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by firefax 2y ago
>Maybe the NSA is on this and spends a lot of time reverse engineering consumer electronics but sadly I tend to doubt it. It's more likely the CIA[0] is exploiting consumer electronics that the NSA -- the Joshua Shulte trial cast a
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by firefax 2y ago
To piggyback, is there a good USB Blu ray drive? (And is there a known good CLI tool for backing up copies of them?) I have some Blu Rays I worry will be lost to disc rot 20 years from now...
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by firefax 2y ago
>You price out locals from the housing market. Thanks, I think people forget about the market distorting effects of people with a high wage taking an extended holiday, often staying in AirBnBs rather than licensed hotels/hostels and
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by firefax 2y ago
* on contingency
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by firefax 2y ago
>> Does Diego Garcia even have the required climate controlled hangars to store the planes? This is plainly stated in the opening of the article: > Diego Garcia is now the only known location to use the distinctive B2SS or B-2 She
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by firefax 2y ago
It also depends on the suburb. I was sad when I lived in Mountain View, heading in sight unseen, but there were a lot of sidewalks and a little main drag with some bars and shops. A lot of "suburbs" in the Midwest lack sidewalks -
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by firefax 2y ago
Libreoffice is really useful, paired with GIMP it can make switching much simpler since word processing and light image editing (cropping, resizing, redacting PII) is easily done without a photoshop subscription.
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by firefax 2y ago
The first time I tried, despite thinking I'd done my research I had so many issues with basic things like wifi I gave up, but that was like 10+ years ago. I think for my phone, I'd still prefer iOS -- I think the lack of freedom c
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by firefax 2y ago
Maybe contact an attorney? This sum goes beyond small claims court. You might find someone who will take the case on discovery -- being served would probably put a pep in their step.
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by firefax 2y ago
I'd just move on. I deleted mine in 2016, and rereturned mostly to use it as SSO for Instagram. The Instagram remains, but I can't sign into it because they nuked my Facebook account for being "inauthentic" -- I would ha
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by firefax 2y ago
They'll terrorize someone who does the chores typical of a houseguest (doing one's own bedding, taking part in the chore rotation), but they never seem to give this treatment to tech bro "digital nomads" who enter on tou
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by firefax 2y ago
>honestly, any Tesla news coming from CNN, I take it with a pinch of salt. What specific facts in the article do you question? Edit: Please don't silently downvote me without answering my question, it shows a lack of capacity for cr
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by firefax 2y ago
>You will need familiarity with basic calculus (differentiation, chain rule), linear algebra, and basic probability. So if I'm at the point that math skills, rather than programming skills are my barrier to interesting courses like
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by firefax 2y ago
Random Walk Down Wall Street
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by firefax 2y ago
The venue I published in before dropping out of my PhD purposefully alternated between the US and international locations for these reasons. (Some folks would complain that Canada "didn't count", which would of course greatly
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by firefax 2y ago
>I presume you're trying to read the news in another language for language learning purposes, not for diversifying your information sources. Both :-)
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by firefax 2y ago
>Firefox auto translate is great from a technical perspective, and I think it's awesome to see it translate sentence by sentence, but the actual quality isn't great. It tends to keep word order and grammar and mostly just trans
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by firefax 2y ago
why is your username green, out of curiosity?
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by firefax 2y ago
I keeep forgetting there's a front page to this site... it's my Slashdot replacement. Imagine if Commander Taco had been funding Myspace, what a world that would have been :)
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by firefax 2y ago
This sounds noncompetitive, and bad, but can I just say I don't see the appeal of these watches? I much prefer a simple casio. I got around Europe with a CA-53W. I did currency conversion, and had an alarm so I didn't have to leav
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by firefax 2y ago
>I still can't understand how YC funds competing companies. Where is the efficiency in that? I thought that's a core tenet of angel investing? Maybe not purposefully funding rivals, but funding many ventures with the knowledge
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by firefax 2y ago
script kiddies don't use buffer overflows, script kiddies try the top 20 most popular passwords and deface your wordpress. AI might learn to code in rust or whatever, but you'll forever have the human factor inherent in systems ad
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by firefax 2y ago
It sounds like there were witnesses to the major events mentioned, which makes things simpler than 1:1... but in general people don't tend to make these kinds of things up, in my experience.
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by firefax 2y ago
Firefox auto translate is super useful for pages like this where there's no EN equivalent, thanks for sharing. > If a cow or similar cattle ship outside the slaughterhouse by lightning, fall, illness or for similar reasons, it is up
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by firefax 2y ago
Upvoted, but no reply. It was a sincere question ;_;
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by firefax 2y ago
>Nobody buys apple because of privacy they buy it because its a status symbol and stupidly easy to use. I had a friend who used to joke "Linux is free if your time has no value" -- when I went off to college I settled on a Macb
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by firefax 2y ago
Since when? Currently, I back up all my TOTP generators in KeePass to avoid this. (It's simple to throw the file onto a usb or other data store) I like that solution better than pushing my seeds to "the cloud".
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by firefax 2y ago
Yeah, I'm mostly posting this for folks who might not have access to ISO, but if you do, that is the best solution.
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by firefax 2y ago
Slightly off topic, but if you ever write on a whiteboard with a sharpie, you can write over the text with an erasable marker and then wipe it away.
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by firefax 2y ago
I've made a lot of comments on the internet about folks like Mark Zuckerberg, but to be fair, I've never caught him outside my window ;-)

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