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by avidiax 3y ago
The problem, at least indoors, is not emissive (LCD/OLED) vs. reflective (E-ink). You can very closely simulate a reflective display using an emissive display and ambient light sensors. That's what Google's Nest Hub Max does,
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Do we actually have any proof of this? It's entirely possible that the people currently advocating, and the current would-be users will only target our current definition of "bad people". On a long enough time horizon, e
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by avidiax 3y ago
> they can damn well afford a laptop. My back can't afford it. A MacBook Pro is already heavy enough that you can feel if it's in a large suitcase. 2 would be ridiculous. I do have a separate partition for personal. Maybe I sho
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by avidiax 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231001002607/https://www.nytim...
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by avidiax 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230930132321/https://www.justi...
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by avidiax 3y ago
Are there countries where the police don't track where you are at all times? There is a qualitative difference between "could, with a valid reason and manual effort, track" vs. "automatically tracked and shared with your
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by avidiax 3y ago
> break the law You misunderstand the law. The police can collect evidence in their jurisdiction. They are free to grab papers, phones, laptops, servers, etc. If the hard drives are encrypted, they can ask a judge to compel decryption, a
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Call legal and site security Precisely the people that have IT on speed dial to cut off site access, deactivate accounts and badges.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Yes, the company would comply with discovery, but it operated in hundreds of jurisdictions, and sometimes those jurisdictions think that kicking in doors and telling the interns that they'll go to prison if they don't give their p
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by avidiax 3y ago
This. It is a very useful way to get access to unlocked workstations and corporate phones, which allows any city police force to search or access information that a national or foreign court might never allow, or only after a drawn out lega
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Maybe at the cost of latency because it has to switch channels back and forth? Not necessarily. It can be a client on 2.4Ghz and an access point on 5Ghz. Even without that, if it has MIMO, then one of the antennas can be receiving 2.4G
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by avidiax 3y ago
> The worst case scenario is Google just loses the case and the FTC gets whatever it has asked for. As a deterrent to failure to produce inculpating documents, "maybe" getting the same punishment as producing the documents fait
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by avidiax 3y ago
Store at about 50-70% charge, in a metal box, in the refrigerator. That will allow the cells to last the maximum amount of time. You might need to periodically recharge them, but this could be months at least for electronics that can be tur
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by avidiax 3y ago
* Fileserver (SMB) * Download agent (i.e. torrent, JDownloader, ARIA) * Tailscale exit node * Endlessh tarpit * Sadly more reliable than my Mac Mini when running server workloads (lots of open SMB files crash MacOS) And all of this at quite
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by avidiax 3y ago
Everyone is forgetting that Apple can respond. All Apple has to do is lower their rake and announce some kind of privacy program that allows intelligent ad placement, and Facebook will stay on the main app store. Alternative app stores are
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by avidiax 3y ago
People that are wildly successful are lucky. They may have "made their own luck" by working hard, being smart, etc., but those factors are at most prerequisites, not predictors of success. The people wasting their lives at megacor
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by avidiax 3y ago
I hadn't thought of this part. I don't think that's the only limitation, though. Even with a spherical planet, no atmosphere, and 0-diameter sun, there might at most be a circle on the planet that experiences equal day and ni
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by avidiax 3y ago
Parallel construction is foremost a run-around of the "fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine".[1] It allows law enforcement to use methods that might amount to illegal searches, and then avoid judicial scrutiny of those methods. Se
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by avidiax 3y ago
You can use them twice with Fluorine.
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by avidiax 3y ago
> I can’t imagine Uber would ever be allowed to have a fully owned Chinese subsidiary competing in that market You imagine correctly, to my knowledge. Western companies in China have to be 51% Chinese owned, on paper. In reality, they ow
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by avidiax 3y ago
Uber, at that time, was "scrappy". Every operating city was a different market with different rules, so Uber was akin to a franchiser that gave their market managers wide leeway to setup whatever business processes are needed to s
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by avidiax 3y ago
I've seen one particular one many times: +---------+ +--------+ |expensive| +------------------+ |internet+-------+ load +--------+a bunch of servers| +--------+ |balancer | +----
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by avidiax 3y ago
Why are load balancers so popular in the first place? I've never seen an architecture diagram for a high availability horizontally scalable system that included a generic load balancer. When I give system design interviews, it's a
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by avidiax 3y ago
Not the case in Germany. You just can't post the videos to public places. https://www.dw.com/en/dashcams-in-germany-permissible-in-cou... Austria is supposedly completely illegal, but unless the police there will
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by avidiax 3y ago
Surveillance capitalism dovetails nicely with parallel construction [1]. The surveillance capitalists sell your data to the highest bidder, with the agreement that the source of the data is not revealed. Parallel construction allows the gov
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by avidiax 3y ago
Which country is this? Switzerland has it in a grey area. You certainly can't publish the videos on YouTube, but it could be examined by the police. It's certainly a net positive on society to allow dashcams, since it resolves amb
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by avidiax 3y ago
What I mean is that the paternoster is usually smaller than an elevator. So in the vertical footprint of a typical elevator, I think you could fit 1 or 2 paternosters (2 to 4 cars, since each paternoster has 1 car in each direction looking
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by avidiax 3y ago
Yes, this is why I went with the medium 10gbps package from Init7, with only a 1gbps internal network. Each port is 100% independent bandwidth-wise, and maybe I'll eventually add a 2.5gbps adapter on a suitable host.
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by avidiax 3y ago
I have 10gbit service, 1gb internal network. So like you, but 1 generation forward. I don't usually saturate 1gbps, but I definitely saturate 100mbps with XBOX downloads, any cloud provider, torrents, etc. You could probably pull your
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by avidiax 3y ago
Is there a modern guide to UseNet that you'd recommend?

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