stevehobbes

joined 11 months ago
[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 16 points 10 months ago (12 children)

I mean… maybe? I don’t actually care. My MIL will absolutely get tricked into downloading some spyware or scam app from some shady 3rd party App Store if they existed.

The walled garden approach isn’t for everyone - but I don’t actually mind it at all.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 62 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (25 children)

The real issue is almost certainly that Hey doesn’t want to pay Apple 30% so you can’t do anything without an external subscription and they don’t allow you to pay with In App Payments/Subscriptions.

This guys entire marketing plan is generating controversy.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 4 points 10 months ago

5G only has higher node density if you’re using mmWave, which is only happening in ultra dense places today, and mostly indoor/arena use - it isn’t very widely deployed.

5G might get you to within 50ft instead of 100ft, but it’s not getting you to 3ft of accuracy without mmWave, and that’s mostly because mmWave barely travels at all. You can’t be more than a couple hundred feet from the antenna and need unobstructed line of sight to it.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Not really. All of the super high accuracy requires fairly specific circumstances that broadly don’t exist in the real world today.

And if they did, they’d be able to pinpoint your location just as well over 4G.

They can track you to within 100ft easily on 4G today.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

They can pinpoint you almost as well on 4G. This is not a good reason to not use 5G.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

…yes they do. This is for vendors that use/enter into a business relationship with T-Mobile directly to send short codes or SMS. I.e. companies like Vonage and Twilio.

You can absolutely enforce fees against your direct customers for certain behaviors.

This would not work for messages received from other telcos

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In their case, they’re spying on journalists also. That’s not the only spying they’re doing.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Certainly India. And literally every other sovereign state that spy on literally every other sovereign state.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

An Israeli company makes it, not Israel.

If you think that democracies do not spy on other countries, I’m not sure what to tell you.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol -2 points 11 months ago

They bought it from an Israeli company. The company isn’t Israel the state.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It does not vary by state. Usually 7 or 13 are better/faster for individuals - but there's no reason you can't.

https://www.debt.org/bankruptcy/chapter-11/

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 3 points 11 months ago

What isn’t true that I was replying to is that chapter 11 bankruptcy is only for corporations and gazillionaires. Regular people can use 11 to their benefit often - especially if they aren’t so far in the hole they can’t see daylight.

Secured debt can be discharged without forfeiting the collateral by paying it off or coming to a new arrangement in a chapter 11 proceeding.

While there is a lot of discretion judges get in the vast majority of 7 or 13 proceedings, unsecured credit holders are entirely wiped out, or very nearly. Each individual case is different of course.

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