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U.S. Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords(nbcnews.com)
61 points by erelde 10y ago|57 comments
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by erelde 10y ago
I say that because: depending on those factors (and some others like lense type, focus etc) the difference between the angle eye/screen and eye/camera is insignificant... You just have to draw a schema to understand. 3 to 5 meters
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by erelde 10y ago
If the cameras are above the screen, and the subject is far enough, the eye's angle doesn't matter much.
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by erelde 10y ago
I'm French, and AZERTY sometime drives me crazy. Braces and parenthesis aren't logically placed, characters used in coding languages aren't easily accessible in general . And I've generally concluded that I should insta
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by erelde 10y ago
In fact in the dev blog of Youtube they showed it wasn't true. Can't find the post right now.
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by erelde 10y ago
tldr: HTTP/2 with TLS allows for better speeds.
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by erelde 10y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one it troubles that porn sites don't use https.
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by erelde 10y ago
https://www.troyhunt.com/i-wanna-go-fast-https-massive-speed... This is by the same author, and there are critics that could be made against it. In some cases it is faster it seems.
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by erelde 10y ago
Or even not scarify themselves before potential Big Bad happens. Pushing the metaphor a bit too far.
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by erelde 10y ago
Not necessarily the same people commenting on the first and the second. That's the issue with "The Reddit/HN/Gawker/*chan/Twitter's community is toxic".
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by erelde 10y ago
> This article, written by an incognito Jewish Marxist agitator the grugq isn't incognito.
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by erelde 10y ago
Is there a good move here? Update or not?
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by erelde 10y ago
It's from 2014. Fake likes could also do fake comments now, it's also a metric used for engagement.
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by erelde 10y ago
I thought they had dealt with that since. Guess they have no real incentive to do so.
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by erelde 10y ago
Tangent comment: https://i.imgur.com/Xm1qRI4.png Does anybody know why the comments under this post are like that, at least for me? Is there a particular reason why people from Myanmar (some with latin name?) would comment
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by erelde 10y ago
> most of the attacks that we investigated Isn't that a case of the survivorship bias? Or at least the broader case of selection bias?
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by erelde 10y ago
> weigh about 80kb I'm sorry, it's such a funny professional deformation.
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by erelde 10y ago
Close your port 22 at least. Define some simple iptables rules. Only able to login if coming from specific ip address, like a private vpn server.
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by erelde 10y ago
Torrents are only for criminals. /s (edit: double sarcasm in fact)
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by erelde 10y ago
And then what's "good" in relation to "what's good for humankind", what's "humankind". Same process for the second sentence. I think in some defintion I could argue either side of the Eternity.
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by erelde 10y ago
Isn't that idea also in Asimov's The End of Eternity? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity In this book humans have at some point invented time travel. Subsequently an organization ('Eternit
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by erelde 10y ago
$living_thing with $property (wing coloration) isn't dead before reproduction happens, $property may be kept in the offsprings. $living_thing with $property (wing coloration) is dead before reproduction happens, $property may no
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by erelde 10y ago
Obama went to Paris (I live in downtown Paris) several times I think, and there have been multiple reunions of numerous heads of state here, I don't remember any particular perturbations, other than 5 or 7 subway station blocked. The m
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by erelde 10y ago
Just to offer the other side of this, I, on the other hand, have the kept the same mobile phone number since the beginning.
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by erelde 10y ago
Wayland isn't the default on Arch, it has no default by default.
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by erelde 10y ago
> org at the scale of an Amazon > Owning and and maintaining your own servers is not hard at all, folks. Sysadmins are useless /s
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by erelde 10y ago
The site itself is an abomination on a low end pc. That thing lags, drop frames, etc. And it pretends to have a better score than a static html page without any ressources.
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by erelde 10y ago
As the article is paywalled I want to say: maybe one in three is overpaid, and one in three is in the mean. But that wouldn't fit a gauss distribution. Just rambling the thoughts those 8 lines triggered.
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by erelde 10y ago
What I meant by "If that's any consolation" was: At least if I know someone (imo) intelligent is in charge, even if they do (imo) bad things, I can tell myself that they do it for a reason, have thought about it and came to a
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by erelde 10y ago
I wouldn't be excited by Zuckerberg, nor do I want him to have any political office. But at least I'd know that political office doesn't have an idiot sitting in it. If that's any consolation.

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