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abbenm , to Asklemmy in What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?

I was never, at any point, as much of a child as I was told I was.

abbenm , to Privacy in Google Pixel alternatives?

My Puxl was from eBay.

To be honest, I don't know much about how credit cards can be associated with phone hardware. I would think it could conceivably be tied to phone #s. In my case the phone is unlocked and it's not an esim, which I understand we will all be moving too soon.

I wonder if it might have something to do with Google Pay or Apple Pay that ties hardware information to payments? And as for Esim, it might make it so that you can't distinguish phones based on their physical sim card so it perhaps introduces a possibility of reliance on hardware.

But this is all speculation on my part. I just don't know and I haven't made whatever precautions would be needed.

abbenm , to Privacy in Google Pixel alternatives?

That's what I did!

abbenm OP , to Technology in A Greener Google [April Fools 2020]

I almost forgot today was April Fools day. I feel like since Covid, the national mood (TM) was such that Google and co stopped doing April Fools pranks, and/or if they did them, they were so safe they were groan inducing.

Looking around at the roundup links for 2024, there aren't many that happened this year, from the looks of it. So I wanted to post this one, because it's the rarest of rare - one that I thought was really incredibly well done.

abbenm , (edited ) to Privacy in What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler?

Very good to know. After following your Github link, I found my way to the blog post that it looks like you are quoting:

https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/State-of-the-Pipe-2023/

abbenm , to Privacy in What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler?

NewPipe is a killer app I would say, with nearly Youtube Red level functionality in something that's free and OSS. A bit afield from privacy, but you do get to access youtube stuff without logging in.

abbenm , to Privacy in What privacy friendly app/service/stuff makes your life simpler?

Syncthing is brilliant, although for me it has had a heck of a learning curve to keep straight. Might just be me though.

abbenm , to United States | News & Politics in China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms

Beware, mods removed NYT reportage along similar lines as it applied to Russia when I tried to post it. Some topics are forbidden!

abbenm , to Videos in Rings of Power is a Disappointment, Here’s why | An Overdue Critique

I wholeheartedly agree. I'm glad that Amazon wanted to be ambitious, but there's so much great fiction out there that hasn't yet been adapted, even of other Tolkien stuff such as the Silmarillion (not exactly a story but still plenty of rich details about the world).

I will say, it at least goes down smooth as turn-your-brain-off entertainment if you are looking for something that just looks nice. A lower bar to clear, but I liked having something to fall back to when I ran out of House of the Dragon.

abbenm OP , to United States | News & Politics in 15 Years ago, CNN showed off it's first (and last) Hologram News report, with reporter Jessica Valenti appearing by "hologram" in Wolf Blitzers studio to discuss election results

I totally blocked from my memory the very brief period when holograms were a thing

Yeah, I think some corner of my brain I knew this was exactly the kind of thing that would make us go wtf after some time had passed.

abbenm , to Privacy in YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances

Exactly. For any proposed change, it's going to run up against what I like to call Status Quo Extremism, which is a mindset that suggests that "But that would be different from the status quo" counts as a defeater argument against proposed changes.

The combination of incentives would, as you note, need to be driven by niche interests rather than attempting to reproduce the incentives of the top 0.01% of YouTube creators.

abbenm , to Privacy in YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances

It is but there’s just not enough content to get me to fully stop YouTube yet

I don't think anyone is proposing an overnight switch. You've got to take the long view. That said, I do think when it comes to federated activity pub style projects, Mastodon has gotten off the ground, Lemmy has exploded, pixel-fed seems to be doing pretty good, but the video stuff appears to be a tougher nut to crack.

abbenm , to Privacy in YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances

Wait, what? I don't think they were talking about piracy. They sound like they're talking about something more like a C-Span type thing, envisioned as a YouTube alternative.

abbenm , to Privacy in Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone

Perfectly stated! The moralizing story kind of serves as cover, as a complete blank check to excuse practically any behavior of the lender, without any limiting principle.

abbenm , to Privacy in Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone

And there's the rub. Sure, it's a financed phone. It doesn't follow that we have to suspend judgment on the means they resort to, to enforce their terms.

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