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propogandist··on Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium
why have you shadow banned my account?
propogandist··on Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future
I compared pricing from hotels next to the airport (that have free shuttle service) and they appear to be $20-30 cheaper on Uber vs the airport pickup point. Planning on trying this on my next trip.
propogandist··on Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for
CBDC is being evaluated by pretty much every countries central bank. Governments are eager to roll out Central Bank Digital Currency as it will be the ultimate form of control on citizens.

CBDC will allow govts, at their discretion, connect your money to your ‘good citizen score’ (much like China’s Social Credit Score) and lock you out of society.

propogandist··on Illinois to Become First State to Ban Book Bans
degenerates will be stoned, don’t worry. And all liberal strongholds will become shitholes like Chiraq.
propogandist··on Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is here – it costs $7.99 per month (USA)
> The account owner will need to purchase an extra member slot

Lol, no thanks.

Great time to buy puts for next earnings.

propogandist··on Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber
the puppet in office that needs direction on where to walk and how to talk. Also, no questions allowed.
propogandist··on Reddit comments and submissions collected by Pushshift
and now that we know it was Clinton, Obama, and intelligence agencies pushing that propaganda, plebbit won’t want to hear nothing about it.
propogandist··on Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber
old enemies coming together, they must be out of options

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/27/anthony-levandowski-former...

propogandist··on Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
you can buy comma.ai hardware, its base use is "dashcam"

you can, at your discretion, load self-driving software (openpilot), which can take over driving for you, in addition to maintaining dashcam footage

they have a subscription that will store footage in the cloud too, iirc

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot

propogandist··on Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
Google Maps records everything and sends it to the cloud to log your entire journey while using the app. They've made it into a feature to show "average speed" and similar details in the Maps app.

They have your speed, where you began and where you were going. Way more damning.

propogandist··on Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
>Install feels almost suspiciously easy coming from the likes of cyanogenmod.

this is a great teaser statement

I miss the days of having to open 9 xda threads to figure out how to install some ROM. That whole scene seems to have died off as Android puts up more walls to increase reliance on locked down services

propogandist··on Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search
one of the contributing factors is because iOS offers native search support for DDG and they don't any other providers (eg. Brave)
propogandist··on Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work
precisely, every single one of these reports is PR to pump Airbnb

> Long-term stays, or stays for 28 nights or longer, were 18% of total gross nights booked, a decline from the previous quarter, when they accounted for 21% of total nights booked.

via airbnb's latest earnings report from last week https://www.marketwatch.com/story/airbnb-stock-falls-sharply...

propogandist··on Airbnb CEO Brian calls out RTO mandates from execs ‘going away to the Hamptons’
translation: this hypocrisy is hurting my business that monetizes remote work

> Long-term stays, or stays for 28 nights or longer, were 18% of total gross nights booked, a decline from the previous quarter, when they accounted for 21% of total nights booked.

via airbnb earnings report https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/airbnb-stock-falls-sha...

This guys opinion is meaningless. Any coverage of his statements should be seen as corporate PR trying to drive more bookings, to boost their 10% “platform fee” revenues.

propogandist··on Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023
80% of company revenues driven by ads
propogandist··on US iPhone market share up, in declining market, as people switch from Android
>- DNS-level adblocking, to make app usage bearable

it's possible with AdGuard Pro and similar apps on iOS, although it's obviously not possible to run these apps with root privileges, like AfWall and others.

propogandist··on Bard now open to use
google is mining inputs as training data which EU may sue them for later
propogandist··on Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023
Outside of the ads group the majority of Google’s rest and vest workforce delivers little shareholder value
propogandist··on Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
Modi is corrupt. The guy does not have the interest of the country at heart, he just cares about the Ambanis and increasing the wealth of his political allies.
propogandist··on Google appears to be scaling up the ads it shows to Gmail users
brave supports this feature (background audio)
propogandist··on Google appears to be scaling up the ads it shows to Gmail users
Brave browser and/or UBO on Firefox does the job, while preventing Google from building profile about logged in YT watching habits.
propogandist··on Google appears to be scaling up the ads it shows to Gmail users
links out to a better article and writeup at-least, techradar is a bottom of the barrel content regurgitation outlet

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/05/gmail-ads-increase-2023/

propogandist··on Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
Chinese manufacturing still dominates and they produce most of the routers and modems out there. If we can’t trust routers from China then virtually the entire world is compromised.
propogandist··on TikTok tracked users who watched gay content, prompting employee complaints
imagine the intricate profiles Facebook has built on everyone, especially when it's siphoning data regularly from apps which are opened. This goes for all dating apps to any page with a "like" button, or a FB conversion scripts, to whatever data companies pump to FB to do ad-targeting (phone numbers, emails)
propogandist··on IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI
it is possible to hire the research division, you just have to be a multi-billion dollar enterprise. They do joint research partnerships and outsourcing for large organizations to build out new technology. IBM is not very good at commercializing IP, so the partner takes on that responsibility.
propogandist··on IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI
her role crashing the company into the ground is completely omitted in her book, which has been popping up on my linkedin feed. Her gender and former title is clearly more important than what she accomplished, much like Marrisa Mayer.
propogandist··on Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices
PR to give people the illusion that Microsoft cares about consumers

This is merely part of the strategy to drive blows at companies like Apple to hurt margins associated with closed off ecosystems

propogandist··on Epstein's Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief
“Conspiracy theory” was popularized by the CIA to advance their interests and obfuscate their operations.
propogandist··on Ask HN: Android is rapidly losing the US market. What can Google do about this?
>Apple will happily communicate with mothership even if you turn off mobile data or wifi.

can you elaborate on this? how are they doing this?

propogandist··on Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?
has any of the recent attempts to the moon given us footage of the lunar lander and other machinery that was left behind from the prior missions?

this would easily put the conspiracy theories to bed

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