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by buro9 3y ago
Accessed via the Google One VPN and achieved 100% clean slate of "not a VPN". So tried several other VPNs that should be detected, none were Perhaps using Firefox breaks this site?
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by buro9 3y ago
No idea why this is on hn, but it's a great book, if you enjoy reading definitely find time for this one
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by buro9 3y ago
IIUC, movies are delivered to local storage via the internet, and those files are heavily DRMd, the DRM is checked synchronously when films are played.
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by buro9 3y ago
That's a tool, it still leaves open the question "Who will be the authority to determine what changes to allow to the blockchain?", the problem was not solved by introducing blockchain, you just changed the question slightly
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by buro9 3y ago
OMG, thank you!
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by buro9 3y ago
maybe you are in Scandinavia, but many countries do not even have a centralised register of births, deaths, marriages... and so they do not have a centralised and canonical record of identity of all people in the country.
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by buro9 3y ago
Oh yes, some large number of people are incredibly habitual. But some also large number of people are not.
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by buro9 3y ago
Governments do a bad job here, not a good one. They restrict people to a single immutable identity, that may not conform to other governments, that may not accommodate different languages and character sets, that are not flexible of gender,
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by buro9 3y ago
There is no good identity. Emails change, people lose access to old emails. People dislike usernames, they want to be able to choose non-unique ones rather than end up with user53267 or something inane. People lose devices, just storing a s
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by buro9 3y ago
I still love mine, and I love the replaceable battery and the fact that you can still get batteries. but best laptop in the World? I do use mine, occasionally, it's a great work horse around the house for network things as it has an et
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by buro9 3y ago
mostly my search is now Wikipedia. I'm probably in a very small group who have the entirety of English wikipedia (without images) on my Android (via Kiwix), and I just search that. 99% of the time that's all I need. the only excep
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by buro9 3y ago
the book is called "School of Life" https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/tsol-press-who-am-i-jou... and it's designed to be written in. it's a series of self-exploration exercises, where it supports
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by buro9 3y ago
I received a book that had been written all over, full of notes and scribbles... it was sold as "new". I complained, and they sent another. That too was scribbled all over, notes on every page. The book wasn't that expensive,
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Substack Turns on Its 'Nazis Welcome ' Sign(techdirt.com)
11 points by buro9 3y ago|0 comments
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Substack explains why they are paying Nazis to publish on their platform(kottke.org)
5 points by buro9 3y ago|9 comments
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by buro9 3y ago
Agree, but now you have microplastic particulates to dispose of, and containing these long term is a far harder problem than containing the original larger plastics.
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by buro9 3y ago
Exactly this. Waste incineration to create electricity, and also (according to those companies) to reduce emissions from landfills, and the need for land for waste. Even if you think it's going to landfill, a lot is not. And when it&#x
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by buro9 3y ago
I use everything. A windows laptop, a mac laptop, and also a Linux one. I've got everything connected to a CalDigit TS4 dock, and a single thunderbolt cable connects any of my laptops to it, that cable also charges the laptop at the sa
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by buro9 3y ago
Where do you think your trash goes?
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by buro9 3y ago
I work in a closet, it's in a London converted Victorian terrace house, a flat. The closet is 1.3m wide, 1.8m long... it is small, but it works. There is background noise, from my partner, and occasionally neighbours and building work
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by buro9 3y ago
Tesla are free to benchmark against Waymo. Or even against humans... not as a claim that is unverified, but to work to verify the claim with a third party.
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by buro9 3y ago
Reminder for those in the UK and Europe... this is illegal. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re... > Article 22(1) of the UK GDPR limits the circumstances in which you can make solely automa
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by buro9 3y ago
As an aside, this is the first video where I can't tell if it's a human speaking or an AI generated voice. The phenomenon of AI voices _and_ American voices choosing to be in a "presentation mode" / "telephone
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by buro9 3y ago
Tom Scott covered it https://youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w
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by buro9 3y ago
I think in ratios. How many frontend engineers to backend? How many engineering managers to ICs? How many technical writers to (all) engineers? How many product managers to (all) engineers? And I try and keep the ratios finely tuned to have
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by buro9 3y ago
From the article: > The update happens automatically, and does not require a visit to a dealership or garage, but is still referred to by the US regulator as a recall.
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by buro9 3y ago
The Experian Privacy Policy for the United Kingdom has been updated: > We may use Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning to provide ... our analysis Which appears to mean that AI driven analysis, i.e. credit scoring, is now
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Experian Consumer Product Privacy Policy(experian.co.uk)
1 points by buro9 3y ago|1 comments
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You just know that Tesla would tune the software for this specific route, if the value of the comparison number became meaningful. Just like you cannot trust benchmarks, Goodhart's law will kick in https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by buro9 3y ago
My oldest is my home page, I've had the same home page on all browsers and devices since 1998. It was Perl, then PHP, and it uses a text file as the database, and around 2000 was updated to XHTML and to have the ability to pull in RSS

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