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Buying your neighbor's surrounding houses for privacy...

For months now I have been using youtube-dl to preserve all the concerts and workout videos I like on YouTube because I don't expect this content to remain available and unencumber…

What if they lied about how much music was worth though? You can stream 10,000+ songs in one month for the price of one album today, in the early 2000s we were asked to believe tha…

About 400 million people pay monthly for access to music instead of listening to radio, occasionally buying albums or piracy so idk if anything really backfired...

This NPM cache been a huge time-saver for me, you can run it locally or across your whole network for a shared cache - https://guides.sonatype.com/repo3/quick-start-guides/proxyin.…

I host mine too because I'm not interested in paying ~$100/year for the rest of my life to access music, this is like welfare for tech giants and record companies and very little e…

I wish the technology existed so they could just correctly bill you when you get back to your car and you drive away with a receipt instead of a fine... the idea that you have done…

Same. This recharger + 4 battery set has been invaluable with my remote. https://www.amazon.com/Lithium-Battery-Charger-Rechargeable-...

I have maintained my fitness and saved so much money by switching to videos on YouTube. I think this stuff should at most be a category on Netflix etc it's not worth $9.99 separate…

You can block a lot of apps individually from accessing the internet with NetGuard - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/ https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

> hundreds of experts working to prevent it Every major operating system has this regardless of whether they force you to download software through one marketplace. You're not less…

In real life on the iPhone we have had apps secretly uploading your address book, copying your clipboard and listening for tones embedded in television ads. And "The Fappening" whe…

Apple and Facebook have both been sued for this. Facebook were literally calling it friendly fraud and trying not to prevent it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2019/01/25/fa…

Can't they control the quality of external or replaceable batteries in exactly the same way?

It is absolutely a deliberate decision by Apple to pressure people to use iPhones and to pressure people not to convert to using Android. Hopefully this will be one of the items on…

Nobody's saying Facebook and Amazon won't get charges too. They and Apple were all part of the same investigation. The investigators say all four companies are abusing their positi…