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Comment Dune (Score 1) 180

> Curley also says that in general there's also a "bit of a fad" with today's actors for "soft delivery or under your breath delivery of some lines."

Dune, I'm looking at you! I'm glad I watched it at home with subtitles, if I had seen it in a theater I probably would have only understood one line.

Comment Re:We need a nationwide app! (Score 2) 47

This is the part that really has me scratching my head about this! Why force all the logistics, bugs and whatnot to be dealt with fifty times over? And, what if you live in a state that sees this as a political issue and doesn't want to implement it at all, or does it too late or too poorly. Just stupid, very poor decision making.

Comment Re:Any word on how it was done? (Score 5, Informative) 91

I have a rooted Pixel 2 running Android 9 Pie on Project Fi network. Since my phone is rooted, I don't take OTA updates and instead update them manually from the factory images they provide every month (under developer options, I even have 'automatic system updates' turned off). My device had its battery saver activated last week. Like others, I guess thought it was a bug, and simply turned off battery saver. Yeah, I'd guess that command they sent came through Google Play Services. Their ability to do this doesn't give me much comfort, but then again I'm not that surprised.

Comment Re:Thunderbird... (Score 1) 406

The source code [postbox-inc.com] appears to be available for older versions, but I'm unclear if they are contributing back to the master repository anymore, or just a fork.

Well, the reason I don't us it is, according to this:

Postbox appears to be using a fork of version 9 of the Gecko layout engine used in both Firefox and Thunderbird, and have no plan to modernize it anytime soon. Having a stable version of Gecko makes it much easier to implement features such as vertical view with double rows like Outlook does. On the other hand it means at least 4 years worth of security fixes have not been added.

Comment Stay away from Readdle's Spark for iOS! (Score 5, Informative) 406

Although it's a pretty good app for iOS (iphones and ipads), I just recently learned that Spark has some serious security issues. Not only do they collect statistics and analytics on your usage (pretty typical), no much worse, they "use the authorization provided to download your emails to our virtual servers and push to your device". Before I had installed it, wish I'd seen the warnings on many websites against using it.

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