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  • "The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew" - Veritasium

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  • I don't think anybody is critiquing the production quality or the right to get paid. I've seen nothing but complaints about the content quality (sensationalism) in the comments.

    For me, I don't hate the guy or the channel. But I found I stopped watching his videos. I just felt like they were too long and could get to the point faster. I didn't really see it as sensationalism myself, but understand that view. He's essentially building it up to say why this is a big deal and you should continue watching the video.

    I just see it as an hour long video can still be made very well if it were half that. There's a time commitment involved so when I see fluff that could have been cut it makes me not want to watch. The fluff doesn't add value, not even entertainment wise.

  • Best calendar solution?

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  • This sounds really interesting. I'm looking forward to what this becomes.

  • Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

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  • And to top that off, those features have a terms contract you need to accept to use. Yet you don't know what that entails until you spend a lot of money.

    Both your point and this also needs to be denormalized. We should be able to have full visibility for purchase decisions and have no push back on returns if we don't.

  • Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals

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  • The Xbox team has been full of people that migrated over from T-Mobile for years now. They are full of layers and layers of leadership that has no idea how the game industry works.

    If you look at their decisions over the last 5 years a lot of it makes business sense on paper, but look at where it brought them and the industry. A titan that is inept and brings nothing to the table.

  • Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

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  • Which is why we need to de-normalize this thought process. People should always ask, why does my vacuum need to go online? Or at the very least, can I turn that "feature" off?

  • If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.

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  • I agree that KYC isn't inherently evil. But the way its been weaponized is.

    For instance in the telecommunications space it make total sense for mitigating spam SMS messages and Robocalls. But the carriers all sell your data for profit. They also don't protect your data properly and are breached all the time. That's malicious.

    So no, I won't throw the baby out with the bathwater and agree its an oversimplification to simply call KYC evil. But I also don't blame people when all they see is abuse and never a good and proper implementation that isn't exploitative.

  • Sad but true

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  • I'm in NA and I've never been asked to leave a restaurant in my life.

    The closest has ever been being in a busy restaurant at peak time and seeing a line of people waiting to be seated and I'm well and done just chatting it up.

    Still not asked to leave, but I noticed glances from staff and such so I left earlier than I would have, but on my own accord because I want to be helpful.

  • GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple

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  • Most banking works fine. There was a time it had more problems but I don't even need to use a secondary profile with Google Play Services running any longer.

    NFC works, but that is app specific. So no, wallet won't work because google wallet wants Google services to work. But in the EU some banks have their own contactless payments that work fine. In the US none do to my knowledge. For bus pass etc that would be down to your app and if they require google services or not. There's always the option for secondary profiles.

    To me, I was amazed at his many apps use google services for notifications. So many apps work, but don't give me notifications unless I open the app... Which I'm okay with because 99% of them I would turn off anyways.

  • All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat

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  • The original idea is exactly for identification (just not secure ones). Think of it like writing your name on the inside of your jacket or have a name tag on your luggage.

  • Best remote control option to support non-techies

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  • I personally think anydesk is the easiest to deploy and use, cross platform and little effort.

    Rustdesk is great too and my go to as a self hosted option.

  • Exclusive: Microsoft’s 2027 Xbox could be a huge shift for the platform

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  • This is what I expected for the Xbox one generation.

    It's not a bad idea and I welcome it. It allows flexibility and support for things outside of the Xbox ecosystem so you don't have a broken console experience.

    Of course their track record for Xbox hasn't been good for a while and their track record for windows right now is abysmal.

    So just make it windows 12 and call it a day.

  • The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics

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  • The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best time is today.

  • A Child with Measles Arrived in Mexico from the US, & Then the Virus Was Everywhere

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  • I'm confused at your point and the camp you refer to.

    There was an outbreak in the US in multiple states, mostly TX where there was at least 1 death and hundreds hospitalized.

    Then a boy from mexico travelled to TX to visit family, contracted the disease (but may not have shown symptoms yet), then returned home. That introduced the virus to a village of unvaccinated people, which created another outbreak and deaths occurred.

    Its tragic. And the article points in many ways that vaccination / herd immunity would have prevented this. But that's not always the world we live in.

  • A Child with Measles Arrived in Mexico from the US, & Then the Virus Was Everywhere

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  • You're presuming the infection was known.

    Your instinct is right, you shouldn't move any infected person any distance. That just stresses them when they shouldn't be, and migrates the disease.

    But also flip it. Why would you actively go to a place that has had an outbreak of a disease, even though its subsided without first being vaccinated for it? That's equally insane.

  • A Child with Measles Arrived in Mexico from the US, & Then the Virus Was Everywhere

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  • "Brought it to them" is a misnomer. The boy travelled to TX where he was exposed and then he brought it home.

    The point of the article shouldn't be taken with the view of countries and borders, with that view the point is that the Americas (plural with many countries) have lost their disease elimination status.

    The better point is that it shows how viruses move and spread. There are multiple take away lessons numbered in the article, however they are also not concrete because the data is not concrete.

  • Switching to GrapheneOS

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  • Correct. In the US there is no entity that is supporting it. Technically any of our banks could create an app that supports it, but they're lazy and cheap.

  • Supreme Court allows new California congressional districts that favor Democrats

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  • I'm prone to think that one group having rights and another group not having them solely based on who they are is more of a fascist belief than the opposite view.

    But I'm not here to argue with you, I was just trying to give a perspective because you asked for an explanation.

  • Supreme Court allows new California congressional districts that favor Democrats

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  • If it's right, it's right. If it's wrong, it's wrong. It doesn't matter what color state and for what political shift it is trying to achieve.

    This is not the first time California (and other states before Texas) have redistricted. Sadly it probably won't be the last.

    But it's an erroneous stance to say it's okay because hey other guy did it.

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • Correct. And everyone needs to remember the actual problem, not the symptom. Its like leaving one social media platform for another then when it too goes to crap complaining. Oh how can this happen again!?

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