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by efreak 6y ago
This requires trusting "those best equipped" to prioritize the rules over money when the fines aren't significant enough to affect the bottom line.
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by efreak 6y ago
> would you want every new software or protocol to have to go through some kind of bureaucratic review before it can be used? Absolutely yes if said protocol is to be used by an entire population as a basic means of communication. Either
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by efreak 6y ago
I've got a couple dozen accounts registered between defunct bots that were tied to irc bots or blogs, and single-use numbered accounts registered for contests and giveaways that required twitter. None of them has ever required any proo
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by efreak 6y ago
I will absolutely cheer your right to stop selling your IP. I may not cheer your _decision_ to do so, but that decision remains yours.
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by efreak 6y ago
> >By what mechanism could Google prevent themselves from ever being able to do this? > The law. I'd really rather not see companies like Google (it any other, for that matter) making laws. Lobbying is bad enough.
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by efreak 6y ago
I can't imagine people would like seeing enriched uranium. Sure it'd make a good story, but people don't even want to see my ore sample. Deleted uranium should also be fun; I'd love to have some dice made of it: https:&
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by efreak 6y ago
My script template includes some things like `var $=a=>{return document.querySelector(a)}`, `...prototype.evt=(a,b)=>{var e=this.addEventListener(a,b);this.events=this.events||[];this.events.push(e);return e}` and a few other shortcut
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by efreak 6y ago
The surveillance and tracking complement advertising, but aren't necessarily part of it. I'd call it brainwashing instead.
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by efreak 6y ago
From memory, alcohol consumption actually _increased_ during prohibition.
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by efreak 6y ago
From Wikipedia: > Hitachi holds the record for the smallest RFID chip, at 0.05 mm × 0.05 mm......These dust-sized chips can store 38-digit numbers using 128-bit Read Only Memory (ROM). A major challenge is the attachment of antennas, thu
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by efreak 6y ago
Doesn't the live cd present a boot menu with a direct install option like others do? If not, that's even more annoying; it already requires a DVD these days because they have to include too much software, they should certainly be
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by efreak 6y ago
White I agree with everything else, a furnace/ac does _not_ oscillate. It's fixed. You can adjust the vents to aim them, but you cannot make them push air to every part of the room on a rotating basis. Having said that, oscillatin
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by efreak 6y ago
We had a broken arcade game at after-school, every so often someone would bump it and someone would have to reach around and push the switch that wasn't properly covered by the backboard in order to turn it back on. I reached around wi
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by efreak 6y ago
As a side effect, it's probably also more efficient.
555.
by efreak 6y ago
Because people don't usually don't on their toes? It's easier to bring your hands into view than your feet.
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by efreak 6y ago
Or just use electrical tape. It's not the same, but it works
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by efreak 6y ago
At one point, I had a very small png file that was large enough to crash Netscape and IE, and later firefox. It had large enough dimensions that browsers couldn't handle it. Today I'm sure it would be fine; instead I'm frust
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by efreak 6y ago
You might want to be a bit more specific than computer networks. Monitor/ promiscuous mode is a thing, and so is dropping packets. It's not much use outside of wifi anymore, but there's still a few dumb hubs around.
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by efreak 6y ago
SSH is a TCP connecting though, isn't it? How do you avoid TCP inside TCP when both are TCP? Oram I missing something?
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by efreak 6y ago
From the features page: > Haven is about sharing privately with friends and family. There is no option to make your blog public to the world.
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by efreak 6y ago
That's an interesting story, but that article and others on the site have weird issues that can't be put down as non-native English. Extra words that make no sense (Steve Jobs founded us ), and phrases added into the ends of sent
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by efreak 6y ago
These are still registry entries and are still located in the same part of the registry and still with the same way. This hasn't changed. What's changed is registering applications to show up for the new UI is a huge pain requir
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by efreak 6y ago
I can't downvote (I think?) and I don't miss it. I use an android client (Materialistic) that doesn't even provide me with an option to do so, and I haven't looked for a way to do so. If I disagree with a post or com
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by efreak 6y ago
If you're using a mobile browser on Android that doesn't allow overriding websites that disable zoom (or using a website that defines font sizes in vw/vh), check your accessibility settings, there should be a shortcut for tr
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by efreak 6y ago
LastPass is especially horrible at this. I have it configured _not_ to start with windows because I don't want it running in the background. Whenever I need to open it, I launch it, copy the password to the clipboard and paste it into
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by efreak 6y ago
If you have to use Firefox on shared computers occasionally, it may be worthwhile changing your habit to use ctrl+pgup/dn instead of ctrl+tab; ctrl+tab defaults to switching in order of most recently used tabs these days, while ctrl+p
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by efreak 6y ago
Or alt+d or F6. These are mostly universal.
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by efreak 6y ago
Only if each key has its own function to process that keystroke, and some keystrokes had to do more processing and thus take more time about it. Selecting an item in a list view is a fast, simple process; what happens after that isn't
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by efreak 6y ago
Others aren't exactly common, but I spent a good bit of time a while back removing my own information from the public internet. It's not easy removing yourself from all the Spokeo clones, but most of them have some way to do so, o
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by efreak 6y ago
Tip: URL suggestions are rarely advertising, and pop up faster than the results page does. Check the suggestions before searching.

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