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by hughrr 5y ago
This is a niche mindset. From experience spanning 30 years, good initiatives rarely start from spontaneous discussion. In fact most of the ones from that class of communication turn into dead ends or wandering off the path into the woods an
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by hughrr 5y ago
Oh joy autocomplete. Was supposed to be bastards.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I got a rise and expenses paid instead. Which is why I haven’t gone to work for google or amazon. Also they’re bustards and I don’t want to work for them.
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by hughrr 5y ago
That’s actually a really interesting perspective.
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by hughrr 5y ago
The issue is likely the general purpose potentially network attached computer should not be trusted for the safety critical portion of the system such as power control and monitoring. That should be a fully isolated computer with a light we
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by hughrr 5y ago
Exactly that.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Correct. Totally agree. It’s a convenience at most.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yes I’m fully aware of all the flaws in the technical, ethical and political arenas.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Linux, dumbphone (sms/calls only) Fastmail, no other cloud services. I’ve been on the verge of doing this for a few years so had my exit strategy well planned.
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by hughrr 5y ago
This is why I just noped the fuck out of the Apple ecosystem. I won’t support anything which relies on opaque blacklisting to ruin lives. In this example as well on iCloud shared galleries you can upload to other people’s ones you have been
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by hughrr 5y ago
CentOS is good about a year after first release. But all the packages are ancient.
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by hughrr 5y ago
That’s actually what I’m looking at so far. Thanks for the gallery link - some nice shots in there
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by hughrr 5y ago
I only need to make calls on it and send SMS. I never assume those are private.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yes the two worlds are and always will be kept separate. I could have worded that better before. I have a desktop (not laptop) for my own stuff and a laptop for company stuff and a dock and KVM setup for it. I am not using the company lapto
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by hughrr 5y ago
You can post process that from RAW if you want to. I generally want people to not fuck around with my images before I get to do it though if I'm honest.
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by hughrr 5y ago
You can remove them from the screen and they are not used unless activated.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I still have a company issued laptop (Windows based). I don’t need a laptop for personal stuff.
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by hughrr 5y ago
No but they just refuse to service your updates without this enabled.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Fortunately mine are teenagers now so that bit of my life is over mostly. I only get photos of them lurking, hiding and giving me the middle finger and that’s about it :)
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by hughrr 5y ago
Not sure how stable they are in that environment but we found some 80 year old tomato seeds in my grandfather’s shed when he died and they germinated. They didn’t produce fruit though which was weird.
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by hughrr 5y ago
It’s too late either way. The fact that it even got this far through implementation says the vendor is not on my side. Not only that once capability is revealed it can be required by governments and manipulated under warrant. Particularly i
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by hughrr 5y ago
27 inch here and even that’s too big and I only use the middle of it. I might go back to a 22 and virtual desktops. It worked better for me.
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by hughrr 5y ago
That's a stupid assumption to make based on that. If someone emails or messages you a picture then you're in possession of it if you chose to be or not.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Well it’s now common knowledge that they can and will do this. So oppressive governments will almost certainly mandate that its required to do business in those countries. Thus it’s a no win game for the end user. Unless you choose not to p
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yes so far. Once the mechanism is in place it will be rolled out. I'm in the UK and we have a fairly nasty set of state legislation on censorship already and an increasingly authoritarian government so this is a big worry.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yes that. I'd rather take them back to the Apple store and have a large fire out the front while holding up a doom saying sign about their laughable privacy stance, but that'd detract from the point.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yeah as I mentioned down the thread, once you act against the users, you're dead. I'm done. They are going from my life. Good job it's ebay 80% off fees this weekend here in the UK.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I'm not even interested in the outcome of this now. Apple has chosen to act against the users without consultation. They should be punished for this by their customers walking away.
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by hughrr 5y ago
This thread brings me pleasant memories of drunken post student union bar C hacking sessions in the 90s. Apart from the mice. And openwindows. Fuck both of them!
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by hughrr 5y ago
Ask that question to weapons manufacturers.

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