BelenusMordred

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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> When the Irish loophole closes I'm sure they'll think up another "One Weird Trick" Should countries not compete with each other and simply bow down to accept whatever corporate taxation rate the Americans tell them
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Put so honestly in that way it reads like something out of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The utter absurdity of it all.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
For anyone out there I highly recommend reading The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert It's a plain, almost coldhearted look at what we are doing to the planet and where this path leads. Something needs to chan
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> It’s interesting that the accounts would be originating from Kosovo and (north) Macedonia. As someone whose spent a bit of time in the Balkans can I just say that you can buy a Macedonian sim card with no ID for a few dollars and get p
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
https://github.com/shroudedcode/apk-mitm Removes certificate pinning from apk files for mitm inspection.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> Nothing is stopping it from using your camera, without your knowledge The app needs to be open and in the foreground for it to take photos. On Android at least.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> On XiaoMi phones at least, this is a system app You mean on Xaiomi OS's (I forget their name).
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
I've only ever heard it being called geocrete but looking further now that seems to be a portmanteau.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
For biometric surveillance I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's happening at some level of government in the UK, I vaguely remember a bit of outrage about such things in London and the government backing down, but do we really
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> Gitlab is one of the pioneers of "remote-first" I once looked at their wages when I was in Asia, they wouldn't even cover my rent working full-time. Until they pay for skill rather than area I'm going to be a scepti
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Thanks for the update, guessing this is the round 2 submission? Despite being sidelined in NIST's post quantum standardisation project it's interesting to see their Streamlined NTRU Prime algorithm still being the main real world
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> None of the algorithms enabled by default has any known security issue. For the tinfoil among us, jump on the post-quantum key exchange train, there's little overhead, it still uses traditional elliptic curve crypto, best of both
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Nice, I'd really like one to collapse all second-level comments. There's enough 1000+ comment links now that the top comment takes up the entire page and everyone wandering in tends to just respond to that or the children rather
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
How do new accounts start on twitter then?
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> Today, you have to login online and the person you look up can see your name in the log I really don't see a problem with that and would still consider it public information.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
This question is answered in the article: > Those who are fully vaccinated may be amongst those denied access if they do not have a printer or mobile device, or if they have forgotten their documentation at home. This will especially imp
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> It's not something we run up against in day to day life. Perhaps consider that instead you just don't hear about it? Australia has some of the harshest defamation laws on the planet and journalists routinely self-censor. When
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
And then they walk down the bank 5 minutes later to cash it out?
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List of Problems Solved by MacGyver(macgyver.fandom.com)
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Desalination can provide for a lot more, even then, consumer usage is nothing compared to agricultural and industrial use.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Always amuses me when using google to search for <App> f-droid . Google will always insist you meant <App> android and show you those results instead, which of course is the play store version if it exists.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was formed in 1988. It was always called climate change.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
You could argues it is probably quite useful for their overseas intel activities too. A channel that is only used by spooks is a tad conspicuous.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> Metadata logging is a theoretical issue There are over 350,000 requests a year for metadata, about ~1000 a day. Any level of government can make a request, right down to local councils of towns with 2000 people. The oversight committee
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Silly to ignore the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fish and oil that everyone in the region is staking a claim to in the South China Sea. Absolutely no one cared in the slightest about it up until vast tracts of oil were discovere
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
The laws recently changed last month. If you spend more than 45 days in the country or tick two of the following dot points you are now considered a tax resident and need to pay income tax: * the right to reside permanently in Australia * A
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
They only just changed the laws a month ago to make it so opaque and vague about who qualifies as a tax-resident or not. It's basically a "if we want we will tax you" situation. The 183 day rule means little if you have even
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
> keep a small emergency savings account (~10k EUR) Hopefully you don't mean in a bank? If history is any guide that's useless with capital controls initiated before the public even gets whiff of it, see Greece and Cyprus 2008.
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Yes but that's tangential, this person outright bought an existing property as a foreigner knowing full well he's not allowed to. Not a single agent, conveyancer or bureaucrat in the entire process ever tried to stop it from happe
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by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Live in Malaysia too and am always astounded how much power people use here, they seem very wasteful with aircon. Generally average about 250kwh per month for 2 people in a 1200 sqf apartment with occasional aircon use. Paying ~6c/kwh

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