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Old 03-02-2020, 04:29 AM
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Fairness, the Android autocorrect was pretty good.
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Why does the left menu in Gmail have to be

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Fucking hell.
A month later and FUCKING Google still hasn't fixed this shit. FUCKERS!
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Relevant here too.

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Coronavirus: Apple and Google team up to contact trace Covid-19 - BBC News

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But ultimately, they aim to do away with the need to download dedicated apps, to encourage the practice.

The two companies believe their approach - designed to keep users, whose participation would be voluntary, anonymous - addresses privacy concerns.

Their contact-tracing method would work by using a smartphone's Bluetooth signals to determine to whom the owner had recently been in proximity for long enough to have established contagion a risk.

If one of those people later tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, a warning would be sent to the original handset owner.

No GPS location data or personal information would be recorded.
No need to download dedicated apps = no user control, right?

No personal information would be recorded, yet the point is to contact the original handset owner: how can they do that without personal information?

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"Privacy, transparency and consent are of utmost importance in this effort and we look forward to building this functionality in consultation with interested stakeholders," Apple and Google said in a joint statement.
Someone is lying here.
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Any time anyone says they're anonymizing data, they're lying. There is no such thing as anonymized data.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...usion-n1206181

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Google has significantly rolled back its diversity and inclusion initiatives in an apparent effort to avoid being perceived as anti-conservative, according to eight current and former employees.
Ermagerd anticonservaterve.
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If only we knew someone at Google who wasn't afraid to speak out.
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If only. :sigh:
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Google resumes its senseless attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 85

Seriously, AMP and other shit like this is just proof that we have zero consumer protections anymore, because if we did, they'd be getting hammered into oblivion.

Tell them I said that.
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Google AMP Can Go To Hell | Polemic Digital

I fucking hate AMP for many reasons, but the biggest one is how they're intercepting web traffic, and they've just decided they own it now to the point that they're telling independent sites what to do and how.

It's also stupid looking, though.
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Just the other week I googled something on my phone and got a whole page of Amp. Pressed for more, got a couple items, then two more pages of Amp. I switched my default to DuckDuckGo.
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Old 07-17-2020, 10:40 PM
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I should try G**gle again sometime. To slum it with the rest of you.
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Maybe this is not the perfect thread for this but I'll be damned if I'm just going to start a new thrad like some sort of savage newb that we used to have.

I got a free Google Nest Mini. I refuse to unbox it in the house. If anybody would like to make Google a party to all sound in their home, I will send it to you for the cost of postage. Next stop eBay.
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I got a free one of those from my work (what's your excuse?) and I gave it to my cousin who looooves it. :lol:

I already have Siri spying on me at all times, I don't need my actual bosses doing it too.
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I got a free one because the doorbell monitors and reports on our comings and goings, and I renewed the surveillance plan for the outside of the house. My mom is going to try it out.
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Brave takes brave stand against Google's plan to turn websites into ad-blocker-thwarting Web Bundles -- The Register

Google has gotten so casual about acting like they own the web, what with Amp and now this, and just NO.

This is vile, venal, despicable, user-hostile trash. They need to be broken up or dissolved or I don't care, as long as they're gone or at least strictly limited so people can reasonably choose to cordon them off.
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Just the other week I googled something on my phone and got a whole page of Amp. Pressed for more, got a couple items, then two more pages of Amp. I switched my default to DuckDuckGo.
I don't miss Amp. Frequently on my desktop though I switch back to Google for Translate and Maps or if DuckDuckGo gives me a heap of irrelevant search results.
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I got a free one of those from my work (what's your excuse?) and I gave it to my cousin who looooves it. :lol:
FWIW my parents - even my dad - fuckin LOVE this thing. I am getting my mom another one for her birthday to go upstairs.

My dad also got his first smart phone last week and he is totally into it after resisting for years. He likes to text and have his facebook on his phone like the rest of his friends.
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All your moms and dads and dads' friends! :muahaha:

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Someone created a Spotify login with my email. Well, not my email, but my gmail account with a period in the middle of it. Putting random periods into consumer gmail accounts is ignored. Username "ticklemeelmo" and "tickle.me.elmo" are the same to gmail.

This seems more like a bug than a feature.
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It used to be a decent feature as you could use it yourself as a sort of filter. Signing up to some places as tickle.me.elmo@gmail.com and filtering those replies/chains inside your gmail. Sort of like having a homemade spam filter where maybe it's not exactly spam, but you don't want it in your regular mail.

I think someone, maybe on :ff: used to also use it to see who a certain place sold your e-mail to. Sign up to only 1 place as t.icklemeelmo@gmail.com and then see who spams you to that address.
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Gmail also ignores anything after a plus sign, so that's how I used to figure out who sold my address. So, say, "ticklemeelmo+comcast@gmail.com" or something. I'm pretty sure people caught on, though, and started scrubbing that part before selling it.

I don't really use Gmail much anymore, though. Google pisses me off to begin with, and on top of that, there are way too many people who think my address is theirs, so I get all this garbage for them.

That English nurse who moved to Ireland just bought some ugly ceramic sculptures, and her daughter went to a waterpark, for anyone keeping up. I am being discreet about some new medical developments. It's been over a decade she and her whole dumb family have been using my email, and it just boggles my mind that they still can't sort it out.
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Someone created a Spotify login with my email. Well, not my email, but my gmail account with a period in the middle of it. Putting random periods into consumer gmail accounts is ignored. Username "ticklemeelmo" and "tickle.me.elmo" are the same to gmail.

This seems more like a bug than a feature.
That reminds me, let's have a look at the user moderation queue ...

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Maximuscho pa.v.els.h.atrov9@gmail.com 45.132.138.15
Maximuscsk p.ave.l.s.hat.ro.v9@gmail.com 45.132.138.15
Maximusezq pa.ve.ls.h.a.t.rov.9@gmail.com 45.132.138.15
Maximusfki pa.v.el.sh.a.trov9@gmail.com 45.132.138.15
Maximusgau p.a.v.els.h.atro.v9@gmail.com 45.132.138.15
Maximuskiy pa.v.e.l.sha.t.r.o.v9@gmail.com 45.132.138.15
Maximusqcn p.a.v.elshatr.o.v9@gmail.com 45.132.138.15
Maximusrwb p.a.v.el.sh.at.r.o.v9@gmail.com 45.132.138.15
Maximusuhp pavels.hat.ro.v.9@gmail.com 45.132.138.15
Maximusvps p.avels.h.atrov.9@gmail.com 45.132.138.15
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I've been playing with Flutter and the Dart language both free, open source, tools provided by Google. :thumbup:

Dart is computer programming language with a C-like syntax, that does all the usual object-oriented stuff that all the other languages do, but with just enough differences to be confusing at first.

Flutter is a software development kit that allows you, in theory at least, to write your app in Dart, and deploy it to Android and IOS devices, and also to the Web, without having to rewrite anything. It's yet another attempt at the "write once, run anywhere" paradigm that lots of other languages have targetted in the past - Java, Java applets, Flash, ...

It seems pretty good, so far: a little unwieldy, but certainly more wieldy than having to code separately for each target.

I'm only a beginner at it, but I'm prepared at this stage, to award it three-and-a-half stars out of five.

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