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by dpwm 7y ago
They don't necessarily respond but they do seem to act. I came across a particularly scummy site making it look like the ICO endorsed them by abusing their logo. The logo was removed the next afternoon. All it took was an email to that
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by dpwm 7y ago
The entire claim of jurisdiction by the US is severely questionable.
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by dpwm 7y ago
> The only thing he's being extradited for is trying to hack into US gov computer systems, something which he literally admitted to in a chat message with Manning. https://www.wired.com/story/julian-assange-arre
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by dpwm 7y ago
That government was not this government. This government does appear to have pure contempt for due process and human rights. Just like the US.
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by dpwm 7y ago
A lot of people seem to have a very narrow idea of privacy. For what it's worth there were also allegations of microphones being used to record private conversations. The release of footage from the embassy to the international media s
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by dpwm 7y ago
> This lawyer is grasping at straws. The lawyer is doing his job, and is mainly referring to the unprecedented case of Ecuador just handing over personal possessions to the US -- a country that is trying to extradite him on the most tenu
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by dpwm 7y ago
There are cases where eliminating passive voice can improve things. In a lot of the example cases I've seen in such guides, however, the examples are somewhat straw-man sentences that don't have so much to do with passive vs act
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by dpwm 7y ago
There is a go implementation of WireGuard with a fairly hefty warning at the top. [0] There's also official documentation for how a userspace implementation should behave. [1] The android version of WireGuard has a userspace implementa
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by dpwm 7y ago
> Spectre/Meltdown, which leak the speculative information via the cache side-channel, completely blindsided the architecture community; it wasn't just one incompetent company. In the x86 space, Meltdown absolutely was down to
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by dpwm 7y ago
And are an easy opportunity for lobby groups to get their message across unedited.
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by dpwm 7y ago
Encrypting backups is more-or-less essential for many types of data – but you absolutely need to know what is at stake (complete data loss) and how to mitigate that (redundant hard-copies of keys stored securely both on- and off-site).
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by dpwm 7y ago
You may be in for a treat if you haven't already come across protothreads [0]. They provide a form of stack-less, co-operative multi-threading and are aimed at microcontrollers. I came across them by chance, and have used them on an ES
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by dpwm 7y ago
No. If it was my own machine I'd certainly try it out – but it's work's machine running Debian stretch, so we switched to a difference NIC with a Realtek interface which has given no problems and meets our performance require
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by dpwm 7y ago
Having just been the victim of the Intel I219 on linux, and a heavy user of OpenWRT, my initial response when I saw the logo was pure horror. For those that don't know – as I didn't – the hardware behind Intel's more recent e
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by dpwm 7y ago
I believe Capita are still mostly responsible for the letter-sending – and unfortunately I suspect the bullying tactics work. [0] https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/foi-about-tv-licensing-A...
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by dpwm 7y ago
It's worth noting that nationality is a tool that can be used to justify imperialism. Get enough people waving the flag and you can really take the quality of debate down a few levels.
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by dpwm 7y ago
> it breaks way too easily if you're not constantly updating it I sometimes go as long as a few months between updates on my desktop – and that's been running Arch for some years now and hasn't needed a reinstall from scra
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by dpwm 7y ago
The law is more than what is written in an act of parliament. Sure, parliament can pass a law that grants anybody any powers – but parliament also passed the Data Protection Act 2018, bringing the GDPR into domestic law. Treaty obligations,
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by dpwm 8y ago
Thanks for posting those – I've never seen either of them before.
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by dpwm 8y ago
Just bear in mind that libel is a seriously expensive game in the UK (£100,000+), and perhaps might not be your highest priority when you're fighting an extradition attempt.
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by dpwm 8y ago
Worth also noting that Luke Harding has been involved in some rather extraordinary claims, seemingly without corroborative evidence. The most startling is the allegation that Paul Manafort personally visited Assange in the Ecuadorian embass
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by dpwm 8y ago
Care to elaborate? There's many ways this could be a "good" thing: exposing the farce of international law when the US government and military claim global jurisdiction over a man who never set foot there seems just one of th
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by dpwm 8y ago
Wikipedia page cleaning seems to be the norm these days. There are some very peculiar Wikipedia editors who engage in a mix of seemingly-pertinent, well-sourced information removal and spurious mud-slinging. There was the whole "Philip
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by dpwm 8y ago
> It'll work in Chrome (and other Blink-based browsers), but nothing else. What's interesting is it used to be partially supported in Firefox, and has now been put behind about:config [0]. I'm curious as to why, since the
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by dpwm 8y ago
One of the more under-appreciated things about Primer is that the first half-hour-or-so really excellently portrays a raw engineering feeling. The disbelief, the checking and checking again. The "this must be wrong" feeling. I can
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by dpwm 8y ago
> Which option is it? "no more censorship" doesn't seem like a claim that can exist with option 2 – because they're crowd-sourcing carriers, and carriers censor. So if their marketing is consistent – and ruling out a
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by dpwm 8y ago
Counterargument: consumers are free to switch their entire phone to enjoy the rent-seeking behavior of another party on another platform.
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by dpwm 8y ago
Well, Apple just want to "grow the pie." Although growing on the pie seems a more apt metaphor. Defending 15% fees on second-year subscription is pretty difficult. There's no marketing, very little fraud risk. It's rea
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by dpwm 8y ago
> Are these changes not noticeable until you're in the air or should pilots have been refusing to take off in a plane they're not familiar with? I'm not familiar with the plane and I'm not a pilot, but from reading th
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by dpwm 8y ago
No – it should have been 1555013. Must have had the wrong number in the clipboard.

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