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by Infernal 5y ago
> “hacker took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the social security number of those specific educators.” There's so much wrong here - am I to understand that if the state sends you SS
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by Infernal 5y ago
> Many, many institutions in the USA are built on it being a high-trust society. Now that it's falling into a low-trust state, we can expect those institutions to fail, and perhaps the state to as well. Not enough people understand
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by Infernal 5y ago
You just triggered a memory for me that I probably haven’t thought of in 15 years, but I recall circa 2003 sitting down with my Motorola bar phone and my electric guitar and programming it note by note (with the keypad!) to play a few secon
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by Infernal 5y ago
I have fullname@gmail.com, and I routinely get full.name@gmail.com mail intended for what is obviously two different people. I have no idea what their real email addresses are of course, but I've contacted both of them on Facebook and
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by Infernal 5y ago
I phrased my comment poorly. Do we know of a case where cops or prosecutors have actually faked such a “key”? If so, it’s terrifying that you could have any encrypted data, with cops and their invented xor “keys” claiming your data is whate
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by Infernal 5y ago
Well this is a terrifying idea. Is this a hypothetical or do we know of an instance where such a “key” was invented?
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by Infernal 5y ago
It is? “The Mustang has a new engine this year” “I’m going to take the Mustang today” - those sentences sound very strange without “the”. Yet Apple does this consistently, referring to each product as a singular proper name (which sounds we
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by Infernal 5y ago
The first time I SSH'ed into my Pre and saw it was basically just another RedHat-based Linux was /so cool/. I thought for sure it was the future of mobile operating systems.
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by Infernal 5y ago
Maybe thinking of Palm webOS (I had a Pre in 2009, it was way ahead of its time)
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by Infernal 5y ago
I’ve considered something similar, call it The Morning Post or some such. Choose your delivery/send time, and all your content gets posted (and all previously posted content gets revealed to you). Put some sane limit on the number of t
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by Infernal 5y ago
Plaid does not get API access to your bank account. Plaid logs into the same interface you do and scrapes the data. It’s why account import in things like Mint, YNAB etc are so flaky. EDIT: It seems Plaid has negotiated API access with some
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by Infernal 5y ago
I identify with this so much. Pacing, talking to myself even yes, but always manipulating concepts in my mind - and writing the code once it becomes clear. The idea of introducing diagrams or sketches into that process sounds disruptive and
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by Infernal 5y ago
It's the same point as above. They could do shady things with your data on their server. They could do shady things with the data on your phone. They always /could/, and up till now I trusted them not to. But now they /h
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by Infernal 5y ago
I’m aiming for a used Pixel 5 and GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS seems to have the most focus on breaking entirely away from Google services.
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by Infernal 5y ago
> We've always put our trust on Apple to not do any shady things on our phone …and now we have a case in point of them doing shady things on our phones. This breaks the trust.
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by Infernal 5y ago
> Presumably, a trivial software update down the line could expand its ambit to locally stored files. And backing up one level, this is why I’m finally working hard to take control of my devices and data from companies like Apple. This m
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by Infernal 5y ago
One of my favorite movies.
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by Infernal 5y ago
I'm curious, what sort of program were you in that had professors assigning "big collaborative out-of-class projects"?
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by Infernal 5y ago
The real question here is the ratio of energy delivered over the life of a fresh anode as it is fully converted to aluminum oxide, to the amount of energy required to turn that same aluminum oxide back into a pure aluminum anode.
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by Infernal 5y ago
From wikipedia[0] "it is possible to mechanically recharge the battery with new aluminium anodes made from recycling the hydrated aluminium oxide". I've found a few papers regarding recovery of aluminum from aluminum oxides,
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by Infernal 5y ago
I suspect it may have been downvoted due to the ending "that's all you can do to prep". Dead uncle comment (parent's sibling eh?) is a good start, but far from "all you can do".
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by Infernal 5y ago
Interestingly, when I follow that link I first get "Images blocked by safe search", but when I turn off safe search, I then get "no results".
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by Infernal 5y ago
Interesting. I skipped from an iPhone 6 to an 11 Pro, and when I pick up my old 6 now it is both so thin and light as to feel very fragile, whereas the 11 Pro has a dense, hefty, solid feel in comparison. I have briefly used someone else&#x
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by Infernal 5y ago
I wonder how long that journey takes? Assuming no evaporation of our sample drop.
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by Infernal 5y ago
My, how the spitroast has turned
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by Infernal 5y ago
I believe this was just a typo, or a braino - from the context I assume the author meant a "true negative interest rate".
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by Infernal 5y ago
To be fair the poster you’re replying to seems to have run the correct commands indicated by the README, unless I’m missing the same thing they are.
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by Infernal 5y ago
I think you’ve misunderstood. One team cannot have a long change by themselves. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/WHx5uipGxRojhsFHQKJawpvuTw...
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by Infernal 5y ago
I just wanted to let you know I really appreciate this idea - there is beauty in the layers of analogy.
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by Infernal 6y ago
By what measure does Canada have more diversity than the US?

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