Liquix

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by Liquix 6y ago
Then we end up with more and more schools using M$ because all the businesses use it, and more businesses using M$ because all the kids know it. This is bad for our kids, bad for creating critical thinking employees, bad for pretty much eve
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by Liquix 6y ago
Smart, but also a good way to end up in a questioning room for 4 hours...
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by Liquix 6y ago
* Please upload an up-to-date resume detailing your education and job history. * Please fill out this series of forms on our website detailing your education and job history. * Congrats, you have been selected for phone screening! Please be
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by Liquix 6y ago
Targeted ads are a relatively new phenomenon - many people (especially older generations/parents) just don't understand how poisonous they are. 70 years ago parents were okay with their kids smoking cigarettes in school. Ads and t
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by Liquix 6y ago
They know that no matter what they do they're too big to be stopped. We cannot rely on on any of the five eyes governments to break their monopoly because their data collection programs are of immense value to these nations. If they ev
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by Liquix 6y ago
It's not a wacky far-out conspiracy theory to notice that Google is attempting to dominate the internet. It's a serious problem that we need to do something about before it's too late.
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by Liquix 6y ago
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_26968090.html https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v733-fix-cia-hacking-npp-... My bad, that one was the CIA.
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by Liquix 6y ago
> Is everything really compromised? Given the documents and budgets which have leaked so far - it seems more sensible to assume that all hardware & software is compromised until proven otherwise. From the limited information provided
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by Liquix 6y ago
Location: Burlington, Vermont Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: SQL Server 2008-2019, SSIS, report development with SSRS/PowerBI, ETL design & tuning, Python, C#, C++, OpenGL, Vue Résumé/CV: https:&#x
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by Liquix 6y ago
Perhaps meant to give readers a sense of how wealthy he was? The fact that he was a young millionaire entrepreneur adds a layer of depth to the story.
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by Liquix 7y ago
Wikipedia is AWESOME and I admire your selflessness & generosity in donating to a cause :) However, before giving them any more money I would recommend reading through the (Wikipedia-hosted, ironically) article titled "Wikipedia ha
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by Liquix 7y ago
How would a reverse osmosis filter hooked up in the basement / under the sink compare to distillation? The good ones spit out water that is close to 0 PPM (in most municipal water systems tap water is closer to 60-200). Is PPM a good w
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by Liquix 7y ago
Heck yeah! DDG results have gotten noticeably better in the past ~2 years. Side note - most browsers offer 'search shortcut' customization options, so you can start an address-bar search with !g or !b or whatever to seamlessly swa
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by Liquix 7y ago
Great points, I absolutely agree with everything you've said. The 'not going to happen' is less a prediction of the future and more a reflection of my personal stubbornness/frustration regarding the direction things are
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by Liquix 7y ago
Heck yeah it's dangerous! Ever read about the bitcoin millionaire who hired someone to dig a tunnel system under his house and the worker ended up dying on the job? Crazy story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/md-mill
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by Liquix 7y ago
The problem presented by services like ReCaptcha and Cloudflare is a tough nut to crack. They're silently embedded in a huge portion of modern websites, and the average user will never even know about them. But it seems to be way too e
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by Liquix 7y ago
they found a logical loophole in a decades-old heavily monitored form of communication, providing secrecy and easy of use until it was discovered years later - sounds pretty ingenious to me!
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by Liquix 7y ago
Location: Burlington, Vermont Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: SQL Server 2008-2016, SSIS, SSRS, database design/tuning, Python, C#, C++, OpenGL, Vue Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/fi
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by Liquix 7y ago
If you're looking for alternatives, DuckDuckGo has made vast improvements over the last 6-12 months. Tried switching about a year ago and went back to Google due to low quality results.. Gave it another whirl this month and the differe
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by Liquix 7y ago
It'd be pretty tough for the operator would have to wait for the other party to finish their thought, comprehend said thought, formulate an appropriate response, and then type it out on a keyboard.. Whilst maintaining the expected rhyt
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by Liquix 7y ago
Let's say a customer wants Nike shoes, has Amazon Prime, and does most of their shopping through Amazon. Before: 1.) Search Amazon for Nike shoes 2.) Buy shoes 3.) Close Amazon 4.) Receive (possibly counterfeit) shoes. If low quality o
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by Liquix 7y ago
1.) Download (IceCat) or roll your own (FF+addons) security-focused browser + Very secure if done properly + Fully controllable/customizable - Takes a considerable amount of time and energy to create & keep updated - Unique combina
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by Liquix 7y ago
Not too long ago, the idea of the NSA & GCHQ working together to silently strong-arm tech giants to spy on their own citizens/customers was a laughable conspiracy theory. Then we learned about PRISM. Hard proof that Apple, Facebook
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by Liquix 7y ago
Their live chat is fairly responsive. With regard to low quality or knockoff goods it's pretty trivial to get return shipping waived or $5-20 store credit, as long as you don't abuse the system.
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by Liquix 7y ago
Makes sense, thanks :)
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by Liquix 7y ago
Forgive my naiveté - how does running out of IPV4 addresses result in Netflix stuttering? I'm viewing it a binary problem (you either have an IP and have internet, or you're fighting to get an IP and have no internet) but that see
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by Liquix 7y ago
Excellent links, haven't seen the Kay presentation before :) For anyone interested in going down this (extraordinarily interesting) rabbit hole: the book What the Dormouse Said [0] by John Markoff paints a vivid picture of early (194
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by Liquix 7y ago
Addresses are changed when the DDoS takes one down. This mean's the attacker's (usually automated) resources are wasted on a domain no one will ever visit again, while users will just visit dark.fail and get a new link 15 seconds
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by Liquix 7y ago
The v3 onion protocol [0] is supposed to provide better DDoS resistance than v2 [1] - haven't read up on the specifics though. [0] https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/onionv3-hidden-service/ [1] https://
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by Liquix 7y ago
Dang! One in ten thousand?! That's crazy, thanks for the perspective. They should be easy to spot though - just look for the one dude zipping around using iOS 13.3's new hoverboard function ;)

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