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by efreak 4y ago
Microsoft's remote desktop assistant and the VPN in my router.
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by efreak 4y ago
If you're using it personally to connect to your own machines, try looking up the remote desktop assistant. I use this in combination with the VPN built into my router. I really wish there was a way to set up an RDP gateway without Mic
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by efreak 4y ago
Moreutils has two programs that would trivially defeat this: `sponge` reads the full input before passing it on `vipe` inserts your editor inline, so you can view/modify the input before passing it on to bash (change an install directo
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by efreak 4y ago
They'd have to vary the ad timing to get past sponsorblock, and generating a video for each viewer to do targeting. I can't imagine Google going back to content-based ads after all this time. https://github.com/yt-
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by efreak 4y ago
Some services ignore global disallow, but will respect rules explicitly targeted at them.
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by efreak 4y ago
This is a 7th level comment. Synu below[0] has a 9th level comment, and I've seen nested comments go quite a bit further. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31821497
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by efreak 4y ago
That was when I stopped using Facebook. Facebook had a single edited photo of me that (at the time) was 10 years old, and I didn't care to give them another. I decided that I didn't use Facebook enough to care, so I just stopped.
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by efreak 4y ago
I use Calibre for font subsetting, usually for use in ebooks, but I've used it for a website as well. The only gotcha I've found is that Calibre doesn't recognize css content attributes (`div.icon{content:"source:"}
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by efreak 4y ago
A growing number of websites support dark mode theming, but not all of them. When I open a page in reader mode and switch to dark theme, I don't expect logos in the text to fade into the background. Svg is also often much larger than a
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by efreak 4y ago
Not just tech companies. _Grocery stores_ do it.
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I read this to mean imagery of illegal things.
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by efreak 4y ago
IMAP doesn't help if you prefer to read mail offline, after downloading it to your PC and deleting it from the server. There are still ISPs around with mailservers that measure quota in MB; for example, sdf.org offers 25mb free and up
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by efreak 4y ago
It sounds like they want k9 to be a client for thunderbird, so when you read email in k9, thunderbird marks it as read; when you fetch email, it goes through thunderbird. Thunderbird would be a caching proxy as well as an email client. If y
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by efreak 4y ago
VLC doesn't use ffmpeg, it uses libavcodec.
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by efreak 4y ago
The problem with freedns is that the vast majority of them being to users. I had dead.sexypenguins.com for several years, and was using it as a vhost for IRC, for email, and as a dyndns name. Then one day it stopped working. I considered bu
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by efreak 4y ago
Steam has steampowered.com and steamcommunity.com
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by efreak 4y ago
python-vipaccess might interest you. I used it for both PayPal and eBay at one point. https://github.com/dlenski/python-vipaccess
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by efreak 4y ago
I've got a 2fa backup code in a DNS entry on a free hosting provider. I've got another hidden in some public source code, masquerading as an example encryption key. There's all sorts of digital hiding places these days. Self
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by efreak 4y ago
force stop should prevent the app from running or receiving notifications/gcm messages until either you reboot or open it. I think you're thinking of the _disable_ button on preinstalled apps. this button is only available on prei
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by efreak 4y ago
My method of solving this is to only use familiar, well known information about myself as my master password. It's > 50 characters and contains addresses, old ID numbers, my public library card number, account numbers, old usernames
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by efreak 4y ago
see also http://mazur-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/aol-files/index.html
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by efreak 4y ago
at least on Android there's no need to completely uninstall it. you can disable the app with force stop; this should allow it to get updates, but shouldn't allow it to run again until you open it manually
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by efreak 4y ago
This article seems to have been digitized with OCR. I've found several glitches: Smalltalk-8O, 'dis play', and other mistakes caused by OCR that should have been caught by a spelling check. Issues with quotes are apparent thr
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by efreak 4y ago
Samsung does this, and it annoys me every so often. I'm using sammysung@ because they won't let me use samsung@. There's a couple others like this as well.
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by efreak 4y ago
I've got a first@last.family. My dentist and several large companies refuse to accept this as a valid email address, so I have to use an email that doesn't identify me personally by name (uses efreak instead of my name). This anno
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by efreak 4y ago
Google voice allows you to set what times it will forward numbers, so that gives you a second 'group' of contacts you can assign call times to (give them your voice number, allow them through do not disturb if necessary). It rathe
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by efreak 4y ago
"upgrade" steam to version 2.1.4 or older and you can use adb backup. Android backup extractor can convert the backup to a standard tar file.
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by efreak 4y ago
If you've got the steam mobile app for Android for 2fa and want to move to a different app that supports steam 2fa (aegis, winauth, etc), use steam auth on multiple devices, or simply move to a new device without a temporary trade bloc
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by efreak 4y ago
> powerbanks, powerbanks cases, and even magnetic or clipon wireless charging powerbanks exist and can cheaply be tailored to fit tons of phones This is true. This is also irrelevant if nobody actually does it. My nexus 7 tablet survived
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by efreak 4y ago
The subreddit is linked of you click _improve this map_at the bottom right.

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