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65karma·83submissions·March 25, 2012
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Clickable: https://dibsonstuff.com/privacy-concerns-queue-bot-vs-dibs-o... …
17h ago·view thread
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Ok are you riding with two huge boxes containing all your work on an electric unicycle and I guess the hi-vis top means you're headed into traffic and the box-cords seem to be balancing at the ha…
28d ago·view thread
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As soon as the thumbs-up started rotating and the severed wrist was revealed, it became apparent: I had never wondered where the rest of the thumbs-up person was before. But more chillingly: A thumbs-…
29d ago·view thread
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Oh! And if one felt like solving the puzzle, it might lead to that person being mis-identified as being a bot. Which would be a perverse incentive to avoid wrecking the trap.
1mo ago·view thread
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I'm suggesting that one should not be able to obviously detect that they're being challenged. Eg I could respond in Pig Latin to you right now because I can see that's what you're …
1mo ago·view thread
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This whole thing was more of a shower-thought. But the trap I left behind was a link hidden in a full-stop in a deliberately acquiescent comment. The link went to an imgur image. The image consisted o…
1mo ago·view thread
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A local neighbourhood cake-stall marketplace. Got a great recipe and some time to bake? Put a picture of your sweet treat up, and get strangers knocking on your front door. You get cash-in-hand, delic…
1mo ago·view thread
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Did you take a look at one of the chat-based queuing platforms, something like https://dibsonstuff.com people seem to use it for taking turns with servers, but it sounds a bit like it migh…
1mo ago·view thread
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Sounds like you might need to screw your own mounting post in at the 30mm mark.
1mo ago·view thread
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Perhaps they should phase out the encryption on WhatsApp as well?
3mo ago·view thread
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I only found cal.com in the first place because I searched for an open source calendly alternative.
4mo ago·view thread
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Or why not include the source of your claim up front? From GitHub comments: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247 Greyson: > Hi there, sorry, th…
4mo ago·view thread
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Source?
4mo ago·view thread
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Australia as well.
5mo ago·view thread
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There are probably parallels with rap artists. There are those that improvise and flow. (the rest of us edit and re-edit)
5mo ago·view thread
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Jotted down my backup process for home. Spoiler: it's a bunch of SSDs sitting on top of a Raspberry Pi. But there's a few fun things in there too: raid, encryption, cron, make, rsync, ssh, H…
6mo ago·view thread
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Just on your first suggestion, this also means that if a person or process can drop a file (unknown to you) into your ~/bin/ then they can wreak havoc. Eg they can override `sudo` to capture…
6mo ago·view thread
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Fwiw termux + rsync for android phone backup (eg rsync /storage/emulated/0/) will grab most things.
6mo ago·view thread
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I used to self-host email, it was mostly all initial setup and then it just worked for years. Eventually I got a bit wary about the security side of an internet-accessible box and decided to move the …
6mo ago·view thread
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Good question. So one change I made last year was to cap the number of queues the free account could utilize. It's sort of hard to know for certain if that was what moved the needle though. There…
6mo ago·view thread
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A talk about creating from Ethan Hawke called "Give yourself permission to be creative" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9Gek4V5Q But my takeaway was more like "Give …
7mo ago·view thread
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Might have been this thing: https://v.redd.it/fpa35i6b97dg1/CMAF_1080.mp4
7mo ago·view thread
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It seems like the choices are: a) a cloud-based password service (eg 1password) or b) a local-storage password database (eg pass, KeePassXC) My preference is not to store personal account details with…
7mo ago·view thread