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  • SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants it

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  • Sheer uselessness. It will do as much to reduce fraud as the UK law has done to reduce porn content for non adults. What it will mean is that people with multiple SIM, will need to have an always active plan on that number, something telecoms will really like.

    Also, it essentially means the death knell for WhatsApp Web (in India) because as stated in article, who wants to log in every SIX hours.

  • Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording

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  • The built in Web browser by default is Chrome but can be configured to be anything else as well ( including Firefox if the user chooses to)

  • Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording

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  • I only got a cookie pop up (though even that can be suppressed with other extension) . I had opened it on Desktop with uBlock Origin. By any chance, did you open on mobile?

  • Interesting Shares @lemmy.zip
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    The Chatbot Delusions

    www.bloomberg.com /features/2025-openai-chatgpt-chatbot-delusions/
  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Open Hand Monument by Le Corbusier

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    OC

    Azure blue skies

  • Tower of Shadows

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  • It was designed to control the sunlight coming and was meant to remain cool even in harsh sunlight and vice-versa during winters.

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Tower of Shadows

  • Advertising without Cookies

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  • I think he refers to the browser extension of the same name.

  • Truth is way more fucked up than fiction

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  • He is also one of the Co founders of Palantir, quite a notorious company.

  • Advertising without Cookies

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  • This was a 2021 comic, which I think was the time when companies had to comply with GDPR regulations. Cookies didn't go away, but companies had to explicitly ask the user for consent to use them [or atleast can't hide that they were using cookies]; usually in form of popups.

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Advertising without Cookies

  • Meanwhile at Microsoft

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  • When I used to be on Windows, I shifted to Process Explorer. It is developed by Microsoft only I guess as part of their Sysinternals suite. I think it retains an older style UI but is significantly more powerful (has/d virus total integration for one).

  • Lock Screen Ads Are Coming to Some Smartphones

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  • This isn't new. Just search for Glance. US/EU users may not have heard of this but entry level smartphones in India have long come bundled with this piece of spam, irrespective of OEM. From Chinese manufacturers to even Samsung/Motorola was guilty of bundling this.

    Last I heard of Glance, they had embraced AI (because why not?). Either case, it was nothing more than an ad infested bloatware and whilst possible to toggle on/off (default state was on), removing it was usually tougher (if at all possible via adb, I am not sure of this part).

    Glance walked so Nothing could run :p

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports

    arstechnica.com /ai/2025/10/ai-generated-receipts-make-submitting-fake-expenses-easier/
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
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    Ken Thompson Recalls Unix's Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins

    thenewstack.io /ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/

  • ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay

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  • The web is designed for humans to use, so if Atlas can monitor us - how we book train tickets for example - it can learn how to better navigate these kinds of processes.

    That is called malware. Or at the very least, Open AI should be paying the users for basically getting their browsing data for free, not other way around.

    Second, I object to it being called a Google killer in the article. It is based on Chromium whose future is basically in Google's hands right now for all Intents and purposes. The days of multiple Web browsers are gone. We have the same thing in new clothing. Opera ditched it's rendering engine for Chromium, MS ditched Trident for Chromium.

    Currently, there are basically only three real browser engines : Chromium, Gecko which powers Firefox Derivatives and Safari(Blinkit? I am not sure of its exact name). Even if Open AI's new browser (or Perplexity 's for that matter) takes market by storm, they will remain dependent on Google because the underlying code is. They can't be truly independent unless they have their separate engine. And if the new Ladybird project shows one thing, it is that shipping a new browser might be easy, but a new rendering engine is very tough.

  • Interesting Shares @lemmy.zip
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    Zimbabwe lithium mining boom fuels a dangerous black market for locals

    restofworld.org /2025/zimbabwe-lithium-mining-boom/

  • The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

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  • Whilst the first paragraph I can agree with, the chunk of 10-20% GDP is unsubstantiated with data. As it stands today, the core of scam industry has actually moved away from India towards the porous Myanmar-Cambodia border. Not only is it not well defined due to political reasons, the instability provides a volatile situation. Private mafia like companies operate there.

    Sure, Indian folks do work there as well but not out of their own volition. Many have been gotten there through fake promises of high paying jobs only to be let down and with no way to escape. This isn't a phenomenon restricted to India either. Recently, South Korea summoned the Cambodian Ambassador after its citizens were embezzeled in a similar way in the compounds there.

  • The case for piracy on Android

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  • Feel free to DM.

  • The case for piracy on Android

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  • I wasn't expecting tommydan from YouTube to be mentioned here :p. Best of all he does, what companies themselves couldn't do, maintain the original aspect ratio. I remember that Shemaroo restored certain old Hindi films but the original aspect ratio for them was 4:3 whilst the restored ran into 16:9.

