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19,532karma·5,232submissions·July 30, 2008
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> Each surveillance technology in our field guide includes the following categories to help you “spot” surveillance technology in the wild One shouldn't trust their eyes alone to spot all the …
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The person who writes the feature gets promoted for “aligning” with management's “Big Bets”.
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I agree with you. I hate that there's any mechanism with a built-in time limit that anyone can sell as a Good Thing to well-meaning but naive people. Look we're using encryption; you like th…
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“Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature”
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> Who needs other language support anyway, we everyone should just learn English! Why not? That's already how our global air travel system works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&…
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You are confusing letting a machine make decisions about what needs to be done with using a machine to remove toil from the things I have decided.
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> I had already put both laptops through my benchmark gauntlet Who needs to justify it? I make good money, fell in love with the Framework 12 at first sight, maxed it out with 64GiB RAM and 2TB SSD…
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My favorite SimCity game by far. The aesthetics are flawless. I was so happy to score the physical “Music From SimCity 3000” soundtrack CD at the Alemany Flea Market fifteen or so years ago: https:…
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> A bit out of date > article just about to turn three years old JavaScript community never beating the allegations lol
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I would rather not know the exact time than be spied on.
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I would call that Deco, yeah. My rule of thumb: - vertical lines == Deco - horizontal lines == Streamline ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamline_Moderne )…
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Context: https://www.1940airterminal.org/news/hahs-letter-to-city-of-... > At this moment, HAHS is in default of the lease, and must vacate both the terminal building and the …
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> Wi-Wi stands for Wireless 2Way interferometry > 2Way Does that mean you won't get to know the time unless you let them spy on your physical location too? That's what the diagram impl…
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> I was missing something like a template with the defaults that come with UFW, for instance. FreeBSD does include this! It's implemented using IPFW instead of PF. Check out `firewall_type` ke…
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Ignoring the GitHub Pages issue, What does Jekyll 4.x not-do that you want it to do?
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Who designed the phone to not have a user-replaceable battery, making CPU speed limiting guaranteed to occur with age?
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> Rockbox Zig exposes the full Rockbox audio engine — gapless playback, DSP, 20+ codecs, tag database — through gRPC, GraphQL, HTTP, and MPD APIs
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> seizing on word choice in AI notes that might have a sinister connotation Ironic use of “sinister” when you probably mean “nefarious” and don't mean to perpetuate silly old superstitions abo…
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For in-person conversations to keep the conversation flowing, sure, but any good transcription will say [unintelligible] when the scribe couldn't tell despite being able to listen over it again a…
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It's how The System kills something it wants dead without triggering Streisand Effect and creating a huge backlash. It punishes with success.
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Wrong, they have 122 random bits out of 128. The other six bits are to say “hello I am a UUIDv4”.
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> I thought this is technically impossible, and it will never happen I always hated this meme/mindset, because if you dig in to the history of them you'll see that their original purpose …
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That's not why people use JDownloader. There are plugins for every popular file-sharing site that automate navigating download pages, handling countdown timers, and pausing for ratelimits.
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> you can only find a clean installer in the forum `winget install AppWork.JDownloader` Built in to Windows since Windows 10 v1809 :)
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A few millennia too late for that: the “mark of the beast” is just money — “so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark”. How does one buy or sell without money? Otherwise we would call it…
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Here's some good slice of life for you: https://www.youtube.com/@CrossTimbersBison
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You aren't going to be able to make me anti-piracy just because some corpo benefits from it too.
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> While archival sounds like a noble goal, in practice it is an excuse used by people who want to steal copyrighted works and take advantage of them “Take advantage” of them by restoring cut conten…
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> Obscurity can be fine but it's not security. All security is security through obscurity. When it gets obscure enough we call it “public key cryptography”. Guess the 2048-bit prime number I…
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> That is the decision that they themselves have the power to make and leaks like this is stripping them of their creative rights over distribution Fuck yeah, that's exactly why this leak is a…