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by amoshi 6y ago
I thought so too, Xiaomi Mi 9T here with a popup camera mechanism. But then again, wouldn't the website have to ask for camera permissions? Or is there some permission-less approach like the one for evaluating MIDI devices which is use
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by amoshi 6y ago
What if you want to express a thought or opinion that is not politically correct though, or might simply be controversial? It by think twice you mean not express it at all, then it sounds like subconscious self-censorship (if such a thing e
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by amoshi 6y ago
Root and then get flagged by Google's SafetyNet, preventing you from Netflix, banking apps etc? That's a brave but big sacrifice
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by amoshi 7y ago
Because Cloudflare and Google Recaptcha will lock you out.
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by amoshi 7y ago
Good point, it's just that every now and then I come across some cool opensource projects with horrible names, which hinder their adoption and searchability, and overall seem to do them a great disservice. /e/ [0] comes to mi
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by amoshi 7y ago
Plausible deniability, like hidden containers in TrueCrypt? That's a double edged sword though - imagine you give up, surrender the password and are then being asked to unlock a hidden volume, which you don't have.
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by amoshi 7y ago
So many letter combinations in the world and they went for "Nymph"Cast? Like Nympho (Nymphomaniac)?
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by amoshi 7y ago
>Ummm, you just ask. Not as in hey, are you single? but you seem interesting, how about a coffee next week?. The answer will tell you everything to know. No it won't? I know girls who would think of such propositions as friendship r
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by amoshi 7y ago
Sounds incredibly inconvenient. What if your guest is expecting/gets a phone call that day? Or they want to show you some holiday pictures? What about smart watches? I'm really conflicted, as your approach is privacy focused but I
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by amoshi 7y ago
Might want to rethink that. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_i...
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by amoshi 7y ago
Yep, and the moment someone starts asking questions or being "uncooperative" they are dealt with - as was Amine Halawi in [0]. [0] https://theintercept.com/2019/10/26/jho-low-1mbd-comoros-off...
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by amoshi 7y ago
Or just add NSFW in front to bypass age verification https://nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q
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by amoshi 7y ago
Brings to mind the secret psyops JTRIG group (part of the GCHQ), as revealed by Edward Snowden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig... Look at the presentation slides from below - scary to thin
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by amoshi 7y ago
Steam is worse - weekly "maintenance" on Tuesday evening, where everyone is disconnected for ~10-20 minutes. It's common knowledge not to play at that time if the game uses Steam networking, otherwise you'll be kicked mi
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by amoshi 7y ago
The comment in question > zede05 [developer] 26 Jun @ 3:58am @The sap is rising! We have all of our available code backed up on our SVN server. But the programmer that wrote the lobby code back in 2014 wrote some of the code directly to
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by amoshi 7y ago
It's Distributed Systems, the context is Paxos after all...
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by amoshi 7y ago
Source? Looked online and couldn't find anything apart from one or two untrustworthy mentions on quora.
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by amoshi 8y ago
Try "Block This!", operates in the same manner but never crashes (at least on my machine ™)
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by amoshi 8y ago
Same could be said about Office, yet I don't see posts about minor stuff like this for it.
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by amoshi 8y ago
Too bad it works by creating a local VPN - I'm already using "Block This!" to block ads on my device which also works via a VPN, so you can't use both at the same time.
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by amoshi 8y ago
Check out Rapport, big banks prompt you to install it everytime you visit their login page.
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by amoshi 8y ago
This, please change the title, I'm sure it will be used as a means of playing down or dismissing the content of the article.
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by amoshi 8y ago
There are still some essential government, military and corporate websites relying on these protocols that will not be updated any time soon - it should always be possible for a user to override this block. I really dislike this "brows
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by amoshi 8y ago
In an interview with Germany's ARD TV channel, the former NSA contractor said the agency would spy on big German companies that competed with US firms. [0] President Barack Obama got a list of talking points that United Nations Secr
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by amoshi 8y ago
I think this will happen. Brings to mind Google's secret project The Selfish Ledger, especially how it can be used for "Behavioural Sequencing"... [0] As tech gets better it'll become easier to analyse the masses and mak
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by amoshi 8y ago
And if they were, you think they would admit it?
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by amoshi 8y ago
Omegle? You specify your interests and then get matched with a stranger
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by amoshi 8y ago
Just looked into NSA agent Kevin Igoe, somehow the vote to boot him off the group failed a few years ago. The millions and billions from the NSA's black budget[0] have to end up somewhere after all... [0] https://www.washing
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by amoshi 8y ago
>forbids its members from spying on each other It isn't spying if they willingly exchange the information they have intercepted. Straight from the link you posted: Yet there have been reports in the British press — amplified most r
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by amoshi 8y ago
As the other poster has mentioned, they would bleed them. Yahoo $250,000 daily fine over NSA data refusal was set to double 'every week' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa

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