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by gkafkg8y8 10y ago
> All this could be partially prevented by hardware switches for each sensor. A few easy hacks for best-effort protection without destroying your hardware are a piece of tape over the camera and setting your sound input to something quie
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by gkafkg8y8 10y ago
> Time tracking (Stechuhren) is commonplace, so I rather doubt this. When trying to rollout a SAAS app in Germany that ties individuals to the time to track workflow and time they spent on individual tasks, it was pushed back on because
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by gkafkg8y8 10y ago
Just learned that Alphabet is reusing names. CapitalG was used before: http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140422/NEWS/140429952
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by gkafkg8y8 10y ago
There has been an unspoken freedom of privacy for thousands of years. We could go in our caves or homes and protect them via a fist, rock, spear, or gun such that we could live alone outside of prying eyes. Now when we go online or go shop
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by gkafkg8y8 10y ago
From what I've heard, Germany has some very strong privacy laws. It keeps them from being able to use products that many others around the world can use. And I'm not talking about social media- it affects basic things like timekee
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by gkafkg8y8 10y ago
So, I'm of two minds on this: On one hand, I'd go farther. I like apt, but I wish that distros would use the same packaging system and same package format. There is little value to them being different between distros, it just cau
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by gkafkg8y8 10y ago
> Android is a known insecure platform And so is iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, etc. if by insecure you mean "has has historically had security holes and can be used in an insecure manner". If you mean that Android is just "i
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by gkafkg8y8 10y ago
> Our abundance is increased by specialization not a lack of it. Specialization and trade allow for higher-order goods to be used as inputs to produce lower-order goods. Farming doesn't just require a tractor and some land. You need
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by gkafkg8y8 10y ago
> the 'Pro' user of 5 years ago is a dying breed... Think about it... coding... huge amounts of specialist hardware are no longer necessary or indeed desirable in these fields... a huge development machine is no longer a necess