FungalRaincloud

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by FungalRaincloud 9y ago
In the simple case where they look at what your likes are to determine the bubble they create around you, sure. But I don't think that's all they look at. Content could be being buried simply because a friend of a friend doesn&#x2
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by FungalRaincloud 9y ago
It's not the time off, but rather, how you fill that time off that I am arguing is career stunting. If you have to work on uninteresting, non-career aiding work for a few months to make ends meet, you aren't likely to be working o
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by FungalRaincloud 9y ago
I mean, it's plausible that we could make enough to get by doing work that isn't fulfilling. Building websites for local churches, for example, can pay well enough to at least keep the lights on, and there's plenty of that so
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
My work laptop will forget my window arrangement maybe once per week, maybe less than that. I mean, it restarts at least once a week and forgets everything, but there's nothing I can really do about that, so I don't fault the syst
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
It does seem pretty odd to consider software a telecommunication service, to me, absolutely. All the software is doing is wrapping up a message for someone else to send. It would sort of be like considering envelopes, paper and writing (whe
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
That would be somewhat entertaining, and reminds me of someone I read about years ago who was accidentally added to a watchlist, and no one was willing to remove him, so he started generating as much data as he could, just to keep them busy
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
The thing that concerns me about this perspective that everyday use of encryption is bad is that it makes no damn sense. Pandora's box is opened; if you force software solutions to backdoor their technology, someone will just step up w
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I don't think XMPP is going away any time soon, but it certainly is not the most used thing out there. However, I think that's part of why they've made this request. I think the problem is that it is late enough in the lifecy
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Grinding his own beans? My electric burr grinder is pretty damn loud. My hand grinder is better, but a lot more work.
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I feel the same way, and yet, so much happens every single year that I never expected to see in my lifetime. I'm young (and in a tech field), tech isn't supposed to surprise me as much as it does. It's just that the media get
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I see this line of thought pretty frequently. I don't really understand why we collectively believe that GPG is so tough. I started using it as a teen, barely even understanding the software, let alone how the actual encryption worked.
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Listening locally for a trigger word != listening, recording and transmitting. The point of the echo is to have an on-demand voice channel to an artificially intelligent assistant.
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Typically, the MAC address is not public beyond the next router. Software could intentionally leak it, but I don't think that's likely on a system built for anonymity. However, it is possible that, should your traffic get traced t
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Whonix can be configured to be not persistent, and Tails can be configured to be persistent. Out of the box configuration is the biggest difference. However, Whonix is set up to be run as a set of virtual machines. One of the reasons I like
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
One key distinction might be that Best Buy doesn't appear to be an open marketplace. Best Buy has to purchase from the maker, to sell, whereas app marketplaces do not purchase, they just make available. I don't know if that has an
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I'm not sure, but I think that might be an optional feature that is off by default.
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I consider cheating to be part of my job. I look up things I've done a dozen times before, if I haven't done them in a few weeks. I'll often ask google how to do something, then while it's loading the results, start writ
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
To be honest, my exact reaction to something like this would be to tell the recruiter the only way it was happening was in a virtual machine, with no camera or mic access. I'll happily do a video interview, but I'm not going to be
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I mean, that's probably the best option for society, but it's going to probably hurt his relationship with her.
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Well, it's not a question of whether the next generation will be fine with it, it's a question of whether that is something we wish for them to have to accept. Yes, we are definitely the old farts, but we also get to shape culture
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Reading through your comments, I think there's really only two resolutions to this situation. The first is that your mother in law will run out of funds, and die penniless. From what you say, that seems to be where this is heading. How
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I'm hesitant to say anything about mental effects, since I'm far from able to objectively measure such things, especially since I haven't been keeping any kind of measurements or records. But it certainly keeps me from slouch
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Not only that, but this is important research, whether we have too many people in the adoption system or not. The success of the human species relies on pushing our boundaries, every bit as much as it relies on taking care of one another.
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Or, in powershell (sans sox), while($true){(New-Object Media.SoundPlayer "C:\YourPreferredSound.wav").Play(); sleep 1800;} I'm using the Single Hit Tibetan singing bowl from: http://www.sound-effects-hunt
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Facial recognition is worse than that - I know people whose kids can unlock their devices. That's bad enough, but I know one person whose dog can unlock his device, I guess proving the old saying that dogs resemble their owners.
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I can understand this - I've been there, and I know plenty of people who are still there. I think you've got your answer in what you've said, though. Your room matches your mind. But it's not just an input/output th
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I tend to try to think of time as I think of space. If I clutter my space with a bunch of small things, I find that I think myself to be cluttered, and the disorder causes me unease. But if all the small things have their own places, and I
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
That's probably reasonable, but you might want to amend 2 to "split the string on the last '@'". There's no restriction to only '@' before the domain. It's exceptionally rare that a server even a
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
That's my interpretation, as well. The standard is for carriers, not mailboxes. As a carrier, (or someone sending an email) you should respect case, as well as respect all of the special characters, because the server is allowed full d
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
The trouble is that no one actually implements the email standard from the IETF RFC documents. In fact, some people[0] even actively discourage doing so, despite there being little in the way of good reason to not. The argument essentially

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