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48·5 days agoBefore Youtube allowed long video uploads and before video Podcasts were a thing, I remember some early tech creators were creating long form videos around 2004-2005 and they would distribute episodes via BitTorrent, since it was most cost effective for them.
3·6 days agoRight, I’m aware of tax companies doing this. I’m not sure if PII deletion services are doing the same, but they do benefit by having weak data protection laws. What I meant is it wouldn’t surprise me if data deletion companies are also lobbying against what’s best for Americans, the same way tax prep companies do.
How do you think Alice and Bob met?
I would assume they do something, but I have not used any of these services myself. My feeling is they’re kinda like the tax filing software, they might be useful tools, but their whole business relies on things being unnecessarily burdensome for the average person. I wouldn’t be surprised if it came out that these companies lobby for lax regulations for data brokers, just enough for their product to be useful but not enough to put them out of business.
Overall, I feel if I freeze my credit, and occasionally google my name for data broker websites, going through the opt-out on the ones, I think that’s enough to put me above 90% of the US population, and then it’s just a numbers game of not getting scammed.
Whenever I’m sick I will always just put on The Venture Bros. while I recover. The show spanned so many years, makes me feel better watching the show evolve and remembering what point in my life I was in when various episodes aired.
3·11 days agoCould this just be an NPC during the tutorial, and then they get brutally murdered during the first encounter and then you have to fend for yourself on a remote planet. Maybe it turns out motherbrain inhabitants that NPCs body as a puppet for a boss battle or something? And if was MGS, the puppet NPC would tell you the wrong things to do during the battle.
In the comics and movies defense, within universe he is controversial and it is a major plot point with the Sokovia Accords / Registration Act to put some guardrails around him. And in terms of character growth, he supports those laws, even though they restrict his autonomy, whereas a younger version of himself wouldn’t comply and act as a reckless narcissist.
No way I’d ever fill it out for any position I would apply for, but it could be that this position is for a Social Media manager or something directly related to showing these accounts, like how an artist has a portfolio they bring to an interview. Not sure if that’s legal wherever this job is, but this could be a semi-rational reason to ask for this.
he’s out of line but he’s right
None of your SMS data is encrypted anyway, all of it can be obtained by your cell provider or the recipients cell provider. TBH Google is probably the least of your problems with regard to SMS safety. I had a friend who sent an invite code to some gambling website to her husband, so she could get promo credit, and AT&T flagged her text as spam and blocker her across their whole network for a week or annoying period of time.
4·18 days agoUnfortunately there’s still a ton of content and resources which are only on Reddit. Personally I don’t avoid reddit if I am troubleshooting and find a conversation which could be helpful. As long as I am browsing with uBlock Origin, not logged in, and not contributing to the conversation, I feel Reddit gains very little from my visit.
2·18 days ago123 Fake Street, got it!
2·26 days agoI even have my phone upside down in my pocket so the charging port is facing up.
This is probably the difference, people who put their phone in with the port facing down in their pocket have lots of opportunity to pickup lint as the phone is going into the pocket on the way down, and then also as you’re moving, any lint collected in the bottom of your pocket can enter the port. Unless you have super baggy pants, debris won’t be randomly entering your pocket from the top and getting into the charging port if you have the phone upside down with the charging port facing up.
5·27 days agoMy friends missed a wedding ceremony because of this, showed up an hour late and were very confused. I guess people who live right next to a timezone border turn off the automatic updates on their phone?
No, it takes them -10 minutes to get home, duhh
Mathematically… there has to be more than 2 or 3 people invited to orgies
This might be a simple goof, but a lot of the layout in The Shining (intentionally) doesn’t make any sense. There’s some great analysis of the insane architecture of the hotel.