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by cge 5y ago
My understanding is that not only was there no connection with anonymity, but the suspect was not anonymous even before the murder, having booked an appointment for the surgery. Possibly the argument here is with regards to being able to tr
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by cge 5y ago
If the wifi is eduroam, as many are now on university campuses, you should take a look at the service standards [1], especially page 32. While recommendations (on page 33) are only to block a minimum number of ports, if needed, in practice
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by cge 5y ago
Not just every search query: apparently location data too. >When contextual suggestions are enabled, the feature uses your city location and search keywords to make contextual suggestions from Firefox and our partners, while keeping your
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by cge 5y ago
As a somewhat traditionalist physicist, and having grown up around university campuses, I love university libraries, and probably use them more than most scientists. It was a bit of a revelation to me when my partner, a historian, casually
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by cge 5y ago
The work is actually back at auction now, with a significantly higher estimate than its original sale price. https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/contemporary-ar...
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by cge 5y ago
>Because it's so rare in countries with the medical infrastructure to report these things, it's probably pretty hard to infer the actual survival rate. I'm reasonably certain that rabies without intensive treatment (Milwau
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by cge 5y ago
That article is from a few years after the first successful attempt at treatment. While enormously involved and expensive, with a low probability of success and a near certainty of moderate to severe neurological damage, it appears that th
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by cge 5y ago
It certainly appears to be. That's a bit confusing, however. Every example photograph rather prominently notes the camera, not phone, it was taken with. The features seem primarily useful for camera-and-raw-processing photographers.
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by cge 5y ago
It is perhaps useful to consider the entirety of the disclosure, however, in that it would let you know that by pressing "reject all", it appears that you are allowing all their listed purposes: they claim legitimate interest fo
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I had also heard a point for toothpaste involving the marketing: toothpaste advertisements, and all marketing imagery of toothpaste on a toothbrush, almost always show absurdly larger amounts of toothpaste than is effective or appropriate
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by cge 5y ago
Remarkable lists "Wi-Fi / USB-C / Accessory port" under "Connectivity" for the Remarkable 2, and "USB C connectivity for fast file transfer and charging" in its comparison. The device also does have t
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by cge 5y ago
This is particularly frustrating, yes. I think I'd actually prefer it if applications could not make arbitrary changes to system/user defaults on their own. I've had problems with this on Windows, when I've needed to u
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by cge 5y ago
I recently switched my SSH servers to only listen to IPv6. They're still on port 22, and still pointed to by DNS, yet, while they received bot connection attempts every few seconds when listening for IPv4, they haven't received a
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by cge 5y ago
Frustratingly, presumably because they are thinking about that possible accessory, they also designed the USB-C port in what has to be a completely noncompliant way so as to keep any keyboards (or most anything else potentially useful) from
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by cge 5y ago
I've just had the unpleasant surprise that, even when you do flash your 3 year old flagship phone to get at least some semblance of security updates, Google is now rolling out hardware attestation for SafetyNet, which is likely to be i
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by cge 5y ago
>No, it's an en space, which is something quite different. This sort of mixup doesn't exactly inspire confidence. There appear to be numerous mixups that likely come from copying examples without understanding them. One example
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by cge 5y ago
Except it appears that Toyota itself is pushing the anti-self-driving line here as well. I'm certainly skeptical of some claims about self-driving, can understand that there are differences in being apologetic, and can understand the
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by cge 5y ago
Emacs is so great out-of-the-box that, unless you're in a terminal, every time you launch it to edit a file, it will take up half its window with a welcome message, until you specifically create a configuration file to disable that. T
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by cge 5y ago
That documentation is thorough does not mean that it is good . If anything, one might argue that Emacs documentation being so extensive while buing built around idiosyncratic conventions makes it worse, not better, for many cases: it mea
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by cge 5y ago
I'm in Ireland at the moment, where the health system, and vaccination process, appears to use mother's maiden name as a de facto password. There is no option to change it. It is often asked in person, and so can't be use
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by cge 5y ago
>Now, will China follow this? Probably not. It's quite possible that countries would do the same thing interested parties on both sides are accused of doing with membership and voting in the International Whaling Commission: find co
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by cge 5y ago
On the other side of this: there's a residential street I cross rather frequently in California which is a straight road with good visibility, and this being California, both unsignalled crossings and a 35mph speed limit. Everyone driv
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by cge 5y ago
It appears the company is pretty serious about trying to create an open market for the expansion cards. They have CC-BY licensed reference designs of the expansions cards ( https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Expansion
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by cge 5y ago
This has been common for mailing addresses: with a parsing and validation system, the site will tell the user "We think you entered ... as your address; we think your address should be this: ...", along with options to keep the or
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by cge 5y ago
>I hate with a fiery, burning passion every site that attempts to do any kind of email validation beyond simply sending me an email and letting me click a link to verify my email exists. Yet at the same time, that's the one importan
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by cge 5y ago
The major point of Protonmail, I think, is the no-access encrypted storage, not E2E-encrypted transit, which it does have, but only in limited and, as you point out, problematic circumstances. If your concern is with state-level actors with
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by cge 5y ago
On desktop, meanwhile, it apparently assumes that you're using one maximized browser window. If you aren't, eg, if you're using half of a 16:10 screen, it pops up an enormous modal overlay warning you that you're on a mo
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by cge 5y ago
Wikipedia's article on that trial ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity_trial_of_Ulysses_in_... ) suggests that Quinn both didn't like Ulysses and didn't like his clients, to say the least. The whole
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by cge 5y ago
Note that for the usaddress library, as I was surprised that it failed spectacularly when I played with it: the 'us' in the name appears to refer to the US, not 'unstructured'. There's no note of this in the readme
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by cge 5y ago
I'm not too familiar with Irish law, but the explanatory notes for Head 16 seem to suggest that the search warrants would be scoped by location, rather than topic.

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