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by MintelIE 6y ago
I use Tor Browser for most of my day to day browsing to foil all the non-governmental corporate botnet spying. Of course I’m under no illusions that it secures you against the government. But I don’t do anything naughty so I’m not worried.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Does anybody else block fonts? Not only is it wasteful for my mobile data plan, but I just have this suspicion that sooner than later they will be used as a vector for some kind of security issue.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
When the social media executives got before Congress and lied their asses off they must have suspected that something like this might happen in the future.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
UK joined the AIIB and Belt And Road program. They won't be objecting except perhaps in the meekest, mildest manner possible.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
>I don't think it's outlandish for someone to give you a bruised apple And apparently grocery stores put people with opinions like yours in charge of packing produce boxes, which leads to lost sales. Nobody's arguing that
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by MintelIE 6y ago
I listen to short wave radio, and my radio itself is an excellent RFI detector. I just wandered around the house with it holding it up to things until I identified the problem. The only things really emitting lots of RF were LED and CFI bul
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by MintelIE 6y ago
I had this Watchdog timer issue on OS X and it was causing major slowdowns. My solution was to stop using OS X, Apple support didn't really seem to have any solutions or suggestions other than reinstalling OS X, which I tried, and afte
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by MintelIE 6y ago
I use incandescents at my home because the alternatives are very RF-noisy. GE's incandescents are (were?) among the worst for life. Thankfully there are American companies making quality incandescents right here at home now.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Ever since Amazon deleted its first books remotely from people's Kindles, I haven't bought any ebooks, digital music downloads, movies aside from on physical media, or software which is downloaded and delivered digitally. I do hav
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by MintelIE 6y ago
This is neat, what'll it cost?
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Maybe if you use Guile to rewrite the parts of Emacs that are currently written in C, and go with the dynamic translation idea currently used in Guilemacs you could achieve the same goal. Then you could rewrite Emacs in Guile at your leisur
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Until companies are run by AI, it's people.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
A couple decades ago when virtual instruments started to become realistic on home computers, I did extensive testing and to my ear, anything over 8ms is too much delay. Obviously one would like no delay at all, but there is a point beyond w
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Were they real reviews, or Indian review-bombs generated as part of a nationalistic campaign to get back at China? Review sections were weaponized long ago, first by companies, and now, increasingly, by nations.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
A couple points to note: This works by dynamically translating elisp to Guile Scheme, which is crucial to ensuring that decades worth of elisp will work without change. However, in Guilemacs, one can use Scheme as well as el as extension la
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Of course not. This is just yet another excuse for a vendor to lock you in.
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Guilemacs – Emacs with Guile Scheme(emacswiki.org)
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by MintelIE 6y ago
One continues to be taken advantage of, over and over again. Assuming good faith is not prudent when dealing with people who want your money or data. We have enough collective experience at this stage to say this conclusively. Edit: Being c
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by MintelIE 6y ago
We? What "we?" I think it's much better to lay the blame at the feet of the companies who made these decisions, rather than generically blaming everybody. Theo De Raadt called out Intel in particular when they started taking
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by MintelIE 6y ago
I already do, but I can hurt it even more by always using Tor Browser. Heck, it's even fast enough these days to watch Youtube and handle torrents.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Is it possible to look too kindly at somebody? I think so. Clearly the CEO is backpedaling now that there's been a public outcry. He's not sorry about what he did. He's sad he got caught.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
I might sign into a web site willingly, but I might not want the perhaps dozens of other companies' assets which I pull in also identifiying me, and tracking my habits. Why wouldn't one use it for everything? That would seriously
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by MintelIE 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20200525173210/https://pastebin.... Pastebin's locked behind Cloudflare and it won't work if you use Tor Browser (which you should, for everything) so I fetched the
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by MintelIE 6y ago
It appears as if OS X will revert to using an IP address if a domain lookup fails according to the thread we had on this issue yesterday.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
It's no secret that the Great Firewall and ID technologies which make it quick and easy to throw people into extermination camps, as China is currently doing, came from the USA by and large. Billions were made by big tech implementing
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by MintelIE 6y ago
That's why you should never use a commercial service such as GitHub to actually do your work. It's OK as a mirror, and to show off your code. Like Instagram for your programming and tech geek interests. But, like with Instagram, o
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Are you certain about this? I think I was being conservative. It's easy for us tech nerds in our little gadget bubbles to suppose that everybody is like us. But most people are simple browser users, and Office 365 and Google Docs have
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by MintelIE 6y ago
All the modern calculator companies are hostile to their user base. Their actual customers are the textbook companies, standardized test firms, and school districts, it seems. There is an exception, the SwissMicros people[1]. But that seems
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Why don't companies come out and tell people what they're doing these days? Telemetry is getting to the point where people such as doctors and lawyers might be violating the law by using a modern computer. And people in the defens
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by MintelIE 6y ago
I’m getting 6fps on my iPad Air 2 in safari...

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