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The WFH crowd wishes. Corporations are not logical in this way. They are far more concerned with enforcing their own culture than they are with the expense of their real estate which is, after all, both an investment and a tax write-off.

When the recession hits they'll be the first with the pink slips.

This is not good enough. People on this website know not to use TikTok. The message should be: tell your friends and family to get off TikTok. Tell them the unvarnished truth: it’s spyware

Those governments and worldwide organizations are perfectly capable and indeed welcome to set up websites to do exactly the same thing.

Why is Twitter a utility? Why is any social media a utility? It is certainly not essential to conduct business or to go about one's daily life.

Why Brave and not DDG browser? Brave left a sour taste for me with their crypto + linkjacking for referrals nonsense.

They are not end to end encrypted, per Apple’s KB entry here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

> if your adversary wants to get your stuff, they will find a way.

This is true, and to add to it: for state level actors, “wanting to get your stuff” expands to passive collection of data as well as well trodden paths to more targeted surveillance. End to end at least throws up a few more barriers.

iCloud backups are encrypted, just not end to end. Which is as good as not encrypted.

Any word on how necessary the app is? Not really comfortable with the direction this technology is going when it has to be paired with an app, with your data sent to who know who.

Interesting to note:

> Variations in medical care among states may also result in differences in cancer rates. In states where higher percentages of people participate in cancer screenings, more cancers are diagnosed early when the prognosis is often better.

It seems like this data could be impacted such that better healthcare would result in worse cancer rate, since this study naturally counts know cancer rates. That is, it would not necessarily result in literally more incidents of cancer, just the rate as measured.

> It seems like this would be good practice these days for any international travel.

This also seems like a great use case for privacy focused OSes for unlocked phones. I’ve been trying to get into CalyxOS or GrapheneOS for a while. Just waiting for either to come to the Pixel 7 Pro. I wouldn’t throw it afterwards, but probably wouldn’t connect it to any home networks without nuking it once or twice.

The uncritical acceptance of Qatar as the next hot business location, like an area of the map unlocking on Civ, is a total catastrophe for the cause of human rights. The entire country should be boycott, not embraced.

>But how is that Apple's responsibility?

"Apple's responsibility" is determined, in countries with consumer protection laws, by that country's authority. In this case, it's Apple responsibility because Brazil says it's good for their consumers. It does stand to reason that having more high quality chargers from Apple is better than having fewer.

A little empathy goes a long way when thinking about issues that intersect technology and people with disabilities.

The author is boycotting Meta Quest Pro because it lacks accurate hand tracking, a feature that Deaf & Hard of Hearing people rely on. Recommend changing the title to reflect that. This author has done extensive, unpaid work on the platform to make it more accessible and has been a strong advocate for accessibility features, but it seems that Meta has not prioritized this functionality. That is a shame, and should be illegal.

The intention was for you to have friends with CD players, and all of you hit play at the same time.

This isn’t really that hard on Apple TV though. Siri has universal search and will show media and punch out to the right app.

Yes, it’s worse. Facebook doesn’t sell your data, they sell your attention and futures on your behavior. Apple doesn’t.

Do you trust that Facebook has neither the capability nor the incentive to develop the capability to track you and combine all that data into a profile? I do not.

Facebook has shadow profiles for people who don’t use the service.

How long until there's a torrent tracker for removed YouTube videos?

Was this article written by the copyright lobby?

>".. it's an online "everything store" with a yearly subscription that makes delivery of most products free"

No, and I think that the incentives that arise from that model speak for themselves in what Amazon has become.

That is to say, I just don't think it's necessary to have an 'everything store' any longer because the competition has caught up.

>I second going the manufacturer for anything you really care about.

And I try (and often fail) to ask myself that if I don't "really care about it," do I really need it?

> So what kind of 2FA would be homeless-proof? I don't see a solution.

Biometric? Amazon One's hand recognition would be a decent solution here, though I'll be damned if I've ever met someone willing to try it. And I ask, every time I go to Whole Foods.

Depends on what you are looking for. I've never had any problems with BH Photo Video for technology products. Everything else I mostly get directly from the manufacturer website.

Headline is misleading. The policy says nothing about AirTags. It’s just that their new policy would cover them, technically.

Huh? The environment changes due to the operating system updates.

Drills and saws don’t depend on an operating environment that changes constantly. Imagine if your drill and saw relied on an electrical source that got updated, requiring them to update the saw and drills themselves. Would you want to buy it with a one time fee, knowing that it could mean they go bankrupt? You’d end up with a drill and saw that no longer worked — then for no amount of money, subscription or otherwise, could you do what you wanted to do with it.