when a large, trump supporter corporation, with its main business being habit and environment tracking based personalized advertising, has so deep access to your phone as it literally builfs the operating system for it, maybe it is indeed already compromised.
I know several people in my community who confidently trust it for search. they are not stupid people… but sometimes I question their choices
that’s not just useless defeatism, but also false. effective end to end encryption exists in multiple forms today.
signal, maybe even with a custom server.
matrix if the server is being ran on trusted hardware.
XMPP too with the right extensions.
LLMs are more like a leaf blower though
we’ll come to you
that’s what we fear
fucking liar
and hopefully also elsewhere. as Drew said in the first part, tech workers will be affected by billionaire’s decisions even outside of work, on multiple fronts.
we must eat the rich, or they will eat us all alive.
because when you have more than 8 tabs open on a horizontal tab row, the tab handles start to become narrower and tab titles become unreadable and almost useless. with vertical tabs tab titles can be as long as you see fit, and the tab title does not take away space from other tab handles so more can fit. essentially its more space efficient I think.
but I don’t use it because my firefox theme breaks down when I set up vertical tabs, and everything will be white, even though I don’t even use userchrome customizations
tab groups in firefox are surprisingly good! even alongside a tab group management addon. they complement each other, like when you don’t want to create a bunch of subgroups for an exclusive view but just collapse them
it couldn’t be too popular as a windows only project. I assume it was too lite known, like I never even heard about it here or other places
bluetooth is short range isn’t it? so while this is a problem, it is not the exact same thing. network based location is not a replacement for GPS.
Google already uses this with WiFi to help “bootstrap” GPS localization. It is much faster to get a GPS fix if you already know roughly where you are (a few seconds vs a couple minutes), so they use nearby WiFi/Bluetooth devices to determine that.
I think you mean A-GPS, which is not related to wifi and bluetooth, other thqn being able to use wifi to access a server for downloading current constellation data. phones that have google mobile services installed, have an additional fused location source (besides a network based and a gps based location source) that tries to fuse the 2 sources while the gps signal is not precise enough. but as I know fused location computation happens locally
that really depends on the location. not everyone lives in big cities. is there a way today to give access to bluetooth without giving access to GPS?
I think it’s debatable whether storing in volatile memory is persisting, but ok. And by debatable I mean depends on what is happening exactly.
A court order forcing them to no longer garbage, collect or delete data used for processing is a problem.
what, are they going to do memory dumps before every free() call?
so they never should have persisted that data to begin with, right? and if they didn’t persist it, they wouldn’t need to retain it
one could argue that installing packages is a dangerous permission
of course the eventual enforcement is left to the service provider (google) as it often is how it works. when you can’t define something with 100% precision, you leave some room for interpretation. they can then decide what to do on a case by case basis.
totally clear. and exactly the subject is the broadest: harmful to anyone or anything
it seems they will, just not too soon
Oh you will. I know the name for a few months now and I still read it slurpnik
sounds good, where can we obtain it?