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by eloisius 5y ago
Yep. Pretty much all nerd solutions to physical or legal threats are genius but also worse than useless. Here's a $5 hammer, hit him with it until he gives us what we're looking for, so goes the comic I saw once.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Have I got a PAM module for you: https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress
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by eloisius 5y ago
I feel the same about SO. I have only contributed a tiny bit, and usually avoid it when I’m trying to debug something. Like 10 years ago the answers were pretty good, but now it seems like the accepted answer is often outdated, and below th
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by eloisius 5y ago
And what is a 馬卡龍 then? A horse card dragon?
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Linux touchpad like a MacBook: goal worth pursuing? (2018)(bill.harding.blog)
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by eloisius 5y ago
I feel the same logically. I’ll be 35 in a couple weeks and I’m also an avid text fan, but lately I’ve noticed that I shift to video searches for things a lot faster. I thought about it a little, and I think that maybe I’ve started doing th
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by eloisius 5y ago
That’s all op said. Regardless of the moralizing, if you buy into apple because they market themselves as the company who will stand up for your privacy, remember that it’s just marketing. Apple has a business to run, and they’ll fold to go
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by eloisius 5y ago
Not to doubt your claims, but do you have any sources for them? I’ve never heard this.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Of course I do on my laptop, but I've never really tried to improve the situation on my phone aside from installing AdGuard a long time ago. I just installed AdBlock and enabled every filter. Checked this site and the ads are gone! Tha
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by eloisius 5y ago
Not worth it to me. I was casually curious, but not curious enough to work around the fact that they’ve made their content almost inaccessible.
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by eloisius 5y ago
This site is so thick with ads that I cannot stand to read it on my phone. I made it through a paragraph several times and weird reload-like stuff keeps happing, making me lose my place so that the obnoxious video ad stuck to the top of the
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by eloisius 5y ago
The amount of personal data left in chats would be worrying for sure. Not to mention security culture is not really tight here. I’ve had hotels ask me to send a picture of my credit card for payment a few times. As far as other things being
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by eloisius 5y ago
That seems reasonable to me.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Asian messenger apps like LINE are really more of an “everything app.” I use LINE to chat with everyone. In Taiwan it’s a given that that anyone you meet will have LINE. Businesses have a special business line account that staff can use. Yo
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by eloisius 5y ago
Which countries in Asia still count it as the most popular messaging app? China is on WeeChat, Korea has KakaoTalk and LINE is everywhere else. It is pretty amazing that Meta had three messaging apps and none of them are close to something
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by eloisius 5y ago
I’ve never had an officer understand my legitimate reason either, and even if they had, the time spent checking my ID and running insurance would far exceed whatever time I gained by speeding.
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by eloisius 5y ago
The lengths highway patrol go to enforce speed limits manually is insane to me. I've never understood why, if speeding is such an important thing to prevent, why don't they use camera enforcement. If you travel between cameras A a
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by eloisius 5y ago
Supposedly it is in the guidelines. Someone provided a link to them last time it came up. Seems like it’s just unenforced. I wish they’d either enforce that, or give users some tools to filter them. Give me a naive bayes filter to train, re
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by eloisius 5y ago
Is there a a federated Mastodon-like that replicates Instagram decently? I know you could just share photos on Mastodon, but I think the photo centric design and stories are what’s fun. At this point I don’t care about the network effects,
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by eloisius 5y ago
The irony is that all those engagement-boosting tweaks may work in the short term but ultimately kill engagement. You can trick my sleepy self to stay up scrolling through ads for a while, but I can tell what’s going on. Afterwards I feel b
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by eloisius 5y ago
Sure, but you probably wouldn’t ever hear someone say “maybe you should have had less trust” if Google employees snooped on your Drive account to steal financial records or something like that to use against you. Why do we tend to treat peo
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by eloisius 5y ago
Maybe it's just a symptom of everything moving to the cloud over the last decade. You're definitely right about power user tools like Zapier, but desktop-based software has become less amenable to power users.
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by eloisius 5y ago
I don’t know anything about neuroscience so I’m just naval gazing out loud, but my grandpa always answered “the more synapse connections in your brain, the better. Don’t worry about when you will use this” when I whined about learning somet
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by eloisius 5y ago
The EasyCard (悠遊卡) in Taiwan. It’s an IC card frequently added onto just about every other card, like bank cards, student ID, or you can just buy one at the convenience store. You can store value on it, use it to ride metro, trains, busses,
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by eloisius 5y ago
Public transit is working great in Taipei and masks have been mandatory for almost two years.
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by eloisius 5y ago
I’ve been using Kagi for the last month. I’ve made a point of trying out every upstart search engine I can get access too and so far this one has been great. A good sign is that I think very little about it. It tends to hit canonical source
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by eloisius 5y ago
It’s also about ten years later than everyone else to get those splat and null coalesce operators so it’s not like that elegance is unique or even timely for PHP.
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by eloisius 5y ago
That drought was back in April. It has been raining frequently and reservoirs across the country are full[1]. It's not a problem right now, but it's a recurring issue and will probably spur investment into additional reservoirs or
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by eloisius 5y ago
Same. I'm someone that built a cellphone from parts and programmed my own phone OS, so I get the tinkering for the sake of tinkering aspect, but I can't connect with the need to automate all these workflows in my house. Whenever s
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by eloisius 5y ago
I would definitely rather get up from the couch and flip a switch than open my smart phone, start an app, fumble through a nag screen telling me about recent updates to said app that auto-upgraded since last time I used it, turn on my lamp,

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