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by brbsix 11y ago
https://tusfiles.net/3d5ea3kw8nky A very cursory look seems to indicate the microphone permission is used by Gracenote ( https://developer.gracenote.com/ ) music recognition SDK.
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It was a pain in the butt to find the bomb executable, so for anyone interested, here is the link for a Linux/x86-64 binary bomb: http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/bomb.tar
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If you don't prefer a third-party comments system for whatever, you can always host your own and insert it in your static site the same as you would with Disqus. I was considering doing this for a while and found React has a pretty goo
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I was looking around for a quote along these lines, but I think you've just expressed it quite well: "Removing the ability of the rich to do so won't magically give that ability to the poor." It is quite easy to retard t
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It currently says "We couldn’t use the popular Ubuntu and RedHat distributions because they basically require GPU hardware acceleration". Ubuntu uses Unity (graphical shell for GNOME desktop environment). Unity is very graphics in
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Wow that's somewhat scary to hear so many people in academia are using MS Word. Most papers I read are done in LaTeX and I just assumed the rest were done on OSX (with whatever they use). Here's a good article I found a while back
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With regards to priority number 2 (that the property is kept in good condition): The landlord rents out a property at an expected degree of risk. They make this determination by screening the renter and drafting an appropriate rental contra
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Even worse, there are reports that Uber is suspending drivers who register their vehicles with commercial licenses. There have also been a number of individual reports of drivers refusing to serve blind passengers or disabled individuals
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This is really cool... Do you have any real world examples where you've made use of this? I can imagine this would be very helpful for Python apps that are extensible with themes or plugins, just curious if any projects are already usi
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I don't really understand this. Why use grep? You can just use `find ~/Documents -name somefileiwant -ls`. You can use -regex or -path if you need to use regular expressions to describe a filename or path, respectively. Alternativ
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Theoretically maybe, but I'm sure they'll be using a mixing service to obfuscate the destination(s).
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I don't have an answer, but I imagine it would likely have something to do with facilitating money laundering (e.g. lack of banking regulatory compliance), lack of any sort of LE backdoor, or violation of US export law regarding crypto
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I wish there was an easy way to write man pages. Or is there? It might help greater adoption. I've looked into conversion tools like pandoc, which can supposedly convert from other markup types, but it never really seems to turn out we
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With very few exceptions, open source projects (particularly infrastructure projects that add value to end-user projects) are not getting financial contributions from the companies that monetize them. Just look at GnuPG, OpenSSH, or OpenBSD
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The last time I tried Electrolysis I had issues with plugins. Some of the plugins are fairly essential to me (e.g. NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere) so I wasn't able to use it as a daily driver. The fault for that may rest at the plugin deve
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I don't know for sure, but I would guess that the statistical distribution of popularity on HN or Reddit is very similar to the hockey-stick shaped graph illustrated in the article.
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Rates for what? Rates for murder and violent crime are not similar across all races. They vary significantly. In order (from highest to lowest) they tend to be as follows: Black, Hispanic, White, Asian. Coincidentally (or not), IQ tends to
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Agreed. I don't have a problem with the campaign and hope it goes well, it just seems as if the author is a bit out of touch. The 12 hour workshop (with a relatively unknown person) for $5k and a number of other little things really ad
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For anyone interested, I found the author's Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/user.php?v=queertypes&ty=h Cost of living is listed as $5k/mo on this page, which contrasts with the $6.6k/mo listed
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I don't think it's fair to state that the author's cost of living is irrelevant. The author is simply stating how much he/she needs in order to open source the content. The amount IMHO is immaterial. If you want to donat
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Great suggestion. This was one of the first books I read as I was starting a business many years ago. It proved invaluable. For anyone not familiar with it, a big focus of the book is about running your business like a franchise. Don't
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I really hope he had full disk encryption and left it powered off. At least your data would be safe from prying eyes, even if the device itself is no longer safe to use. If not, then that is really terrible practice, particularly for a secu
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That is a common misconception, but bears no resemblance to reality. As the other commenter noted, incognito mode (for any browser) only concerns with the local machine. What you mentioned, "minimize traces of activity left behind on o
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I've reviewed all the SSH clients in the Play store and I've found JuiceSSH to be the best by far. The only reason I could think to stay on ConnectBot is the added security (as it is open source). But with XPrivacy I feel the risk
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I would also recommend using something like AOSP with a very minimal GApps install. Or bake your own ROM if you really need fine control. I even had to build a modified TWRP recovery in order to fully support my latest device. Additionally,
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This sounds somewhat similar to /opt (albeit more complicated), wherein programs are located in /opt/package or /opt/provider. For example, the entirety of Sublime Text is stored in /opt/sublime_text and G
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It is a legitimate concern. There is all sorts of related stuff going on in the periphery, and has been for years. FasTrak (toll pass) records have been used by divorce attorneys and whatnot for the past decade or so. Many Bay Area cities o
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The aforementioned QPython includes Kivy libraries. Kivy is cross-platform across Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Android, and IOS. Its a Python library but seems mostly oriented towards games/graphics. That's a drawback for me, but some
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Because its just not practical (or desirable) to carry around a laptop everywhere I go whereas my phone is always charged and on me. Nor do I always have a reliable network connection.
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Yeah that sounds like Android intents ( http://developer.android.com/training/sharing/send.html ) and content:// style URIs. There's all sorts of really cool IPC (inter-process communication) mechanis

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