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by clubm8 8y ago
> Remember times when a thing like this would cause an outrage? Most news on the web is USA centric. I suspect if you replaced Privacy International with EFF, you'd get much more outrage.
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by clubm8 8y ago
They can also do cool stuff like currency conversion: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=10+cad+in+usd&atb=v123-2__&ia=curr... And generate passphrases: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=7+word+passphrase&atb=v12
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by clubm8 8y ago
On the maps side of things, !osm searches open street map, which is not perfect but decent enough for many cases. (Satellite data + reviews are lacking, but if you're like me and look up cities you see named in the news it gets the job
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> Same, very happy using DDG. I hope they're becoming profitable. It's my understanding they are profitable, a large chunk being things like Amazon referrals (nontrackable). They may not have as many users but they also have mu
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by clubm8 8y ago
>typing "!g" when a search does not return what I want is too clumsy. It requires 7 touch-events on mobile (including focus and space). Part of the issue is you search differently with Google. Most users treat their keywords as
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She doesn't have to force them not to leave. Merely giving a televised speech that she respects the will of the people, but hopes they will take into consideration here years of experience and view it will be dreadfully harmful would h
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>The Leave voters will all call you undemocratic. That sentiment imposes a definite cost on you as well. This is the same country that has the queen give "consent" for all legislation, correct? What exactly is the point of the
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TL;DR: Can't get divorced if you never get married
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He's like a low rent V for Vendetta
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> If you're privacy conscious, why do you have a smart phone at all? Get a standalone GPS There are trade offs between privacy and security, it's not an all or nothing affair. Even a dumb phone can be tracked via cell tower pin
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What specific skills/training do you have that make you more qualified than a trained government analyst to make such a determination?
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>Podcasts are enjoying a renaissance possibly due to the legitimization of the medium by semi-famous people, and due to some proper distribution outlets finally appearing. Or it could be a simpler explanation: people are commuting more.
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> they went to spin up some servers and etc and IBM was all "that will take a few weeks, we have to install them". At least to me "cloud" includes the ability to spin stuff up on demand.... IBM was operating it like y
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>There was a lot of uproar about this internally but nothing changed. Are you able to elaborate more? Google' internal culture (specifically the whole internal mailing list argument culture) fascinates me.
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> The new Gmail, Adwords, and Analytics run horribly slow in FF, so I have a separate Chromium portable installation simply for those pages. It's so annoying that Google only cares how their own products run in Chrome. Reminds me of
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by clubm8 8y ago
I am a privacy conscious person, I've been using the Here We Go app on iOS for directions: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/here-wego-city-navigation/id... It has very cool feature - offline maps. By down
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by clubm8 8y ago
>How do you imagine they aren't scanning your passport and driver's license photos, which you also need to fly/drive, and are also "100% verified" — because they are people's IDs — already anyway? DL photos
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by clubm8 8y ago
Good point. Safari is not a bad browser, but it's all or nothing - I prefer Firefox since I can find add ons if there's a feature I want that isn't included.
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Yes, should have been clearer. That's what I was clarifying, since some startups vastly underpay. A disturbing number of people I meet in tech don't plan well for retirement.
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>(Though frankly, if you're using a Mac, Safari should be your browser of choice, if only for privacy reasons.) What privacy protections does Safari have that Firefox doesn't? (Keeping in mind the vast extension store - I inclu
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This assumes you post the same way on your true identity. The language I use in work related emails is very different than the language I use socially online.
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by clubm8 8y ago
>For most people, it would be a steep pay cut to move from the US to anywhere in the EU. You get bit at both ends - you had to pay for an American college degree ($$$) and had none of the social services like unemployment benefits/w
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by clubm8 8y ago
To be fair, isn't this a problem in any federation? When we send people to Alabama, we're not sending our finest...
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You didn't put anything away from your salary? (401k? Roth IRA?) As someone from humble origins, it surprises me more people don't live frugally 5-10 years in the Bay then retire in luxury somewhere with lower cost of living.
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>Hackers that have showed up at an IRL conference are probably not on the more paranoid end of the spectrum. If you are able to think critically about risks, going to Defcon isn't very risky. Mass surveillance means that "the m
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Maybe psudoanonymity - using a single handle for years and years and building up an identity is dying off... but anonymity certainly isn't. I registered this handle via Tor. I don't use it on any other sites. I'll probably
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by clubm8 8y ago
>I have a ton of custom search engines in Google Chrome. Many of those have the exact same abreviation for their bang command. All of them should be available. I prefer having the same search engine anywhere I use DDG versus only having
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> I've seriously given it a shot, but it's just not the same. I really want DDG to succeed, but don't think it's fully-there, yet. I get significantly more relevant results with google. Why not stick with DDG and only
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by clubm8 8y ago
I've been using DuckDuckGo for years now. It's not perfect but if you think carefully about your query it will work fine. For me the killer feature is DDG's bang commands ( https://duckduckgo.com/bang ) prepend
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> It feels arrogant by Google to take the liberty to even add the possibility to changes customer's settings remotely without them having a say in it. I think the issue is a lack of informed consent. Some of the commenters seem to

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