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by fmajid 2y ago
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/anti-...
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by fmajid 2y ago
Apple is an advertising company too. They conveniently exempt themselves from the tracking restrictions they put on their competitors, like blocking access to device identifiers. You would be a fool to trust them with your privacy.
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by fmajid 2y ago
It's a "feature" introduced to allow businesses to track their employees' movements in the office.
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by fmajid 2y ago
I haven’t even heard the podcast, but it’s got to be: browsers made by an advertising company don’t have your best interests at hard, as evidenced by Chrome disabling unlock Origin and reneging on a commitment to disable third-party cookies
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by fmajid 2y ago
QUIC/UDP and BBR is mostly a way for Google to grab more than its fair share of bandwidth during congestion, and will lead to a tragedy of the commons where people using less pushy congestion control protocols like CUBIC will be edged
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by fmajid 2y ago
Dan Luu had studied terminal input latency: https://danluu.com/term-latency/ iTerm2 was shockingly bad, for instance, at 44ms vs 6ms for Apple's default Terminal.app. That right there is a deal-killer as far as I
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by fmajid 2y ago
It seems the TDPSA does require consent, just like California's CCPA/CPRA, Virginia's VCDPA it is based on, and the EU's GDPR.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Paxton is a crook, but in this case he's fighting the good fight. Texas collected a $1.4B settlement from Meta for its facial-recognition scanning, and in this case the monetary damages to the victims are far worse in terms of higher i
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by fmajid 2y ago
Keep a basket with handle for this purpose, the kind used in supermarkets. Makes it easy to transport the items back to their proper home. I use the Reisenthel baskets, available in a wide variety of colors: https://www.reisenthe
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by fmajid 2y ago
Why not AMD any more? Considering the Intel quality control problems with copper-plated vias on 13th and 14th gen processors, I am giving those a wide berth, and I’d want Zen 5 in a high-performance laptop anyway. I live in the UK and consi
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by fmajid 2y ago
No, it’s here (scroll all the way to the bottom): https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/
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by fmajid 2y ago
The N200 is a fairly wimpy processor that isn’t really meant for laptops, more low-end desktops and routers, but that explains the low price.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Good, the Canadian example gives them the ability to tell Murdoch to buzz off.
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Hollowing a mountain?
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by fmajid 2y ago
It was an attempt to replicate similar legislation in Australia. The difference is Rupert Murdoch is almighty in Australian politics and any retorsion of the kind Meta deployed in Canada would have been met with stern reprisals from the sup
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by fmajid 2y ago
California is suing Sephora for noncompliance, more will follow when the word gets out. I don’t know why the EU is dragging its feet incorporating GPC into GDPR.
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by fmajid 2y ago
NORAD headquarters at Cheyenne Mountain: they hollowed out a mountain, and installed an entire complex mounted on springs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain_Complex
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by fmajid 2y ago
See also: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-town-that-kept-it...
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by fmajid 2y ago
I’m surprised they didn’t use crossbar electromechanical switches for EMP resistance.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Also included in his memoirs starting with “Surely you must be joking, Mr Feynman!”, well worth reading if you can get over the occasional sexist bits.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Global Privacy Control, effectively legally enforced Do-Not-Track (already the law in California) is the way forward on cookie banners. https://www.cookieyes.com/blog/global-privacy-control/
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by fmajid 2y ago
All the R&D into lab-grown diamonds is meant for endgame use in computer chips, the jewelry trade is just a short-term means of financing the way there.
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by fmajid 2y ago
The punchline says it all: “Many bug bounty reports never assign CVE-IDs, leading to a false perception of security and software quality.”
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by fmajid 2y ago
With NetBoot.xyz, it’s just a DHCP server setting, setting up a TFTP server and very easy to set up. Much easier than dealing with a bunch of USB boot drives and keeping them up to date.
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by fmajid 2y ago
California’s water problems cannot be solved without abolishing the absurd system of senior and junior water rights, where just because someone nailed a notice on a tree in the 19th Century, they get to take their fill of whatever river bef
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by fmajid 2y ago
Alfalfa is grown for cows. In this case by Saudi-owned companies that ship it to feed cows in Saudi Arabia, in a form on water-laundering.
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Pretty much the same situation as Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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by fmajid 2y ago
In the 19th Century, the U.K. (and France, the US and others) militarily defeated China and imposed humiliating “unequal treaties” on it. Nowadays the US does the same to the U.K., e.g. an extradition treaty that gives US citizens far more
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by fmajid 2y ago
There’s an entire library, libpsl, dedicated to checking the public suffix list, and that needs to be updated whenever some marketing department has a brain fart because ICANN needed more cash for its CEO’s cocaine budget.
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by fmajid 2y ago
The solution is simple: do not allow planning permission for anything where a tree once stood, and require the property owner to replant where a tree was killed. This won’t take care of those killed for the views because young trees won’t b

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