If you can live with the crappy photo quality.

It came pre-installed on my Samsung tablet but not on any of our Samsung phones (GS6s, GS7s, GS9+). That may be carrier- or country-specific.

That’s the same thing they said about addresses in bogons ranges and eventually we succeeded in using them.

I don’t see how it’s any better that pronouns lose their gender, making them less specific and therefore less useful.

It's more specific, not less: having he/she/they allows us to refer to male/female/unknown instead of overloading "he" to mean both male/unknown. Similar reason to why you sometimes want to allow NULL on a boolean column.

I think the argument is that "they" is often used in the plural form, and requires context to determine where it's referring to the singular. This context isn't always clear which leads to ambiguity.

Male toilets are always much more filthier than female toilets. If I was a female I’d be pretty pissed if they forced me to use a urinal for men.

Go to bathrooms in airports, conference centers at hotels, or higher end restaurants and you might notice a pattern. They are clean, smells of detergent, and has this piece of paper usually next to the door with a time stamp.

Bathrooms are clean if you clean them. It is also more hygienic and gives a better impression of the place. Saving money by gendered bathrooms and only cleaning the bathroom once a week belong in the same gender discrimination category as other cost-saving tactics that involve gender.

I spent years working in nightclubs, and visiting them too, and this was never the case.

Hover-pee is a really common thing for women, and the results are what you imagine bthey would be.

Forcing women to use urinals is very much not a thing that happens.

By toilets I mean the room itself, not the appliance.

> If I was a female I’d be pretty pissed if they forced me to use a urinal for men.

This is what I was replying to. Bit of a confusing way to say “enter a room containing a urinal” if that’s what you actually meant.

Oh, you mean the rest room.

Where people go to rest.

Or the wash room.

Where they go to, erm, wash.

Not native. But anyway I disagree that women squat pee. They usually sit to pee here. While men don’t so all the toilet (the appliance) and the ground are full of pee. Result: the whole room stinks of pee.

People prefer happiness to freedom. I don’t think that democracy is vital to the wellness of a society. It’s just that until now all autocratic societies were ruled by shitheads and they inevitably collapsed. Now we’re seeing an autocratic society that is working fine because it’s being led by intelligent, not-too-selfish people. This is a breath of fresh air since in my opinion democracy is well past its heyday and we have to explore new options.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynastic_cycle It is just a matter of time for the corruption to set in again.

> I don’t think that democracy is vital to the wellness of a society.

Well, it depends. If you're well above the typical middle-income country, I think you'd still benefit from more democracy. Democratic countries tend to benefit from increased openness, which is vital to creating wealth and avoiding disruptions of all sorts when you're at the forefront of economic development - and we see this even in historical times where non-democratic polities were far more common.

> It’s just that until now all autocratic societies were ruled by shitheads

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IX_of_France#Veneration_...

Not to mention that almost all democratic societies also end up cyclically ruled by shitheads and selfish out of touch elites (and we're at that point well now).

Sorry, I meant in the last 100 years or so.

Obviously, since they use the same CDN.

No indication of what it means. Has anybody tried to download the same picture from two accounts and see if the data changes? Maybe this is some data they embed into the picture for bookkeeping when inside their infrastructure and they forget to strip it when they let you download it.

Nah, is extremely useful for them to know when a picture is being re-uploaded so I dont believe for a second they "forgot to strip it"

It’s interesting you say this. I work as a web developer, I consider myself to be more or less well versed in security, and it would have never occurred to me that websites can make requests to devices inside the standard private blocks of addresses. I think it stands to reason that these requests should be blocked in the same way requests to the file:// protocol are blocked.

People who avoid Facebook products as a rule are unlikely to ever consider google products.

I don't think you can make this claim without understand the motivation or threat models of the billions of non-facebook users. I use Google services, I do not use Facebook services. Am I the exception to the rule? How many are in this exception group?

How large do you really think the number of non Facebook adults are in the US that would be Google users? The number of people in the US on Facebook and the number of adults in the US is public knowledge. Just step out of the geek bubble.

I'm not following your logic? Are you saying I should join FB because everyone else is? Everything in life is ephemeral. Trends and apps come and go. This too shall pass.

My goal is to get people to question the relevance, time drain and impact to humanity that FB imposes on the world. I believe that if people did the calculus they would see the horror for what it is.

No. I’m saying a social network is worthless that people aren’t on. Whether you are on it are not doesn’t matter. Nor does a few anecdotes on HN when the numbers show something different.