NamTaf

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by NamTaf 7y ago
The company I work for (small on the world scale, but reasonably big in my country) forbids our standard issue laptops from going, instead giving us special travel laptops. These are blocked from the corporate wifi and do not have any VPN c
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by NamTaf 7y ago
I've got a 3b+ and a 1b, and whilst only the 3b is in use currently, I have plans for the other. The 3b runs libreelec for a tv in my bedroom. I found my 1b to be too slow for this, but the 3b+ does admirably. The 1b, I hope to repurpo
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by NamTaf 7y ago
People do, because they can. It doesn't matter whether they should or not. When you design something, you don't design for ideal use, you design to eliminate risky misuse. This is a core axiom of user interface design. It's n
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Oh wow, I assumed it was just my combination of ublock origin + privacy badger + accelereyes + privacy-first settings in FF (block all 3rd party cookies, containers, resist fingerprinting, etc.) that caused many hits. I'm not sure whet
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Probably my favourite LA adventure game, though Sam & Max really does give it a run for its money. I played it at what I suspect was a very formative time of my pre-teens, and I think it did a lot to shape not only my humour, but also m
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by NamTaf 7y ago
I really don't classify the anti-encryption data logging laws as a big vision. To me, they're the continuation of the erosion of Australia's (somewhat implied) privacy rights. They were one of the bigger single moves in that
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Because we are a regional leader. The pacific islands most affected by climate change look to us and go 'you are rich and have the means to lead by example. Why aren't you?' and that's a valid criticism. Or, in other bet
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by NamTaf 7y ago
These raids have been highly condemned amongst the public here, and (at least my echo-chamber of) people seem to be pretty wholly against it. Of course, we're also an apathetic people because we've had it so good for so long that
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by NamTaf 7y ago
China has never asked me for my social media accounts in any of the multiple times I've applied for a visa.
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Per the sibling comments, I'd definitely like to know more detail. I rely on Streisand when in China and so if it's something to do with Streisand itself then I want to be aware of that.
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by NamTaf 7y ago
At this point, I straight-up refuse to ever entertain giving Google a cent of actual money. It's very obvious from the multitude of stories like this that no one can rely on them to provide a reasonable customer service experience unle
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by NamTaf 7y ago
Just FYI, their IKEv2 isn't likely to work, and Wireguard isn't necessarily available on all device types. My standard process is to spin up a Streisand instance before I go there and give me multiple options (Shadowsocks and Wire
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by NamTaf 8y ago
It's worth noting that AUD$1 = USD$0.71, and that the cost of living here is substantially higher than most of the US (though the Valley is probably much more even-run). Having said that, AUD$200k is certainly not unheard of as you get
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by NamTaf 8y ago
This blows my mind. Here in AU, I can lodge mine online through a web portal. It's pre-filled with a variety of information including my reported taxable earnings (through company reporting), my superannuation information, my private h
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I suspect I have it. When I 'visualise' things, there's no visual component to it. Instead, I'm remembering an abstract list of features that the visualisation has. For example, with a sphere, I know that it's round
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I can vouch for this. I have it too, and a few years ago my partner died. I was the one who found her dead, but because I can't remember any visual aspect of it, I'm sheltered somewhat from flashbacks of the trauma. I also hypothe
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I suspect this is more that when people look at a bike, they don't notice detail and just recall the concept of a bike having two wheels - one forward and one back, a seat, some handles, etc. Their failure to draw an accurate bike is i
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I did wonder if an add-on or something could do this, but hadn't got to looking into it. Knowing there's an easy solution means I will now. Thank you!
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I dislike it, but I reluctantly use it because its very numerous and significant drawbacks are maybe offset by the fact that it offers night mode. If there was a night mode setting in the old version, I'd use that in a heartbeat.
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Do take it seriously. SUDEP [1] is a serious condition. My partner died from it a few years ago. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unexpected_death_in_epi...
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by NamTaf 8y ago
It's high, but not really so, at least when not compared to the US (which appears steadfastly religious). For example, Australia [1] saw a 9% decline in Christian religions between 2011 and 2016, and a corresponding 7.8% increase in no
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Yes, scramjets are faster than other non-rocket planes. They have a lower bounds of approx. Mach 3, but then go up from there. The big challenge is basically making sure that you mix your fuel with the air, combust it fully, and extract the
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Not at all. Here in Brisbane (the AU one) the city council got local artists to do them as works showcasing our city's lifestyle. There's hundreds of different works of art around the place, and they run the gamut from a graffiti-
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by NamTaf 8y ago
United need to be heavily litigated when accounts eventually get compromised. This must be a wanton disregard for security, rather than simple naivety as many other sites exhibit. There needs to be real, material damages for companies who d
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by NamTaf 8y ago
That’s an elegant way to balance the issue, I like it. I guess it all really depends if you want an even distribution on area or in radial distance from the centre, so I can think of valid reasons to use both.
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by NamTaf 8y ago
It's basically what the NSA's ANT catalogue had in their COTTONMOUTH devices, among others [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Hopefully not, with any luck they learnt from the last time they tried this [1]. Besides, it's basically a free-for-all at times outside the major cities anyway. Additionally, in reality it's not that great a problem - see the UK&
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by NamTaf 8y ago
As far as I can tell, all the complexity comes about from the Haversine formula, which maps a circle to a spherical surface. If you were to treat that as a flat plane, I don't see why you couldn't just generate a radial angle and
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by NamTaf 8y ago
They absolutely do not in Australia. They'd do a certificate of rail operation through some sort of technical college (we call it TAFE). A full-on engineering degree is wasted for operating trains these days. Much of the manual aspect
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by NamTaf 8y ago
The initial diagram showing new/half/full moon goes off my screen, presumably because I'm at 150% desktop zoom and it possibly somehow gets confused by that? Also the feedback about the wrong side being illuminated.

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