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by dan_bk 12y ago
This article also states that the Austrian government collaborates with the US/NSA regarding of the surveillance of Austria. So, if you can vote in the upcoming EU parliament elections, consider voting against those 2 main parties that
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by dan_bk 12y ago
And that's where RequestPolicy comes in: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> If your labor is not worth more than $25/h to your employer you'll just lose your job (or never get hired in the first place.) Well, you can always increase the number of jobs in a country by lowering the country's wages
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> You pay people more, so you have to charge people more Or maybe some overpaid positions will have to accept a cut that they will never even feel in the slightest way. An INcrease of, say, $500/month to reach $4000/month can &
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> The best case scenario is a massive increase in cost of living I absolutely do not think so. Social justice is already excellent (compared to places like the US), wages have already a certain level allowing for an OK life (so not a lot
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by dan_bk 12y ago
My personal thought on this topic: When you work at least 8 hrs/day, 5 days/week (because somebody wants your product/service), you should be able to have a normal/decent life. If not, you're simply being ripped off
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Switzerland votes on world's highest minimum wage ($25/hr)(bbc.com)
37 points by dan_bk 12y ago|63 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
I don't think this issue really is a big one. I'm far more concerned by the/my impression that the public seems to have accepted total surveillance as "the new normal". It seems like Snowden's work has resulted
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Who cares about yet-another-new-phone. What we need is 100% open-source software, hardware and firmware.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> I'm ashamed to be french No need to, it's just plain old cheap lawyer tactics, it's been around since the beginning of time: Scare people (i.e. by making them feel they're in danger) and they will do what you want.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
A lot of people would probably fail to reach "their Facebook" if it wasn't for Google...
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How the NSA tampers with US-made Internet routers(theguardian.com)
3 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> Same with Google Analytics. I always use Piwik [0] - it's excellent, open-source and most of all: it respects your users' privacy by not letting any third party like Google track them. My advice: Use it too and let your users
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> You think any spying has stopped since Snowden I remember that "internal" NSA memo which tried to reassure the employees, basically saying "don't worry, we'll just winter the storm, it will pass...". And t
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by dan_bk 12y ago
A similar project, Wienux, aimed to move the city of Vienna in Austria over to Linux, but hit stumbling blocks in 2008. Peter’s reasoning for this: Wienux didn’t have the proper political backing required. You need more than just a couple
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by dan_bk 12y ago
It should be obvious to everybody that there's a clear link between tech giants and the NSA. And we'll never know how far collaboration goes - also because these relationships certainly evolve over time and are remain the same.
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My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal(time.com)
2 points by dan_bk 12y ago|1 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> [...] its intrusiveness [...] Personally, I'd rather call the usual +/- 20 background requests per page (of which each company may track you) "intrusive". But I suppose that's a matter of preferences. EDIT re
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Firefox users should install: To block tracking background requests: -> RequestPolicy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy... To block ads/trackers: -> Adblock Edge: https
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Who goes on such a site? Jobseekers. Which jobseeker has an incentive to retweet a job s/he finds interesting? Usually YOU want the job you find interesting. Why retweet it when this makes it harder for you to get the job?
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> I wonder how this would vary between countries. Sure, it does - cultures vary. The thing is this: "Culture" expresses the maturity of our species. And maturity is an ongoing and never-ending process. Which means: you can&#x2F
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by dan_bk 12y ago
I'd say for us "nerds", this knowledge is so central. But I also think it really starts to apply to everybody now, as we learn to stay glued to our various electronic devices, wherever we are, whatever we do, whomever we&#x27
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The Canadian Government's 'Secure' Phones Come Straight from the NSA(motherboard.vice.com)
6 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City(theatlantic.com)
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> Some time ago, I needed to find a new wireless keyboard. With the level of digital paranoia that I have, my main priority was security. If my main priority was security , then I would never even think about wireless (network, keyboard
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'Kill switch' may be standard on U.S. phones in 2015(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Canadian bill to crack down on illegal downloads has VPN providers excited Sounds much nicer already.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
How realistic would it be to produce an open source replacement? (Maybe a Kickstarter-funded one, to speed things up, given the fact it concerns every US household?)
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Ultimately, we'll probably have to adjust our culture to the fact that the combination of technology and capitalism sooner or later leads to the end of privacy. It's going to be a long, difficult and certainly painful path and the
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> “The real scandal is not all these individual scandals but the fact that world’s policy makers who know about this stuff, have basically done nothing.” That has been going on since the beginning of time. The world's policy makers

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