doctor_radium

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by doctor_radium 20d ago
OTOH I do appreciate their openness. It beats those times when I try visiting a site, only to get a cryptic 403 error or similar and no suggestion the site would like to hear from me.
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by doctor_radium 28d ago
I also have JS disabled in Firefox on my phone. It's on by default on my laptop, as I apparently visit different sites when my butt is planted in a chair. My wish is actually for the days of NPAPI where Webassembly would be just anothe
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by doctor_radium 28d ago
I haven't disabled web workers, but am playing with the concept. T-Mobile's payment portal screams and then bans my IP (something like that) if try. I have disabled service workers globally, and so far no fallout.
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by doctor_radium 28d ago
Thanks. You're right; it was a very thorough article and I trailed off about halfway through. I still say there are many improper uses of Webassembly out there, but I credit the developer for a highly thoughtful approach to the project
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by doctor_radium 29d ago
I have every copy of Firefox here configured with webassembly disabled...because I don't tend to do what Webassembly was designed for, i.e. online games, video/audio editing, emulation, etc. [1] and because I dislike things runnin
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by doctor_radium 3mo ago
I assume the average person buying the standard model could then just disable WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS if they so chose? So this really is for high security situations?
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Is AI 'one big bubble'? Behind the tech sell-off(npr.org)
10 points by doctor_radium 3mo ago|1 comments
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by doctor_radium 4mo ago
Time and time again, I prove that I'm human by giving this crap the finger and then visiting some other site. It's calling out a false positive and then exercising good taste.
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Fukushima, Japan faces "intelligent" bear(theguardian.com)
3 points by doctor_radium 4mo ago|0 comments
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by doctor_radium 5mo ago
Gmail turned me off way back when it became obvious that they scanned your email to present relevant advertising. I've paid for email nearly forever (Earthlink, not the most high tech provider but good enough) and get nearly zero spam.
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by doctor_radium 5mo ago
Just wanted to say that reading all the comments here, I'm getting flashbacks to alt.aol.sucks.
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by doctor_radium 5mo ago
I'll be waiting. In the meantime, I'm currently using a low end Motorola moto g 5G 2023 which lets me turn off Play Services. Chrome and the Google Calendar don't run (really do need to find a replacement calendar), and I cou
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by doctor_radium 6mo ago
I ran into this just tonight. Coincidentally, I also just received an email from IMDB: >> Dear IMDb customer, >> We noticed you haven't signed in to IMDb in over three years, and your account shows no activity (no Watchlist
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Trump, the Pirate of Hormuz(gregpalast.com)
4 points by doctor_radium 6mo ago|0 comments
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by doctor_radium 7mo ago
My gut reaction is that people don't come forward to maintain their bragging rights.
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by doctor_radium 7mo ago
The Lowes cameras are definitely Flock. The look is unmistakable. See https://deflock.org/identify
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by doctor_radium 7mo ago
Same here, but just Lowes stores. That I know of. I surveiled the two local Lowes roughly a month ago and found two cameras not mapped, which I gleefully added myself. Want to send them a snail mail complaint at some point stating they won&
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by doctor_radium 8mo ago
Agreed, but this would then inconvenience millions of non-techies. Could a solution be forcing Amazon (and Google and Flock and...) to open their backend software either for self-hosting or for running on somebody else's "cloud&qu
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by doctor_radium 8mo ago
The 16% of Trump voters who want military action in Iceland was what particularly floored me. Added to the poll, I suspect, to see if people were paying attention...
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Trump voters support military intervention in more countries(politico.com)
17 points by doctor_radium 8mo ago|7 comments
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Cow Uses Broom as a Tool(discovermagazine.com)
2 points by doctor_radium 9mo ago|1 comments
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by doctor_radium 10mo ago
I was going to say, "at last, something good out of Texas". Maybe you're on to something?
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by doctor_radium 10mo ago
I would like to think incompetence as well, but when the problem is this widespread, IMHO it does point to a corporate issue...even if that's simply leaving too many incompetent managers in charge. IMHO if you're the manager and t
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by doctor_radium 10mo ago
So this means I would get the app-only sale price, without using the app? While doing some research into state retail pricing laws a few years ago, I discovered how tough Massachusetts is, being one of the last holdouts mandating ticketing
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by doctor_radium 10mo ago
Better (?) browsers also have an internal switch to disable location.
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by doctor_radium 10mo ago
With a browser, you have the ability to block cookies, block whole hosts/domains, alter DOM content, alter tracking URL's, and (often) disable low level features you don't like. With apps, not so much.
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by doctor_radium 10mo ago
As a teenager I worked at a discount store, and sometimes ran the service desk, which (among many other things) involved processing returns. The returns form included a spot for "phone number", to which some customers would respon
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by doctor_radium 11mo ago
I held onto Symbian longer than I should have, but am surprised this practice hadn't crossed my path before now. IMHO it's insidious. It's one thing for a Google Street View car to war scan my WiFi router, but another for my
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Google sues cybercriminal group behind text phishing scams(cnbc.com)
3 points by doctor_radium 11mo ago|0 comments
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by doctor_radium 11mo ago
I am also not very far away, and used to find myself driving through Parkesburg sometimes. Had no idea it was there! My first computers were user-friendly TRS-80 Model 1's (school) and my C64, so just missed the 1970's and earlier

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