craftyguy

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by craftyguy 7y ago
I realize your comment is not contributing to the discussion, but surely you must know that it's still far cheaper than running your own power plant to generate enough energy to power your home, right?
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> if we hang these people out to dry we will pay the price down the line. If we continue promoting industries that cause the global climate to worsen more rapidly, we're going to pay a MUCH bigger price down the line. Taking jobs f
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by craftyguy 7y ago
This website makes me worried about the future of representing text on the web: > To use PolyGerrit, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings, and then refresh this page.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
Nope. You cannot 'kinda have' privacy.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> Please don’t assume everyone forced to use Windows enjoy Microsoft’s practices. very, very few people are going to implement everything you suggested. Please don't assume your one anecdote is relevant for everyone else. > Do yo
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> The page source is filled to the brim with trackers. I would expect nothing less from a site owned by google.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> It thrills me to no end that there aren’t a bunch of snarky comments about “OH THIS PROVES SIGNAL IS A TOOL OF THE NSA!!”. There are no such comments here as of this post, or are you lost?
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> A. Being able to use some proprietary software not available on Linux What software is this? Perhaps it runs under Wine?
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by craftyguy 7y ago
They can intercept DNS, they can snoop on cert names, they can monitor any unencrypted traffic (you'd be surprised how much there is even when you think you're hitting every site with HTTPS..)
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by craftyguy 7y ago
It's right there in the article... which you read... right? > DNS over HTTPS meanwhile encrypts DNS queries going over the network, which means that no one between you and the DoH server can see your DNS queries or modify the DNS re
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> If Mozilla cares about privacy and consent It's pretty clear they don't care about consent, since there is no opt-in to this. It's also questionable as to whether they care about privacy, by funneling ALL of their users&
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by craftyguy 7y ago
People should be highly skeptical of "free" VPN and proxy services. They have the power to (easily) MITM you.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> If a lot of people go, they will run into difficulty long before they get to the fence with threatening signs This is literally what the article (which you read, right?) is about...
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by craftyguy 7y ago
2700 ms is 27x further from the truth than 100 ms.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> Just remove the sleep(2700). Such high quality discussion too!
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by craftyguy 7y ago
The app won't magically be incapable of tracking students outside of the stadium, so the risk of abuse is exceedingly higher than your little clicker thing which likely didn't have the range to track you from very far away.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
So you're saying this statement in the article is incorrect? > The app it created for Alabama is the only one that tracks the locations of its students.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> Last month, Amazon joined a number of other tech companies and Fortune 500 firms in signing a letter outlining the purpose of a corporation as something not just designed to return shareholder value, but also to serve employees and the
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by craftyguy 7y ago
It's clear that there is no way to opt out of this bullshit: > Can I opt out of all of these as well? > Unfortunately, not very easily. With Google Photos, you can choose not to run the facial recognition tool on your own photos,
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by craftyguy 7y ago
How does this post not qualify as 'spam'?
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by craftyguy 7y ago
The 'humans are nature, therefore everything humans do is OK' argument is incredibly naive. Humans need to eat, for example, and there are complex global systems that our food supply depends on (e.g. pollinators), and that we do n
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> opinion: a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter
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by craftyguy 7y ago
I use xeyes on wayland to determine whether a given app is using Xwayland or not.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
They would be screwed if google decided to actively cut off downstream chromium projects by making breaking code changes, licensing changes, etc.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
.. then please do elaborate/explain away.... FFS your comment is not at all helpful.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
The ext4 folks are working on adding case-insensitive support... https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/
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by craftyguy 7y ago
They are trying to say that THC can cause depression, but it can take many years. I'm just clarifying (and not downvoting, like the rest of 'hacker' 'news'.. lol) and do not necessarily agree/disagree with OP
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by craftyguy 7y ago
It's not silly. Google 100% controls upstream chromium, and they can afford to make decisions about it in a vacuum.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> and don't ride on streets with cars. In some cities in the US, which is just plain wrong. For example, in Portland OR you cannot lawfully ride a bicycle on the sidewalk unless you're avoiding some road hazard (cars do not cou
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by craftyguy 7y ago
I was in a cycling crash earlier this year while wearing a new (2 week old) MIPS helmet. The helmet (with my head in it) hit the road pretty hard causing an indentation and deep scratches. The location of the indentation leads me to believe

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