Yup it loves to run in the background on startup, I always exit it right away whenever I restart my phone… Try that on your phone maybe it will help, 35% is insane

Not working for me at all, with my photos or with the samples provided by the site

I always get a variation of the same thing:

The image shows a pattern of alternating dark green and light green vertical stripes. There is no discernible background or foreground beyond the repeating pattern itself; it’s an abstract design. There are no objects or spatial depth present in the image.

The image does not depict any people, emotions, racial characteristics, ethnicity, age, economic status, or lifestyle. There are no activities taking place.

Well a) yeah I know I said that in my comment

And b) you can get a YouTube plugin for Kodi IIRC

So what’s your point?

Yeah we looked into a shield recently because we know someone who has one and we really liked it, plus I’ve heard it can be locked down and side loaded decently

But then we saw the price of one and are not willing to spend more than half the cost of a brand new 4k tv on a little box to stream from our media server and Netflix…

Thank you for sharing this, it looks really promising

I’m tired of only hearing of Kodi suggested in threads like this. I don’t get why it’s so popular, it’s confusing for non-tech oriented people, you can’t stream, YouTube functionality is questionable, the interface is dated looking and IMO an eyesore…

Some people like Kodi and that’s great but it sucks balls for other people and there’s barely ever any mention of any sort of alternative (like your comment)

These threads are usually just:

“I need a device or software for watching tv that works with a remote”

Kodi Kodi Kodi jUsT uSe A lApToP Kodi Kodi Laptop + HDMI cable

I’m not going to argue with you but you should read the article perhaps? It’s pretty specific about where the laser is aimed vis a vis windows and whatnot

Ahh ok, that’s what you meant before I guess

Since that function is usually meant for night vision, I wonder how well a security camera can pick out the laser during the day i.e. when the IR sensors are being swamped by daylight also coming in through the window

demonstrating that he can point a laser that’s invisible to the human eye at a faraway laptop, through a window, and detect the computer’s vibrations to reconstruct virtually every character typed on it

Infrared is not visible

Send an email encrypted with PGP to your intended recipient (using their public key of course)

Anonymous email is possible and most places accepting anonymous tips/whistleblowing have an email address for that specifically

Alternatively I’m sure these same places can make an anonymous IM account like simpleX chat for example

There’s plenty of ways really…

I don’t fully agree with you. It’s certainly no major coverup but it’s a heap of evidence that goes against this shiny veneer google maintains with the public

Google pretends they are champions of user privacy and protection to maintain trust and enable data collection on an unprecedented scale

When this article shows they are actually leaking private info left right and center, have the most nonchalant attitude towards respecting and maintaining our privacy and evidently ‘keeping private info safe’ (or should I say ‘not being evil’) is at the bottom of their priority list

Then check out the reply by Zak in this thread

There are many many ways your being tracked by the apps and service you use

Unfortunately, a vpn is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a great first step but if you wanted to prevent your exact situation, I think only a phone running graphene OS would protect you in this instance since it isolates play services, among other privacy protecting features

On your phone? Or desktop?

I would love to hear about an alternative for Canada as well. By my own research, there are none, but I would like to be wrong

My experience with my two banks has been, with their respective apps, I can sign in with just a password but I get logged out of the app after 10 minutes of inactivity. I never stay signed in. This is two different apps for 2 different banks.

On the web, they almost always request their crappy 2FA which is via text or email, and I do not stay signed in ever either, as well as being logged out after 10 minutes of activity.

What irks me is their 2FA, they have no other options besides email or text, the least secure options of all 2FA methods…

But being signed out everytime, I’m not sure I see it as that much of a hassle, and I kind of appreciate that if someone can unlock my computer or phone, they cannot open my bank account just because I was logged in 30 minutes ago…

Thank you, someone who actually read the study not just the title!

Median data transfer to third parties is 9 per website. Those third parties? Mostly advertisers and marketers, most commonly google.

The disclosed purpose of collecting that data and transmitting to other companies? They literally tell you it’s for marketing and advertising in their privacy policy.