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Technology@lemmy.world•The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open SourcedEnglish
1·9 months agoI think we should ask Chuck Schumer. He’s really good at getting things done.
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Technology@lemmy.world•The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open SourcedEnglish
5·9 months agoWe need better than that. We need a pinky promise.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Gemini will now automatically summarize your emails unless you opt outEnglish
11·9 months agoAs Louis Rossmann likes to say, this is a rapist mentality.
Ask for forgiveness instead of permission.
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Technology@lemmy.world•The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for StarlinkEnglish
1·9 months agoIn capitalist America, laws decide you!
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Technology@lemmy.world•T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful.English
2·9 months agoYeah, it’s possible with something like Shizuku. scrcpy works via adb, so something similar could work on-device.
It’s just not a part of Android’s standard permission system.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on AndroidEnglish
21·10 months agoThe vast majority of users exclusively stick to defaults.
Microsoft got in a lot of trouble in the 90s for simply including Internet Explorer in Windows, as it disincentivized people from installing a different web browser such as Netscape.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on AndroidEnglish
51·10 months agoWhenever you try to install an apk with sideloading disabled, Android will prompt you with a popup that will take you directly to the setting you need to toggle to allow sideloading.
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basisEnglish
5·10 months agoWhat is legally defined as personal data in this case? Public usernames, public posts, or private messages to another instance, which states clearly that messages aren’t private and to use Matrix instead? Or is there something else?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S.English
7·10 months agoWell no. How is Google supposed to feed all your text messages into their AI for profit if they allow a choice?
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basisEnglish
16·10 months agoHow? I just read the full text of that website, and I couldn’t find any language in there that would harm the fediverse.
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basisEnglish
14·10 months agoThe CA Prop 65 warning is a perfect example of this. Most people just ignore it because it’s on everything (which probably isn’t inaccurate, especially when most products contain some type of plastic).
I can use dd after running “lsdvd” on CSS protected DVDs.
I have no idea why it works.
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Technology@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
7·10 months agoOr Nintendo.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Best place to find FL Studio?English
1·10 months agoMaybe try in a different browser?
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Best place to find FL Studio?English
3·10 months agoI think vstorrent re-uploads from rutracker, but rutracker is what I’d recommend.
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Technology@lemmy.world•‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.English
3·10 months agoAIO and AITAH are so obviously just AI posting. It’s all just a massive circlejerk of AI and people who don’t know they’re talking to AI agreeing with each other.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! PeertubeEnglish
4·10 months agoThat’s actually not a bad idea, but who would hold that money? Elon and Ron DeSantis showed that anyone can just waltz into a government office and steal all their money.

We need the corporate death penalty.
Or at least take 100% of their revenue (not profit) until they comply.