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5y ago
Yes, of course. Non dewrinkling ironing on the peak of Mt. Everest is for casuals.
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"I seem to have my identity, whereas you seem to have lost several thousands of pounds." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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Sandboxed Google Play services (experimental preview)
(grapheneos.org)
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Luckily, the (wonderful!) short story was archived at https://archive.is/oXDEt
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5y ago
"After filling the captcha, the site doesn't show the token but redirects to a signalcaptcha:// url that contains the token. [...] To see the URL you can open the browser developer tools (F12) before completing the captc
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> Ah, the threat of the imaginary hackers "The imaginary is that which tends to become real" -André Breton > Banks can already track your credit card payments to figure out your profile, Google can track your location throug
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My point was that once you make that data machine-readable, it's not good enough to have privacy-by-policy of not storing it - IT security being what it is.
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5y ago
Name+DOB in digital form is more than enough to track people, even with an offline verification process: We can expect that any number of "interested parties" will attempt to get access to the computer systems of venues operating
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5y ago
With eBay rolling out more and more restrictive policies on what can be sold, it's a relief to see some new developers keeping the flame alive after OB1 went under: https://github.com/mobazha
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OpenBazaar Is Being Revived
(old.reddit.com)
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Five people for and hundred people against might still be rough consensus (2014)
(datatracker.ietf.org)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_audit
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Not only that, but Kafka's instructions to destroy all of his writings unread were carefully phrased so as to apply to the instructions themselves...
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5y ago
Brand new coins, but wouldn't they still look suspicious if the block's coinbase is outlandishly large?
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> If you're not a miner you have absolutely no control. The economic majority of Bitcoin users ultimately decides what "Bitcoin" even means and can enforce that against miners with e.g. a User Activated Soft Fork: https
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6y ago
Unlocking new levels of "socializing losses"
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6y ago
Firefox 86 falls back on HTTP transparently (e.g. try it with sane-project.org). I'd like to disable that, but without also adding a (stateful, fingerprintable) confirmation step to follow HTTP links.
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Is there a way to get exactly this new Chrome address bar behavior in Firefox? I.e. I want Firefox to follow plain http links same as before, but if I type in example.com it should expand to https://example.com
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OpenBazaar: Buy and Sell Freely
(openbazaar.org)
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... inspiring that famous song "The Contract Drafting Em" - The special horror when your employer has root on your brain: https://secularsolstice.github.io/Contract_Drafting_Em/gen/
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6y ago
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
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On https://web.archive.org/web/20090318021921/http://club.cdfre... someone writes: 'I used an oscilloscope to find a sweet spot in the analog signal path of an audio CD player (an old Sanyo - the ol
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Make sure it's an iFOBT though ("immunochemical"), not the legacy gFOBT type. Preferably with two test fields - Hb and Hb/Hp (hemoglobin and hemoglobin/haptoglobin complex) - for that extra bit of sensitivity: http
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6y ago
Why does this affect only v3 onions, and not v2 onions or "exiting to the regular internet" connections?
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‘Later I realized that the border police uncle did not even listen to my answers, sometimes repeated question1 after answering question3. Turned out to be a delay tactic until green light on the screen; propably “team to follow me through m
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Slides (PDF, 36 MB): https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/rc3/2020/Fahrplan/system/even...
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> Slave names, really? It's a common way that pseudonym aficionados refer to their civil names. Gallows humor. > You can lie about your name, I suppose, but strictly speaking you're violating the stated rules and could face
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I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but sure you can cont
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Uneasy bedfellows but nah. Some pockets inside of Google (like AOSP) are, on balance, still beneficial. What a world.
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If contributing to your project requires much more than git commit --signoff — in Fuchsia's case, a full-on Google Account! — this will exclude many pseudonymous developers who conceive of things such as privacy in terms of capabilit
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