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by aorth 5y ago
Hmm, something in my uBlock Origin filters blocks their signup page. Anyways, I've been using https://www.numberbarn.com/ for SMS-based 2FA for a few years. Works great for stupid services that demand a US phone number
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by aorth 5y ago
What I don't get when people say "the blockchain" is: which one are they talking about? And how do we know this chain will still be around in a few years? And how do we know it won't fork? How do you know if an NFT certi
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by aorth 5y ago
I can't even watch the keynote without logging in. I don't have a Facebook account... ummmmm.
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by aorth 5y ago
Article says: > Last year, 374 officers died - 245 of them due to Covid-19, more than any other cause combined. But yes it's very high!
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by aorth 5y ago
Isn't this the one that (ab)uses GitHub Actions?
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by aorth 5y ago
Ah, I just checked my records. I contacted them in 2021-02. Their response was: > We prefer customers to attach email addresses from widely recognized providers for security purposes. Additionally, our servers have a hard time communica
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by aorth 5y ago
> Edit to add: When CreditKarma gave up on me, I tried FreeTaxUsa. It sounds like a scam I know, but they are top notch, and cheap. Highly recommend. Ah! I remember FreeTaxUsa. They have this silly verification thing in their signup. You
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by aorth 5y ago
The code snippet in the gist is posted twice in the blog post... and I don't know why it's not just posted in code blocks...
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by aorth 5y ago
> Client is on Cloudflare page ... few hours later, after hitting the free 100,000 requests/day limit: > We've hit the free 100k req/day on @infura_io, and switched to @AlchemyPlatform But in his own screenshot it shows
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by aorth 5y ago
> If you are American you still pay us taxes, no matter where you live. You have to file, yes, but you don't necessarily have to pay. For Federal taxes there is the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. As long as you are outside of the
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by aorth 5y ago
This strikes me as being part of the larger war on general purpose computing. Microsoft is saying that, in order to use your expensive device, you need another expensive device, and you need to involve a third party as an arbiter. See Cory
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by aorth 5y ago
Yeah it's awesome! And their stock ticker is MRNA too! So cool... https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNGS:MRNA
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by aorth 5y ago
Ah wow, and ExpressVPN was also recently in the news because their CIO was one of three former U.S. intelligence operatives who "illegally helped the United Arab Emirates hack people". https://twitter.com/josephme
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by aorth 5y ago
> Can someone paste the article here? You can paste the title of the article in Google in a private window and you will be able to read it because FT.com wants the traffic from Google. As for your concerns: my advice is to stay far awa
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by aorth 5y ago
Apple Maps uses data from OpenStreetMap, so shouldn't it be as good (or bad) as OSM is? On Android, try OrganicMaps. It's a fork of the Maps.me OSM client by the original devs. It's good, but then again I've made thousan
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by aorth 5y ago
Arabic calligraphy. Specifically square kufic!
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by aorth 5y ago
So, as long as you have the podman socket enabled, you can just run the literal docker-compose script with `podman` aliased to `docker`? Interesting and cool! I think I still prefer not having to enable the socket and export DOCKER_HOST, bu
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by aorth 5y ago
Yes that's unfortunate. For what it's worth, Anthony Fauci was on a podcast in June, 2021 where he discussed the mid-2020 mask advice among other things. He basically said that, yes, they didn't want people to hoard them, but
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by aorth 5y ago
> Three-quarters of Salvadoreans surveyed in July by Disruptiva, a polling firm, were sceptical of the plan to adopt bitcoin. Two-thirds were not willing to be paid in it and just under half knew nothing about it. Well that's pret
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by aorth 5y ago
podman has been an amazing project to follow. Since early 2020 I've been using it for rootless containers with no daemon on my Linux development environment. Development pace is picking up and I get excited every time I get a notificat
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by aorth 5y ago
I'm in no way affiliated with Framework either. Just saw it mentioned few times in tech press recently. Finally watched some video reviews today and have to say I'm very impressed. Definitely eyeing them as a replacement when my
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by aorth 5y ago
How is it different? How many goods and services can you pay for with cryptocurrency where you live? What if your government's goons (or private goons for that matter) hit you with a rubber hose and steal your coins? Who will help you?
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by aorth 5y ago
Ah great! It indeed seems to be enhanced now, as opposed to a few weeks ago when GitHub CEO Nat Friedman announced initial support https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1420122675813441540 . I had used the CFF ini
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by aorth 5y ago
Prefer to avoid snaps too. First time I'm hearing of dehydrated . I've dabbled a bit with acme.sh too and it's good (can do ECC certs and it's a single shell script).
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by aorth 5y ago
Honest question: how does this firmware spyware affect Linux? If I get a ThinkPad and overwrite the pre-installed OS with my own, would spyware like this be able to do anything on Linux? I guess they could do the same thing, extract some bi
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by aorth 5y ago
The 1-in-a-trillion claim was debunked, https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On... : > Facebook is one of the biggest social media services. Back in 2013, they were receiving 350 millio
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Strange. What about GitLab and Gitea? And probably others.
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Yes the narrative around VPNs is misleading and maliciously deceptive. Non-technical people know enough to know they might benefit from a VPN, but not enough to know how to pick a good one—out of the frying pan and into the fire! In some ca
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by aorth 5y ago
I had a similar experience with LG. You need a developer account in order to install applications on webOS TVs. I successfully registered on the LG Developer portal with something like myname+us.lgaccount.com+2021-07-01@mydomain.com, but I
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by aorth 5y ago
Read about the austerity packages enforced by the EU in Greece over the last decade. Raised taxes, lowered tax brackets, restricted withdrawal of money from bank accounts, slashed pensions, cut bonuses and overtime, and on and on. Devastate

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