I added that part of the comment to showcase a way that a messaging app could use to avoid the requirement of gps, in case Wire has something similar in the settings, is all. I wasn’t suggesting you switch : )

Signal requires GPS for push, too, but if GPS isn’t available, it uses persistent notifications to stay “active”. It uses a bit more battery, theoretically, but I really haven’t noticed a difference.

Ah, ok, cool! I’m just so used to using cli adb, I didn’t even think to search for another solution. I’m glad more exist!

Wire might for push notifications.

I’m not familiar with Brevent, but you can use adb to uninstall some system level apps, though I’m not sure if adb will work on GPS. Worth a shot, I would suppose.

The stated goal is stopping robocalls.

None of these robocalls are done with real numbers. Their spoofed numbers, and it’s stupid easy to do with the current infrastructure, and no amount of ID verification is going to stop that. Let’s call it what it is: tracking and control over citizens.

I’d rather my Signal not be federated sigh Facebook at all. I’d be fine downloading a secondary Signal-owned app just for Whatsapp contacts (that way I don’t have WhatsApp on my phone), but I do not want my standard Signal traffic routed through Facebook’s data-guzzling, privacy-eroding servers.

Sounds like a good use for asset management. I’ve used SnipeIT for asset management, and it works amazingly well for this.

Get ready for a bunch of unskilled people making the shittiest apps imaginable.

We currently have skilled coders making the shittiest apps imaginable, due to shitty direction by management.

Here is a list of the other 34 countries

So, I called it Rule 34. It was a joke.

I didn’t know USA law extends to Japan…

Super interesting!

I don’t disagree [with your comment (I absolutely disagree with what ms is doing)].

However, like with all technology in the past, where the civilian market received the obsolete military technologies (think, internet, cellphones, gps, and wifi), the consumer facing LLM/AI capabilities are likely nowhere near what the bleeding edge is in the military sector. The consumer facing Copilot is a product to make it “legal enough” to harvest your data, and the EULA people agreed to without reading is the nail on the coffin in that defense. The end product has nothing to do with copilot, office, or even us civilians. We’re just the vehicle.

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Ah, yes. Rule 34 of the TikTok ban.

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It’s not for you. It’s for them. Copilot digests everything you type into the Office apps, and it provides them with millions of real writing examples that are free from copyright (read the new Office EULA).

I need to try onlyoffice again. The last time I tried, was the original beta, and it was faulty (being a first release beta, and all)

So, it’s win win. Good scenario.

Saw this on Sunday. I think it fits here…

Outputting clean reports is one thing, but “normalizing” the time to make it look better, or as though I’m more busy, is something else entirely. I appreciate the effort, but this tool has the very real potential to get a contractor or employee sued for time fraud. I highly recommend against normalization of time data. The contractor either worked a full 30 or s/he didn’t. It’s black and white. Saying s/he worked for 30 when s/he worked for 25 is a lie, and subject to lawsuits and further legal action.

It’s the guy walking next to you, isn’t it?

A QR code created from the actual fault text would be super helpful. That way we can scan it and get the full error message (details and all) on another device without having to snap a picture or something. But not like windows does it, where it’s a link to a defunct page. I’m taking about the actual text transcoded into a QR code.