    In fact, I have been seeing the odd old Hindi film from an unexpected source. The Russian site Ok. I am still not sure if it is a social media site or not since the English UI is not there for me but for all Intents and purposes, it is used to upload videos only. Some guy ended up uploading whole filmography of Rajesh Khanna on the site (much of it mirrored later to Archive.org). Whilst the irony remains that there is probably not a single legal hub to see the lesser known films.

    Heck, I was hunting an out of print (like literally unavailable to stream or purchase anywhere short of anyone having the original CD/DVD) 1996 film and the only way was to pirate it (from a single source).

    In some cases, piracy becomes an act of media preservation ( cues back to when BBC wiped some Doctor Who episodes in the late sixties and only way few were gotten back was because some folks had gotten audio transcribed or something at home).

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

    futurism.com /artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-traumatizing-contractors

  • The case for piracy on Android

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  • From Kinks to Camel to obscure Krautrock stuff like Dissidenten, Out of Focus, Embryo. Ironically I have < 50 Hindi songs in my collection because the era I like the most [50s - 60s], good quality stuff is hard to come by. Like the files even on Soulseek or torrents are so incredibly compressed that it is a pity. The vocals sound so tinny that one wonders that how did the original masters sounded like.

  • The case for piracy on Android

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  • I didn't knew foobar2000 was available for mobile as well. I only knew it because it was so popular as a lightweight modular player for Windows. I used to be on Strawberry, a Clementine fork on Linux before moving to Deadbeef, which is like Foobar2000 but misses few features.

  • The case for piracy on Android

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  • It is law of diminishing marginal utility. There would be more sonic distinguishness between a 64 kbps and a 128 kbps file, than say when making the same upgrade to 256 kbps. It becomes less and less obvious as one approaches 44.1 kHz/16 bit flac (beyond which it is useless to hoard unless one is mastering the albums themselves).

    I have a DAC paired with Sennheiser IE 600 which is not audiophile level, but ought to be decent enough.

    Either case, my point was not about audio quality and whether or not a person can distinguish a flac from say, 320 kbps mp3. Countless threads are made on that and viewpoints presented. My argument was that YouTube Music does not present first, to stream music in high quality and second, even if the quality was indistinguishable, there is no way to manage a library since most of the desktop third party clients remain without login.

  • The case for piracy on Android

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  • Once can stream audio from YouTube via terminal on Linux but problem is all of that is limited to 128 kbps AAC. There is no way to stream proper 256 kbps AAC that YouTube Music Premium provides. One can download such streams via yt-dlp (it needs to be given authorization cookies) but there is currently no way to stream high quality audio from YouTube without using the webpage.

  • The case for piracy on Android

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  • Could you tell me an alternative that allows for third party clients? On Spotify, I can configure a terminal client even on Linux and stream music with very low overhead [contrast with YTMusic with required a permanent browser tab opened]. Yes, local media streaming can do that but there is only so much space at one time on my HDD.

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The case for piracy on Android

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work? | WIRED

    web.archive.org /web/20251020140959/https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-has-a-plan-to-keep-its-ai-from-building-a-nuclear-weapon-will-it-work/

  • Google Pixel Watch 4 review: the Android watch to beat

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  • I heard of it. It is shipping in two variants, right? I just hope it makes general availability worldwide and not just a handful of countries (looks at Fairphone).

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Google Pixel Watch 4 review: the Android watch to beat

    www.theverge.com /tech/795383/google-pixel-watch-4-review-android-smartwatch-gemini-wearable
  • Android @lemdro.id
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    The unsung heroes of Android: Remembering 8 legendary apps we’ve lost

    www.androidauthority.com /legendary-android-apps-we-lost-3597775/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    LinkedIn problems

  • LinkedinLunatics @sh.itjust.works
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    People paid him to speak on the vagaries of daily job?

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Sony Xperia 1 VII review: Unremarkable phone with a remarkable price tag

    www.androidauthority.com /sony-xperia-1-vii-review-3585375/
  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    "This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive

    www.readonlymemo.com /this-is-the-first-the-16-year-odyssey-of-time-money-wrong-turns-and-frustration-it-took-to-finally-emulate-the-pioneer-laseractive/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    AI Podcast Start Up Plans 5,000 Shows, 3,000 Episode a Week

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /business/digital/ai-podcast-start-up-plan-shows-1236361367/
  • Films Frames - Every Frame is a Painting @lemmy.world
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    Mera Naam Joker, Raj Kapoor (1970)

  • Films Frames - Every Frame is a Painting @lemmy.world
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    Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman (1957)