That’s why I said I wonder if their was a niche market for something like those devices, meaning I wondered if some company could make a newer modern version, like Apple used to make the iPod Touch for a while, which were almost the same as the iPhone just without the cellular connection.
I wonder if there is a niche market for something like an old Dell Axim x50v or a Palm Pilot that could do those smartphone functions on a wifi connection, that way you have the best of both worlds, carry a dumbphone. However, you could still walk into a local Library or even some McDonald’s and connect if need be on the other device.
Of course, then you have to inconveniently carry two devices and the temptation would probably still be there.
Basic analytics will be free but it’s intending to introduce premium features via subscription.
Nickled and dimed by a thousand subscriptions… Seriously who would want this? Who is going to pay to have their trash monitored by some data company?
They played the long game and got almost all modern browsers to become Chromium-based so they all will have the same problem. Is there any alternative other than Firefox at this point? If I were the one making the billions I’d almost applaud their tenacity.
That kind of sucks, Wordpad was my go-to for quick edits of things, it’s so much better than “new” notepad. I have Notepad++ and while good I just don’t think it’s a replacement for Wordpad.
I was already wary of the change from 2D to 3D, then they had a couple of delays and now the main dev is bouncing just before the supposed release, it all looks really bad. This seems to be a wait a year or two and see if Paradox sorts it out kind of title.
They should have taken the lumps on release when they couldn’t keep up with the demand to play and kept the Sony login requirement. It was there on day one but people couldn’t get in to make accounts so they suspended it. That was a mistake if this was going to be mandatory in the end. They also really screwed up by releasing the game in regions that don’t have PSN, how did that even happen is the big question I want to know.
On the other hand, waving it and allowing people to play it without the 3rd party requirement also showed it’s a crappy requirement that doesn’t seem to do much other than annoy people to allow Sony to collect data. Sony also looks like assholes by changing their web page from “login is optional to play Sony titles on PC” to “some games require login.”
Disclaimer here, I have a PSN account because I’ve owned multiple past Sony consoles so I’m not really affected so much, they already lost and sold my data multiple times. For everybody else, I get why they are pissed.
I see.
And because Amazon didn’t instruct employees to preserve messages sent in the app until more than 15 months after it was notified of the investigation
I somehow misconstrued this line into thinking they had been using it for those 15 months and were then notified they weren’t supposed to. I screwed up there.
Amazon is just one of several companies recently accused of turning to encrypted messaging apps like Signal that can permanently erase messages automatically.
You may recall the government making similar arguments about Sam Bankman-Fried’s use of Signal during his trial for fraud and how that verdict eventually shook out. Deleted chats were also a sticking point for at least one juror in Google’s recent courtroom loss to Epic Games and came up in the DOJ’s antitrust trial against Google.
So are they using these trials in their crusade against encryption and having articles like this in hopes of turning the public against it? Because it looks like it to me.
The FTC’s lawyers say Bezos, current CEO Andy Jassy, general counsel David Zapolsky, former CEO of worldwide operations Dave Clark, and other execs are all Signal users. Bezos is identified in the document as “a heavy Signal user” who instructed others to use the app, although the 2018 hacking of his personal cellphone may be part of the reason for that.
Then a few paragraphs later they reveal Bezos has been an encryption fan and user of the service for 5+ years while trying to get others to use it… I get it, Amazon is doing shady shit, but this feels to me like the government is trying to get encryption frowned upon.
I’m surprised Google hasn’t done this with Google/Android TV because they already have special app permissions to draw over the top of other apps enabled in the settings, they just don’t seem to use it.
At what point do these companies ring the turnip dry? YouTube Premium almost doubled, Netflix cracked down on passwords and increased pricing, and if you didn’t like it you could pay a little less if you would just watch some ads, which we joined Netflix to get away from, people didn’t care so those ads are now in Prime Video and other companies are joining in too. Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+, and Peacock all had price increases in the last year. At some point, you have to dust off your peg leg and put on a tricorn hat.
A majority, or what looks like a majority, of Americans, do not want another Trump presidency because they fear his extreme authoritarianism and fascist views. Yet, they don’t want to ban TikTok, even though it’s owned by a company that must comply with the whims of an Authoritarian state. I don’t like the idea of a company whose terms of service state they can collect voice and face prints being accountable to a Government that doesn’t have checks and balances of any kind and may someday decide to use that against us, those people on the app are going to be politicians one day and that kind of stuff could be used against them.
And before people go but Facebook, etc… I agree, I don’t want them to have that data either and fully support a US bill that would codify the California data privacy restrictions, at a minimum.
It’s why the FCC nominee was blocked for 3 years, Biden couldn’t get a pick in until September of 2023, almost his entire term they blocked him from having a functioning FCC because stuff like this scares some people.
This reeks of the same thing Discovery did when it took control of WB’s television and movie production, they canned completed projects, canceled upcoming stuff, and had TV shows like “Final Space” that were out for years erased, all so they could claim a tax break and pocket those billions. What a bunch of frelling bastards.
If you live in a conservative run state, watch what they do, in Georgia on the final day of legislation they do “sine die” which we sometimes call sign or die day where they just push through a ton of shit with little or no going over it before hand, they passed one of these social media ID laws that targets porn too, and it went through without pretty much anybody knowing about it from what I can tell.
What kind of database of depravity to use against you are these people building.