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by csilverman 6y ago
That is insane. Obviously there’s nothing you can do to avoid something like that. I guess most of us were under the naive impression that, having paid for our televisions, we were entitled to use them in peace. I might still be naive, but
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by csilverman 6y ago
I wonder how many people who buy TVs read reviews on them beforehand. I always do, and I wouldn’t consider any device that came with this garbage. I have a feeling this will last about as long as it takes for consumers to get a sense for wh
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by csilverman 6y ago
I’d be curious to see a study on whether religious people are more likely to detect patterns even where there are none, but perhaps the answer to that is obvious. I’m not trying to be smug or cynical here, but I think the other side of this
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by csilverman 6y ago
I’m not entirely sure that inverting everything is a sufficient implementation of dark mode, at least as far as accessibility, but you’re welcome :-)
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by csilverman 6y ago
body { filter: invert(1); background: #000; } ;-)
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by csilverman 6y ago
Yeah, I wasn't trying to imply the abilities were exaggerated; just saying that the amorphous nature of cyberwar means you could give an adversary pause by claiming abilities you may not have yet. (Whereas claiming you have, say, 1,200
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by csilverman 6y ago
The problem is that all loyal readers start as nonsubscribers stopping by for the first time. When I encounter a site that is intentionally poorly designed and annoying, I don’t even consider subscribing. First impressions matter. If I walk
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by csilverman 6y ago
That's what I was thinking. I'd imagine cyberwar capabilities are a lot more difficult for enemies to assess, at least in regards to conventional weapons. You can't spot them by satellite or anything; you'd have to estim
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by csilverman 6y ago
Cleared all his likes too, seems to be. Interesting. I guess that's a less overt way of going dark than simply making ones' account private, but it does make me wonder what might have been buried in there.
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by csilverman 6y ago
Automator and AppleScript are the top two automation tools on macOS. Automator is the more user-friendly of the two; provides a visual workflow interface for chaining together tasks and capabilities. AppleScript is Apple's attempt at n
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by csilverman 6y ago
It's funny you mention that, because the first thing that crosses my mind, whenever I run across stuff like this, is that the people who perpetrated these things were probably nice polite folks who had friends, got along with their nei
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by csilverman 6y ago
Anybody who takes the time to email a blog author and shriek about the (very modest) anime girl they have on their website clearly has problems. I'm starting to worry a little about the number of "people exist who do that??"
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by csilverman 6y ago
I have to wonder about the extent to which the CIA really believed this was possible, or if it was more along the lines of "well sure, it sounds batshit, but the Soviets are doing it and if there really is something to it, we don'
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by csilverman 6y ago
Holy goddamn. I never heard of that. This is one of those moments when I started to feel shock and horror shifting towards disbelief, and then remembered that this is the CIA and of course they did stuff like that because who would stop the
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by csilverman 6y ago
What I still don’t understand is why Stones didn’t just ban phones at the table. A no-phones rule does not exactly sound like an unreasonable policy to have at a poker tournament. Also have security take a real close look at whatever’s on y
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by csilverman 6y ago
The crucial difference here is that they're burning their own books, not confiscating anyone else's. To that end, I don't see this as any limitation of Rowling's right to express herself (although the general level of ou
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by csilverman 6y ago
Agreed. This is stupid, and distracting. I don't agree with what Rowling believes and I have no problem with people deciding they don't want to give money to her. But the book burning—however symbolic it might be—is a really bad
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by csilverman 6y ago
Heh, yeah, I didn't realize what year it was until I got to "Mozilla’s CTO Brendan Eich" and thought "Wait—that guy? Now when was this..."
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by csilverman 6y ago
It’s not at all my intention to sound cynical or smug, but “normal” for me is a blurry point somewhere in the future, not nearly close enough to 2021. And while dashing anyone’s hopes is the last thing I’d want to do, I really do worry abo
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by csilverman 6y ago
This would be a huge problem for me, and I will not consider upgrading to Big Sur until it’s fixed. I currently create bootable backups of my Mac, the idea being that if the internal drive goes, I can switch to the backup while the machin
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by csilverman 6y ago
Yeah, I’ve noticed that subware developers are often less-than-forthcoming about their pricing model, probably because they know it’s unpopular. It’s the first thing I look for, and when I find it, I stop considering that app. If you’re on
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by csilverman 6y ago
This was one of those stories where the underlying premise—that Juicero raised vast sums of money to produce a space-age hardware product that was utterly unnecessary—was so ludicrous that I initially assumed that I was missing something. I
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by csilverman 6y ago
Well, somebody seemed to have registered the larry.page domain name when I checked a few months ago. Given that .page is a Google TLD, I just figured... Shame to be sitting on something like that and not doing anything with it.
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by csilverman 6y ago
I saw the beginnings of this on Twitter last night; not surprised it wound up here. If anyone here isn’t already following @foone, I highly recommend it. Their teardowns are fascinating. One of the more interesting comments: “This thing [th
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by csilverman 6y ago
That is absolutely awful. I guess I’m still somewhat stuck on the naive notion that directing public attention to horrific abuses of power results in change.
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by csilverman 6y ago
“Last summer, the Sheriff’s Office announced plans to begin keeping tabs on people who have been repeatedly committed to psychiatric hospitals.” People are going to die because of that. There is a close friend of mine who, if unlucky enough
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by csilverman 6y ago
Agreed. This looks very cool, but I saw "subscription" and just went "nope". That's a dealbreaker, and always will be. I really don't intend to be rude, and I don't doubt this is worth more than what most
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by csilverman 6y ago
And in a lot of situations, the police chief can't even (permanently) get rid of bad cops, even if they want to. The fired officers sue with the backing of the union, and are often rehired. There was an NYT article a while ago—I'l
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by csilverman 6y ago
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense to me: using this primarily as a tool for targeting power players or dismantling large criminal organizations, and having the process closely supervised by a higher-level court. As opposed to Officer Clancy

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