Jonnax

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by Jonnax 9y ago
How is it completely free?
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by Jonnax 9y ago
In the UK you just: Go to a polling station. State your name and address. They cross your name off and you get a card Make your choices and put it in a box. There is negligible voter fraud.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
I guess that is the case in a lot of places. But things are changing and quickly as well. These devices are fashionable so adoption of them comes from edicts up top to IT. Microsoft has been pushing the office online suite a lot in univer
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Use your home mobile if there's a good deal. In the UK Vodafone does £5 a day to use your tarrif in China. No speed restrictions, Google works and you have a UK IP address.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Well the phone manufacturers are the ones advertising things like 4k video recording.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
"He was also asked about the relationship of this work to coreboot. Minnich said that coreboot should always be preferred, but it has not been available for server platforms for 12 years. So he would suggest that developers "alway
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by Jonnax 9y ago
What did they use before and why is it better?
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by Jonnax 9y ago
You're asking how a brand new computer compares to a laptop from 5 years ago with a 1366x768 screen.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Notebookcheck are a German outlet that do high quality reviews of laptops. Things like using a thermal camera to show hot spots, measuring display response rates, display calibrations, noise levels plus the standard performance tests. Tft C
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by Jonnax 9y ago
"Wait, on their FAQ page I see that they don't want to include the patch for security reasons. Is this ROM unsafe? No. LineageOS' developers hide behind the "security reasons" shield, but in reality they don't
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by Jonnax 9y ago
It's better to use the most common user agent. Because they puts you in a large population
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by Jonnax 9y ago
There are a ton of different methods for fingerprinting a user. Your unscrupulous ad broker or other actor intending on tracking you will be using a combination of these. Each extra one adds another circle to the Venn diagram narrowing you
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by Jonnax 9y ago
In that time computing devices were rare. Now everyone has a quite a powerful computer in their pocket. If you want to make apps it's all there supported with a ton of documentation.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Here's a photo of it running Ubuntu 16.04 at a Samsung booth with a 4.4. Kernel. https://twitter.com/TizenHelper/status/920507238485233664
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Can you explain how they are getting in your way? It's possible for you to unlock the bootloader on your phone to run a custom kernel? What is the catch? That they've put development effort into supporting newer phones.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
It's funny that you comment on the story of someone being jailed for being an activist with essentially "shut up it's none of your business" The idea of taking care of your own backyard seems pretty similar to the old So
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by Jonnax 9y ago
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/how-we-work/corporate... "Remuneration of board members The basic fee is £16,000 per annum. Additional fees are paid for each appointment to a Committee or Panel, u
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by Jonnax 9y ago
If you were the US government defining what "Social media" means, then there's no real difference between Hacker News or any other similar site and Twitter.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Hackernews is social media. You've got an account, you make posts and interact with people.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Well if it's public then they don't need any special access to your data.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Maybe a bit of browser fingerprinting going on? https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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by Jonnax 9y ago
I think that totally depends how high you are in the company and whether you're client facing. I doubt that the majority of people that work for Mercedes drive their cars.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
I'm under the impression. That the idea of the token is that it would the method for which to use the service they claim to have built or will build. For example if you're ICOing a distributed data store. The tokens will be what y
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Samsung's S8 has an iris scanner that works surprisingly well. But I've noticed that it works well on some people and total trash on others.
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by Jonnax 9y ago
>What I’m saying is they quite possibly didn’t even know just how many little things, things I won’t mention here for the sake of DF readers who are trying to stay spoiler-free for Tuesday’s event, were spoiled by this leak. That person
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Google are really shitty with their web browser especially on mobile. If you run Firefox you get a stripped down version of Google Search also with no infinite scrolling for images and low resolution. Use a user agent spoofer like this: ht
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Sure. But at the same time it would be foolish to assume that Symantec doesn't work with the US security agencies or Sophos doesn't work with British agencies. In the worst case scenario, if the government wanted them to, they wou
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Social Engineering is a thing to watch out for. I've learnt to never answer honestly when they're asking stuff like "Where were you born?" "What's your first pet" etc. Instead I've made up some answer
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Ask HN: Why don't news articles cite academic sources clearly?
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by Jonnax 9y ago
Is that really a logical assumption? Could it just be that they have more customers and they haven't upgraded infrastructure to keep up with demand?

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