IceWreck

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by IceWreck 7y ago
It's not just PIA. Nord VPN, ProtonVPN, etc all have ties to or owned by shady companies. It you want real anonymity, use tor. If you want to change your internet access location, lease a VPS, and set up OpenVPN/Wireguard on it.
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by IceWreck 7y ago
What other major tlds do they own?
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by IceWreck 7y ago
Linked Paper instead of article:- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19485506198766...
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by IceWreck 7y ago
On my VPS * My Website * Seafile * FreshRSS * RSSBridge for making rss feed for websites that don't have one * Dokuwiki * A Proxy * Multiple Telegram and Reddit bots
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by IceWreck 7y ago
This is done with OCR, specially when digitizing things. The Internet Archive does this a lot. There was an old 90s book that I needed but they never made an electronic edition. So the internet archive, scanned and digitized it with charact
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by IceWreck 7y ago
Thats not just you. A skilled joystick player will be easily beaten by a mediocre player with a keyboard/mouse if all the other conditions are the same. Infact, most games have aim assist if you use a controller as means of input.
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by IceWreck 7y ago
Is it too much to hope that someone else reaches out this time and saves them again?
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by IceWreck 7y ago
This is a hackathon project, the aim is to make something fun and sorta useful and this is exactly that.
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by IceWreck 7y ago
> Pretty much. It's a problem anyone doing privacy conscious software is going to run into, if it works it will be used by people generally agreed to be morally detestable (eg: child abusers or human traffickers). Exactly what was h
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by IceWreck 7y ago
No. It gave me like 17 attempts before it realized that I wasn't a bot.
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by IceWreck 7y ago
> They have to pour money into the region to keep control of it due to people in the region being unhappy, out of work, etc. From what I've heard Russia is doing exactly that. And the people there seem happy, atleast according to a
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by IceWreck 7y ago
Why do boingboing articles make their way to this forum? Its an opinion based kinda joke website that just posts content sourced from other websites, then adds their own opinions on that. Yes its articles are somewhat fun to read, but when
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by IceWreck 7y ago
Use uBlock Origin, not any of those top search result Google sponsored AdBlock plus or Ghostery (which is owned by an ad company)
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by IceWreck 7y ago
And that spam call filter probably requires proprietary software, which has access to your call logs and theres every chance that the spam filter app company can steal your data. > Though I am thinking of turning it off and putting up a
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by IceWreck 7y ago
There is no winner here. Its Whac-A-Mole. Ad companies try some kind of new technique to stop their ads from being blocked. Users innovate new ways to block them. Its a never ending cycle.
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by IceWreck 7y ago
For one, RISC-V is fully open hardware unlike x86, amd64, arm and other architectures. More adoption is always a good thing.
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by IceWreck 7y ago
Apple sued Qualcomm to drop their prices and used Intel to keep them in check. After their settlement/agreement with Qualcomm, they started using Qualcomm and dropped Intel and then Intel quit the smartphone chip business. Now theyre p
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by IceWreck 7y ago
And will still be banned on most Mastodon instances. Gab can federate with other instances with similar ideology but noone on any of the major instances wants to federate with them. Nazi instances were specifically blacklisted in all the ma
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by IceWreck 7y ago
GNU doesn't have the money to pull this off
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by IceWreck 7y ago
* Nvidia drivers suck on Wayland * KDE and most non-gnome based DEs don't work with Wayland Wayland is not ready for mass usage
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by IceWreck 7y ago
> ICANN fees should be ten to one hundred times greater than they are in order to reduce the ridiculous hoarding that has occurred. No. Hobbiests and regular people won't be able to afford domains just because some squatters decide
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by IceWreck 7y ago
> Earlier this year, Forbes reported how a banking Trojan called Triada had been found on a bunch of brand new budget Android smartphones. Google has now confirmed that threat actors did, indeed, manage to compromise Android smartphones
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by IceWreck 7y ago
The conflicted firing of one dude does not mean that the entire institution is an embarrassment to higher education. The title has nothing to do with the content of the article. It seems that the writer (who teaches at another university) i
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by IceWreck 7y ago
You can. Its just that it requires more effort than most are willing to make
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by IceWreck 7y ago
Did you log into that game to save progress?
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by IceWreck 7y ago
> Write your mobile apps in modern C++17 and compile 100% native Android and iOS apps from a single statically typed codebase. Does this thing work in the same way as flutter? (ie. your own UI framework that looks and feels like the offi
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by IceWreck 7y ago
Its still a govt. organization and pay scales are capped.
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by IceWreck 7y ago
Yes, this isn't the ultimate solution, but what you said is an overstatement. The biggies like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc serve ads from their own domains, but almost everything else uses an ad network which can be blocked. >
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by IceWreck 7y ago
> Despite a mere 4Mhz speed, all the Game Boy games are displayed in constant 60fps. Take that PS4 Pro and Xbox One X! My favorite line from the post.
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by IceWreck 7y ago
Yes, this is a huge example of over-engineering.

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