Veratyr

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by Veratyr 11y ago
If it passes, what are the chances of it being struck down as a first amendment violation?
902.
by Veratyr 11y ago
On mobile and in most of the world where fast internet isn't ubiquitous, cutting down on the size of your page can make your users' experience much better. It's hard to do that when your dependencies get bigger.
903.
by Veratyr 11y ago
No logging, multiple locations, not subject to NSLs or US law, audited codebase, based on open source software (Tahoe-LAFS) and it's not SpiderOak (I see that as a feature given my experience with their client and support).
904.
by Veratyr 11y ago
It looks interesting and I don't mean to be cheap or petty but I just can't justify that pricing. For 9EUR a month I can get 512GB of storage on Google Cloud Storage or 341GB on Amazon S3 and shove http://infinit.sh&#x2
905.
by Veratyr 11y ago
A lot of people aren't used to the Emacs bindings. Home and End are still widely used. Really annoys me when I have to work on a server that has the Ctrl-A bindings in tmux though.
906.
by Veratyr 11y ago
> Finally, for folks who would like to share their datasets, BigQuery offers free hosting and credits to help get a pipeline going. Is this available in an automated fashion or is it something one has to contact Google for?
907.
by Veratyr 11y ago
> Are you saying DNA is more private than your house, computer, phone converations, etc? Or that all those things should be off limits to police with a warrant? I can live with the police gaining access to my house but my computer and ph
908.
by Veratyr 11y ago
I have a few problems: - 23AndMe/Ancestry shouldn't have a database of DNA -> identity mappings. - Law enforcement shouldn't have the ability to compel surrender of data for which someone can have a reasonable expectat
909.
by Veratyr 11y ago
> if they are even able to easily pay for it I think this is something a lot of people don't realise but online payment systems in China and Russia are near completely different (and isolated) from ours. China doesn't do Visa,
910.
by Veratyr 11y ago
Choosing closed source software is not selling my privacy. Statements like this make the OSS community seem toxic.
911.
by Veratyr 11y ago
I can't start promoting open source solutions to my friends and family because for most of their tasks, open source solutions aren't adequate. Some examples (taken from my wife): - Art: Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Painter
912.
by Veratyr 11y ago
And like GPS receivers, anyone who DIYs can get around those restrictions themselves: http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm
913.
by Veratyr 11y ago
My understanding was that the constitution was only relevant to government action. Since this is a civil lawsuit, the First Amendment should not be relevant, should it? It's like how the 2nd amendment gives you the right to bear arms a
914.
by Veratyr 11y ago
Only slightly related but why is 401k chosen by the employer in the US? In Australia your Superannuation (basically the same thing) is chosen and controlled by you. After moving to the US it seems to be that each employer you have will give
915.
by Veratyr 11y ago
> Im not exactly sure where you are getting that GTX 660 will barely run stuff I'm taking this from Witcher 3's minimum system requirements. I'm assuming that anyone investing in a gaming system wishes to be able to play n
916.
by Veratyr 11y ago
> I bought my midrange desktop including monitor and peripherals for less than $900 three years ago and yet from a performance perspective it's still 30% faster than the PS4. In raw computing power perhaps but consoles have an advan
917.
by Veratyr 11y ago
> Where did you get that so many GPUs are integrated? The stats are broken down further here: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/ You can see that Intel integrated modules make up a sizable portio
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by Veratyr 11y ago
You're right about the upgrade cycle being shorter than I thought. > That's still probably faster than PC as a 1000$ gaming PC from 2012 would have 4 or 8 GB ram, 1TB HDD or a small SSD, ~570 GTX 2500k CPU. Which can still play
919.
by Veratyr 11y ago
There are plenty of privacy laundering services for Bitcoin. This is the first one that came up in Google: https://bitmixer.io/ They're called "mixers".
920.
by Veratyr 11y ago
> The install base of high-end PCs is larger I'm not sure that's true, although it depends on what you define as "high-end". Steam, as of last February, has 125m active users [0]. According to their hardware survey [1
921.
by Veratyr 11y ago
Were they low enough that they could conceivably be satisfied by donations? Certainly no startup but a self sustaining, non-commercial image host could be nice.
922.
by Veratyr 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what were the main costs for the services you were involved in? Engineers? CPU for resize/transcoding? Storage? Bandwidth?
923.
by Veratyr 11y ago
Internet metadata is specifically excluded from retention though: "information that states an address to which a communication was sent on the internet"
924.
by Veratyr 11y ago
The laws you're likely talking about aren't as bad as you might think. They made a number of changes before it passed that make it more reasonable: http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/
925.
by Veratyr 11y ago
There are two things I'll note: - As a non-American, I see America as one of the least safe places to store my information. The Snowden leaks showed that the US government has zero respect for the privacy of non-Citizens. - As someone
926.
by Veratyr 11y ago
XMPP could be a fantastic option but it's missing push notifications, which are an absolute killer these days. You either don't use XMPP on mobile or take a massive hit to your battery. ChatSecure has a nice writeup about this: h
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by Veratyr 11y ago
> Because they bought tech giant shares, and it’s tech giant, or collapse until it’s sold for scrap. I was under the impression that investors essentially treated Yahoo as a proxy for Alibaba due to their holdings. I'm curious how m
928.
by Veratyr 11y ago
Are you really arguing for deregulation of the financial industry in the name of 'liberty'? Lack of regulation leads to things like the global financial crisis.
929.
by Veratyr 11y ago
Yeah, that's an odd claim considering that it's built on Electron, which is Chromium-based.
930.
by Veratyr 11y ago
Since aria2 was only passingly mentioned, let me list some of its features: - Supports splitting and parallelising downloads. Super handy if you're on a not-so-good internet connection. - Supports bittorrent. - Can act as a server and

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