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  • The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us

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    They are not bringing anything good back. They were a nice company like 30 years ago. That reputation held for damn long, then they killed it and created a new one of "being luxury crap for successful success", and during the transition used both. Now it's just luxury crap. I don't know how there still are Apple users who are not after that. When some people talk how "but it's a Unix so you can do Unix things" - with a huge pain in the butt over Linux, and there are plenty of variants of "install once and don't care after" with Linux. As in "plenty". In general, I think the concept of trademark has gotten old. Same with patents. These allow companies to just abuse their past reputation and also sue anyone trying to do business in the niche their past self has created. Or maybe trademarks are fine, but patents ... when they were a good thing, new inventions were patented for some period of time. Now they patent interfaces and solutions where no new invention happened. All these protections are needed, but the system making them has gone AWOL. We need direct democracy.
  • video gen error

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    Sorry what? You mean post to technology@lemmy.world?
  • Blocking real-world ads: is the future here?

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    Also a work of fiction
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    What if everyone started talking about how “woke” Apple, Amazon, and Google are? Maybe it would pass, then. Remember, we don’t need to define woke, we just need to point and say the magic word and GOP politicians will vote against it.
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    ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler 12345 :::
  • Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files?

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    Yes, every application has access to everything. The only exception are those weird apps that use the universal framework or whatever that thing is called, those need to ask for permissions. But most of the apps on your PC have full access to everything. And Windows does collect and upload a lot of personal information and they could easily upload everything on your system. The same of course applies for the apps as well, they have access to everything except privileged folders (those usually don't contain your personal data, but system files).
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    FYI- insurance company data breaches impact more than just customers. I had my identity stolen a few years ago because a small car insurance company I've never heard of was able to buy data on me from my state's government to build a potential customer profile, and then they got hacked. I would assume Aflac has data on just about everyone in the US.
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    Tragedy of the commons? Everyone wants to use it, no one wants to put forward the resources to maintain it.