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by gurchik 5y ago
Last year I was banned from Google Pay without any reason given. Since then I've been trying to move everything to alternatives. For example, changing accounts from using my Gmail to use an email on a domain I own. If I'm ever ban
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by gurchik 5y ago
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Came here to say the same thing. If the public actually believed this then Anthem would have no reason to provide credit monitoring.
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Why the avoidance of using the name? (I also notice "TP" is only ever used, never "Thinkpad").
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The 2FA messages I get from my bank are already something like "Your security code is 0123456. Do not share with anyone. We will never call to ask for this code." But it wouldn't surprise me if victims are too scared to read
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by gurchik 5y ago
> The Bug in Paxos Made Simple Emphasis mine, the bug is not in the algorithm but in the way it is described in the paper. I can see how the author's choice of words is a bit confusing here.
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I'm in the demo and trying to click and drag pieces and all it does is pan the screen. I'm using Chrome on Windows 10 if it helps. Also, I noticed that maybe 10% of pieces actually do let you move them around, but the other 90% on
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by gurchik 5y ago
According to Google Maps my high school was 13.9 miles from my house
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I would recommend Racknerd as well. Not affiliated with them except a happy customer. I pay $36/yr for my 2 GB memory, 2 vCPU, 50 GB SSD VPS that I run Nextcloud on. I also have a $16/yr VPS with 1.5 GB memory and 30 GB SSD for K3
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I have been looking into SSM recently and I was a little confused by the setup instructions but after seeing your comment I read them again and I think I understand more now. I was trying to see how SSM could be used to eliminate the need f
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by gurchik 5y ago
Recently I have been looking into learning how to type better as well. I can type at over 100 wpm without trying, but I do so in a weird way that I learned as a kid and never learned "proper" typing. I cringe at the thought of som
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This news outlet ANI seems to have done no research at all into these claims before publishing the story. According to their statement they did not contact NASA until the 26th, a week after publishing the original story. Only then did every
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by gurchik 5y ago
So uBlock added them to the abuse list for not being opt-in, so the developer responds with adding opt-in only if you're using an adblock . Way to completely miss the intent of the rule.
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Personally there is a difference between logging into Slack on my phone and logging into email (which requires me to enroll into the MDM). I do the former on my personal cell phone, but I would never do the latter. There are many mistakes t
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by gurchik 5y ago
> This becomes very problematic when hypergrowth companies are desperate to recruit so they start hiring friends of current employees via referral. When you hire groups of people who have a history together, they tend to stick together i
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> That allowed the person to eventually pivot to the LAN. Once on the LAN, the same person claims the data was "sitting in plaintext on an insecure backup server": https://twitter.com/und0xxed/status/1
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> I once ordered shampoo sold my Amazon that was obviously fake, and then I searched around and realized Amazon has a program where they gather the products from different sellers and put it in one huge bin and call all of them sold by
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by gurchik 5y ago
The article links to a previous article which in turn links to the official RPi documentation on netbooting. Posting here for people who are curious: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/remote-a...
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by gurchik 5y ago
Have you noticed that https://etflogic.io gives a certificate error as its using a certificate issued for shortener.secureserver.net ?
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Having had no interest in photography before, in the last month I now have suddenly obtained two different classic film SLRs (a 70s Pentax K1000 and a 60s Minolta SRT101) from different family members. I have enjoyed learning how SLRs work
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by gurchik 5y ago
I am hoping to do a Duplicity Full Backup rarely due to data caps. I am hoping I can unpack the incremental Duplicity archives and only if it fails verification will I do a Full Backup.
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Got it. So perhaps after the Duplicity files have been incrementally uploaded to the remote datacenter, for the cold storage backup of those files rather than simply duplicating the Duplicity files I should unpack them and then rearchive th
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> I'll agree with the author partly on software such as rustic/duplicacy - they are not a good solution for long-term archiving, nor are they marketed as such. I self host a Nextcloud server and I run duplicity each night to ba
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by gurchik 5y ago
Everyone has their own opinions on this and their own threat vectors for their own personal situation. The following is my opinion based on my own situation which I believe to apply to the average person: I think it is safe to assume that G
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You're right, I missed that, thanks.
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I know that. You've misread my question. The idea is that the backer won't upload the PDF on file sharing websites because the author will find it and trace it back to the backer using the watermark. But if the backer was anonymou
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I understand the argument that they might not want to stay on Python so they want to get people used to downloading from their zip instead of PyPi. But why not provide an rpm or deb? I don't understand why the only two official options
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> ideally, I'd like to have individually watermarked PDFs for each backer to act as a social deterrent to uploading the file to download sites What if someone provides fake information then uploads the book with your watermark?
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Thank you for the Adam Neely example, I forgot about that. To summarize, Warner was being sued over Katy Perry's Dark Horse , claiming that the melody violated the copyright of Flame's Joyful Noise . After Neely published a vide
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by gurchik 5y ago
It does happen fairly frequently to large YouTubers, we just don't hear it because the large channels have connections to real humans at Google who can resolve the situation quietly. BitWit is a channel with over 2 million subscribers

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