Sir_Substance

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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>If it's stolen you look up its GPS location and the police help you get it back. Do your police do that?
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
I gather from your comment that it's been a while since you refreshed your knowledge of the current state of linux. Graphics card driver issues largely stopped being a problem about 4 years ago, with both major graphics card manufactur
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>Mostly technical speculation: The horrible binary compatibility story of Linux userland. This has been effectively solved by three different tools. Take your pick from: * Appimages * Snaps * Flatpaks Naturally they all have their own up
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
Contracts are a negotiation. There's nothing wrong with one side or the other asking for a negotiation or renegotiation in good faith. Contracts are not immutable, they get amended all the time for all sorts of reasons. Choosing to wit
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>How do you want to instruct Google to delete your data if it cannot tell what's your data? If it has enough information to append to a shadow profile, it has enough information for me to request that the entire shadow profile get d
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
But only if you have a google account. If you don't have a google account, there's no way to request your shadow profile get scrubbed. As usual.
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>Also, just my phone? What about my laptop? Safe from searches? Pickpockets? Malware? If slogans had to be that comprehensive to be allowed, we would be blessedly free of advertising. "Your phone isn't safe at the border"
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
In fairness, you're probably right about them not requiring a DPO. I thought that was required for any organization over a certain size, but it seems it's required for any sized organization that tracks people with a certain amoun
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>I imagine they get a pretty low amount of EU traffic, and so went for the least effort path to deal with GDPR. But they haven't actually dealt with it. This is a common misunderstanding among websites that do this. EU citizens are
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
Discord has aggressive security measures. I can't use it, because it won't let me access it from my desktop unless I give it a phone number. I guess it's decided I look like a headless browser or something. Certainly I'd
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
It's not arbitrary but nor is it very scientific. It's an informed guess from an interested punter. The last time I heard figures, it cost around $3300 in electricity for a given mining farm to mine a bitcoin on average. That cost
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>But I'm afraid that almost all of the price increase is simply a hype/speculation/hold-cycle that inevitable never will survive. People do get very fixated on the price. Anyone who bought into bitcoin at 16k or whatever i
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
That actually depends on how it gets copied and pasted. I can think of at least two ways off the top of my head to move the source from folder A to folder B while leaving hidden folders behind. They both assume you're using a graphical
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>Oh and while it doesn't "live" with the code, I can at least look up a line in question and see which commits have changed it, along with their commit messages. The first job I had, I was working on software that had orig
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>But we're talking about proprietary government information here. Just because it's digital doesn't mean that it can't be criminal to access it via unauthorized channels. Right. We're debating whether that might
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>Just because the government is big doesn't mean it can't own (digital) property. The topic of whether there's any meaning to the concept of owning digital property when anything digital is a post-scarcity asset that costs
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
>People need to start thinking about information systems as property, in the same way that your house is your property, and your car is your property. In this case, the information system is government property, which for some reason man
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
That's true. However, we also don't collect history for the fun of it. Over the course of the last 20 years, we've seen that once a data collection and digital surveillance framework is put in place, the surveillance tends to
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but when I signed up to HN I made the naive mistake of assuming that of course a pure tech website would be implemented correctly. I was surprised and disappointing when I found out it didn't support
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
>Separately I'd have to ask why if your production facility is dependent on these machines that they would be Internet-connected in the first place. Anecdotally, I did some for-cash IT work at a trophy engraving store about a decade
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
>I’m sorry, but “getting free money makes people happy” isn’t exactly a shocking result is it? It's kind of significant, yeah. As a general rule, people on income support in Australia and the UK tend to be harassed, stressed and mod
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
>If you really want to make a statement, stop flying and stop paying money into the TSA. This is a non-argument. Flying is a part of modern life. For a large percentage of the population, refusing to fly would lose them their job, as wou
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
Not that I recall, no.
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
>Please don't irritate the TSA agents. If they don't get you for it, they will take it out on everyone behind you. We really shouldn't tolerate people like that though, should we? If you don't respect TSA agents, it&#
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
Hrm, that's interesting. I went through Schipol a few days ago and don't recall having to go through a metal detector. Nude body scanner yes, metal detector no. Maybe I just wasn't looking?
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
It's not in my browser. I guess it's loaded in from a script somewhere. The text loads fine without scripts but the date requires javascript to load. What an odd framework.
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
They don't really need to do that. The last time I saw the UK parliment petition website being talked about, it was over the snoopers charter. The website said "Any petition that reaches 100k signatures will be debated in parlimen
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
>Subject lines too, again, because that's how email works. Yeah, it's not though. https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/en/user-manual/handbook-f...
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
>Why would a law be needed to be argued in court? By the grace of living in a democratic society and not a despotic dictatorship, it is in essentially every western nation the right of any legal person who is accused of breaking a law to
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by Sir_Substance 8y ago
Sure, examples: === Article 6.1.e "in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;" - Wide open door. Article 9.2.d - exception to prohibition on racial profiling for political parties on their own membership. Arti

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