Facebook is the expert at tracking, wouldn’t they be able of blacklisting every handset while getting info on the favorite breakfast of the thiefs?

What’s the point then when the important information can’t be freely read by the population without a xitter account. It made sense when you could read tweets without forced login, but now is useless

I’m more surprised to discover now that it launched without ads

I had an android phone that always rebooted (due to bugs) and it’s something that you don’t really want unless it’s vital to hide stuff from forensic investigators

When the phone is in “after reboot” status, absolutely nothing works, no email, no instant messaging and so on

Tbh that would put a lot of strain on someone else’s server. It’s not like they’re a small business that can’t afford a dedicated server, and each journalist could have a dedicated handle

They’re so scared from ai scrapers stealing “their” content that they blocked wide ranges of IP address

I can’t see it from my VPN for example

Windows can’t boot from usb

Ugly workaround: boot Linux then boot windows in a vm doing drive pass through

The computer response should be treated as just an indication and in all cases a human needs to decide to override that

Otherwise we’ll all become useless pieces of a simulation

I went to the bank to ask a loan and then it got rejected because the computer said I didn’t met the parameters by just 40 euro. Ah ok, I told the clerk, just lower the amount that I’m asking or spread it over a longer period. No, because after the quote is done and I signed the authorization for the algorithm to perform credit score, it can’t do it again in 3 months. What?? Call a supervisor and let them override it, 40 euro is so minimal that it’s not that big issue. No, impossible. So that means each single employee in the bank is just an interface to the computer and can be fired at will?

First thing you do after a bad quarter is to fire some thousands of engineers at random

I had a Nokia touchscreen smartphone (Nokia 5800) and it was awful

The iPhone was launched 2 years before that, but I couldn’t afford it, assumed that Nokia did a comparable job. Boy how I was wrong!

You mean the decade where they tried to make arm processors and gave up just before smartphones became popular or the decade where they tried and failed to make x86 processors for smartphones ?

They had a line of mobile arm based processors that were powering windows mobile devices but they sold that division to Marvell 6 months before the launch of the iPhone, in order to focus on x86

Yes but then just spam the documents folder like anyone else, don’t hoard the home root for no reason except that is a lazy cross platform port

100% agree and I also despise devs who do this on windows, instead of using %appdata% they’re using c:\users\username\.myappisimportantandtotallydeservesthisdir

The cybertruck seems ultra safe for the driver. RIP to who gets hit by it, though

No, in this capitalist world what will happen is that your account number becomes an asset during bankruptcy and they would sell that to some credit recovery agent who would sue you for some bullshit amount of money

Who wants to buy a car with no stalks? Maybe BMW drivers, as anyway they don’t use the blinkers, but having the gear selector on a fucking touchscreen with no tactile feedback is dumb

Because Google decided to make it opt-in and by default also to send data only in crowded places.

They said it’s because they care about privacy. But because it’s Google and we all know they don’t care a bit about privacyI wonder instead if it’s because keeping track of billions of devices it’s expensive and requires many servers, so it’s a cost cutting measure

They’re also starting to offer a subscription only printer service in my country

<Insert here the “you were the chosen one” meme>

They wanted to let companies pay for a non standard 2fa code generation tied to the phone number as it was easier than the mainstream option that was the almost abandoned google authenticator that didn’t allow backups.

Cloudflare, humble bundle used that scheme and I hated them for that. Seems that now that plan failed and essentially now authy is a money-losing operation for twilio and this shows on the unsecured API access that allowed the hack