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by acabal 12y ago
> * Is it hard to buy an RPi and set-it-up for a home Tor node? * To buy a VPS and setup a Tor-node then route all the traffic through it?! * Run tor-browser on your desktop when/if you need Tor? Well... yeah, it is hard. It's
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by acabal 12y ago
Congrats on getting to a situation that works for you, but I would gently suggest that having to custom-patch suexec of all things might not be the best way to approach a long-term solution. I don't know how that aspect of the solutio
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by acabal 12y ago
Looks like a great upgrade to the Kindle Paperwhite, in particular the return of physical page turn buttons. But my biggest wish--native epub support--still isn't there :(
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by acabal 12y ago
I recently wrote on my blog about the cost of having a benign mole removed. I got so angry when I heard the cost of that simple procedure that I went online and calculated the cost to do it in Colombia, where I have some family. Long stor
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by acabal 12y ago
Wikipedia believes faithful reproductions (i.e., scans) of 2-d public domain work to also be in the public domain [1]. If that interpretation is correct, then the Met's licensing restrictions--at least for their scans of paintings and
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by acabal 12y ago
Not in this case, I don't think. If there's a way to break encryption, even in the smallest way, then it's not really encrypted, and calling it "good enough" does a disservice to people who actually expect it to
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by acabal 13y ago
That's the ballpark I figured in, and that's why I'm just using Crashplan. $5/month for unlimited storage, but with "encryption" in scare quotes. Paying literally 50x that for Tarsnap is just not practical, s
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by acabal 13y ago
Hit the nail on the head with the pricing model. I really want a backup solution like Tarsnap that encrypts my data client-side and has an OSS client. I'm even fine with it being a Unixy command-line tool. But I have almost 1TB--a l
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by acabal 13y ago
I read this a long time ago and I can't recommend it enough. It does a good job of introducing the concepts of stoicism and defending the philosophy from our modern assumptions of the word. A very good read. The word 'stoicism&#
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by acabal 13y ago
Google Maps' killer feature for me is getting directions for public transport. Finding out how to get from point A to point B using buses and subways is invaluable. It doesn't seem like any Android OSM client has that yet... too
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by acabal 13y ago
On my wishlist is some kind of basic Google Voice number integration. Since messages are encrypted then clearly we can't use the GV web interface, which is fine, since what interests me is the "one phone number" feature of G
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by acabal 13y ago
For the most part it's either epub or mobi at this point in the ebook game, with the rare occasional pdf. Epub and mobi are essentially interchangeable thanks to Calibre, and if you need PDF then you probably need more complex formatt
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by acabal 13y ago
I like them specifically for reading web pages. When reading I can just rest my hand on the right side of the keyboard and browse with home/pgup/pgdown/end. Usually when I'm reading like this I'm not typing and so
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by acabal 13y ago
I passed over buying an X1 Carbon for a few reasons, but I always check the keyboard of a potential purchase for the pgup/pgdown/home/end keys on the right-hand column. Modern ultrabooks got rid of them (despite there often
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by acabal 13y ago
Pretty often. Yes you can use mb_* functions everywhere but not all string functions have an mb_* counterpart, and forget just once and you risk blowing up the entire rest of the request. Not to mention times when you have to use a 3rd pa
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by acabal 13y ago
Wow, this is a whole lot of nothing. Instead of recognizing the problem of having secret Star Chamber-ish courts in the first place, he just says "yeah we're just really going to make sure the NSA goes to them first." Mass
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by acabal 13y ago
It's a triclosan one. I imagine flushing it all at once would be worse than using it.
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by acabal 13y ago
I never used antibacterial hand soap precisely because I assumed it would somehow contribute to bacterial resistance, and because humanity survived just fine with regular hand soap in the bathroom for centuries. Having said that I've
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by acabal 13y ago
That's a false dichotomy. If the NSA disappeared tomorrow we would not all be dead thanks to terrorists or whatever. Instead, the question is one of acceptable risk. The concept of risk is something the American public has seemed to
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by acabal 13y ago
This is FUD. Anecdotally, I managed to browse coverage on the healthcare.gov site a few days ago, and the cheapest plan offered is about what I currently pay for individual health insurance, but a much, much, better plan than what I have.
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by acabal 13y ago
My guess is that they're doing it so they can have control over the pace of development and features. I think Shuttleworth got burned by the early-days Gnome Shell debacle--he felt that they had no input on or control over what Gnome
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by acabal 13y ago
What stood out for me from this article wasn't the homework load, which only seems slightly more than what I remember from my own youth, but rather that: 1) a teacher can accuse a parent of "cyberbullying" for an email sent i
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by acabal 13y ago
The issue is more a one of trust, as pretty much all computer security issues boil down to. Apple (and Gruber) says one thing; but since the code is not available for inspection, and since you presumably can't alter the code on your a
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by acabal 13y ago
It's not being pedantic, it's crucial to the problem of Bitcoin. If I'm trying to live outside of government meddling, and yet I'm spending in dollars, then I may as well keep my savings in monopoly money. Why? Becaus
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by acabal 13y ago
So... you're actually living off dollars.
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by acabal 13y ago
I'm not sure it's as easy to do as you suggest. Moving large amounts of money internationally is difficult to do depending on the receiving country, and impossible to do without having it tracked. If you fly, you have to declare
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by acabal 13y ago
How is this different from the last Paperwhite model? I see "improved screen" and "faster processor". It seems like there's also some new software features, but that's just software. Is that all that's
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by acabal 13y ago
I think it's become a cultural thing, unfortunately. I've spent the last few years seeing the world, and the difference in attitudes between the people of many other countries and Americans at home is striking. We've become
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by acabal 13y ago
I miss the Palm Touchstone. Not only was the accessory itself brilliant--magnets held the phone in place and aligned--but the entire Pre ecosystem had a thoughtful and slick feel to everything about it. Very much the opposite of the Nexus
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by acabal 13y ago
I was thinking about this today--whether or not this was a smart move for the government. On one hand, it's obvious that bullying the partner of a famous journalist is going to get negative media attention. On the other hand, maybe tha

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