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57,650karma·19,241submissions·June 16, 2015
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Prayer would just do nothing. That might be a little harsh. I would at least compare it to a placebo. Chants and prayers can help keep ones hand in the box for the Reverend Mother. [1] [1] - http…
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ChatGPT created this? [1] [1] - https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations …
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The script I linked is a collection of PowerShell, .bat and .reg files unless something changed recently.
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Tariff Formulas [1] [1] - https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations …
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Tariff formulas [1] [1] - https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations …
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Another script to consider that has been around a while and has a number of contributors [1]. that does remove telemetry and optionally many other things. Always back up your registry and systems b…
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This is an impressive project especially considering there are only 4 contributors. In my opinion this should have existed prior to systemd as it is more modular and very much optional "The Sui…
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This is a very reasonable list especially resolved . To their point DNS is handled very well by Unbound.
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Excellent, Thankyou!
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I found several Matt Palmers that are into crypto. I think they should link to a bio somewhere if for no other reason than we are talking about the revocation of keys.
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What's worse, it's just a repeat of the 1920's as described here [1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpqreZlmHGU [video][8 mins][cnn interview]…
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Who are the people running this?
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Nice they have DLP. Have they configured it to analyze or look for classification headers and are there teams that will reach out to violators and politely re-educate them?
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I hope this remains true for all distributions. Playing around with Fedora's beta suggested to me they will implement a store (this may already be a thing) and I can see that one day requiring…
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Just one tiny opinion and maybe a tiny piece of the puzzle is that the US allow chemicals in foods that are banned in the EU. There is likely a lot more to it but I suspect that is at least one facto…
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Archive [1] [1] - https://archive.is/zdzZK
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She claimed that in "85 percent" of police cases law enforcement couldn't access the data it needed. The proper response would be, [CLOSED][WORKING AS DESIGNED]
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If I had to travel I would just FedEx things to myself at the destination. I like to travel light. Call ahead to the hotel one is staying at and arrange for the box to show up with the instructions t…
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I've noticed that many .gov email addresses just relay to gmail. I assume or hope it's at least business accounts and I hope they require 2FA at least. This has mostly been state .gov …
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I've thought about firing a forum or web IRC back up just for topics like these but I suspect it would just attract a lot of hate. I came here to escape running such sites but I am conflicted. …
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