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4 days agoIt works but it’s subject to the same limits – it can only find your most recent comments via the Reddit API. But you can upload files from your data request to help it find all your comments.
lemmyvore
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I’ve heard a conspiracy theory that says that the apps and services that Google dumps were experiments in data gathering and correlation. So basically they make a music platform like GPM, they use it to get a great music prediction algorithm, then kill the platform because what they wanted was the algorithm. They have money to burn so they don’t care about one more tiny revenue stream or about making a great music platform.
Can you even do that anymore? AFAIK Reddit now caps the amount of comment history they show you so how do you find your comments to change them?
I guess if you’re EU you can request a dump of all your data as a GDPR request and find the permalinks for all your comments in there.
Oh this is nothing. They’re currently testing identity verification. As in, “send a pic of your government-issue ID to Persona so they can check who you really are” (and cross-reference you with other sites that use Persona, like LinkedIn etc.)
I’m also surprised they’re still allowing old accounts that don’t have an email. Or that they’re not mandating everybody to add and verify their phone number “for security and 2FA” – another excellent way of cross-referencing people against all kinds of databases. Just imagine what they can get if they work out a deal to share your phone number with Google, or Amazon.
They mean new old stock, not used phones.
Security updates… meh, it’s a mixed bag. Outside of maybe Google I really doubt any manufacturer bothers to keep their Android phones super up to date with all the possible fixes, even within the support period.
And as for the privacy angle… honestly the manufacturer is usually the first one to spy the shit out of you. Using Google services while worrying about a hypothetical security breach is really ironic.
Lol Whatsapp as a system app sounds like a nightmare.
The usuall approach established by Samsung etc. is to bundle a few “shim” apps as system apps for Meta. One shim is used by the regular Meta apps to bypass restrictions and talk to each other, one collects data from any app that uses the Meta ad network, and some are there in case you install the corresponding user app (eg. Facebook) to give it system privileges.
I mean it ends up technically the same as having Whatsapp bundled outright, but you gotta give props to a manufacturer so shamelss they don’t even pretend to hide it. 😃
The problem is that making games (and software in general) has become more high-level, and enshittification has also gotten rid of highly skilled people. So the top studios in the industry are not capable of making resource-efficient, beautiful games anymore. Not because it’s physically impossible, but because they’re not geared for the processes and decision-making that would allow those games to be made.
When you switch from an artisan mindset to a mass-manufacturing and outsourcing mindset without exercising strict control you eventually become utterly dependent on service and product providers that will see to your costs going up so you’ll keep paying more for less.
All the large studios will come to a breaking point eventually because it’s unsustainable, and will be acquired for the franchise rights by corporations that make their money in unrelated industries. But the PC platform is also breaking down so this might be a moot issue in 10 years from now.
isthereanydeal can import your steam wishlist, and you can set a price threshold and other criteria on it. I have a $10 threshold on mine and there’s plenty of stuff on there all the time.
That’s a very warped impression of Silicon Valley. And it probably comes from Hollywood movies, which is super ironic since you mentioned writers and filmmmakers.
Dumb representation of computers in movies has done more to harm their image than actual software ever did. Most of the AI hype is based on fantastic notions of AI as seen in movies.
The difference is that it used to be harder to concentrate massive wealth in the hands on one individual. It used to require very large companies, which were controlled by multiple people through shares and board positions. Companies themselves weren’t allowed to grow too massive or achieve monopolies.
Lately all checks have gone out the window which has resulted in single individuals having control over mind-boggling amounts of resources. This changes the dynamics a lot because an individual will act very differently from a large board or shareholders.
HTTPS is privacy in transit. It has no say into what’s being downloaded.
It’s not a fine standard. Microsoft filed it with the express goal of preventing ODF from becoming the prevailing document standard, not with the goal of documenting OOXML. It’s intentionally obfuscated and kept different from MS Office. It’s not a standard it’s a red herring.
The former.
Evil billionaires are more of a 2020’s thing.
Euro-Office and OnlyOffice don’t “only support” OOXML. Where did you get that idea?
From the fact ODF “support” is an awkward import/export function. It’s not a first class format.
The code is open so where do you suppose all this supposed spyware is hiding?
On their live service. They don’t publish the spyware with the code they choose to open, obviously. 😃
OnlyOffice is not related to OpenOffice. OnlyOffice is developed by Ascensio System which has labored to obscure their Russian backing.
Whereas StarOffice/OpenOffice/LibreOffice is a product officially developed by Sun, then donated to the Apache Foundation, then forked as LibreOffice governed by The Document Foundation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#Forks_and_derivative_software
I really don’t get this latest series if tantrums from LibreOffice/The Document Foundation. They are attacking every other up-and-coming open source document project.
They are not. They are pointing out how innefectual the Euro-Office setup is in the context of EU Digital Sovereignty. If the EU wants to free its document stack from dependencies it makes no sense that they’d pick a product that only supports OOXML, which is fully controlled by Microsoft. (And riddled with Russian spyware, but that’s the icing on the cake.)
And speaking of OOXML, let’s get some things straight:
It is an open standard since 2006.
It has never been truly open. It was demonstrated back in 2006 and time and time again that Microsoft doesn’t publish the full spec and that they obfuscate what they do publish. It is impossible to fully support what comes out of the latest MS Office in an open manner.
It is a recognized ISO standard, just like ODF. (ISO/IEC 29500)
Yes, because back in 2006 Microsoft asked their vendors in all ISO-voting countries to join the ISO committees and vote in favor of OOXML. A practice which the ISO was completely unprepared for, but also did absolutely nothing to correct.
ISO/IEC 29500 is a joke and choosing to enforce as an EU-wide standard is a joke.
LibreOffice also supports OOXML and allows users to set it as default.
Which is why LibreOffice, or a similar product that supports both OOXML and ODF should have been chosen.
It is already the de-facto standard
That has to be taken into account for migration but it doesn’t mean we have to keep being tied to Microsoft.
Ironically, if Graphene would succeed, it would lead to a system that’s every bit as locked down as a manufacturer’s Android. GrapheneOS would also not allow you to have root etc.
IMO Graphene wants a place at the big player table. They’re not in it for user freedoms.
Whatever they need. Alphabet Inc. is made up of a dozen companies with thousands of products. There’s always something that can benefit from such insight.
The location data that Google collects through Android phones, alone, is mind-blowing. Just from your daily movement they can figure out where you live, where you work, shop, eat, drink, vacation. Indirectly they can figure out who your friends and relatives are, your partners, extra interests and hobbies etc. They sell all that to advertisers, there’s a reason why so much of Alphabet revenue comes from ads. Then there’s more complex patterns like traffic for example that they can sell to city planners and so on. And that’s just location data.