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The WFH crowd wishes. Corporations are not logical in this way. They are far more concerned with enforcing their own culture than they are with the expense of their real estate whi…

When the recession hits they'll be the first with the pink slips.

This is not good enough. People on this website know not to use TikTok. The message should be: tell your friends and family to get off TikTok. Tell them the unvarnished truth: it’s…

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Those governments and worldwide organizations are perfectly capable and indeed welcome to set up websites to do exactly the same thing.

Why is Twitter a utility? Why is any social media a utility? It is certainly not essential to conduct business or to go about one's daily life.

Why Brave and not DDG browser? Brave left a sour taste for me with their crypto + linkjacking for referrals nonsense.

They are not end to end encrypted, per Apple’s KB entry here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

> if your adversary wants to get your stuff, they will find a way. This is true, and to add to it: for state level actors, “wanting to get your stuff” expands to passive collection…

iCloud backups are encrypted, just not end to end. Which is as good as not encrypted.

Any word on how necessary the app is? Not really comfortable with the direction this technology is going when it has to be paired with an app, with your data sent to who know who.

Interesting to note: > Variations in medical care among states may also result in differences in cancer rates. In states where higher percentages of people participate in cancer sc…

> It seems like this would be good practice these days for any international travel. This also seems like a great use case for privacy focused OSes for unlocked phones. I’ve been t…

The uncritical acceptance of Qatar as the next hot business location, like an area of the map unlocking on Civ, is a total catastrophe for the cause of human rights. The entire cou…

>But how is that Apple's responsibility? "Apple's responsibility" is determined, in countries with consumer protection laws, by that country's authority. In this case, it's Apple r…

A little empathy goes a long way when thinking about issues that intersect technology and people with disabilities.

The author is boycotting Meta Quest Pro because it lacks accurate hand tracking, a feature that Deaf & Hard of Hearing people rely on. Recommend changing the title to reflect that.…

The intention was for you to have friends with CD players, and all of you hit play at the same time.

This isn’t really that hard on Apple TV though. Siri has universal search and will show media and punch out to the right app.

Yes, it’s worse. Facebook doesn’t sell your data, they sell your attention and futures on your behavior. Apple doesn’t.

Do you trust that Facebook has neither the capability nor the incentive to develop the capability to track you and combine all that data into a profile? I do not. Facebook has shad…

How long until there's a torrent tracker for removed YouTube videos?

Was this article written by the copyright lobby?

>".. it's an online "everything store" with a yearly subscription that makes delivery of most products free" No, and I think that the incentives that arise from that model speak fo…

>I second going the manufacturer for anything you really care about. And I try (and often fail) to ask myself that if I don't "really care about it," do I really need it?