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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • Dell kills the XPS brand

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  • Neither my wife nor I own any Apple devices, but living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I'm surrounded by people that do. There's no need for other companies to copy Apple's questionable decisions.

  • Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com

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  • SearX is dead; you should use SearXNG now.

  • HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content

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  • "Ultra96" sounds like it could have been a codename for the Nintendo 64.

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  • simplified naming scheme with labels like ‘Pro’ and ‘Max.’

    How is that "simplified"? Which one is better, Pro or Max?

    Actual simplified naming would probably be names like "Basic", "Business", "Gaming", or numbers like what Intel does with Core 3/5/7/9.

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  • How though? Is "pro" better than "max"?

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund

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  • No worries - it's a pretty common misconception that tech companies sell data. I've worked on ads systems at big tech companies so I've seen some parts of how it works. The companies are very protective of their data as it's essentially their highest-value asset. Employees can't see any of your data either - it's very tightly locked down, with strict ACLs and audit logging.

    Large advertisers generally don't get any special access either - the tools/apps that large advertisers use are mostly the same as what small advertisers / individuals can see and use.

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  • less interest than Google in selling data for advertising

    Google don't sell data. The data is what makes them valuable, so it wouldn't make sense. If they did sell data, the other big tech companies would just buy their data to remove their competitive advantage.

    What Google actually sells is your attention. Advertisers can target people based on demographic data, things you like, etc, but the advertiser never sees the data used for targeting.

    You can use Google and Facebook's Ads Manager sites yourself and see exactly what advertisers see.

    On the other hand, Apple mostly keep their collected data for their own ad network. Yes, they have one - it's mostly just used for ads for "recommended" apps in the app store, but last I heard, they have plans to expand it.

  • LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey

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  • I'm curious as to whether the industry will start moving from last-touch attribution to first-touch (or multi-touch) attribution instead.

    The only reason last-touch (last affiliate link gets all the credit) is commonplace now is because it's easy to implement. No need for long-term tracking. What the industry really wants is either first-touch (first affiliate link or ad you click gets the credit) or multi-touch (the payment is split between every affiliate), depending on who you ask.

  • LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey

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  • They'd replace affiliate link cookies with their own

    Practically every coupon site does this too though, as do other coupon extensions.

  • LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey

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  • The fact that BugMeNot and RetailMeNot grew so huge is interesting. They were created by two Australians, and for a while were only popular in Australia.

  • YouTube is cracking down on clickbait

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  • Shout out to DeArrow, from the same developer as SponsorBlock. It replaces video titles and thumbnails with community-provided non-clickbait versions. Available as a browser extension, and is also built-in to several third-party YouTube apps, such as SmartTube.

  • Fan-less cooling solution for laptops up to 40W launched

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  • That's correct.

  • Discord sued by users claiming Nitro subscription is too difficult to cancel

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  • and California (where this lawsuit is coming from)

  • Discord sued by users claiming Nitro subscription is too difficult to cancel

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  • Based on what I'm reading in the post (since I don't use Discord), it's still obstructing the cancelation flow and making the user go through more steps, which is illegal in California.

  • Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe After ‘Worst Hack in Our Nation’s History’

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  • All of Telegram's Lies About Privacy

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  • If you want to self-host chat, Conduit (implementation of a Matrix server) is really nice. Much better than the official Matrix implementation (Synapse).

  • Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe After ‘Worst Hack in Our Nation’s History’

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  • I had a negative experience when initially setting up my account, because of TikTok. This group of kids who called themselves "Fidelity Boyz" discovered that you could deposit a fake check and immediately withdraw the money.

    So many people did this that they had to severely lock things down. For most customers, money transferred in either via check or via ACH pull (telling Fidelity to take the money from an account at another bank), was subject to a 16 business day (three weeks and one day) hold. Direct deposits (e.g. paychecks) were not affected, and ACH pushes (when you tell another bank to send the money to Fidelity) were eventually fine too.

    It was a big pain. The money I transferred was in limbo for a long time, after I had already switched all my auto-pays over to Fidelity, so I had to switch them all back until the money cleared.

    Now that that's over, it's great. I love that they reimburse ATM fees worldwide, and I'm a big fan of their basket portfolios product since it makes it so easy to rebalance a portfolio. Saves me from having to manually do a bunch of calculations, and I love that it has a fixed monthly price instead of being percentage based like roboadvisors.

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  • I've got one. It's nice. The cash is automatically invested in a money market account, which is a bit like a high yield savings account.

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  • In case you weren't aware, Symantec VIP is just TOTP-OATH in a fancy coat. You can extract the secret and use it with any TOTP app. I use Authenticator Pro (now called Stratum) because it's open-source and has a watch app.

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  • it's hard to infiltrate telecom systems like S7

    Telecom systems can be (and are) infiltrated though, which is what the FBI is warning about.

    SS7 is very insecure. See this video, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y