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Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/phone-link-requirements-and-setup-cd2a1ee7-75a7-66a6-9d4e-bf22e735f9e3

This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.

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so exactly like kde connect then

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when it works. but it's so incredibly buggy, especially the desktop apps, and double especially the sms desktop app. holy shite is it terrible, and trying to get support is like trying to report a problem to google

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it is absolutely useless on all platforms

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I have had nothing but problems with kde connect for years

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besides many banks requiring SMS 2FA still, I usually only talk with non-app-using people over e2ee RCS

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I only use AGPL+non-commercial+racistword

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A really important thing to remember with all licenses is that they're only as useful as your ability to enforce them... in court. And there's a non-zero chance that at least some of these are practically unenforceable anyways.

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locally until the next automatic update.

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they fixed that 30 years ago, it's called browser history /s

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lol, lmao even

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proprietary Chinese processor (Unisoc) AND operating system (Mocor), nothx

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TCL

not even once

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define popular. iphone wiped out almost the entire phone market in Japan.

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it literally doesn't matter because most people don't 3D print

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yes, they're called healthy

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That's fine, I was just answering the question "Have you seen an older person who doesn’t have weekly pill organizer?".

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yea that's not true technically. the only reason usenet hasn't been dismantled by infinite court cases is its obscurity.

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No but content owners could directly DMCA stuff that's hosted on usenet, they just don't.

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It could if that DMCA or some court order resulted in revealing your residential IP, and then your monopoly ISP terminates you. SSL/TLS would not save you there.

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In the US? Absolutely.

Downloading or uploading any copyrighted content without permission is not legal. It's the same in most countries.

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can not know

Yes they can, the articles are named with the filename of the content that's in it, and the data itself is unencrypted. But I wasn't even talking about blocking uploads, just having content providers be able to take down existing content.

But get this, it's even worse in Switzerland because the provider is also now forced to keep that same content from reappearing! This is called the "stay down" rule.

country where only uploading is forbidden

not exactly: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/downloading-and-uploading_what-the-new-swiss-copyright-law-means-for-consumers-of-pirated-online-content/45305402

downloading computer games and software remains a crime

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lol this site is almost pointless, real security experts know this is just for making uninformed people feel better.

creepjs will still positively fingerprint you every time. it's simply impossible to be anonymous online.

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LOL

https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

you don't even need javascript to fingerprint anymore. html and css works too

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blocking javascript makes you stand out WAY more. that basically narrows down the pool of possible people from a million to 3.

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using the eff site is not accurate because it just tests your browser against all the other people that opted in to be tested, and an abnormally high percentage of people who tested explicitly turn(ed) off javascript, which is not representative of the normal web browsing public.

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Make all software FOSS

That would require extreme socialism

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free market and that's a bad analogy

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wake me up when someone figures that out. so far I haven't seen any large scale implementation that could last and/or keep everyone happy.

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yea that's the majority reason why people do it /s

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then what's the point of pirating if you want the company to fail?

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https://news.cornellcollege.edu/2019/11/ask-expert-separation-church-state-mean-americas-public-schools-report/

Laws are only useful if successfully upheld in court. For some reason these never get challenged enough. Strange.

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I don't get it.

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weird, never had that happen

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personally I just can't get over the syntax to even try rust. to me it just looks terrible. I know not everybody agrees though. that and having even longer compile times and no mature gui framework

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Please.

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Who are they profiting off of? I have never clicked an ad in my entire life.

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entire KB system

And right before they did that, they started removing footnotes from KB articles that only dealt with older OSes, so if you ever needed to go back and find something, it just wasn't there anymore. For example certain RGB packing formats were only supported on newer OSes and the footnote used to tell you that, but then it disappeared. I have been directly affected by that multiple times.

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Multiple times I have searched for a question and found a single SO answer from years back that was my own, with no replies.

I hope something nice happens to you today :)

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Do they though? I don't know a single person that has ever clicked on an ad. I know, sample size of one, but it just seems so basic to know not to click on them. Maybe those people really do exist. Sigh

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I have no idea how they make money, it never made sense to me. It still blows my mind to think there are that many people that click on ads, I just have a really hard time believing it still.

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https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/

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Read it again, they never removed it. It moved to the end.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-dont-be-evil/254019/

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should have asked Dolezal for advice

People keep telling me that Nuon is probably the most obscure video game platform ever created. Oh, they've not heard how the greybeards entertain themselves. ( lemmy.world )

When I read the sentence, I was like "Wh... w... how? WHY? ...and OF COURSE it was distributed via FTP, I mean, what else do you use for entertainment in AIX. Or business, for that matter."...

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I think the LaserActive and MegaLD/LD-ROM system was at least as obscure, there may have even been less units made and the cost was certainly much more, plus there weren't exactly many games released on laserdisc.

The Bandai Pippin also only sold half as many as the LaserActive.

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can be done as a school project

needs a few million dollars

which is it?

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I wonder how much talent is wasted because of jaded programmers that think it's dumb (to them) to make something simple even if it would become very popular and maybe profitable

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unironically all you really need is one or two neurospicy individuals that are passionate about your project and just about anything can be done in a matter of weeks.

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federal court

lmao

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