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by coronadisaster 6y ago
Cloud computing is not really where it's at when you care about privacy.
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
But the FBI has been trained to hide the source of information, probably because it is illegal in many cases (maybe comes from NSA)... they call it parallel construction but it probably should be called something much worst. https:/&#
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
> I need to record the conversation and I need a contract signed, because I need to protect myself. why not record the guy and play the video at the funeral?
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
Firefox now has a setting for auto-play...
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WestJet cancels flight because of mask dispute with child(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by coronadisaster 6y ago|0 comments
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
because school started?
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
You can use an ESP8266 as a wifi router for up to 8 clients at 5mbps each I think which is really impressive so it should be able to do that... I used that for the kids in the car so that they can play games together https://gith
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
Amazon tablets are pretty cheap... I bet many, including myself for the kids, chose them.
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
it took him like 10 years to get his fiber ISP going and still can't get cable
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
I'm hoping it's a good time to sell because I just sold mine for 3x what I paid for it 10 years ago. But there could still be a lot of inflation coming up.
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
phone in smart-phone stands for telephone, not microphone
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
oops, thanks...had the 'encrypt all sites' setting to ON in https everywhere.
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
The homes around here (suburb) fly off the shelves even if prices are higher then the last bubble (~2007)... not sure what is going on. Could people be moving away from large cities because of covid-19 and remote work opportunities?
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
I think they should be called "active audio monitoring devices" because microphone is somewhat missing something... or maybe "smart microphone".
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Facebook will pay users to log off before elections(nypost.com)
1 points by coronadisaster 6y ago|0 comments
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
https://i.imgur.com/hQvs1X3.png
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
I used H&R block the last few years and I feel like they also try to trick you into paying when you don't need to.
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
gmail is really low for a company that deranks slow websites...
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
> http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/links.html#obtain Looks like they deleted the file ... now 404 not found...
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
All cars are like this though... Reminds me of this article from 2014: https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
e option to disable autoplay on YOUTUbE was already somewhat hidden so that is not a big surprise....
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
"must find a legal technicality, not a technical technicality." I think we are ok as long as there are no precedents? Isnt that how smartass laws work?
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
every seeder could technically have all the files but would only share random chunks with each user
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
You could or could not have all files, but you would never upload a whole file to a single user (ie: part of a file is possibly meaningless if you upload random chunks)
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
It would be nice to have a torrent system where noone that is uploading has all the data for a specific torrent (or at least they arent uploading the whole file to any specfic person... probably would be harder to prosecute in the event tha
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
I haven't bought fron Amazon in a couple months...Ebay is usually cheaper for the stuff that needs to be bought online (or hard to find in stores).
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
What I do for things like Reddit and HN, is that I create a new account every few months to make it harder for them... and of course I try not to post information that could personally identify me. As a bonus, you almost stop caring about
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Ask HN: Would a phone rooting service be a viable business?
2 points by coronadisaster 6y ago|1 comments
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
I make sure to turn OFF auto-updates on Android... but I use automatic updates on Linux.
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by coronadisaster 6y ago
What I hate most about snaps is that they show up when I use "df -hl" ... but I don't use Ubuntu anymore so I don't have that problem.

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