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SapphironZA

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A product you were just talking about pops up in an online ad. How? Advertising algorithms are so good that they may know what you want even before you do. C...

SapphironZA ,

Processing is done on the device and only text is uploaded. Streaming audio would also be easy to detect.

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Wood chipper

SapphironZA ,

It's mainly in the USA it seems. In South Africa, we have had internet banking since 1995. So businesses stopped using checks around that time. Phone banking with DTMF was popular around that time as well. Bank transfers we used more than checks for businesses before then.

For individuals, debit cards became the default around the same time. Same functionality as a credit card, without the credit.

Then Internet banking became mainstream for individuals around the 2000s when everyone got access to the internet on their phones.

Cash remained popular throughout since ATM infrastructure was very good in South Africa.

SapphironZA ,

We are trialing about 20 Linux desktops (10 Linux mint and 10 zorin OS) across 2 of our MSP clients.

So far, they have had zero technical tickets in 6 months. They did have double the average user training tickets compared to windows machines. Most of the questions were around how to work with editable PDFs and where is the document was they just saved (file manager questions).

Zorin OS seems to be winning on the usability metrics. Its very polished and more closely matching the UI of people coming from windows.

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Not in our case. We only take on clients that converted to browser based apps. Bit we are yet to convert the heavy excel users. The one we have converted are light Excel users and online excel is working just fine for them.

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Um, if you use their DNS they do. Some ISPs force that in fact.

SapphironZA ,

It's usually ISP specific.

Some ISPs in the USA and Germany have been doing it. This is why DNS over HTTPs exists to bypass those blocks.

SapphironZA ,

They can also redirect that traffic to their own DNS servers, so you think you are using 3rd party DNS, when you are actually still using theirs. This became legal when the Trump administration got rid of net neutrality legislation.

OpenDNS has an article on how to test if your ISP is doing it. https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/227988727-How-can-I-tell-if-my-ISP-Allows-Third-Party-DNS-Providers

SapphironZA ,

It became legal when the Trump administration got rid of net neutrality legislation.

This is why it is so important to get it back, but the current administration is dragging their feet.

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They do worse than block it, the redirect it to their own servers.

And the data is worth it at volume. They have hundreds of thousands of users, along with the region they are in, as well as data on what websites they visit.

Advertisers have and continue to pay for that data.

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Asking the right questions. I am still waiting for 42" QD OLED monitors to become available

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Its mainly Nvidia's shit. The only reason Nvidia is caring about Linux now, is that is the platform AI models use.

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So the company that can't make enough cars and can't release their new products on schedule is reducing their workforce.

Great that shareholder interests creates such sustainable and responsible companies /s

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Or how much power was saved because people were outside watching and not inside consuming power.

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They will become the next IBM. Not quite dead, but a small niche company.

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Apple wants you to have 2 iPhone, 2 iPad, 2 iWatches and 2 Macbooks.

One set for personal and one set for business.

SapphironZA ,
  1. No body hair
  2. Talk with cats (if they feel like talking back)
  3. No need to sleep
SapphironZA ,

The main problem is 3rd party advertising. If the New York Times ran ads on their website like they did with the physical newspaper, we would not have this problem.

Publishers need to take direct responsibility for every ad on their platform.

SapphironZA ,

It can run with user level permissions, so any software or script can be used to extract keys. It does not need to be dedicated malware.

It's probably something that can be done via browser extentions or possibly even Javascript, if they leverage a browser vulnerability to gain system user level access.

SapphironZA ,

I vote for forced open sourcing of the server side components and communication protocols. That way people can create custom firmware or build support into generic NVRs

SapphironZA ,

Word does spread and if there are enough of a group, people will likely setup 3rd party hosting solutions around supporting abandoned abut functional products.

But the secondary effect is likely to be that companies support their products for much longer.

SapphironZA ,

We are like mildew, we get in everywhere!

SapphironZA ,

Was OTR a protocol where the server had zero knowledge of the unencrypted content? Or was it basically like SSL?

SapphironZA ,

Can't wait for online advertising to collapse. Maybe we can get the Internet of the mid 2000s back

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There was no inter, only a view.

SapphironZA ,

Framework is selling their previous gen over production b-stock at $500 now.

But they have been good so far providing upgradability in their first gen products to the 2nd gen.

You can save a heap of money when it's time to upgrade.

SapphironZA ,

Rimworld is the best indie game ever!

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