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by ahje 8y ago
This is going to be one helluva ride; there's thousands of web site using the same kind of implementation, and a 50M fine does send quite a message.
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by ahje 8y ago
Ditto. I stuck to 1650 x 900 for as long as I could, but alas, It's hard to get those monitors nowadays. I've since switched to full HD-screens, zooming everything to 150%-200%. It's readable in most cases, but considerably l
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by ahje 8y ago
That's the problem: pretty much everyone I know -- including my mother, who started claiming I was hard to get hold of when I asked her to call instead of messaging my wife on Facebook -- stopped keeping in touch. Most people I know si
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by ahje 8y ago
I tried, and ended up losing contact with pretty much all of my family. Facebook is so deeply integrated with their daily lives that they consider e-mails, phone calls and SMS'es to be an unneccesary hassle. After a while I had to get
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by ahje 8y ago
If the data is valuable then one should have an off-site backup anyway. I use an old laptop pretty much in the same way that the author uses his Pi's. While it's fairly new SSD is much more reliable than the Pi's SD card I wo
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by ahje 8y ago
Closer to the truth than one might think. The Pi can be tinkered with in the same way one could tinker with an Amiga or an Atari back in the days. You can, of course, tinker around in a Docker container or a VM as well, but they're not
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by ahje 8y ago
My wife and I got a couple of rescue dogs a few years back. I hate to say it, but it is one thing we will never do again; there's simply too many mental issues with them after they've been subjected to whatever horrors they were s
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by ahje 8y ago
Gmail, and other large providers, use filters that adapt based on user input. If you report the messages as spam then the filter will learn, and hopefully catch them the next time.
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by ahje 8y ago
NetBSD has been running on toasters since 2005. It's just a matter of porting some kind of PI software to it.
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by ahje 8y ago
The practice is questionable at best, but it's a good reminder about that everying sent with radio waves can be picked up by others even if they were not the intended recipients and no matter if you want them to or not. It's prett
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by ahje 8y ago
And that is a fair point. I don't see why you would simply use an alternative DNS resolver in that case and not get a VPN or an SSH tunnel or something?
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by ahje 8y ago
This. I fail to see how an issue, which is essentially about trust, can be solved by trusting someone else. If you don't trust your ISP you should switch. If you don't trust your ISP and can't switch then you should be using
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by ahje 8y ago
This. My job provides the financial means of doing what I want to in my spare time. I'm not going to be a hypocrite and try to find deeper meaning in a job which basically means I'm making money for the business so that the shareh
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by ahje 8y ago
How will this help? The usenet providers will be responsible for the uploads their own customers do -- not for the content posted elsewhere on Usenet.
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by ahje 8y ago
The popularity of modern streaming services combined with the shortage of IP addresses and subsequent spread of carrier-grade NAT will make it a bit difficult for regular P2P networks to make a come-back. I can, however, imagine this will h
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by ahje 8y ago
I keep getting wierd looks when I do things with a regular utility knife instead of spending five minutes fetching "the right tool for the job". I bet the ancient ones had the same problem when someone used a small shard of rock f
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by ahje 8y ago
> you just need your entire country to have a total meltdown That happens more often than one might think. There are quite a few countries, that are currenly on the brink of collapse, so it is not unlikely that one or more of them will a
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by ahje 8y ago
That argument could easily be reversed: Why wouldn't the Chinese be worried about bugs embedded in foreign tech used for sensitive tasks like military applications? In both cases it's more a matter of trust than anything else. Sin
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by ahje 8y ago
> Some electrons were converted into photons of different frequencies mostly in the human visual spectrum, and some electrons were converted into other frequences in the spectrum that can be converted into a meaning by a human. If someon
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by ahje 8y ago
I was going to write a long rant as a reply, but it all really comes down to this: > I think it should even extend beyond personal diet to preventing others from inflicting pain on the living If we assume a lion (or another predatorial a
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by ahje 8y ago
If they have nothing to hide then they have nothing to worry about. Right? Twitter* suggests there are at least evidence of nepotism amongst the leaked documents, so one would assume there will be some kind of fallout because of this. If th
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by ahje 8y ago
Isn't one of the advantages of having a tablet that you can skip the smart phone and get a feature phone with a two-week batterly life instead?
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by ahje 8y ago
"“The law says that any event which is open to the public, and is ’cause related’, requires a permit when a foreigner speaks." There was a foreign speaker participating over Skype. As idiotic as the law seems to be, I do believe t
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by ahje 8y ago
Awareness of oneself is a completely different matter. The Mirror Test is far from perfect, but it does demonstrate that some individuals of some species are indeed capable identifying themselves as individuals in a group, indicating at lea
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by ahje 8y ago
The most intelligent Cetaceans are Orcas and Bottle-nosed Dolphins. Both pass the mirror test* while other whales have failed. The same applies for pigs and most other mammals. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_tes
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by ahje 8y ago
Well, according to the article: > Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said commercial whaling would be restricted to Japanese territorial waters and economic zones. > As a result, Japan will stop hunting in Antarctic waters and the so
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by ahje 8y ago
BankID should be safe, as the communication can be secured by other means like HTTPS/TLS (assuming it's still an app/applet -- haven't used it in many years). The article is about the basic communication between the phon
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by ahje 8y ago
Not just that: The rest of the world are running around with matches and lighters, are watching us, thinking "Damn, I want one of those" and have started building their own flamethrowers. Now we're telling them to stop buildi
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by ahje 8y ago
Good point! Monitoring is also one of those critical things one should always have.
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by ahje 8y ago
Both. The one at 180 AU would be considered the 9th known planet from the Sun, until the one at 120 AU was discovered.

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