75% of messages.
Instead of bitterness, my reaction is, "finally," with a sigh of relief. I just hope whoever is orchestrating the blowback doesn't lay off and that it really starts to eat into Fancebook's user base.
No no no, you're missing the key purpose of the notch: to make the phone visibly different from last year's model, allowing the in crowd to continue feeling superior to the plebs using old or cheap phones. Functionality doesn't matter, it's all about image.
I tried to send a link to it to a friend and it was blocked, but it was pretty easy to work around. I just told him to google these two words, reversed : purity facebook. It's not a terribly smart filter.
But tablets have yet to catch on because they are not yet as usefu,
Tablets are not yet as useful because they will not ever be as useful. Without a keyboard, you can't accomplish a significant quantity of real work in a reasonable time; on screen keyboards will never reach the efficiency of a mechanical keyboard.
Of course there are perverts out there that would do this sort of thing, but one of my first thoughts was : Maybe it was someone in the banking industry trying to discredit a competitor. And I'm not even a bitcoin fanboy!
As snidely as you suggest this, I would be very happy if apple did it. I've never used an apple product, and wouldn't use this one, but I want a nice clamshell style smartphone, and if apple does it then everyone else will copy it in short order and I'll get something like the phone I actually want.
As of last August, Facebook could recognise you with 83% accuracy when your face was not visible in photos. Covering your face won't matter. https://www.privateinternetacc...
Whoa whoa whoa.... Don't you dare touch reader mode. It is one of the best features on any browser at the moment. But I mean, who wants to be able to actually read an article without navigating all the crap and clickbait covering 90% of most web pages these days...
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I've been thinking for a while that this is the kind of thing that needs to happen more to get people to actually care about their privacy. Maybe a timed worm that'll gradually install itself on all sorts of these devices, and all at once start sharing recorded conversations with strangers. Or a smartphone virus that randomly takes pictures of people while they're facebooking on the toilet and posts them.
There is a common tendency among experts of every domain to absolutize their field : particle physicists tend to make every physical effect into a particle. Evolutionary biologists try to explain every behaviour as a result of natural selection. Clinical psychologists make everything a result of their chosen theory of mental health. Economists make economics the ultimate cause and solution of every human problem. When you spend your entire life digging deeply into one topic, you start to see the world through the lens of your expertise. Sometimes this can lead to great discoveries. But it often leads to harmful overgeneralizations, or making a fool of yourself in public. This is one of those latter cases.
If you have root on your phone, which must be the case for these users, since the app is triggering a root request, then you should have access to remove system apps.
You clearly didn't even read my comment, so I won't bother crafting a response either.
Nobody said open source is a panacea to make software secure, bit it *is* a prerequisite for a user to verify that a piece of software is secure. It's like politicians that don't reveal their tax returns: those that don't do it aren't necessarily crooked, and those that do aren't necessarily honest. But one of the criteria for being certain that they're honest is to be able to audit those returns.
Try opening the page in Firefox, then click the little reader mode button in the address bar. Honestly, reader mode is the best feature in any web browser at the moment...
Linux is GPL 2, isn't it? I thought Linus was against switching to GPL 3
Man I wish I had mod points right now...
Right, but it'll all be undone a few years later during the Butlerian Jihad.
> Whatever would come out would be a shell of the story, the characters lifeless, and the plot unable to be followed by the majority of viewers. A tv show is the only way to approach Asimov's story since it allows for longer development of plot lines and encompass the time involved. Honestly, the characters were already lifeless. I have read and loved a lot of Asimov's writing, but characters were never his forte, and the characters in Foundation are downright flat.
So with built-in GPS, authorities will be collecting location data of all drivers, all of the time? Sounds great!
Do email notifications of messages still exist? They stopped working for me a couple years ago (I never went on FB except when I received one), but even before that it was unreliable, notifying me of maybe 75% of messages.
Instead of bitterness, my reaction is, "finally," with a sigh of relief. I just hope whoever is orchestrating the blowback doesn't lay off and that it really starts to eat into Fancebook's user base.
No no no, you're missing the key purpose of the notch: to make the phone visibly different from last year's model, allowing the in crowd to continue feeling superior to the plebs using old or cheap phones. Functionality doesn't matter, it's all about image.
I tried to send a link to it to a friend and it was blocked, but it was pretty easy to work around. I just told him to google these two words, reversed : purity facebook. It's not a terribly smart filter.
Honestly their talking points make it sound like they'll sue anyone who doesn't enact net neutrality rules...
But tablets have yet to catch on because they are not yet as usefu,
Tablets are not yet as useful because they will not ever be as useful. Without a keyboard, you can't accomplish a significant quantity of real work in a reasonable time; on screen keyboards will never reach the efficiency of a mechanical keyboard.
Of course there are perverts out there that would do this sort of thing, but one of my first thoughts was : Maybe it was someone in the banking industry trying to discredit a competitor. And I'm not even a bitcoin fanboy!
As snidely as you suggest this, I would be very happy if apple did it. I've never used an apple product, and wouldn't use this one, but I want a nice clamshell style smartphone, and if apple does it then everyone else will copy it in short order and I'll get something like the phone I actually want.
Alternatively, you can download NewPipe from F-Droid : https://f-droid.org/en/package...
As of last August, Facebook could recognise you with 83% accuracy when your face was not visible in photos. Covering your face won't matter. https://www.privateinternetacc...
Whoa whoa whoa.... Don't you dare touch reader mode. It is one of the best features on any browser at the moment. But I mean, who wants to be able to actually read an article without navigating all the crap and clickbait covering 90% of most web pages these days...
they should have spoken to Ken Thompson first.
> This needs to be shut down If it's against Facebook's terms of service, couldn't Facebook sue them into oblivion?
Perhpas they could pass a law to make corporations keep their word or risk substantial penalties?