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Xiaomi's HyperOS has many flaws but one great thing it does is have an app behaviour settings page that shows what app used what permission and when.

It allows you to toggle permissions on a per app per permission basis but sadly this toggle doesn't always work.

Still useful knowing how much you get spied on.

Windows and any softwaqre coming out of Redmond today is pure spyware with little to 0 utility.

This Clippy 2.0 wave of apps will obviously be rejected by the market but it can't come soon enough.

The higher $msft gets, the more pressure they have to be invasive and shittify everything they do.

I've played the WCG finals in Counterstrike 1.3 and what they've done to CS with the skin economy is tragic. The game got big because it was lightweight and accurate - a guy with better aim and low latency could take out 5-6 people on an opposing team with good strategy.

Today the hitbox and damage taken is all dependent on things that do not include aim i.e. if you're one game away from losing, you will likely hit jumping pistol headshots across a map and if you're 4 v 1 trying to close a round, the first person to engage will likely die and you will win with 2 or 3 left standing.

You're basically playing an RPG and paying Steam to make it look pretty. Good for Valve stock, bad for gaming

ok doomer the counter argument is obviously that it will be fine and keep getting better for the average person like it has for 100s of years

Higher the mcap, higher the pressure for rev growth, higher the garbage pushed

All your code are belong to MSCodeLLMTrainer.exe now

I spend many months in India every year and I've been paying with RuPay and UPI for the past 5 years exclusively. It works, and India saved 1-2% of all digital payments going to some leechy foreign middlemen who do nothing.

V/M would love to "but fraud" us sadly the actual payment fraud % is much lower than claimed and easily dealt with by the issuing/receiving banks.

Has anyone modeled how much excess cement and asphalt pollution is generated by having a tiny car weigh as much as a giant truck? Or the water usage of increased lithium mining?

EVs are like an inferior product being shoved down everyone's throat when consumer cars don't even account for the most emissions globally.

The FDA already allows far too much salt and preservatives in US food supplies and this fake meat stuff is an absurd amount of salt that will 100% give you a heart attack very very early if you eat it regularly.

Just like the drug ads on TV, this is one of those situations where industry must be reigned in before the market discovers the truth.

So many garbage takes here - this report wants to imply pilot error and without all the data/audio that remains a remote possibility but the truth is it is far more likely that this plane experienced a total electric failure following liftoff and the onboard computer entered some form a failsafe mode which set the fuel valves to a default closed state.

The pilots were likely immediately trying to relight the engines which is the correct reponse but sadly they didn't have the altitude to see the process through.

My guess is the truth here (i.e. Boeing equipment malfunction) or at least the framing of it is being used as a chip in trade deal negotiations which are active and ongoing.

Firefox might as well rebrand to Mozilla365 Spyware Edition

Absolute disgrace the amount of telemetry and home phoneing bloat in the official releases

They are absolutely yesterday's browser and tomorrow's browsers are trying to be better/faster while they just keep pouring cement on the grave they're already in.

Everyone relax - this moron Zuck still has Whastapp left to shittify and it's already begun with businesses spamming people en mass

Old firms that did sms spam as a service now all do whatsapp spam as a service - just one example of the process already inevitably started

I can't wait until people are communicating entirely via algorithms/OS clients with donations running server temp storage.

Then this 21st centure nicotine dealership that has created riches by extracting untold value from people's lives will finally be in history's dustbin where it belongs.

My guess is there's also a long term explosion in liver/stomach/pancreatic cancers coming which might be the diabetes/heart attack/strokes of the 21st century.

BuT ChiNa Is TeH SuRvEiLlaNcE sTaTe

If you're not blocking your mozilla process from accessing firefox.com, mozilla.com/.org, and mozgcp.net, as well as turning telemetry settings off after every update and keeping a tight policy.json file - then firefox is just as bad as Edge or Chrome re: tracking

Also they actively take down extensions that unfuck websites without notice

Nice picture-in-picture implementation tho

Overpaid software engineers here please spend a moment to talk about your 3pm massage and free omakase

Or just go work a real widget business and you will realize that optimizing worker efficiency is critical and useful

Zuck is single handedly responsible for the exponential decline in sex in society and exponential increases in depression/loneliness among younger people.

Fuck him, and fuck anyone who made their money at this dogshit 21st century nicotine dealership

These are not hacks, just like Mtgox, Celsius, FTX etc etc etc were not hacks. These are crypto insiders supporting the stablecoin so they can print and set a floor on prices before/during potential mass sell off events.

Musk is a Xi surrogate

They can buy 100 Lummis-es and 100 El Salvadors and bitcoin still won't have a use case outside of fraud and more suckers = number go up

no because if there was ever real armed conflict, the list of higher priority action items would make this app banning nonsense look exactly as silly as it actually is today

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don't like seeing apps delivered exclusively via stores that can implement these daft bans, ecosystem taxes etc.

also ignore people yapping about China being such a huge adversary when the 2 countries do close to a trillion USD yearly in trade, it's all lip service to get their competition killed unfairly so they don't have to innovate or an attempt to scare the govt/some LPs into funding their most often useless faux-nationalist bullshit without oversight.

China didn't invent the transistor or the internet either, because they do stupid shit like clamping down arbitrarily instead of just telling the losers to try harder.

Artificially suppressing competition is the most anti-capitalist and anti-American thing I've ever seen, no matter how shitty this particular app may be.

This is number 1 bullshit

Usually big established companies that've been unfairly beaten down and financials don't have any red flags. I look at social chat/analyst chat also but mostly only to see if/how many people/bots are talking not really to see what they are saying.

For example, I hold oversized bags of Boeing, Pfizer, and Google right now (these are new-ish positions ~3-4m in)

If I'm wrong, I try to get out asap. If I'm right, I try to never sell.

I have lost literally hundreds of thousands of $ trying to short obvious frauds and scams.

I have made all that back and more by instead going long things that are cheap + growing.

Being a bear pays off 1% of the time, and the act of trying to time it actually changes the window so just be an optimist and get rich.

Actually all these deaths are just transitory feel goods for the Israeli side. By killing more civilians than ever before, Hamas is able to recruit the same (maybe more) fighters back. They will have different leaders with different names, but these fighters who have had innocent family killed and now want revenge will be blowing themselves up at some point in the next decade or 2 and Israel is equally or less safe as a result.

Pager attack is a notable exception here, that was actually targeted badassery.

It goes on.

Already had to migrate all my domain's off Squarespace and remove Google Workspace entirely when they randomly decided it was now not free and started billing me monthly more than Google Domains did (80% more) Some MBA got a bonus for this surely.

I would buy $GOOG stock blindly but being a paid user of theirs blows

Would have been nice to get double the memory on the 5090 to run those giant models locally. Would've probably upgraded at 64gb but the jump from 24 to 32gb isn't big enough

Gaming performance has been plateaued for some time now, maybe an 8k monitor wave can revive things

I was traveling by local buses in the first grade in an Indian city of 25M people. Today my (well off) siblings in NY won't let their kids out of their sight for even 1 second.

America wonders how they produce these safe space snowflakes and this is absolutely the attitude that causes it.

I had a dream that Gensler wouldn't go quietly, and filed wire fraud/terrorism/laundering charges against Tether as his last stand.

Then I realized that crypto has bought a majority of the house, senate and the presidency so these scammers are here to stay and our only hope is that they run out of suckers and start scamming each other