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by Twisell 10y ago
What bother me the most is that recently I wanted to extract and archive of all the threads I participated in from an Internet forum. The webmaster told me that the BBS he use don't provide such a function and that I just had to downlo
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by Twisell 10y ago
Well I don't know how it work in the USA. But here in France half of the time, if you strictly apply the driving code as a biker and "emergency brake by courtesy", the pedestrian will bluntly look at you with a suspecting loo
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by Twisell 10y ago
Jerks happen to use various ways of moving around. Some happen to use a bike, please don't use generalization. While momentum argument is real, my personal philosophy as a daily commuting biker in France is "I'm the more expo
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by Twisell 10y ago
Well I haven't read the specs yet hopefully they include a privacy layer. But I don't see why solid would be worst than today. You will still have to trust the different a services you link to your data. But unlike today if one se
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by Twisell 10y ago
IMHO thinking of data as assets is what kept many company out of crowdsourcing opportunities. Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap for instance are wonderful example of successful open datasets. And what are social network if not personals public da
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by Twisell 10y ago
It don't that's not the point. By what I understand you could choose to host your media on one server in a standardized way and share them via as many other services that you want. For instance imagine Facebook, Twitter and Dropbo
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by Twisell 10y ago
Thanks for the insights. I must say I hesitated a lot before using this example because it's a smoking hot news and Erdogan could probably have settled this whole thing up. My point was mostly that technology enable us to share like n
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by Twisell 10y ago
Two day's ago ago a coup d'état was stopped because the contested prime minister of turkey was able to reach medias using built-in VOIP technology of one of the most worldwide sold smartphone. Citizens comprising even some polit
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by Twisell 10y ago
I still can't believe that they are using statistically safer in an official response. It now have been widely discussed everywhere that 1 occurrence is not enough to draw any reliable statistical conclusion! PS: Beside should one mo
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by Twisell 10y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/self-driving-car-ethics
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by Twisell 10y ago
Well sadly the first casualties was a man that made 3 millions view on YouTube with a video called "Autopilot saves Model S" months before his fatal accident... http://youtu.be/9I5rraWJq6E At that time I don'
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by Twisell 10y ago
Nope I mean I kinda never login to my mail through unknown browser. My smartphone is just good enough when I can't access my computer, so there is only three places where my long e-mail password is stored. Keychain on my computer, keyc
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by Twisell 10y ago
Every time I see an apparently stupid security restriction reason I feel obligated to check if "Password1" is a valid entry... You won't ever believe how often this work while gibberish keychain-generated passwords get reject
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by Twisell 10y ago
This exactly why all my e-mail passwords are at least 18 character long with random generated gibberish stored on a keychain... And to secured that keychain I use a very long login password (XKCD style + numbers) that always make people cri
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by Twisell 10y ago
I might be very stupid but can someone tell me if it's something common in FOSS operating systems to have unencrypted kernel, or is this really something unique and potentially very risky? (ND: I know macOS is far from FOSS, but it&#x2
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by Twisell 10y ago
Do you suggest that Apple is blatantly lying in the article I just cited?
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by Twisell 10y ago
It seems so: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 However I reckon that technically Apple could access data or give data stored on iCloud to NSA/FBI because they actually still hold the keys for that part too
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by Twisell 10y ago
Alternatively you can also RTFM before complaining about secrecy... https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf Of course that will never be as audit friendly as an Open-Source code. But don't
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by Twisell 10y ago
Whoa you just opened my eyes I always believed big company were fundamentally altruistic! What a bummer!
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by Twisell 10y ago
I must have been connected to the same Gmail or Facebook account at some point on both devices. However as I said I purposely never stay logged in to google services. Yeah, I can flush all cookies (thus annoyingly resetting all legit cookie
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by Twisell 10y ago
Ok, so maybe we are talking about the same field of science, but it seems that, from what they say there is two very distinct approach. 1.Collect personal data, send them to mainframe, use them to profile and deliver custom tailored service
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by Twisell 10y ago
But I can't forget that Google is the company that somehow managed to suggest ads on my personal phone based on browsing on my professional PC. Theses devices are never on the same network, the only shared parameters is an exchange acc
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by Twisell 10y ago
This is so wrong. The only thing that isn't user-encrypted so far is the iPhone backup on their server (Of course it is encrypted but Apple have the key to decrypt it as needed). The official explanation so far is that if the user forg
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by Twisell 10y ago
But wasn't that as the expense of clarity for new developers? I remember a horrible graduation exam where I had to code in VisualStudio. The Most harsh part was not coding or UI, it was determining which version of different window API
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by Twisell 10y ago
To be clear I can't agree more! I got a little lost while writing. But indeed my point was double check! Because in my case everything looked fine at first sight. This is even why I don't use the same process for my two backup (da
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by Twisell 10y ago
I my case (and I can't emphasis more on my teenager status back then) it was a permission issue, everything looked fine from my perspective, but CCC somewhat didn't have the right permissions to sync folder of others users. So the
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by Twisell 10y ago
18 years ago, while being a teenager, I misconfigured CCC only to find out that only the active user folders where synced after a full erase/reinstall upgrade of MacOS. This was my epic "there is to kind of people those who lost d
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by Twisell 10y ago
This could be totally unrelated, but damn this is a pretty stupid bad signal. LinkedIn's iOS Developer Community cancels WWDC watch party after Microsoft purchase: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/06/1
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by Twisell 10y ago
Me since I rarely log in in the first place. I only googlog in to my association's "shared account" and log out straight away. Also I mainly use DuckDuckGo and bang !g only when needed. Privacy actually matter to me...
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by Twisell 10y ago
Well I don't really see why you can't add an apache2 library to any project. The sole limitation is that you must must publish back any change you made to that specific library under the same license. Apple for instance use Apache

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