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by __jal 9y ago
What the GP describes is still more that possible. I happen to have some physical hosts in a data center, but you can have the same effect with a Linode VM. It is massively convenient to run your own server. But you need to know how to main
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by __jal 9y ago
I have no knowledge of what they do. I doubt the latter; that would be trouble. But the former - why not? They do it with your email.
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by __jal 9y ago
I tend to see this as personally beneficial. Once the patois diverges enough, I stop wasting time attempting to decode it, unless I'm bored enough to treat it as anthropology.
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by __jal 9y ago
Back in the day, the one-click patent was claimed to be defensive, too. These decisions tend to be opportunistic. Or maybe a holder honestly convinces themselves that this particular offensive use is really a "defensive" move. I g
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by __jal 9y ago
> We need to avoid the slippery slope of blaming the tools If you are designing, developing, marketing and delivering a tool for surveillance to a government agency, you have a pretty good idea of what it will be used for. I think you al
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by __jal 9y ago
The OP appears to conflate selective pressures with unconscious human decision-making. At least, that's what I took away from it. That seems confused to me, but I can't speak for anyone else in the thread.
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by __jal 9y ago
> Most likely the changes they measured are good for the group's survival Why is that "most likely"?
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by __jal 9y ago
Last Tango in Pairs We'll Always Have Pairs Pairs exist to remind you dreams are real
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by __jal 9y ago
Reason #34 for taking a more adversarial relationship with the surveillance-happy plays: they started gaslighting us in their stores. One reason among many that Bluetooth and Wifi are off on my phone when I leave somewhere. (Most of the tim
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by __jal 9y ago
> While email has evolved from plain text to mostly HTML You must have a very different set of correspondents than I do. About the only non-bulk, non-plain text mail I get is when the office manager sticks a cute .gif in an announcement.
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by __jal 9y ago
I think a 2P system still only gets 128 lanes. But still. For the more boring among us (like me), swap the GPUs for 24-ish NVMe SSDs and a few 10G cards, and that is one hell of a DB server...
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by __jal 9y ago
Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how HIPPA would have anything to do with this. It only applies to "covered entities", so had the initial disclosure happened in the US, the leaker most likely would have been imp
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by __jal 9y ago
Along with the other endorsements, it is great for outdoorsy use, too. Reduce, Reduce, OK!
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by __jal 9y ago
The consolation prize was an HN front-page link.
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by __jal 9y ago
> 4chan used to be a solid seat of extreme liberalism Uh, when was that? Some members/participants/whatever you want to call it of Anonymous had goals that align better with U.S. definitions of 'liberal' than 'co
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by __jal 9y ago
Good guys(TM) have done a lot of damage. I've been through this; I had a friend whom I still like a great deal as a person, but who did a ton of damage in a different type of situation. It is hard to sort out. But the fact remains, tot
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by __jal 9y ago
Yes, but backdoors/malware are a different question. I was talking about authorized access - LDAP, ssh keys, etc. Detecting unauthorized software from a rogue privileged user is a different problem with very different mitigations. It i
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by __jal 9y ago
Well, for one thing, if you can't ensure that a given privileged person can be locked out of your systems quickly, you have a problem to fix. This should be a 1-minute operation. Note that I don't know the details and am making as
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by __jal 9y ago
Yeah, that could become legally awful. Which is appropriate; it appears $admin ruined a lot of people's days. I suspect that person will soon have a fair amount of time to decide on what new career to pursue to pay down the fines when
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by __jal 9y ago
Right, and none of the drawbacks are relevant to toaster-oven or parachute use.
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by __jal 9y ago
I'm glad it works for you.
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by __jal 9y ago
For me, it isn't even vocalizing - I discovered that forcing things into words helps me troubleshoot after noticing that I solved my own problems after giving up and composing an email to someone to ask for help. The act of describing
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by __jal 9y ago
Google is a data mining and extraction company. That's hard to argue with. Are you complaining about the "sells personal information" part?
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by __jal 9y ago
What I mean is twofold: - They're paying much less attention to the "Unixy stuff" than they used to. Old versions of common things take forever to be updated. Compatibility has always been shit, but it is getting worse. SIP m
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by __jal 9y ago
Can't claim to be a fanboy, but I am a longtime user[1], and this is the primary reason I stick to them for my phone. I frankly can't imagine using Android the way I use my Iphone - the privacy invasions considered acceptable are
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by __jal 9y ago
There's also a weird peer-pressure involved. Overheard a conversation a while back that summarizes it nicely - someone was talking about a scheduling system written they've used for years, and mentioned it was written in Perl. Ano
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by __jal 9y ago
Granted, HDMI can be infuriating, but months? More seriously, you can set this up with KPIs in a day with Zabbix. A week, if you've never dealt with Zabbix, which is admittedly somewhat complex compared to some of the others.
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by __jal 9y ago
Then I want my quarter back. The pacing of this game sucks, over a third of the game-clock is mostly grinding, another third is spent on hallucinating nonsense, and the "plot" seems like it is made up as it goes along. And don&#x2
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by __jal 9y ago
It was a well-discussed idea at the time, so I'm not sure who you're referring to. But Hermann Goering famously discussed it with Gustave Gilbert: "[...] the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is
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by __jal 9y ago
If your workflow depends on centralization, run your own centralized service. If you can't live without the GUI, Github will even sell you Github Enterprise. Or just run Gitolite or one of the other tools.

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