abfarid

joined 2 years ago
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

Not demure. Not mindful.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

Lucky. Can't drink holy water cause it gives me a burning sensation. No idea why.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, just doing that would not only solve certain issues, it would remove some unnecessary complexity from English. In most (maybe all?) Turkic languages we don't have gendered pronouns, just one for "they" and nothing disastrous has happened yet.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

The polite way is to write "yes, please".

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stop blaming vaccines! It's clearly caused by insufficient prayer!

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 40 points 1 year ago

Is this really satire if it's indistinguishable from regular news?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Carry on, my wayward son.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

To be fair, it's been 14 years. Time spares no one.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this a roast? Am I being roasted? But it's okay, I give my consent. And that makes me (my meat) vegan 😌

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, I saw that you added more content to the comment that I responded to, that wasn't there when I was composing my response. And seeing that content, I think I understand where the confusion is coming from.

If that screenshot is yours and you think those are the permissions, I don't think that's the case. That looks like a screenshot from an app store where it just lists what data the app might be using and not the permission system. It's just a list of categories of data that may or may not be collected if you use the app, which must be disclosed by the developer. You can't agree or disagree to those things from the OS side, because that's all that happens on the developer's side. In case of FB, you might be able to opt out of those things in their settings, but I wouldn't bet on it, cause that's their bread and butter.

For these things it doesn't matter if you, for example, gave them direct access to the mic or uploaded the audio file, they will process the audio file and gather as much useful information as they can.

In fact, if you don't give it any hardware permissions, they will still be able to gather some information, for instance from the Personal Info category (email address, sexual orientation, and home address, etc.) because you enter that info on registration or they infer it from your usage. The OS can't do anything about that. As long as you use the app and interact with it you give them information, what you clicked, which posts you liked, what you commented and so on.

When it comes to OS, you can individually (separately) give permission for mic, camera, location data, file storage, contacts info, etc. Most of the things listed in the "Data collected" panel doesn't even come from your phone hardware.

Let me know if I have now understood you correctly.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010), pretty weird and original movie based on a comic book series. I recommend.

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