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7 votes
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When a country bans social media - Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: what if a global media network is impossible?
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The Black feminists who saw the alt-right threat coming
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Light themes or Dark themes?
Traditionally I've used dark themes for everything I could on all of my devices, as I found it easier on the eyes when I'd usually use my computer (evening - night). Recently, I made the switch...
Traditionally I've used dark themes for everything I could on all of my devices, as I found it easier on the eyes when I'd usually use my computer (evening - night). Recently, I made the switch back to light stuff as I've been using my computer more for notes and assignments I'd normally hand-write, and I find I get drowsy less and have an easier time using the computer in a bright room than before - I just switched my theme on a whim one morning, so I wasn't expecting that at all!
So now I'm rethinking all my previous bias about dark themes being 'better' regardless of the situation, and I'm curious if anyone here had any thoughts and/or could point me to some reading on the subject (the subject being the effects of light/dark colours in work or concentration). It's something I realize now might be fairly important, as I'm looking at my screen for most of the day, but never really gave much thought before outside of tracking down the 'Dark' theme switch.
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Which smartphone and carrier are you using? (USA only)
For the past five or so years I've been using prepaid mvno carriers (in the us btw) and buying my own phone. It's somewhat of a frustrating experience trying to figure out which phones will...
For the past five or so years I've been using prepaid mvno carriers (in the us btw) and buying my own phone. It's somewhat of a frustrating experience trying to figure out which phones will actually work with which carrier. There's a lot of very attractivly priced phones from Chinese companies that unfortunately just don't support the u.s. LTE bands that i need. Im not really the kind of person who wants to buy a $600+ flagship and carrier offerings are generally abysmal and overpriced.
I also don't feel like I have very many options for carriers as I Live in a fairly rural area where t-mobile gets fairly spotty coverage. I have seen compelling options for Verizon if I wanted 4+ lines (it's only me and the wife right now, so that doesn't help us much) .
I'm definitely jealous of people in Europe and parts of Asia when it comes to cellphone and internet options.16 votes -
How to hone your disruption-spotting skills
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The sharing economy is going to innovate us into the Victorian Era
15 votes -
Human contact is now a luxury good | Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol.
13 votes -
Julian Assange's prosecution is about much more than attempting to hack a password
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WhatsApp has become a hotbed for spreading Nazi propaganda in Germany
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Labor demands Facebook remove 'fake news' posts about false Australian death tax plans
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Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while
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Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins pleads guilty to writing, selling banking malware
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We are back at square one of personal messaging
I can't shake the dejavu feeling I'm getting using any kind of messaging these days. Today we have an awful lot of messaging apps, that are all roughly the same, with similar features - Signal,...
I can't shake the dejavu feeling I'm getting using any kind of messaging these days. Today we have an awful lot of messaging apps, that are all roughly the same, with similar features - Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Riot, etc. This happened once already, at the dawn of 200X IM revolution that deprecated SMS for good we also had MSN, ICQ, GTalk, Jabber, etc. This also was a set of very similar personal messaging clients and protocols, similar in any way to each other. It all changed when the multi-protocol messaging apps came out - Pidgin, QiP, Miranda and others made it easy to gather all your contacts from various protocols in one place and to keep in touch with everyone. Shortly after Jabber transports were made so you could congregate all other accounts into one single XMPP account. Even N900 that came out in 2009 had the ability to gather various accounts into one single contact list.
I feel like right now with all the segmented IM apps it's a good time for something like this to happen again, and Telegram already has wat-bridge.
What are your thoughts on that topic? Do you think the history will repeat itself? Would a new federated formate like XMPP rise up?30 votes -
The OpenAI team are holding an AMA on /r/Dota2, after their bots defeated the current champion team of the game
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Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband
9 votes -
The antique toaster that's better than yours
11 votes -
Google and Amazon make up — YouTube coming to Fire TV
8 votes -
Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
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Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy
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Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9%
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How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer
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Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years
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Google Voice is now available as a core G Suite service
I received this email yesterday but haven't seen any blog posts or press releases about it yet: Hello Administrator, Since our Beta Program announcement last year, we’ve been testing an...
