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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Serious question. For what possible reason would someone want/need to connect a thumb drive to a cell phone? Endless Mike posted:look there's only so much anime and comics you can store on a phone, but this 1 TB drive i got at best buy will let me carry even more with me everywhere i go!
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a huwaei phone I had once had its stock flashlight app connect to the internet for unknown reasons. 
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Mar 23, 2018 16:45
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Celexi posted:a huwaei phone I had once had its stock flashlight app connect to the internet for unknown reasons. it's connecting to google though, not anything owned by huawei that ipv6 netblock is owned by google ireland
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Mar 23, 2018 16:52
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Oh yeah I know but it wasn't comforting still as it could be fetching something from my google account to then export to china
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Mar 23, 2018 16:58
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not convinced trusting google more than china is the right path
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Mar 23, 2018 17:59
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i was walking through a working class neighborhood of nyc yesterday and i saw a handmade ad nailed to a telephone pole for "android tv boxes" that strongly implied they would come pre-configured for pirate streams the android brand is closely associated with 1. pirate tv and 2. mystery poo poo from china that's my android story i hope you liked it
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Mar 23, 2018 19:31
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these sell like hotcakes in the ethnic neighbourhoods around here because they come pre-configured for content streams from <country of origin>
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Mar 23, 2018 19:36
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Perplx posted:if you have a better way to get music than downloading bittorrents off the piratebay on my phone and manually tagging each file I'd like to hear it gently caress. owned. 
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Mar 23, 2018 20:23
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i was walking through a working class neighborhood of nyc yesterday and i saw a handmade ad nailed to a telephone pole for "android tv boxes" that strongly implied they would come pre-configured for pirate streams my brother came over the other day with his new sarnsung tablet so i could put terrarium on it i'm that guy 
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Mar 23, 2018 21:19
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a client of mine is selling a brand new pixel 2 for about $350 below retail, i'm tempted to grab it, but i don't know why the camera is miles ahead of the potato-with-a-lens my iphone se has, but everything else is pretty much a wash, with the bonus of me getting angry about android i'm reasonably sure i'd just be spending several hundred dollars to remind myself why i bought an iphone
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Mar 23, 2018 21:35
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Boiled Water posted:idiot nerd reasons and only that at best i was at a research conference and they gave out thumb drives with papers and materials for every talk, as well as online. the rush to wifi to beat everyone for access was insane because being an international conference it was about 10gb of videos and pdfs. the only time a crappy windows tablet and a usb adapter was worth the effort ever and even then it was like ehh i guess ill do this so i can preview the day
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Mar 24, 2018 05:58
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infernal machines posted:a client of mine is selling a brand new pixel 2 for about $350 below retail, i'm tempted to grab it, but i don't know why use that fun money for a nice semi-older digital camera like some mirrorless sony or w/e, unless you are in it for the masochistic bit and yeah, of course you would
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Mar 24, 2018 06:02
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spending $350 on a digital camera in 2018 lol
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Mar 24, 2018 07:33
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i was walking through a working class neighborhood of nyc yesterday and i saw a handmade ad nailed to a telephone pole for "android tv boxes" that strongly implied they would come pre-configured for pirate streams a friend of mine got one of those last year. they are only useful if your time is completely worthless, so it fits into the android ecosystem well
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Mar 24, 2018 13:01
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Bulgakov posted:use that fun money for a nice semi-older digital camera like some mirrorless sony or w/e, unless you are in it for the masochistic bit yeah, this makes more sense, except i'm not the sort to strap up with a camera before going out for a stroll. at the same time, i'm not going to pay $600 to hit my balls with a hammer either
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Mar 24, 2018 16:06
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Serious question. For what possible reason would someone want/need to connect a thumb drive to a cell phone? its cute you think its a thumb drive and not an honest to god 3tb spinning hard drive in a usb enclosure
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Mar 24, 2018 19:41
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facebook scraped all communication history from android phones with the app installed, for years no need to worry about huawei, your poo poo was owned ages ago
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Mar 25, 2018 01:34
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infernal machines posted:facebook scraped all communication history from android phones with the app installed, for years hahahahaha
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Mar 25, 2018 01:40
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It's kind of impressive just how poo poo facebook is about literally everything
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Mar 25, 2018 01:42
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their entire business model, much like google's, is to monetize everything possible about their users. of course they do this poo poo
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Mar 25, 2018 01:46
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this probably explains all those "facebook is listening to your microphone" rumours from a year ago
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Mar 25, 2018 01:51
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fwiw i checked my own data right after i saw that tweet & they basically only gave me a bunch of badly organized files containing the stuff i uploaded myself (photos/statuses/in-app messages). i never used android but for a while a couple years ago i probably had the facebook app running in the background actually... my being tagged in an image, that is a data point. i should get a list of the images or something at least when i do a GDPR request. ill have to check up on that in a couple weeks itd be pretty neat to get a decades worth of photos of myself without having to go rightclicking a bunch
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Mar 25, 2018 02:02
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Krankenstyle posted:itd be pretty neat to get a decades worth of photos of myself without having to go rightclicking a bunch pretty sure you can just google clown pictures op.
