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Comment Re:obvious solution to that... (Score 1) 93

Most phones lock up the biometric keys when they're rebooted, and require something like a pin code to unlock after reboot. (at which time the biometrics get unlocked)

So if you're in a situation where you're worried about someone forcefully unlocking your phone, shut it off.

Although this frustratingly means you can't record the interaction with your phone...

Comment Re: Doesn't like military using their services (Score 1) 299

Ah yes. Ghandi. White people love to point to him despite knowing diddly squat about him. My great-grandfather was a close friend of his, and travelled with him to Britain when he was petitioning for India's independence.

Firstly, disrupting traffic is not "mayhem", it would absolutely fit in with Ghandi's MO of non-violent protest. Ghandi was not a "sit in the corner, beg the King to give up his power over you, and hope he does despite having no reason to". But status quo bootlickers do try to paint that picture because it suits them.

Secondly, as a South African from a family of civil rights activists, and as someone with decades spent as an activist and advocate of civil rights movements, I can tell you that you know SHIT about the Rodney King riots. Of course, there were a lot of own goals scored, and much of the rioting was self-defeating. But it has been completely re-cast in the decades since and portrayed as a mindless mob achieving nothing. That's not at all true. The violence of '92 was absolutely responsible for moving the civil rights movement forward, as the incumbent old white men were fighting tooth and nail to keep it at bay. Peaceful protests by African Americans had yielded no results. MLK and Malcolm X were mostly peaceful in their MOs but that didn't work out for them. The COINTELPRO program which pretty much proves that attempts at peaceful resistance will be met with military level opposition.

But anyway. I can see we won't agree. Let's part ways here.

Comment So there are benefiting from (Score 1) 20

The current streaming service apocalypse. A bunch of streaming services while they haven't gone under or so on profitable that they are licensing out content again and Netflix has been able to pick up a ton of shows and movies. That plus enforcing anti-password sharing policies against heavy users while being smart enough not to enforce them against light users has let them boost subscribers.

I had every intention of canceling it the moments they started blocking me from password sharing but they never did that. I'm sure that's because I'm a pretty light user but so is my kid that I share my password with. Meanwhile heavier users seem to be getting shut down pretty heavy-handedly..

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