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by Froedlich 5y ago
There isn't any anonymity. Google "partners" with many ISPs (Comcast, for example), co-locates equipment, and they can link your current DHCP address to your customer name. It doesn't matter whether you even have an ac
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by Froedlich 5y ago
> Why are there no open-source printers? I don't know. But I think it's a fine idea. Pick a print head that's easily available as an aftermarket replacement part, and the rest of the bits can be scrounged from 3D printer
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by Froedlich 5y ago
Decades ago, an American company called DAK used to sell a box that picked up on an incoming call (land line, pre-cellular era) and played a short message, usually something like "Please enter your extension number" or "enter
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by Froedlich 5y ago
In the US, I've had several problems with physician clerical staff calling me on their personal cellular phones instead of using an office line with proper ID set, then upset because they could never get hold of me. No, I don't a
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by Froedlich 5y ago
> Where did all the fun go? For me, a lot of the fun evaporated when I could find others had written a dozen other programs doing exactly what I was thinking of, often better than I could have. The rest of the fun evaporated due to (this
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by Froedlich 5y ago
It hasn't happened in a few years, but Google used to periodically decide I was in Australia instead of the central USA. I often got much more relevant search results as a faux Australian, so I tried connecting to google.com.au, which
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by Froedlich 5y ago
Another + for speedcrunch, a tool I didn't know I needed until I discovered it.
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by Froedlich 5y ago
A lot of ISPs nuke anything that looks like a torrent and send angry messages to their customers.
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by Froedlich 5y ago
I use a copy machine to back up my password list. The pages go in my fire safe with other important papers, and a second copy off-site. I guess you could just take pictures of the pages and save them to a thumbdrive or an SDcard, but I pre
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by Froedlich 5y ago
I have a large number of them blocked in my /etc/hosts file. My first experience with CDNs as an ordinary user was finding they were the source of a large amount of advertising and garbage I don't want to see. Most of the we
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by Froedlich 5y ago
I dunno, Stack Exchange is surely breathing down Reddit's neck in that category...
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by Froedlich 5y ago
Hiring in my area, before I retired: (and before everything went online) They ask for a resume and tell you when to be there. You show up at the appointed time with the resume. After waiting half an hour. a secretary hands you a generic O
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by Froedlich 5y ago
> including Google where we've heard horror stories of getting locked out with no one to even contact --- [raises hand] Been there, done that.
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by Froedlich 5y ago
I put document scans in a directory and name them something relevant, like "2021 state tax return". Only takes a few seconds to find anything I need. I have both on-site and off-site backups; I have no desire to put personal info
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by Froedlich 5y ago
> What happened to doctor-patient confidentiality? It was cast by the wayside long ago. First it was the "mental health" exemptions, then various law enforcement provisions, then third-party "office solutions", then
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by Froedlich 5y ago
The Starfish Prime story is much bigger than the Wikipedia entry suggests. If you search the web you can find out quite a bit more about how it affected infrastructure across more than half the planet. Then you can read up about the "
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by Froedlich 5y ago
In my segment of reality-as-we-know-it, "2FA" _always_ means "SMS."
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by Froedlich 5y ago
I have a Gmail account. I haven't been able to access it for at least four years. Google locked me out because I couldn't satisfy its demand for "two-factor authentication", which apparently to Google means "send
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by Froedlich 5y ago
I develop on Linux (KDE) in Freepascal and Lazarus, working around OS-specific code since about half of my customers are running Windows. I also check for compatibility with Wine and ReactOS.
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by Froedlich 5y ago
I took a long time to get to sleep, slept poorly and intermittently, and had a hard time waking up until I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and got a CPAP machine. Now I just pull the mask on at night and I'm out within a couple of minu
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by Froedlich 5y ago
Whether you're entitled to it or not, you'd be foolish to expect it. The last corporate IT job I had, they expected me to use my personal cell phone for job-related tasks. No, I didn't want their malware running on my phone,
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by Froedlich 5y ago
Each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the various territories have different laws on that.
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by Froedlich 5y ago
KDE.
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by Froedlich 5y ago
SMS generally requires a cellular phone. Some people don't have one. Me, for example.