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by gcbw3 6y ago
Literally in this case. netBSD -> browser -> jsBSD -> browser -> jsBSD ->
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by gcbw3 6y ago
if you work from home and your company provided computer do not talk exclusively to a VPN tunnel into their network, I doubt they will pay a threat analysis.
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by gcbw3 6y ago
No. They got a $1bi shakedown in a local court because they successfully fought the RIA in 2015 and won (it was $25mi then). This time, Cox legal team tried to simply stand behind the DMCA safe-harbor (just like google does) and somehow los
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by gcbw3 6y ago
Spectrum is a joke. They constantly call me and expect me to provide them my address and payment details like it is a sane thing to ask. Which is sad because their pricing model is less stupid than most of the competition.
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by gcbw3 6y ago
which ironically, is the 5yrs it take for gmail/yahoo to not threat your domain outgoing email as spam.
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by gcbw3 6y ago
android have means to let browser/apps download and save files locally in SD/Download without the Storage permission. Chrome decides not to use it, because reasons.
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by gcbw3 6y ago
NSA also have lots grants that result in professors bullying their students to contribute to projects like these. The reason this is MIT and not GPL makes this project all sorts of bad. MIT has its places and I have several personal open pr
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by gcbw3 6y ago
if nothing, the person who signed off a school on grounds leaking that much methane already "made a profit" just by not being behind bars. nothing in this article makes sense if you try to imagine the people involved in any of tho
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by gcbw3 6y ago
The legislators will be delighted to learn how google's * reCaptcha * 8.8.8.8 et al DNS * google fonts hotlink * google JS cdn hotlink * etc etc store data and how that data is "anonymized" by random teams&#x27
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by gcbw3 6y ago
You are completely missing the point by an internal bank semantic. Credit cards, yes, started replacing the high APR credit-checks. And then moved to a mix of this and regular debit checks. But the actual process, which was what i was descr
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by gcbw3 6y ago
> Text can’t be made look good on low-resolution displays. BS. Maybe true on user-hostile OSX/windows. But If LCD manufacturers provided the correct information on the DID data, it would be very trivial. On linux and with a little t
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by gcbw3 6y ago
People seem to forget why credit cards came into existence. It was not for security. Ever. Credit Cards were introduced as a less-secure-but-more-convenient-check. The store then would have a stock of "blank checks" with absolutel
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by gcbw3 6y ago
calling it "x86" tells me you were not without any prior knowledge of assembly before :)
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by gcbw3 6y ago
Heh. this reminded me some libreoffice bugs i track. One is to have plain text copy paste be the default. The other is to completely disable selected text dragging. There's a large number of people who likes both of these features. Go
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by gcbw3 6y ago
They are upfront they are selling hardware to developers, pretty much. The complete opposite of Librem, who do the same thing but charges $2000 for a laptop that barely boots without hacking libreboot every week and then proceed to use that
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by gcbw3 7y ago
And let's not forget the outcome of those illegally overpriced contracts: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-helped-the-t...
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by gcbw3 7y ago
so, you have nothing to hide. cool. Just remember to not use your google voice or google meet for those union talks ;)
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by gcbw3 7y ago
If it was minimally not garbage, they would have run it on any high profile open source project and promoted the results. Hence, it is pure garbage.
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by gcbw3 7y ago
You guys are insane. You signed something at work that "all data in google owned devices are property of google". Period. This is the same as using your company-provided computer for something else.
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by gcbw3 7y ago
> Android work profile, so the work stuff is siloed. > My understanding is that Google can't see the personal stuff. You are completely wrong. First they have access to all your text and calls, since they own the mobile plan you
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by gcbw3 7y ago
How long did you manage people? did you jump from contributor to director?
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by gcbw3 7y ago
This has been happening since the 80s. We all seen metal detectors and such in low income schools. But we all just laughed it from movies while we continued to work on our cozy advertising and data collection jobs. Maybe even buying the Coo
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by gcbw3 7y ago
DRM and copy protection. Or more correctly, lack of rootkit capabilities to enforce such. The main difference of osx/windows from linux, is that on the formers you (the end user) do not control the kernel.
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by gcbw3 7y ago
The author is also a New America Fellow, so they must use a trick from any center-right academic fellow to publish center-right articles to be picked by center-right journals every now and then (and then be misquoted as munition to "ba
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by gcbw3 7y ago
> we are not paying for it "With location sharing data, 60 billion messages sent per day and access to users' entire contact lists, Facebook has access to a ton of personal information – all uploaded and saved on its servers.&q
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by gcbw3 7y ago
since the author internalized the AWS marketing message.
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by gcbw3 7y ago
Eerily similar to H-1b with the visaholder (i.e. consulting firm) arrangement we see so often in the valley.
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by gcbw3 7y ago
Using windows/osx will always be more convenient at first. But then you hit a wall and can't patch/write something easily. ...even on this article intro it boast how he prefers a tiling window manager, then move to a platform
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by gcbw3 7y ago
ITT: people who do not use OSS and use apple because "it just works" doing free tech support and QA-via-tweeter to apple numerous bugs. sigh.
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by gcbw3 7y ago
hong kong importance is not because it is a megalopoly. It is not. Hong kong is a tax avoidance hub just like Jersey and City of london (see http://spiderswebfilm.com/ to understand why the city of london doesn't mean

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