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Mar 25, 2018 02:09
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President Beep posted:pretty sure you can just google clown pictures op. yea but its funnier when im the clown
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Mar 25, 2018 02:14
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lol if you use facebook and lol if you don't tell people don't fuckin tag you in pictures
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Mar 25, 2018 03:55
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i agree. obviously i have retroactively inistituted "that rule" & so nobody tags me in photos anymore. feel pretty good about my exposure too because basically all i do officially online is random & retarded and i am too poor to buy anything anyway.
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Mar 25, 2018 04:31
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Krankenstyle posted:feel pretty good about my exposure too because basically all i do officially online is random & retarded and i am too poor to buy anything anyway.
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Mar 25, 2018 04:48
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wait so what are people accomplishing by not being explicitly tagged in photos? is this a privacy from other Facebook users thing? cause I doubt it’s privacy from Facebook itself
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Mar 25, 2018 05:06
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If you don't use Facebook and aren't tagged in photos it is the best you can do for privacy from Facebook itself outside of them harvesting contact lists yes
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Mar 25, 2018 05:08
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I bet they shadow tag photos on the backend anyway.
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Mar 25, 2018 06:41
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~Coxy posted:I bet they shadow tag photos on the backend anyway. of course they do. they also have facial recognition running on all their photos. if you’ve been tagged in some, they identify you in others without explicit tagging. among other fun things they do is sending any text you type to the server, even if you never hit the post button. also grabbing the contents of your paste buffer anytime you enter the app,
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Blue Train posted:If you don't use Facebook and aren't tagged in photos it is the best you can do for privacy from Facebook itself outside of them harvesting contact lists yes you also need to block all the social/sharing buttons on every website
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Mar 25, 2018 06:53
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The Management posted:also grabbing the contents of your paste buffer anytime you enter the app lol. holy gently caress.
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Mar 25, 2018 09:18
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I downloaded the zip and went through it, contents didn't seem overly creepy and contained a number of inaccuracies. this probably just means the zip file isn't the complete amount of information they've got on me.
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Mar 25, 2018 11:26
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it's almost like the android all-or-nothing permissions model is lovely and is designed specifically to allow this kind of behavior and facebook is certainly not the only company taking advantage of it
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Mar 26, 2018 14:03
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President Beep posted:pretty sure you can just google clown pictures op. Krankenstyle posted:yea but its funnier when im the clown so turn your monitor off
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Endless Mike posted:it's almost like the android all-or-nothing permissions model is lovely and is designed specifically to allow this kind of behavior and facebook is certainly not the only company taking advantage of it google’s business model is to suck up all of the data and to have others pay them as gatekeepers for access based on that data. but they already have low level access to scrape all your data, they don’t depend on the android permission system for that. the android permission system is so terrible and broken that it is allowing google’s competition (like facebook) to steal all that data that google wants for itself. it is literally such garbage that it is hurting google’s business and yet they can’t fix it.
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Mar 26, 2018 15:59
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infernal machines posted:facebook scraped all communication history from android phones with the app installed, for years i'm curious if this started as "just upload everything we have permission for we can filter out what we need in the cloud and storage may as well be free"
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Mar 26, 2018 16:02
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Maximum Leader posted:I downloaded the zip and went through it, contents didn't seem overly creepy and contained a number of inaccuracies. this probably just means the zip file isn't the complete amount of information they've got on me. the zip does not include any data which was not directly collected by Facebook from you. the omitted info is allegedly made up of additional data scraped from the internet and purchased from commercial data brokers. it is supposedly extremely detailed and very accurate. so the zip might indicate the wrong address for you or a friend but the full profile they actually use for targeting will have the right one thanks to the voter registration records they purchase regularly.
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hobbesmaster posted:i'm curious if this started as "just upload everything we have permission for we can filter out what we need in the cloud and storage may as well be free" why wouldn’t they take any data they can? they are a data-driven advertising company just like google. and in some ways they have better data than google so they can do more with it. if they can see your phone logs and they know who those phone numbers belong to, it deepens their relationship graph. they can correlate your location and your IP address with someone else, they know you’ve been spending time at their house or business. if you have someone’s email address in your paste buffer, that’s a link they wouldn’t have had previously.
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