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by blitmap 8y ago
I fully believe dragnet surveillance is dangerous. My point is, I can't just say "Dragnet surveillance is dangerous." A well-formed argument has citations and metrics and something to show relative scale. The people pushin
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by blitmap 8y ago
I do agree that the negatives of dragnet surveillance disproportionately harms society - much greater than the net-positives. I just don't feel like we have enough transparency to correctly scale that bar graph.
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by blitmap 8y ago
I sincerely doubt the argument that dragnet surveillance has no effect. I wish as soon as the information could be de-classified the NSA would publish about attacks it stopped. Doing so can expose sources and methods used to collect the i
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by blitmap 8y ago
I am hopeful the cost of entry will be greatly reduced in the near term with so many developed nations turning to renewables. By helping ourselves, we are lowering the barrier for less developed nations.
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by blitmap 8y ago
There was no probable cause for you to be under surveillance prior to the "random" stop.
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by blitmap 8y ago
I think it's different when you're told you will not get a raise for 5 years.
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by blitmap 8y ago
I stopped going to theaters because everyone brings their loud kids. Are you sure there isn't a larger draw for porn cinemas and liquor stores?
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by blitmap 8y ago
This is absolutely true. I have several members of my family who work in the gov, and I have witnessed years of inadequate inflation raises - nothing else. The "trade" was a nicer retirement and better health benefits.
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by blitmap 9y ago
I'm going to really enjoy piecing apart the incredible detail put into this article. https://tmsu.org/ This is nice.
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by blitmap 9y ago
I'm laughing because that's how this discussion will go when posted here: We'll detail a method to catch rogue sting-rays, then brainstorm how to operate them with less risk.
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by blitmap 9y ago
Seems like a fairly small number for removing propaganda/state influence.. https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9233-uncovering_british_spies_we...
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by blitmap 9y ago
This may seem like a ridiculous comment but I love that a lot of work on Linux has been to make it easy-as-pie to install/setup quickly and I feel like it's happened in the last couple years (cgroup + systemd stuff mostly). I pra
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by blitmap 9y ago
It's becoming almost necessary to have a wireless router that supports having a guest network where connected guests can't "talk to each other". The frustrating part is my Linksys has a captive portal rather than askin
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by blitmap 9y ago
This is a very illuminating post that I will remember when speaking about net neutrality, modern rights I think we should have (internet access), and how someone may find their way out of homelessness (if they desire). Thank you for this.
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by blitmap 9y ago
I wish we were combating child porn by offering anonymous therapy for those who are attracted to minors.
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by blitmap 9y ago
It stinks that people are allowed to create legislation like this which is almost certainly extreme/careless in how it affects companies/citizens, yet we must be reserved with how we call out the issues. We have lost footing on th
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by blitmap 9y ago
I was excited circa 2016 for OLED displays in laptops but that seems to have died. They were only 2560x1440 panels - I was hoping for 2160p to follow.
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by blitmap 9y ago
Would the Windows-equivalent of fork() be CreateProcess() ?
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by blitmap 9y ago
As an aside, it annoys me to know end that I can't sort search results in Amazon across different departments/areas by price. You have to choose a category like "Electronics" before you can do that. I wish Google made
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by blitmap 9y ago
puts on tinfoil hat We are convinced we are not productive - to the point we aren't recognizing when we are accomplishing more than 10, 15, 20 years ago.
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by blitmap 9y ago
Strongly disagree here. I think WebUSB will enable a lot of cool things, though it will definitely be hard to sandbox. I want to program an Arduino from a web IDE. I want to control a 3d printer or pen plotter from a web application. I wa
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by blitmap 9y ago
The focus of Android One seems to be running an unmodified Android? I don't think there is an emphasis on a minimum hardware spec. The phones showcased there do impress.. https://www.android.com/one/ Is there
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by blitmap 9y ago
This is also neat: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
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by blitmap 9y ago
Speaking as someone not at all involved in this space, I'd love for Google to take smartphones waaaay more seriously. I feel like in an effort to make Android easy to adopt and customize they have let the "feel" of Android s
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by blitmap 9y ago
I really like this comment. Amazon offers a lot of services (with ridiculous names) but you are too right that you're paying for the flexibility to pivot as your needs change. Dropbox did well to recognize its needs after a time usin
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by blitmap 9y ago
I had interviewed for an Editor position. The community writing articles for DigitalOcean's fellow customers seemed vibrant and I wanted to be a curator around this. The initial feedback I was given was very positive, and then I was
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by blitmap 9y ago
forward secrecy* - I mix that up too... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy
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by blitmap 9y ago
I thought this was because Javascript (by design) doesn't warn about shadowing identifiers.
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by blitmap 9y ago
I don't feel like ES6 gives me the concision or expressiveness of Coffeescript either.
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by blitmap 9y ago
I really wanted an XPS 13 with a 3840x2160 screen. Now that it's available I've been turned off by the meager performance gains for casual gaming on an integrated Intel GPU. And then there's Meltdown/Spectre. AMD isn&#

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