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721.
by bhaney 3y ago
> This is all so shady, and very un-Google like Where have you been the last several years?
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by bhaney 3y ago
It looks like the "de-hyped title" and summary for this submission ended up coming from the current top story on the NSO iPhone 0-day?
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by bhaney 3y ago
I went ahead and built the newest version of the ROM into a .z64 (happened to have a copy of Portal on hand). Here's a magnet link for it if you just want to use it: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5FAD6DBBF02D39AA40062D7F0F498F3F341F8DB3&tr=u
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by bhaney 3y ago
No it won't
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by bhaney 3y ago
I've had "silence unknown callers" turned on for like two years. If I'm expecting a call from a number I don't know in advance and I remember to, I'll briefly turn the setting off. Otherwise if it's import
726.
by bhaney 3y ago
I'm glad I actually read the whole article, because it paints a very different than the title and intro to someone who wasn't aware of this case until now. I thought it was kind of weird that someone would feel the need to bribe a
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by bhaney 3y ago
> 32.63 million meters [...] is more than five times longer than the diameter of the Earth (12.74 million meters) These walls of generated bullshit should just be considered spam at this point.
728.
by bhaney 3y ago
I regularly use other distros' docs and guides for getting things done on Debian. I probably spend more time on the Arch wiki than any Debian-specific sites.
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by bhaney 3y ago
That's a good point! I don't intend there to be a "future owner" of it, but I've made a note to sever the USB data lines when I have some time tomorrow. Want to leave the USB power lines intact in case an accessory
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by bhaney 3y ago
I don't think the TV can electrically tell the difference between the ethernet port being soldered in or not. Removing the wireless NIC was the only thing I was concerned might cause some broken behaviors.
731.
by bhaney 3y ago
I can always solder the port back on if I really need to
732.
by bhaney 3y ago
It wasn't much effort at all, and I enjoyed doing it. And I've mentioned in another comment why "just don't connect it" isn't necessarily a foolproof plan, even if it's very likely to be sufficient.
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by bhaney 3y ago
I mentioned it in another comment, but it's to prevent the case where the TV might be connected with an ethernet cable in the future by someone other than me, giving it an opportunity to upload any collected historical data it might ha
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by bhaney 3y ago
> You can achieve the same effect by not connecting the television to wifi or Ethernet You can hope that you're achieving the same effect, unless the manufacturer has shipped the device with software that will scan for open wireless
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by bhaney 3y ago
I recently bought a smart TV and spent about 20 minutes unscrewing its back plate, unplugging the daughter-board where its wireless NIC and antennas were, and desoldering the ethernet port from the main board. Was super easy and the TV stil
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by bhaney 3y ago
> I'm giving the mafia money so they don't break my legs. Isn't this an inherently "anti-mafia-breaking-legs" consumer standpoint? No
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by bhaney 3y ago
I have all of these off, and I still occasionally receive promotional emails from Apple with no "unsubscribe" link anywhere. I've had the same concern as the OP, but I've come to the conclusion that I probably can't
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by bhaney 3y ago
> user agent detection Is it really that hard to just check for the WEI feature directly instead of checking to see if the user agent is Chrome's? There are going to be non-chrome users spoofing their user agent as Chrome, or people
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by bhaney 3y ago
The typo in "your name will be engraved into the anals of history" really distracted me from the gravitas of the article.
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by bhaney 3y ago
What "critique" are you talking about?
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by bhaney 3y ago
Their financials are public [1]. See page 4 of the document (6th page of the pdf) for their expenditure breakdown. Some quick highlights: of their >$150M of usable donations, they spent about 57% of it on "salaries," 10% of it
742.
by bhaney 3y ago
> all I learnt is that it's somehow related to Scheme It is Scheme
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by bhaney 3y ago
That's a lot of extra coordination to add to a method that already depends on an awful lot of coordination.
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by bhaney 3y ago
By this logic, Uber should have gone bankrupt >5 times by now
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by bhaney 3y ago
Love this article. So many great points that I deeply agree with but have never really put into words, and all written in such an engaging style.
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by bhaney 3y ago
Probably a joke, but publicly admitting to market manipulation seems like a pretty bad idea either way.
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by bhaney 3y ago
I'm wearing a 2016 Hacktoberfest t-shirt as I write this, so it's sad to see the t-shirt rewards go. But maybe that's what the event needs in order to attract less garbage PR spam, which imo has been ruining the event in a lo
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by bhaney 3y ago
If you only want the current text of English wikipedia, the dump is 22GB compressed (no images, history, talk pages, or other languages) [1] Wikipedia also publishes an index file with that compressed dump, which allows you to extract only
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by bhaney 3y ago
No
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by bhaney 3y ago
I never use a swap partition anymore at all. I just create or destroy swapfiles dynamically as I feel I need them.

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