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by colemannugent 10y ago
LineageOS has given my S5 a new lease on life. Bit of a pain to install on a Verizon phone though.
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by colemannugent 10y ago
Tom Scott did a video on this: Why Web Filters Don't Work: Penistone and the Scunthorpe Problem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZdwX4noCE It's well done, like the rest of his content.
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by colemannugent 10y ago
While I enjoyed the article, in the end, I can't see any of these new techniques working in a meaningful capacity. I think traditional moderation techniques still are relevant to the discussion. The "problem" that the whole d
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by colemannugent 10y ago
On the subject of class actions: it's most likely impossible. In their terms of service they will undoubtedly state that you agree to go to arbitration rather than court, and they have you explicitly waive your right to a class action.
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by colemannugent 10y ago
Current article link still seems to have the same paywall. Interestingly, it's almost exactly the same paywall. Edit: Seems they're both owned by the same parent company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tronc#Cu
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by colemannugent 10y ago
I would reccomend PiHole [1] for something like this. Not only is it more robust, it acts as a DNS/HTTP server that blocks this kind of stuff on a whole network. 1: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole
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by colemannugent 10y ago
As one of the comments on the site point out, this is really rooted in radiophobia. By the most conservative estimates we should have fusion that can reliably yield more energy than put in within around 500 years. With fusion (and the energ
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by colemannugent 10y ago
One thing I'll often use dd for is recovering data from a failing drive. Can head ignore read errors? dd can. As far as I'm concerned, dd is lower-level than most of the other utilities and provides more control over what's h
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by colemannugent 10y ago
It seems like every couple weeks someone complains that PGP is dead and then suggests that everyone switch to an alternative. The problem is, what do we switch to? Few of us are confident enough to roll our own and even if we did, how would
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by colemannugent 10y ago
From my home network google.com has about 120ms time-to-first-byte. If I was on 4G add 20ms for the DNS lookup, 20ms for each part of the SSL handshake, then another 20ms for the actual page request. If the page requests additional resource
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by colemannugent 10y ago
To me, one of the biggest things here is the focus on lower latency. Sustained speeds are great, but latency is really the problem with current 4G. They cite that LTE cells have about 20ms latency. Adding a 20ms overhead to every connection
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by colemannugent 10y ago
This assumes that law enforcement actually knows you will have evidence. If the technology could remove everything that would be incriminating and leave benign data you would just be another non-techie traveler.
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by colemannugent 10y ago
This might have been suggested before, but I think it's novel enough to repeat: You should be able to create two passwords for all devices. One, your password, would allow you to use the device normally, the other, your lastword, would
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by colemannugent 10y ago
I would imagine that if someone had the ability to defeat their safeguards they would have the ability to recreate the tools themselves. At this level, these tools are more weapons than software. All the client wants is an end, they could c
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by colemannugent 10y ago
>[NSO Group] claims to sell its spyware only to law enforcement agencies to track terrorists, criminals and drug lords >An NSO spokesman reiterated those restrictions in a statement Thursday, and said the company had no knowledge o