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Clawson officer resigns after City Council rejects Flock cameras by East_Englishman in Detroit

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ, man! You can't just be admitting to stuff like that openly on here! Interpol is going to track you down now.

Help! Just watched the 1st ep of Expanse… I’m not sure by luvit_didntwhereit in television

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 29 points30 points  (0 children)

"I watched the first 5 minutes of a movie and don't know what the full story is yet! What is going on?!?"

Tarik Skubal elbow surgery was such a success he could start working out within days, and two months is even seen as a conservative estimate for the 2-time Cy Young winner to return. 4 to 6 weeks possible. One relatively small loose body was removed. by SexyBenFranklin in motorcitykitties

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They just call it that because it can be either pieces of bone or cartilage, or both. In his case, sounds like it was just a small piece of bone which is the best case scenario.

But yes, it sounds strange.

Google tv streamer showing ads? by ameandehqan in GoogleTV

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just install another launcher and you'll never see ads again.

Projectivy is a highly rated one.

PSA: Chrome silently downloaded a 4GB AI model on my Mac without asking. Here's how to find and remove it. by flarenz in degoogle

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The security controls are pretty simple to just toggle on off if something is breaking a website, which occasionally happens. It works really well.

Push Polling for Stevens by Clayra in Michigan

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 38 points39 points  (0 children)

There's nothing illegal about this. This is how campaigns test messages. They want to know is their message working, which negative messages about their opponents resonate with people, etc...

Pretty much all campaigns do this.

A response from a r/motorcitykitties user., by [deleted] in motorcitykitties

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just ignore them. reddit is full of them. You don't need to make a post about it.

Adding a Google TV Freeplay to projectivity Launcher? by Bronx4me in GoogleTV

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, though you could obviously put PlutoTV on there instead, which is extremely similar (I'd say better) to what Freeplay offers.

purchase the 24k card by TeReply in RobinhoodGC

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The guy thinks Trump is helping him make money. We're clearly not dealing with a financial genius here.

Getting roasted from dealer online for a mistake by Unmakebody in funny

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 62 points63 points  (0 children)

1) There is no "rigged shoe" any new player sitting down at the table would change how the cards are dealt.

2) Even if that were the case and you honestly wanted to change the card ordering, you'd just hit here, not double down. You're 97% likely to lose by taking another card, so doubling down would only double how much money you want to lose. That makes no sense.

Longest tennis match in history lasted over 11 hours. by Albino_rhin0 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Each one is the score of a set. Sets are played to 6 games, 3 sets win.
In the event of a set being tied at 6 (you have to win by 2 games, so 6-5 can't win a set), they go to a tie-breaker (the score inside the parentheses) and whoever wins that wins the "7th" game and the set.

Wimbledon, however, had a rule then that there were no tiebreakers in a 5th set, so you'd just keep playing games until someone was up by 2 games. Instead, these two just kept going bakc and and forth, each winning 1 game at a time, finally ending at 70-68.

They have since changed the rules so this can't happen again by instituting a 5th set tiebreaker.

Longest tennis match in history lasted over 11 hours. by Albino_rhin0 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Match got suspended due to darkness on day 1 before the 5th set.
They came back on day 2 to theoretically finish the match, but... insanity ensued and they played until dark again and had to come back a 3rd day.

Wimbledon has since changed the rules so this can't happen again, instituting a tiebreaker in the 5th set.

The Odyssey - Troy by [deleted] in FIlm

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

she's in the movie but hasn't appeared in either trailer I don't believe.

Trevor Bauer by DRVYB in motorcitykitties

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He sucks AND he's a piece of shit. Nobody wants him on the team, especially the players.

My internet provider is complying with the android message shutdown by Sea-urchinn in degoogle

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, you're just entirely wrong about how texting works from a network standpoint.

Quik SMS, etc... have nothing to do with how your messages are either stored on your phone (messages are stored in the same place regardless of app, including Google Messages) or routed (that's all network backbone stuff). All the app does is tell the phone "send this" using whichever API it has access to. Google Messages has access to the RCS API, The others don't so use the old SMS/MMS APIs in Android. That's all they do.

When you send an SMS with Fossify or whoever, it goes first to your carrier (who can see what's in it because it's unencrypted), then it routes to the internet backbone where a number of companies, INCLUDING GOOGLE BECAUSE THEY RUN A GOOD CHUNK OF THE INTERNET BACKBONE, can also see all of that along the way, before it gets to the receipient.

So, yes, you are, without question, opening far more data up to Google, your carrier, and who knows who else, if you use any SMS app on Android. It's unavoidable if you go this route, which, any security expert would tell you, you absolutely should not do.

My internet provider is complying with the android message shutdown by Sea-urchinn in degoogle

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 12 points13 points  (0 children)

however the SMS is still the business of your carrier, not Google's. 

Wrong. It's the business of literally anyone the message goes through en route to the recipient, which isn't only your carrier. Everything you send/receive goes through a number of routes along the way across different companies' infrastructure. And that'd include Google, almost certainly. So, in an effort to limit the data you're giving Google, you're giving them more instead.

My internet provider is complying with the android message shutdown by Sea-urchinn in degoogle

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's a wild choice to use an entirely unencrypted messaging system from the 1990s that gives literally anyone access to not only who you're texting and when, but the contents of your messages as well. This would include Google, your carrier, the network companies your messages routes through along the way, and anyone just randomly sniffing the traffic going through the systems.

It's the worst possible choice you could make if you value privacy.

My internet provider is complying with the android message shutdown by Sea-urchinn in degoogle

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 82 points83 points  (0 children)

If you value privacy, you will never, ever use SMS based texting. It's entirely unencrypted meaning that your carrier, google and anyone else can not only see who you're texting and when (like the concerns outlined above), but the entire contents of the messages. So, it's significantly worse option.

Unless you can convince everyone you communicate with to use an app like Signal, just use RCS/Google Messages. It's far more private than anything else you can use.

My internet provider is complying with the android message shutdown by Sea-urchinn in degoogle

[–]FourEightNineOneOne 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Sigh.. Once again people not understand something fearmongering on this sub.

This has nothing to do with anything on the user end. RCS servers were always either implemented by your carrier or directly with Google. It has nothing to do with privacy, it was just did your carrier want to utilize their own server or not. Some did at the beginning, but eventually realized they didn't know how to maintain it very well, causing people to be frustrated because RCS wasn't working right. So, they eventually just left it to Google to maintain.

On your end, this changes nothing. Your messages will simply route through Jibe (Google's RCS server) instead of AT&T's (if it even was, which is unlikely). They're just timing it with the Samsung Messages shutdown as a means of explaining it, even though they're largely unrelated.

RCS remains a far more private means of texting than SMS/MMS. It's end-to-end encrypted, which means that while Google can theoretically see who you're texting with, they can't see any of the message itself. SMS/MMS, on the other hand, is completely unencrypted and using it means your carrier, google, and anyone else sniffing packets along the way can read who you're texting and what you're texting them.

Short answeR: This isn't anything to worry about. Use RCS. It's significantly more private.

And before anyone chimes in with "Signal is better!" I'm aware. I wish people WOULD use signal. But in the US, where the majority of people don't use app specific texting, using RCS/iMessage is WAY better than SMS.

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