huginn

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[–] huginn@feddit.it 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

As a mobile app developer I promise that you want to have push notifications that are capable of doing meaningful work on your phone. Apps are often entirely dead but a push notification from a central server will still get you X/Y/Z functionality.

Companies abuse this to then track you, and harvest endless amounts of information but the alternative is your phone no longer notified you of anything and the majority of background functionality for your apps dies entirely.

What I wish would happen is that mobile OSes have another set of location/network permissions for push notifications.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Our investigation determined the threat actor downloaded or accessed your uninterrupted raw genotype data, and may have accessed other sensitive information in your account,

Fascinating. I was under the impression that you couldn't get that without having it sent to your email address. I certainly haven't seen any other ways of getting raw genomics out.

Is this that the threat actor sent it to an email that was potentially compromised or do they have download logs of some form of hidden direct download feature?

[–] huginn@feddit.it 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Pixel 8 pro

[–] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 10 months ago

If you wanna use a physical metro card that you have to refill with cash every X rides be my guest.

Horrid experience, I'll keep my tap thanks

[–] huginn@feddit.it 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can pay normally and then submit reimbursement. Which sucks majorly.

NYC only recently added tap to pay and it's a godsend.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah this isn't a bank it's a pre-tax commuter card offered through some work service.

The website is awful and sketchy looking but officially endorsed by Large Company and I get my $100 pretax dollars, so I don't complain.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It's a virtual card, they don't offer a physical tap card.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You call people?

Like, on the phone?

Weirdo

[–] huginn@feddit.it 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah the software being bundled in default images is just a convenience.

Most places that are serious about using AWS will be shipping their own images anyway

[–] huginn@feddit.it 4 points 10 months ago

Hard to say. Privacy of mind seems most important. The rest... Seems immaterial?

The minds control all, after all.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ok Chairmaker but we can't all be on Sma's bankroll.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 70 points 10 months ago

The Google ads team is functionally all of the company's revenue.

Google search still remains their most used product offering with most of their ad revenue (58.1% in 2022).

Google leadership is terrified that anyone could eat their lunch, because they know the search offering is getting worse and worse.

The origin of Google was taking out complacent search companies that had gotten comfy.

I'm pretty sure when I was laid off (1 year ago yesterday ❤️❤️ thanks Google) it was because they saw LLMs as a threat they hadn't taken seriously enough... Combined with that asshole billionaire being pissy that Google was only making 1.2 million per employee instead of 1.3 million.

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