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Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

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Re: Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

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Post by saurik »

jaflo wrote: post #174
saurik wrote: post #107

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When you upload photos to Facebook as part of an album, my experience is it doesn't even ask: it just goes ahead and tags people it recognizes, and it even sends them a push notification that you did that even before you click "save" on the album (it even attempts to live synchronize the text you are typing as the album description, which is insane).

What do you mean by live synchronizing the description?

Like, every few seconds the description of the in-progress album is synchronized to the live album you don't even realize is live yet.

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Post by pacala »

Nition wrote: post #171
pacala wrote: post #118

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http://maps.me For mobile, totally offline, uses OpenStreetMap data.

Nokia HERE WeGo[1] also does offline GPS maps. You can download whole countries as vector map data. MAPS.ME looks really good but I know some areas around here don't have great OpenStreetMap data yet, whereas they do have complete road data on Nokia's app. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.m...

Cool! FWIW, around Pacific North West, I found OpenStreetMap data is significantly more detailed than Google's for hiking and pedestrian points of interest.

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Post by Neliquat »

shubb wrote: post #152
glandium wrote: post #139

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> For what it is worth, as of June 2017 gmail no longer scans email content for ads The important part of that sentence is "for ads". Obviously, they don't do antispam out of thin air, they still have to scan email for it.

Lately, they are offering quite good context sensitive caned responses. For instance I got an email earlier confirming a cancellation due to illness. It suggested I respond 'Thank you for your understanding'. That's some quite good natural language stuff running on every email, presumably building a model.

No they arent. Out of 7 groups of 3 responses, less than 4 were even semantically valid, and those at no time were relevant.

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Post by SN76477 »

intopieces wrote: post #42

Big Brother is here, but his name is not Facebook. It's WeChat. https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000004574648/chi... WeChat has the tracking capability that Facebook could only dream of, and it does not even hide it.

Tencent is too powerful already.

Re: Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

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Post by aabaker99 »

mattmanser wrote: post #176
StavrosK wrote: post #166

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I've had the opposite experience. I've been using it for many months and I only !g code searches or searches where DDG's results were disappointing, most of which end up disappointing on Google as well.

I find that hard to believe if you're a programmer, as any complex programming question !g is almost always better. As well as anything local. If you search for a fairly common venue name, google will always get you a much better result.

It's given that Google will give better search results. They track you.

I have the opposite experience regarding programming questions though. I thought that part of the initial appeal of DDG was that it handled queries that involved syntax or symbols better. I suppose these types of queries may not be that "complex" though. I admit I often query just to verify the API or to check how to do a common task in a language I am less familiar with.

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Post by fnovd »

Animats wrote: post #88

I just can't see running the Facebook app. Facebook on the desktop, sure, but why on a phone? Other than checking in once a day or so to see what my friends are doing, Facebook has nothing I want. I don't use Gmail. I have a Google account, but it's only used for updating browser add-ons. Last login was over a year ago. Mail comes from a IMAP server. Android's standard mail client does IMAP just fine. All my desktops…

>I just can't see running the Facebook app. Facebook on the desktop, sure, but why on a phone? Other than checking in once a day or so to see what my friends are doing, Facebook has nothing I want.

This is like saying, "I just don't understand binge drinking. Red wine with dinner, sure, but a fifth of vodka in a night? I enjoy a light buzz, I have no need to get wasted."

Some people are simply more susceptible to this addiction than others. This product is much more prevalent and addiction is less stigmatized and arguably more profitable. Motives have to be questioned.

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Post by wbillingsley »

Twitter is more concerning, as it has connected society's social enforcers (those who are concerned with which views "have no place in our society") with media, government, employers, etc.

In terms of privacy, people have never been that concerned with "who's listening" so long as the scope of use is limited (eg, security cameras in carparks are seen as a sign of safety, not espionage, and people will happily mouth off loudly to their friends on balconies, untroubled by the ordinary passer by who might look on and scowl at the trash they might be talking).

It's not the overhearing and data collection part of zersetzung that's the most problematic -- it's the army of volunteers ready to take part in public denunciation and social undermining that people grow to fear.

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Post by viral_krieger »

saywatnow wrote: post #195
mattmanser wrote: post #176

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I find that hard to believe if you're a programmer, as any complex programming question !g is almost always better. As well as anything local. If you search for a fairly common venue name, google will always get you a much better result.

> I find it hard to believe if you're a programmer Some people work better with reference documentation, books and their brain than SO "answers". Google for "complex programming questions" is laughable and honestly a bit insulting to the profession.

Why is Googling a programming question insulting to the profession?

I find it laughable that you think there is something wrong with looking for resources relating to complex programming questions. I can't tell you how many times Googling a niche and complex problem instantly solved my issue. Sometimes SO is the only site that has fixes for bugs in the program you're using or mistakes in the documentation.

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Post by lucaspiller »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #67
fao_ wrote: post #55

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Roads are pretty benign, and they don't steal your location data and store it in their database

I hate to break it to you but the state police and most toll road authorities have put an entire network of cameras on every major interstate and road system to be able to track cars.

Even outside the US this is true. I live in Lithuania and a couple years ago I started noticing cameras along the side of most highways. They've now started using them to enforce average speeds, but to everyone here it should be pretty clear they are tracking the movements of vehicles (whether intentional or not is a different question).

A lot of other European countries have automated toll roads (sometimes just for HGVs) which do the same thing.

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