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Yale Privacy Lab and Exodus Privacy's F-Droid Android App Store is a Replacement for Google Play That Features Only FOSS Apps That Don't Do Any Tracking (wired.com) 60

Google Play, the marquee Android apps store, is filled with apps that are riddled with hidden trackers that siphon a smorgasbord of data from all sensors, in all directions, unknown to the Android user. Not content with the strides Google has made to curtail the issue, Yale Privacy Lab has collaborated with Exodus Privacy to detect and expose trackers with the help of the F-Droid app store. From a report on Wired: F-Droid is the best replacement for Google Play, because it only offers FOSS apps without tracking, has a strict auditing process, and may be installed on most Android devices without any hassles or restrictions. F-Droid doesn't offer the millions of apps available in Google Play, so some people will not want to use it exclusively. It's true that Google does screen apps submitted to the Play store to filter out malware, but the process is still mostly automated and very quick -- too quick to detect Android malware before it's published, as we've seen. Installing F-Droid isn't a silver bullet, but it's the first step in protecting yourself from malware.

Comment Re:"Smart" TVs are stupid. (Score 1) 346

I just realized you'd replied, so my apologies on the tardiness of the response. Neither died. I had that TV for 14 years until my ex took it with her when she moved out. To be fair, that was less time than the black and white 12" I'd used before that had lived. My parents bought that one in 1982, and got rid of it in 2012 when they moved 1200 miles.

Comment Re:Confused (Score 2) 59

Right, so you use the longer wavelengths to cover at distance improving range, and the shorter wavelengths to cover up close improving speed, and switch between them as needed. Moving the people at longer range off the shorter wavelength bands allows you to reduce the window for each device because you can assume a shorter round trip time, meaning there's less waste in each window, which further improves the total bandwidth of the higher-frequency radio.

Comment Re:Great use of resources (Score 3, Insightful) 90

I imagine that he is adding features as quickly as he's able to do so, and attacking him for having different priorities than you is unlikely to get him to move faster on to your pet project. You're welcome to set up your own legal advise bot to help people, but to the person that wrote the bot that currently exists, removing victims of terrible violence at risk of losing their very lives is a high priority. Based on your username, I assume you bought into the idea that the recently elected officials would be trying to help people. I hope to God you're right, but every indication so far is that they're simply trying to enrich themselves and their friends. Please reach out to those you voted for and ask them for help, while others help those that the ones you voted for are trying to harm.

Comment Re:Poor on $100k? Sure (Score 1) 805

There's plenty of tech work in every city. I've never lived or worked in the Bay Area despite the opportunity to do so, and I've never really had difficulty finding work. 16 years of being a sysadmin/netadmin. The upshot is that I have a family, a house big enough for all the kids to have their own rooms, work from home, wife gets to be a stay at home parent, and I live within 20 minutes of almost all my kids grandparents (one grandma lives a couple hours away). And all this is inside city limits. If I were to need to switch to another job, I could get an office job in days, or another remote job in weeks.

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