I received this email yesterday but haven't seen any blog posts or press releases about it yet:
Hello Administrator,
Since our Beta Program announcement last year, we’ve been testing an enterprise-ready version of Google Voice. Over the next seven days, Google Voice will become available as a core G Suite service for all eligible* G Suite customers (additional fees apply to this new, managed version of Google Voice). This email will help you understand the transition details but you can also refer to the Voice webpage for more information.
What's changing:
- Managed Google Voice is available in 3 tiers and will become a core G Suite service for your domain after subscribing to a service tier.
- Managed Voice accounts will be covered under your existing G Suite agreement and additional Google Voice service specific terms.
- Support for managed Voice accounts will be the same as other G Suite core services.
What's not changing:
- The Google Voice service will remain “on” by default.
- If users in your domain signed up for Voice prior to this launch, they will be able to maintain their legacy unmanaged Voice subscriptions without additional cost, and will remain subject to the Google Voice consumer terms of service. You can add a Voice subscription and upgrade these users to managed Voice users in your Admin console.
- Hangouts Meet (also a core G Suite service) is integrated with Google Voice, allowing meeting participants to dial in or be added by phone.
What do I need to do?
- If you did not participate in the Google Voice Beta Program and would like to use Google Voice for your organization, follow these steps to add a Voice subscription.
We're here to help
If you have additional questions or need technical assistance, please contact Google support. When you call or submit your support case, reference issue number ----------.
Sincerely,
The G Suite Team
* Google Voice is not yet available for G Suite for Government customers. Google Voice is available for purchase in select countries.
It looks like Google Voice is going to be sticking around for awhile. You can even use Polycom desk phones with it if you get the $20 tier.
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Facebook has updated their blog post about storing unencrypted passwords - they found more log files, and there are now millions of Instagram users impacted, not thousands as stated originally
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Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent
22 votes -
Ubuntu 19.04 release notes
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New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall
8 votes -
Police are making tone-deaf memes to build community trust
5 votes -
Why the tech industry is wrong about Australia's video streaming legislation
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Why you can no longer get lost in the crowd
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Popular apps in Google's Play Store are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud
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Samsung’s Galaxy Fold is breaking before it’s even out
18 votes -
Animating URLs with Javascript and Emojis
15 votes -
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
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An internet for kids: Instead of regulating the internet to protect young people, give them a youth-net of their own
12 votes -
YouTube's "fact-checking AI" intended to counter misinformation was attaching info about the 9/11 attacks to Notre Dame fire videos
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Climate change is perhaps the defining challenge of our era. Scientists are tackling it with the help of AI.
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Hackers tricked a Tesla, and it's a sign of things to come in the race to fool artificial intelligence
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Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections
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Apple and Qualcomm settle all disputes worldwide
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Amazon’s slow retreat from Seattle: Amazon has long fancied itself an urban enterprise. Is its pivot to smaller communities a way to avoid messy politics?
5 votes -
A big jump for Wolfram Language and Mathematica: Version 12
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Some high-profile male tech executives accused of sexual misconduct are getting second chances
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Exploring the world of e-ink
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What are the arguments against letting user data be collected?
It's obviously bad when "real" data like full names and credit card info leaks, but most data companies collect is probably email address and some anonymous things like which buttons and when the...
It's obviously bad when "real" data like full names and credit card info leaks, but most data companies collect is probably email address and some anonymous things like which buttons and when the user clicked.
Nevertheless, such data collection, tracking and telemetry is considered quite bad among power users. I don't support those practices either. But I'm struggling to consolidate my arguments agaist data collection. The one I'm confident about is effects on performance and battery life on mobile devices, but why else it's bad I'm not sure.
What are your arguments? Why is it bad when a company X knows what anonymous user Y did and made money on that info? What's the good response to anyone who asks why I'm doing the "privacy things"?
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Behind every robot is a human
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Compromised credentials for a Microsoft support agent enabled outside access to non-enterprise Hotmail, Outlook, and MSN emails for months
9 votes -
I miss Facebook, and I'm not ashamed to admit it
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A rundown of some fun and educational Linux software for kids.
9 votes