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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
There were several instances were I saw an interesting tool for manipulating SSDs and SD cards only available from strange Russian websites. This one at least has an English UI ... A lot of research seems concentrated there and I wonder why
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
These companies don't deserve any kind of pat on the back for just doing the bare minimum. Doing the right thing or making minor concessions to customers is not something that deserves special recognition - it is the basic responsibili
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
Archived version: https://archive.is/qn32R
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What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80k Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs(nytimes.com)
19 points by gaius_baltar 3y ago|39 comments
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
Or just "yt-dlp <url>" yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ) still works pretty well at the current state of Twitter.
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Casio QL-10 (Calculighter)(calculator.org)
3 points by gaius_baltar 3y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
Nope, as cryptocurrencies are not really currencies, so you are always trading capital. Taler experimented with a different direction when they built a distributed payment system for moving usual currencies digitally, even with a asymmetric
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
Just did it... perhaps I am too used to read SRTs as plain text that I assumed it would be Ok for other people. For people who want it, transcription in SRT format is here: https://text.is/O6ZX
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
(continuing) the shuttle into a phone line and point it at the AppleLink phone number. Well, it turns out that wouldn't work, because the servers running AppleLink's modems required full-duplex two-way communications. So instead,
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
(continuing) were more or less sitting around idle because of course business is happening during the day. So General Electric Network Internet Exchange, or Genie, was launched. Priced at $6 per hour at night and $36 per hour during the day
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DeArrow – Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube(addons.mozilla.org)
2 points by gaius_baltar 3y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
The article contradicts this point: "There will be another, less contentious privacy issue with your Messages requests to Bard. These will be sent to the cloud for processing, used for training and maybe seen by humans—albeit anonymize
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
I think this is the only assured way to interop, as I expect Google may try to kill other competing apps (specially in mobile) that does not capture user data or generate data points for its ads. I wonder if any intentional limitation her
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
> I wish every government would establish a national instance to deliver public announcements and create channels for easy and fast communication with their citizens. EU did it some time ago: https://social.network.europa.eu&#
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W3C Leaves Twitter(w3c.social)
205 points by gaius_baltar 3y ago|189 comments
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Brazil Regulator Claims "80% of Pirate TV Boxes" Were Blocked Last Week(torrentfreak.com)
10 points by gaius_baltar 3y ago|2 comments
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
You can drop YT logins completely. On desktop use Firefox Account Containers to always open YT in an isolated container and never login. On Android, just use NewPipe. Of course, you won't have personal recommendations, playlists, watch
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
YT Premium only makes the problem worse by requiring you to log in using an account that is tied to your real world identity and was used for payment processing. You just end up giving more data points to Google to track you, cross-referenc
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
> Even if it's automated, it's still not great for Facebook that they are treating EFF as a spam link. That's a story in itself. Exactly! This is also one of the most traditional domain names (Creation Date: 1990-10-10T04:
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
Hope I did not wander out of the non-editorializing guidelines, but summarizing that toot in 80 chars is not trivial.
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Facebook/Meta blocks accounts for posting link to EFF privacy tips(techhub.social)
380 points by gaius_baltar 3y ago|91 comments
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Backdoor in Tetra Police Radios(schneier.com)
6 points by gaius_baltar 3y ago|1 comments
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
> Because it's FOSS It's not FOSS, my other comment on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36578294
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
Beware that Bookwyrm is neither Open Source (as per OSI definition) nor Free Software (per FSF definition). It is legally impossible for a lot of people to deploy it, I think it even include myself (I am employed by a company, does it count
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
That's a surprisingly nice use for this crazy TLD.
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
The timings between the events (telemarketer calls, victim answer, telemarketer plays automated random greeting, victim replies, telemarketer transfers call to human operator, etc.) can be used for an effective blocking. Like a more advance
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
> It bothers me a little bit that having a strong stance against intolerance is seen as being “politicized.” That should just be normal and expected behavior. It did not seem to me a politicized discussion but a technical issue with filt
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
And this is a feature!
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
I would say federation is a must as it will spare us from the next migration (there is a rule: centralized or proprietary services *always* get worse as time goes by).
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
One question however: would Linus accept merging the commits signed by a pseudonym? Or Asahi patches would not be upstreamed due to this?

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