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by fosco 8y ago
Agreed. compared to exactis and and experian leaks though, I am wondering what makes this data valuable? (pardon my ignorance) Edit: appears you answered in another thread. > this dataset contains the unique national ID, home address,
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by fosco 8y ago
I do not like slack either. that being said, get involved and get them in Matrix or IRC, not too difficult to enact change I think people could get in on it with appropriate leadership! zulip looks interesting to me as well.
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by fosco 8y ago
not sure why this was downvoted, a Cantenna [0] was originally created with a pringles can. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantenna
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by fosco 8y ago
what happens if you do not trust your smartphone? I do not like storing anything of value on mine. not that it matters but I recently switched to LineageOS and my opinion has not changed.
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by fosco 8y ago
agreed, imagine the ability to look at all of the data they have and find a dump on that. idea time: Cryptographically store this data on physical cards that can fit into wallet and be managed by the user and 'revoked' if they lo
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Ask HN: Resources for Learning Horticulture And/or Viticulture?
1 points by fosco 8y ago|0 comments
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by fosco 8y ago
this article headline and article itself strongly reminded me of Paul Grahams 'submarine' [0] article [0] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by fosco 8y ago
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17820654
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by fosco 8y ago
Thank you for this! > To join the Church of Emacs, you need only pronounce the Confession of the Faith: There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.
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by fosco 8y ago
Hoping for a corporate congress?
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Internet Voting: A Requiem for the Dream(phrack.com)
10 points by fosco 8y ago|0 comments
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by fosco 8y ago
what company?
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by fosco 8y ago
this sounds like an approval of moral licensing. I am a big fan of Musk however I think that simply because he appears (and in many cases is) to be doing great things for society does not license him to also make the short sighted decision
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by fosco 8y ago
a lie is identified as intentional deception. [0]. by definition a lie is incredibly difficult to prove... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie
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by fosco 8y ago
I found the article informative, but this title seems like click bait which is why I hesitated reading it. shouldn't it be something along the lines of: Avital Ronell Title IX investigation found her guilty
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by fosco 8y ago
Give this podcast [0] a listen, the meaning of words evolve over time. much of comman talk in the 1600's would not be very well understood today simply because the actual meaning of words has changed. [0] http://www.econtal
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by fosco 8y ago
is there a way to see the average bandwidth a tor end user would get? seems like a good amount?
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by fosco 8y ago
are there any researched measurements to show exactly how much is available? obviously it would vary greatly depending on where the connection is going... but wondering if there is some overarching idea of what it has..
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by fosco 8y ago
I think I misunderstood this entirely when I first saw it, I always thought she was babysitting or had a daycare and they were not her kids and most of the time she has kids but they are not twins.
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Zerocat Chipflasher(fsf.org)
1 points by fosco 8y ago|0 comments
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by fosco 8y ago
I am considering solar and a big plus would be a battery as well. Do you have any suggestions or recommendations on things to read or companies to look at? i.e. Tesla power?
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by fosco 8y ago
Article grandparent quoted was from last year. You are accurate.
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by fosco 8y ago
I loved google wave -- it was great and ahead of its time. I think it was a major mistake that google let it go and that the apache wave foundation never got it going. it is too late now but really a greatly missed opportunity.
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by fosco 8y ago
HN is a social networking site, it is the only one I use. but I am spending time reading these comments... and probably do not want tknow the total time per week I spend on this site, I might cry because my excuse of not having time to exe
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by fosco 8y ago
this is an interesting point and I think is more valid than many teachers (and adults of all flavors) want to admit due to not wanting to accept the enormous responsibility, thanks for sharing!
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by fosco 8y ago
I find this perspective interesting and I think this discussion needs to be taken further as I think it is unclear on both sides what the final expectations are to be upon completion of class/grade. that being said, I am concerned that
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by fosco 8y ago
it would be great if there was a way to crowdsource telescopes and I could throw something on my roof or out my window that could somehow be part of a global network to watch things and making findings as a community. I dream of a day when
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by fosco 8y ago
it would be interesting if someone created a "Have I Been Pwned" service for these types of leaks, does anyone know if one exists?
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by fosco 8y ago
Can you help me find sources for this? Having a tough time.
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by fosco 8y ago
Awesome! would love to see the code here

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