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by confounded 6y ago
Out of interest, how do you manage/filter/block the network connections?
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by confounded 6y ago
Never encountered this, same platforms. What do you mean by broken?
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by confounded 6y ago
Anyone have a method/script to detect these via ps or similar? In a previous job I had an alias to monitor for and kill Tanium, though now I don’t even know what I’m looking for.
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by confounded 6y ago
It will likely lead to centralization. If third-party cookies and device fingerprinting are blocked, then how can you track users who saw an ad twice, before deciding to buy? You can’t with much certainty, unless they’re using Chrome, and y
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by confounded 6y ago
Care to talk about your motivations? Why Michigan?
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by confounded 6y ago
Talk to your colleagues. There are internal mailing-lists for employees who care about this, as well as environmental issues. The lists also have plenty of people who are only there to sneer and astroturf; being on the list is unlikely to g
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by confounded 6y ago
> I'm not aware of anyone in my circle seeing such agencies as being "nannying". I'm of the opinion that the Food Standards Agency improves life for everyone in the UK. I would rather put up with a little bit of nann
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by confounded 7y ago
What was it that made you move, and what is it that will make you stay?
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by confounded 7y ago
Easily my favorite library music compilations, excellent selections of enjoyably ‘slightly-off sounding’ tracks.
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by confounded 7y ago
I’m a big fan and current user, though I’d really like to use something FOSS. And, while iOS payments are a good prompt to support the author (I’m trying to get better at donating to Free Software developers), the in-app upsells for feature
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by confounded 7y ago
Surprisingly, at least for the Bay Area, the money doesn’t even seem to be that good: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Palantir,Google,Facebook&tra...
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by confounded 7y ago
> Because you thunk governements having power over currency is a good thing? I don’t have too strong an opinion, but certainly it’s a well-understood thing. What specifically is bad about it? The ability for governments to seize money
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by confounded 7y ago
In cypherpunk terms, what’s dreamy about a crypto currency with no anonymity, that shifts power from international democratic governments to private US corporations?
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by confounded 7y ago
“Hm, works in Chrome. Are you using Chrome?”
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by confounded 7y ago
Who or what is N?
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by confounded 7y ago
You can pay Google and still be the product (you’re certainly not their primary customer). And it’s quite possible for Google to do things which I don’t like (“something wrong”) and to simply not tell anyone. This said, I personally used gm
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by confounded 7y ago
How does this compare to Spotify’s ‘Song Radio’ feature?
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by confounded 7y ago
How do you think the propriety systems work?
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by confounded 7y ago
Bit how many hours do you work for 1/6th of the salary?
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by confounded 7y ago
Websites?
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by confounded 7y ago
The thing you use daily will always be the most familiar. I’ve gone from your position, to the opposite; now the switching-costs of moving away from Emacs to an IDE put me off. There do have to be real benefits to make it work. For me it wa
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by confounded 7y ago
I also dislike how they’ve conformed to Facebooks notion of privacy (it’s private if only Facebook can see and use it, not others), as opposed to the traditional definition of retaining individual decision-rights over disclosure.
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by confounded 7y ago
Reminder that the European courts are currently restraining the UK from the worst of its surveillance plan, as they’ve found it to be incompatible with the Human Right to Privacy. All signs point to the UK taking an increasingly authorit
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by confounded 7y ago
They’re not mentioned in the article, but org-mode does have syntax for source blocks (a little uglier than Commonmark/Github-flavor markdown’s blocks in my opinion, but it does the same thing and works well).
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by confounded 8y ago
Anyone have any idea what causes this? Establishing a more complicated type of connection type for streaming (excuse my networking ignorance), or something DRM related?
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by confounded 8y ago
Seed a torrent!
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by confounded 8y ago
Another server option is something based on ~2012 Opterton chips which have been freed, such as: https://store.vikings.net/libre-friendly-hardware/the-server...
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by confounded 8y ago
At least with the X200 you can run Libreboot, a fully blob-free subset of coreboot. The AMT stuff can be flashed off the chip.
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by confounded 8y ago
> Using Apple Card on Android is pointless... you could continue using your physical card... but without the majority of the cash back or security benefits why would you? I’m mainly interested in the card for the privacy benefits, but
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by confounded 8y ago
> ... pay for Facebook and Google... by sharing data for ad targeting... The GDPR specifically forbids that option. All I can say is that this is not my lived experience of Google and Facebook in the EU. This is also not those companie

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