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by firefax 6mo ago
I was impressed with folks who learned so many games as kids -- I got sucked into Simcity 2000 for quite a spell... then Simcopter and "Streets of Simcity", which I soon found out had almost zero ppl looking to play online. It was
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Unexplained Phenomena(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by firefax 6mo ago|0 comments
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by firefax 6mo ago
Now that Protonmail has an ok-ish PGP interface they've been bleeding users, it's a really important piece of the open source infrastructure and I hope folks support it -- back when I was with Mozilla, I said they should focus on
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by firefax 6mo ago
Can't you just... tell it not to make mistakes? :-)
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by firefax 6mo ago
>If you want to throw money at the problem USB-C is not the answer (how does that even make sense??) I thought maybe it could use a capacitor or something? I'm not an electrical engineer -- all I know is we have half the voltage her
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by firefax 6mo ago
K-Mart? The dream of the 90s lives on in the land down under apparently...
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by firefax 6mo ago
it's never instant because boiling water takes sooooo longgggg. apparently uk teakettles are faster due to voltage differences? i want to look for a usb-c solution sometime
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2020 United States federal government data breach(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by firefax 7mo ago|0 comments
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by firefax 7mo ago
Allow me to put on my tinfoil hat for a moment and propose that maybe DOGE did loudly what the Solarwinds paired with OPM breach did quietly years prior.
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by firefax 7mo ago
>his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA medical diagnoses can be incredibly useful in understanding past and future actions >there shouldn't be anything damning to release. ie, there ought n
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by firefax 7mo ago
These kinds of laws worry me since I have forgotten several old passwords. Being disorganized shouldn't be a criminal offense.
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by firefax 8mo ago
I suspect any cloud service without strong encryption at rest ala Protonmail will have insider threat issues. Hell there's an entire Wikipedia article entitled "Saudi infiltration of Twitter"[1] just to give one example. This
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by firefax 8mo ago
>Chase Mobile What banking tasks are you doing that other apps don't seem to handle -- are you trading stocks or something? I basically never use a banking app except to deposit a check (which all the various apps seem to handle wel
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by firefax 8mo ago
I've had good experiences with KeePassXC. In addition to being able to store your passwords, it can ingest TOTP seeds. And finally, it's open source and cross platform. (I originally stumbled upon it because it was the only KeePas
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by firefax 9mo ago
why should your opinion matter more because you're a parent? in my experience, folks with the economic comfort to create children by choice tend to be extreme machavellian and justify said machinations by the fact they must provide for
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by firefax 9mo ago
>invocation of free expression as the supreme unbridled right even for teenagers who wouldn’t even understand what you’re talking about i got into policy partly by reading eff's deeplinks in my very early teens, but hey, go ahead an
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by firefax 9mo ago
no music or tv? that sounds fucked... why don't ppl just drink in a park? iirc public drinking is actually legal in the uk? (I know in some countries it's actually not -- Bratislava being one surprising example, though some cops w
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by firefax 9mo ago
>What makes you think this anonymous 13 year old is going to get good advice from anonymous strangers on the internet? There's a whole section here called "Ask HN". What makes you think a 30 something venture capitalist is
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by firefax 9mo ago
And what happens when someone under that age needs to anonymously ask for advice on the internet? Most folks hit puberty at around 13. Imagine your parents have divorced -- your new stepfather is very religious. Your phone and laptop have s
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by firefax 9mo ago
isn't weatherspoons like getting drunk at applebees basically? comparing that to a "pub" is kinda laughable
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by firefax 9mo ago
>Presumably the phones are tapped? If you simply list a location and time, it's hard to suss out whether it's a coffee or a protest. And there's a limit on how many people can be surveilled in real time, with the focus pro
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by firefax 9mo ago
>Perhaps him acting aggressively and blocking you was a misunderstood attempt at humor. People who are being hyperbolic for humor tend to follow you back not block you
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by firefax 9mo ago
Old fashioned phone trees can be really useful IMHO OP. We used them when I worked in a school. If there was winter weather, you'd call say, everyone with a last name from A to G in the staff directory, someone else calls G to K, and s
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by firefax 9mo ago
Is an O-1 the "model visa"? Because OF models are models... so I wonder if model management companies are upset about folks selling content directly to consumers without abusive middle management and drumming up outrage to prote
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by firefax 9mo ago
>Then, there’s the dicier issue of whether an experiment like this amounts to human experimentation. It doesn’t, according to the University of Minnesota’s Institutional Review Board. Lu and Wu applied for approval in response to the out
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by firefax 9mo ago
>I think they should have gotten permission from IRB ahead of time, but this doesn't sound like they were researching human subjects? I assure you that it falls under IRB's purview -- I came into the thread intending to make gr
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by firefax 9mo ago
In general, if an "entertainer" has no "offstage" persona, they're batshit and it's not a bit.
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by firefax 9mo ago
>How much of a session is based on "reading players" vs "playing the odds"? I think the key is you need to watch for a person's play style. There's a two axis system: tight/agressive and passive/ac
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by firefax 9mo ago
>Even ignoring your flawed understanding of the UK's government, what is your glorious bill of rights worth at the end of the day? Your president just does whatever the hell he wants, ignoring any checks and balances as he sees fit.
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by firefax 9mo ago
Maybe you should include a source, especially if you're making claims about alleged " disinformation "? :-)

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