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Reminder that #busdrivers appreciate a #greeting going in and out. They drive everyone around all day so you can jump on and get out. Some small acknowledgement they aren't robots but #people working hard for you isn't a bad thing.

Unless your bus is actually driven by robots I guess. Then I didn't say anything.

Yes, I did just get in a bus where everyone else just completely ignored the driver going in. Not even worth a look away from their #phones apparently 🥲.

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@JessTheUnstill One of the big fuckups for BlackBerry was just the delays in getting BlackBerry 10, plus the Z10 and Q10, to market.

I got to use BB10 for a couple of months, and it was nice. It was built on QNX, with a modern swipe/gesture based UI built with Qt.

Arguably a better OS than the iOS and Android releases at that same time.

There was a feature called the Hub, which wax a unified inbox for your email messages, social posts, and text messages. Plus a modern app store, and separate personal/work profiles built into the OS.

There was a version without a physical keyboard (Z10) and with (Q10).

The problem is they didn't start working on it until 2010, and BB10 wasn't released until 2013.

For about two years before BB10 came out, BlackBerry didn't release any new phones.

Had BB10 come out earlier, it *might* have saved the company.

I just wrote this post about what to think about regarding your digital privacy, after a conversation with someone who would be visiting America soon. It was weird, we couldn't talk (via app) about what we wanted to say. Like communist Germany in the 80s. The post is just 2 lists, aimed at non technical ppl who dont really know about the risks.

#privacy #security #phones #vpn #email #data #academicchatter #academia #bigtech

penworks.net/blog/privacy-what

penworks.netPrivacy, what privacy?I just wanted to jot down a few things regarding privacy on the internet and in digital life. Though I'm not a security professional expert, I am...
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@zjp Top tip: Sometimes when you click on links, there's more information on the page you arrive at. /s

Here's the link to the report, which is 84 pages long.

researchgate.net/publication/3

"Similar to the pattern observed with online bullying, kids who own a smartphone are slightly less likely to report
feeling depressed most days compared with those who don’t own a smartphone (21% vs. 26%), which may be due
to socioeconomic status affecting smartphone ownership and depression, or to reverse causation, where parents of children with depression may be less likely to give them a smartphone to protect them from the harmful effects of digital media use. By contrast, children who own a tablet are more likely to report feeling depressed compared to those who don’t (26% vs. 19%)."