Shish2k

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by Shish2k 8y ago
Do you have a source for that? I watched the both hearings end to end and I only recall shadow profiles being mentioned once, and the answer was "I’m not familiar with that"...
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by Shish2k 8y ago
If you scroll down the twitter thread, you can see clicking "other options" instead of "accept" gives you a screen saying "if you don't want to accept the new TOS, click here to download a copy of your data and
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by Shish2k 9y ago
Different people in each case - Facebook have an API to export data - team privacy are loudly outraged, team data-portability are quietly happy. Facebook lock down their APIs - team privacy are quietly happy, team data-portability are loudl
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by Shish2k 9y ago
> they could deem the content inapropriate for the site In before the gun channels continue exactly as they were, except for the one change that their hosts are now nude
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by Shish2k 9y ago
People simply want to be outraged, period :/
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by Shish2k 9y ago
How exactly does one enforce in the code a policy of "you can use the data you've collected for the purpose you stated, but you can't use it for any other purpose, nor share it"?
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by Shish2k 9y ago
I have noticed that "I built X <in current popular language>" typically gets way more upvotes than "I built X"...
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by Shish2k 9y ago
> Are they indicating the post is fake and they are angry with the original poster? Or are they now angry with Black Lives Matter because they think they caused a riot? How is dislike any clearer?
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by Shish2k 9y ago
Did you get that information from the lock company publishing specs on their website, or from people reverse engineering it?
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by Shish2k 9y ago
It doesn't matter how many people understand it, but how many people think they understand it - from what I've seen, a lot of people think they understand the US system (at least they did, until Trump won with a minority of vo
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by Shish2k 9y ago
I wonder if anybody is maintaining a "Legal bullshit you need to be prepared for when running a popular open source project" checklist / FAQ? I know I'd be totally unprepared if this happened to any of my projects :&#x2F
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Kodi Trademark Trolls – The Hidden Battle(kodi.tv)
1 points by Shish2k 9y ago|1 comments
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by Shish2k 9y ago
> Go to Texas and I'm sure you can find the opposite if you are looking for it I went to Texas and wasn't looking for it - but the first bar I walked into had photos of Obama and Hillary duct taped to the urinal for people to a
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by Shish2k 9y ago
> The pipelines of many animation and entertainment studios use Linux. But do they use XWayland? Seems nvidia is still supporting X, Wayland, and Headless Compute modes of operation...
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by Shish2k 9y ago
Technically it's not a huge problem; politically, bundling unrelated software together means that the bundled software has an advantage and a tendency to get more market share than its competitors who compete fairly. In the case of ope
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by Shish2k 9y ago
Beast has a Page, not a Profile. Pages don't count as people :)
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by Shish2k 9y ago
A site which allows you to create your own preseed files via GUI, and then gives you a tinyurl-type-code, seems like it should be a relatively easy CRUD app for someone who wants to get started contributing to debian :) Could be done third-
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by Shish2k 9y ago
> If a store has a warning at the door that this happens inside, it's good because now I can avoid getting inside the store and silently hate and boycott the brand. Given how widespread this kind of monitoring is, this approach is b
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by Shish2k 9y ago
> Try roaming whilst one of those HTTP transactions is in progress That specific connection silently fails, then the app silently retries, and succeeds - from the end user's perspective, they've switched IP addresses and the we
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by Shish2k 9y ago
> Meanwhile, configurable "cipher schemes" have in practice been a disaster. They are, for instance, the reason we still have RC4 in TLS today, despite knowing for almost 2 decades now that RC4 is broken. If TLS had hard-coded
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by Shish2k 10y ago
I use XXX as a temporary thing to grep for in my working copy of the code, representing a note to myself while I'm working on a feature; explicitly distinct from TODO / FIXME which I might commit to the repository with a more cohe
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by Shish2k 10y ago
> simply move away from the ads business model "simply"?
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by Shish2k 10y ago
> Because I would like to be an acquaintance, but facebook doesn't have that option It literally does have that option - go to their profile, click the "friend" dropdown, change it from "friend" to "acquaint
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by Shish2k 10y ago
There's been a significant decrease in absolute numbers as well as percentage :) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
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by Shish2k 10y ago
Why not just write a letter? Email and text are entirely unnecessary.
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A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets(github.com)
2 points by Shish2k 10y ago|0 comments
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by Shish2k 10y ago
It's reassuring to know that I wasn't the only 12 year old coder full of hubris and idiocy :D I tried to find some of the old coding forums to apologise, but most of them have disappeared from the internet...
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by Shish2k 10y ago
As I understand it, the problem is when people are focussing on doing what looks good (posting on Facebook) rather than what is good (writing letters to their representatives)
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by Shish2k 10y ago
Who says it isn't? ;)
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by Shish2k 10y ago
I'm also still getting hit by it; every 2-3 days that app will suddenly max out a single core and not stop until I kill it :(

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