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by confounded 8y ago
> Your ISP will still know what you are doing, and will have the ability to block you from doing it should the need arise. Putting an automatically configured VPN on such a box would be extremely easy, no?
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by confounded 8y ago
This is really the nub of the issue. I love that when I’m traveling for business everything is arranged for me, but I hate that I get put in situations where I’m booked into big hotels with policies like this. Increasingly it seems like t
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by confounded 8y ago
What would that middle ground look like? Selfishly, I’d be happy with banning a lot more food stuff. I love salt, sugar, and saturated fat, and like that they are well understood. Most of the newer riskier things are ways to improve margins
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by confounded 8y ago
A tangent, but seeing as this thread has awoken the HN audiophiles: What should I look for/avoid in a DAC? Does it really matter if my source device is an iPhone/iPad? Reading blogs and review sites talk about the personality of D
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by confounded 8y ago
This has been the most satisfying tech-related thing I’ve done in the last few years. It’s how I’ve felt most useful outside of my day-job, and also how I’ve gained a broader perspective on the culture, values, and practices at other compan
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by confounded 8y ago
It is still the best language for exploratory data analysis, fitting models intuitively, and visualizing data. Being able to do these things thoroughly and quickly, has (in my experience) been the most important technical skill for getting
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by confounded 8y ago
Announcement form the Purism blog: https://puri.sm/posts/2018-devkits-are-shipping/
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by confounded 8y ago
As a foreigner who moved to California a few years ago, I’ve always been puzzled by the existence of PG&E. Why aren’t the infrastructure parts taken over by the state (or managed by an accountable non-profit body), and competition encou
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by confounded 8y ago
Question for Kyle: Do you see the enterprise exploiting GPL loopholes often? I work at a FAANG, and there’s pretty much a hard ban on any copyleft code being a dependency outside of stuff installed via distro packages. The lawyers are tough
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by confounded 8y ago
The plaintext editor in NextCloud for iOS is basic, but works quite well for me.
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by confounded 8y ago
It’s terrible — they’ve removed it for other projects when put under pressure (e.g. React IIRC).
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by confounded 8y ago
(youtube-dl works)
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by confounded 8y ago
True, but for most people I’ve discussed Free Software with this is the case. They think it’s a great idea, and would love if they could do everything they do currently with FOSS, and no extra time-investment. But, with few exceptions, that
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by confounded 8y ago
I would also find this interesting, I switched from DDG to StartPage.com (proxied Google results) for this reason.
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by confounded 8y ago
At least in the UK the banks and the police have worked together for years to establish “identity theft” as a thing. From: Whoops we gave a loan to a stranger because they tricked us! To: You owe us money because someone stole the core of y
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by confounded 8y ago
When there is meaningful regulation, serious consequences, and enforcement agencies with teeth.
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by confounded 8y ago
‘Google’ when? The game done changed.
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by confounded 8y ago
Orwell would have written superb API documentation. (Even if every deprecated end-point was described having a faint smell of boiled cabbage.)
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by confounded 8y ago
I think flatpak is probably the right choice for a phone. Assuming equal developer attention on both flatpak and deb repos, there's nothing inherently worse about flatpak. The nice thing about flatpak for a phone is that it could in
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by confounded 8y ago
David Koch’s libertarian monthly dislikes policy to get women on boards. Shocker. If this policy is truly counter-productive wrt its stated aim, I’d be interested to see that in the thoughts of people who have consistently given a damn abo
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by confounded 8y ago
The UK’s (democratic socialist) Labour Party have many policies specific to the gig economy and zero-hours contracts, training, and housing for young adults. I haven’t heard them mention coal miners in a while. I’m sympathetic to much of yo
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by confounded 8y ago
In my (limited, biased) experience the primary interest of workers is the same everywhere. Hint: it pays off both mortgages and bar tabs.
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by confounded 8y ago
To be fair, it sounds like your brother is dealing with ‘the other end’ of the union. He’s not necessarily supposed to think it’s a great idea.
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by confounded 8y ago
Me too, but I wish that data was tightly controlled by a federal regulator, and deleted after N days. At the moment, most of it’s controlled by Tazer, who have an interest in keeping cops happy.
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by confounded 8y ago
Anyone know anything about the underlying tech? Is it related to E911, e.g. any privacy implications?
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Presidential Alerts(time.com)
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by confounded 8y ago
> They also have a history of selling x86 systems while articulating vague hopes that the blob/owner control situation will improve in the future, despite this being clearly implausible. It’s not that implausible; the situation ha
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by confounded 8y ago
They also won government contracts by not doing it; the High Assurance Platform mode (‘setting the HAP bit’) was a feature implemented by Intel for the NSA, incidentally discovered by security researchers. Dell sold laptops with this as a
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by confounded 8y ago
GDPR seemed like a pretty good law to me, and I am not exactly a huge fan of the EU. Same deal for the California Consumer Privacy Act. These are laws which people hoped for, and got done. Ultimately, it increasingly seems like advertising-
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by confounded 8y ago
beorg is great if you use a single directory for files. Unfortunately it’s proprietary and missing a few features. But it’s pretty slick. It’s now the app I turn to (not my calendar) when I’m wondering what I’m supposed to be doing today.

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