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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 distraction, IMO.

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.

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.

Is it? I didn't think Hyper-V allowed separated windows. The only resource I've found that does this effectively is X410.

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 mention of any other Chinese manufacturers. The only other one that's been in the news lately is ZTE.

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 and telecommunication branches. Yet, the high level US government folks are being forced not to use the consumer products. Why aren't they being prohibited from using other Chinese consumer electronics, like Lenovo, Xiaomi, etc?

For those who don't know, Oath is Verizon.

Can't a password manager use the TPM to encrypt/decrypt the passwords in real time, a la Windows Hello?

Is there a chance that both are true, cause the weather here was pretty shitty on my way into work...

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 mental disorders (gender dysphoria). The mental disorder context is particularly relevant when you look at the wildly abnormal rates of suicide attempts among gender dysphoria sufferers.

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 know it's responding under her account when she talks to a Home in our house vs defaulting to my account like it does for me or guests.

Having said that, I've never heard a genderless voice (although there have been times when I'm on the phone and cannot make out the other person's sex from just their voice). I think this idea that everyone should stop considering gender as binary simply due to the apparently increase in gender dysphoria is a bit ridiculous. Creating the voice for a digital Assistant is a perfect example of this, since the big companies involved have probably done a lot of research to try to determine the best way to make one that doesn't lend itself to a particular gender but always seem to default to a female voice / character (excluding this "Leon").

I think you're heavily discounting the amount if actual labor involved in finding and getting into those magazines, schools, shows, and shops...

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 managing so many ads across the web.

Where's the proof that this would increase the GDP?

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 earners' incomes as a result of the increased taxes... That's nearly nothing compared to this GND proposal.

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 minimum monthly charge). I know Brave is working toward that goal, and I like what they're doing, but I'd prefer if their system was universal (I refuse to use their browser).

Not to mention how much of Medium is behind their paywall...

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).

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 needs to understand that their creators are getting more and more reason to find an alternative to their ridiculously poor management relating to monetization and the algorithms.

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 functional platform to offer a financial alternative. With the current format, creators embed the ads and all's well. Even if a lot of users skip the ads, some still here them, and some go to the affiliate link.

With an alternative system, like Spotify, there's the possibility of a better system. Spotify could host a network that allows creators to separate their content from the ads, and then Spotify can distribute the podcasts via their app, with an ad-free version going to paying customers. Furthermore, if Spotify manages the ads that get embedded, they could insert ads that are more tailored to the listener. The added benefit (for creators and advertisers) is that Spotify could use the app to ensure that listeners can't skip the ads when they're listening with an ad-supported account.

I've been a proponent for a refresh of the podcast platforms for a while now, and even pitched this idea of a more subscription oriented model to friends who have the ability to build an app or service capable of this, but the reality is that it requires buy-in from multiple creators for it to be viable. As I see it, Stitcher and Spotify are the only two businesses positioned to make it happen, and Spotify (with its recent purchase of Anchor and Gimlet) is probably the only one with any legitimate interest in going this route.

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 risks are astronomically small compared to the gains.

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 should be ignored are the ones where someone didn't even let a video load before hitting dislike.

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.

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 article says Facebook keeps the data they collect close hold: it gives away their exclusivity.

Seriously. You met with a friend at some place where you probably sat around and talked for a long time together. Is it unreasonable that FB saw the two of you were together at a place where you might reminisce about previous trips together.

As for saying specific phrases near your phone, this sounds like Baader-Meinhof to me. The writer probably spent a lot longer on FB than usual, which led to more ads (and an expanding category of ads to keep from repeating the same ones over and over), leading to him finally seeing what he was hoping to see.

There's just no way that either Google or Apple are storing the voice recording data anywhere where other apps could see it. Further, I don't think either are maintaining recordings long enough to make sense of a conversation or even full sentence. In Google's case, they've talked ad nauseum about how it's just a voice signature they listen for and they never maintain non-triggered audio (even device-side).

The US also takes DNA and prints from arrestees and maintains it in a federal database (CODIS for DNA, FBI for prints).

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 to today, where every messaging platform is proprietary, yet there's no lawsuit to force them to open their systems out to other messaging software...

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 to do a hell of a lot more than just not use any of these invasive services.

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 prefer the slightly larger buttons, context menus, etc, even when I'm on keyboard and mouse/trackpad), it was acceptable and had more usable features than the rest, but the actual site rendering, options, and extension support was completely missing, so users went back to what made them comfortable: Chrome.

The second issue is that Microsoft (and it's not just them, here) is terrible about advertising their new features. It's hard to get users to go through walk-throughs and tutorials when they first set up a device, because most users just want to jump to actually using the devices, but I'm a big fan of the 12-15 tab slideshows that Mac devices show right when you first update. It's not thoroughly intrusive (it's pretty similar to Microsoft's "Tips" app), but it's got animations and really shows how useful the features could be.

Microsoft has to get better at showing off new features, and they REALLY need to get better at making extensions available to users. The Microsoft Store just doesn't feel like the best place for Edge Extensions as it is right now.