FourthProtocol

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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
I left dates. They never told me what they wanted to see, other than "bank statements".
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
I was asked for 12 months' worth of statements for a place I wanted to rent in Islington. I got them printed out at the bank, and then spent an entire day with a Sharpie and a ruler and redacted every payee and amount in each of those
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
If you're running a single forest with/or a single AD/domain I'd argue that Microsoft has done nothing wrong. Separation of concerns has been a thing for decades now. And no, I'm not suggesting Microsoft's stuf
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Almost anything can be learnt, including writing well. Unfortunately, today’s incentive for anything is money, and Hollywood is no exception. And so we've fed a diet of trite, banal, and contrived writing because it fits the now-establ
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
I disagree. Strongly. The (our) most precious resource is time. Our time is finite, and thus constrains agency. Like money, agency is (to a degree) within our reach. It can come and it can go. Time on the other hand, simply runs out. Time c
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
https://wego.here.com/ is a million times better. Because it's not Google, it's free, it's very good, and it doesn't report your location to Google. I have no skin in this game - I have however been a ve
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Do you know Okta well? I've been looking for product comparisons but the best I came up with was Okta's "Why Choose Okta vs. ADFS?" [1] And that's just sales talk. It says ADFS needs multiple servers, which it doesn
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Steve McConnell wrote the Construx Estimation Tool way back in the '90s. It made use of Monte Carlo simulations. I still have a copy.
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
I never quite understood how that might happen. I kept hearing how it was distributed when it isn't. How the blockchain was going to change the world, when not a single example beyond Bitcoin itself could be given. Healthcare was menti
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Because they're too restrictive. They're also not something you have too much control over. My site started out with only my resume. I then added photos because why should Facebook benefit? Then came some work stuff I wanted to pu
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Same is true where I live (just north of Frankfurt Germany). Problem solved by aquiring a Bakfiets (cargo bike). I now cycle my boy to school and back, which is just below 50km/day. Lots of cycle paths here make this easy, although no
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
That makes backwards compatibility very challenging so is not really an option.
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Nothing comes close to Windows Phone usability. Not even today. Just turning Do Not Disturb on Android on or off is more frustrating than threading a needle. I wish they'd bring it back.
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
He's done more than most -ref. Polio eradication, his (foundations') work on malaria... What have you done in this space? I know I've done shamefully little, but ride an electric scooter and take my son to school and back in
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
This is not a problem with PGP. This is a problem with an application of PGP.
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Some examples would be useful. Yes, many that don't pay tax benefit from the government, and yes, you can view that as a working class paying for the unemployed. Imagine, if you will, a 50-year-old woman on the dole (she's paid a
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Sorry, I suspect I'm missing something obvious. You specifically said PGP, which is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. And above you're saying it's about meta
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Then pray tell good sir.
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
He means that key exchange is frought with trust issues online. An exchange in meat-space is (can be!) 100% reliable, but doesn't scale. PGP is a posterchild for the impracticality of public key crypto. The UK actually made it work in
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
True but not quite my point.
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by FourthProtocol 6y ago
" ..trusting the server to deliver your messages to the right client. " This is where I feel a little unsure about Signal. It wants access to my contacts, and so it is possible to poison my contacts to get a rogue recipient into S
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by FourthProtocol 6y ago
I think how you use a thing might make for some middle ground. Facebook has consumed many forums I use for my hobby, and so I now go to Facebook for that. I don't read my feed or whatever it's called, I only go for some very speci
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by FourthProtocol 6y ago
I'm using a desktop. And nowhere on the page are core features described. So you're ok creating an account when you don't fully understand the scope of the app?
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by FourthProtocol 6y ago
So the basic package says you can share passwords with one other. But it also says core features and sharing are 100% free. But when you click on that box that mentions core features you (I mean me) expect to see what core features are. Ins
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by FourthProtocol 6y ago
KaiOS is sponsored in part by Google, and includes Google software. I know because I have the yellow banana phone (Nokia clone). I bought that with exactly the expectation that it's free of trackers and so on, but no. Apps on KaiOS can
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by FourthProtocol 6y ago
I grew up in the absolute middle of nowhere in Africa (bus ride to school took 50 minutes one way), so I have some experience here. 1. Most things can be taken care of to a point where a lengthy journey to help is possible. In an extreme ca
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by FourthProtocol 6y ago
First, respect for taking the time to teach her. Second, I have difficulty writing this exctly because of the last sentence, will do so anyway - I taught myself to program in 1984, two years before finishing high school. That and being on t
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by FourthProtocol 6y ago
So, massive article on how terrible a declining population is, but only four (supposedly, maybe) negative effects listed? - Who pays tax in a massively aged world? - Who pays for healthcare for the elderly? - Who looks after the elderly? -
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by FourthProtocol 7y ago
Both TOGAF and ITIL certifications are a great way to land a job as an architect, but (especially true in the civil service) these documents often become the deliverable, project outcome be damned. Just getting certified will alter your thi
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by FourthProtocol 8y ago
American use of antidepressants comes up at dinner conversation every so often. Stats are readily available, but what's less apparent is why it's so widespread in the US. Does anyone have any ideas why this is?

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