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by dendory 13y ago
Email used to be fun, then spammers came, then good email providers added spam filters and made email fun again, now email providers are sending us spam. The circle is almost complete.
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by dendory 13y ago
It's completely legitimate to say Americans for acts done by your government, because you have a democracy. You don't get to have it both ways. If too many people are apathetic and don't care enough what the US military does
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by dendory 13y ago
You mean would the NSA bring up the CEO of the company on random charges after he says no, put him in jail, and get someone more agreeable to run the company? They've done it before! Look up Qwest.
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How to get a better international tech scene(dendory.net)
1 points by dendory 13y ago|0 comments
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by dendory 13y ago
When you're a global power and have no scruple, like the US, then there's nothing any country can do. Either they do exactly what the US agencies tell them, or they risk getting thrown out of trade agreements, financial treaties,
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by dendory 13y ago
I've never used Chrome, always been on Firefox so that part is really not a big deal for me, but I did try DDG in the past and there always comes a point where results aren't quite up to par.
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by dendory 13y ago
The bigger deal here to me is the data sharing. Who cares if one agency isn't allowed to spy on Americans? Or if another agency has this or that court oversight? All the data collected is shared between the NSA, FBI, CIA, foreign intel
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by dendory 13y ago
As I writer I know well the devaluation of our trade, especially with online content farms. It used to be that all texts were paid based on quality and intended use, such as for a print magazine and so on. Now, everyone pays by the word, an
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Unalienable rights(dendory.net)
1 points by dendory 13y ago|0 comments
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by dendory 13y ago
Except Mozilla doesn't try to hide that fact, and it can be argued to be in users interest by providing a search bar, instead of no search function at all. Here, someone who uses Adblock Plus decided to block ads. Adding them behind th
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by dendory 13y ago
But that has nothing to do with this. Reasons don't matter here. If someone is using Adblock Plus, it's because they made the choice to use their technical knowledge to not see ads. There's no question here that by doing this
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by dendory 13y ago
I suspected something like that when I realized Google Ads were now showing up on my screen a few weeks ago. I went to the Adblock Plus forum and all it said was that those ads had been added to the list, no reason why. I personally find it
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by dendory 13y ago
Literally it says billions of billions, but in context it most likely means billions upon billions.
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New type of spam?(dendory.net)
2 points by dendory 13y ago|0 comments
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by dendory 13y ago
In a normal world, authorities would look at whether he has a motive to commit a crime, means to do it such as having illicit firearms, and plans to do it such as written statements. In the fucked-up US of A, a sarcastic Facebook comment is
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Start rewarding companies that respect your privacy(dendory.net)
1 points by dendory 13y ago|0 comments
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by dendory 13y ago
I've long ago taken this approach to all ads myself. Whenever I'm forced to see an ad (because I block or skip ads as much as I possibly can) then I make a mental note not to buy from that company. Whenever I go to buy something,
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by dendory 13y ago
If true, it's surprising that it took so long for someone to find this. Isn't it trivial to check on what your phone is sending off if you use wifi with a network scanner? With that said I bet this is all for their social networki
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by dendory 13y ago
I tend to like doing: sha256(sha256($password) . $ip) This encrypts the password and makes the cookie only usable by the IP it was set for. Then to verify the cookie, since I already store sha256 of the password, it's trivial to do, wi
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by dendory 13y ago
New NSA agent position: cellphone vendor!
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by dendory 13y ago
I've also heard they can be turned on by the tower, even if the phone is off. The only way to be sure is to keep the battery removed.
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by dendory 13y ago
I personally run JavaScript turned off by default, but I'm still ok with Mozilla's decision. I use NoSxript which provides the right functionality to do this, and anyone can download the add on. Completely disabling JavaScript for
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by dendory 13y ago
I would be interested to see how far people manage to stretch what can be done in 10megs. I bet it would surprise many.
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by dendory 13y ago
Mark my words, if this keeps going we'll soon see ISPs ordered to block some foreign media sites, and see news sites becoming regulated. You know, just to make sure no one credible publishes leaks anymore, for national security and so
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The 3-step guide on what to do about the surveillance state(dendory.net)
2 points by dendory 13y ago|0 comments
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by dendory 13y ago
I personally still code HTML 4.01 instead of 5 by habit. I also use <font> and other things that HTML5 is trying to get rid of. But I cling to older things. I also write all my code in Notepad++.
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by dendory 13y ago
I don't know about the over-reliance on words, I think images and videos are just fine on the web, but I do agree with the sentiment that pages have become way too bloated around the web. When a single news site that should be telling
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by dendory 13y ago
I see a lot of arguments there going against nuclear plants but very little about alternatives. Of course I'd rather we all use solar panels, but until that becomes viable on a large scale, we need to move off the coal burning plants t
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by dendory 13y ago
Of my immediate family, only one has a Facebook profile, and none of them would come up on Google, none share any image online nor do they trust things like cloud storage or online banking. It's worth noting that a big portion of the w
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How I switched form Google to Microsoft services(dendory.net)
1 points by dendory 13y ago|0 comments

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