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Nintendo? You’re going to wait a very, very long time.

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“Look at all the games you love! Please forget we’re a massive corporation which just moved 70 billion dollars closer to a monopoly and would certainly never abuse that position uwu”

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It allows you to connect your wireless debugging to your phone itself, so technically you can do anything on your phone you could from your pc.

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That is roughly what it means, yeah.

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Firefox isn’t a search engine, though?

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Am a fan too. I’d mention YongYea here, but the unorganized unscripted way in which he makes 20 minute videos on every topic really kills it for me.

SkillUp’s weekly summary is much nicer.

Edit: remembered a word

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But that still means they had your plaintext password at some point.

Edit: which, as some replies suggest, may not actually be much of an issue.
I’m still skeptical about them returning it, however.

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How so? I haven’t gone back to that place since Joey lost its API access.

Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec (www.businessinsider.com)

Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec::In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he “absolutely” believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa

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You can record and edit videos on your own devices, but that doesn’t mean it’s suddenly free for Netflix or YouTube to stream their videos to you.

Surely a local version of Alexa could be developed, but that development would come with its own costs.
Some things simply can’t be done locally, such as a web search. Often your route calculations for a map application are also done in the cloud.

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One thing about this particular phenomenon that the article doesn’t take into account is that Gen Z is a lot more online than boomers are, hence they are exposed more often to the various dangers.

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Ha, I could guess what that link was going to be as soon as I saw it went to YouTube.

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I’m pretty sure that is no longer the case.

I haven’t had any trouble switching my default browser around recently, at least.

That said, they still tried and showed the lows they’re willing to stoop to.

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The one thing that keeps me on Gboard is the swipe-from-backspace. The way you can select multiple words depending on how far you swipe is such a great feature.

Last I checked SwiftKey (finally) got it as well, but it felt far less accurate.
Samsung’s keyboard only has the hold-to-delete-quicker which is just awful.

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ClearURLs isn’t on Firefox Android, however (for now). uBlock and Privacy Badger are

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This instance on its own, yeah.

But it has been a pattern again and again.

Disney agrees to $9.5 million settlement over Magic Key annual pass dispute (edition.cnn.com)

Disney agrees to $9.5 million settlement over Magic Key annual pass dispute::The Walt Disney Company agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the entertainment giant of “deceptive business practices” in regards to its Disneyland annual pass program.

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At least it’s preferable over the companies not getting sued at all

Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it (www.autoblog.com)

Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they ‘hated’ it::“They were like, ‘You can’t be serious.’ They didn’t want to have anything to do with it,” Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.

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Not to mention crumple zones

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Safari uses Apple’s own WebKit. Firefox uses Gecko. Besically every other browser uses Chromium.

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Targeted advertisements can be harmful, by directing (for example) gambling ads at people who show to be prone to addiction through the websites they visit.

Ads are fine, in some way, but I do not want random companies I’ve never heard of to know all of my details. Details which may become hacked.

Just because “I’ve got nothing to hide” doesn’t mean I should be happy when everyone knows all about me.

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And that government owned businesses have to be profitable. And even when they are (USPS) there are still calls for cutting costs…

Because surely spending another few hundreds of millions of taxpayer money on the army and “just one more lane” is far more effective.

4 Big Tech giants have plowed over $1 trillion into stock buybacks in 10 years — more than Tesla or Meta's entire market value (markets.businessinsider.com)

4 Big Tech giants have plowed over $1 trillion into stock buybacks in 10 years — more than Tesla or Meta’s entire market value::Apple poured over $600 billion into buybacks in the decade to March 31, exceeding Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta’s combined spending.

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Ding ding ding

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Anti-trust regulation has gotten very toothless in recent years. The shit many corporations are pulling now is insane when you think back about what happened to ms then.

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They have said there will be a third party audit/inspection of which the results will be published. I am a little hopeful, though remain skeptical.

Also the allegations didn’t squarely fall on Linus (though I guess the end-responsibility does lie with him). After his blow-up post on the forums I don’t have faith he by himself will correct the ship. In that regard I’m also a little hopeful about their new CEO.

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