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by iso1210 5y ago
Do China have a society built on advertising stuff you don't want or need on TV and radio and in magazines and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky?
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by iso1210 5y ago
Google are an advertising company, it would be like complaining about McDonalds selling fast food. Samsung are an electronics company
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by iso1210 5y ago
Well that's easy enough to filter - just nat all outgoing traffic to UDP/53 to your preferred device. Of course google and other spy companies are pushing DNS over HTTPS, so once that becomes popular in these devices, you're
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by iso1210 5y ago
Convert HDMI to SDI and back, but you'll need a HDMI-to-SDI converter that ignores HDCP (i.e. either pages of forms explaining how you've got a legitimate reason for doing it and an expensive converter, or a cheap Chinese one)
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by iso1210 5y ago
Or they could buy Disney and a couple of others
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by iso1210 5y ago
Literally bought my house for £250k, completed 11 days ago. Sold previous house for £240k a few minutes earlier.
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by iso1210 5y ago
So a timeshare?
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by iso1210 5y ago
> No doubt a couple of readers will be thinking “well this is what Apple/proprietary software is like, what did you expect?” I’m extremely familiar with that argument and I don’t like it very much Your dislike for a fact doesn'
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by iso1210 5y ago
I think macs can add static arp entries if you did want to disable arp for some reason. If I remember rightly, apple devices when connecting to wifi 1) Get IP, router, DNS details (either static or via dhcp) 2) Attempt to load a http page t
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by iso1210 5y ago
Every network I have uses multicast just fine. And saying "multicast is totally insecure" is like saying "IP is totally insecure", it's just nonsense.
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by iso1210 5y ago
> I bought a 10% black box (90% open) widget in the 1990s, and now in 2020 that same widget (with a few more functions) is 80% closed. My mobile phone in the 90s was certainly not 90% open, it was far less open than my current iphone. I
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by iso1210 5y ago
Disney is an enormous company, owning pretty much everything in the media world, dwarfing other hollywood companies. It has a Market Cap of $320b, way bigger than Sony, Time Warner, Viacom and MGM put together. Apple on the other hand is wo
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by iso1210 5y ago
There's a big difference between freehold on a new build estate and freehold on an older house, the former has various conditions attached. But in all these cases we use the word "buy" to buy the car or house, just like we us
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by iso1210 5y ago
> I guess it’s like buying a house in a gated community with very strict home owners association So it is buying then.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Indeed, until recently I lived in a freehold house which had a covenant saying my hedge could be no higher than 4' high, couldn't change the colour of my front door, couldn't park a van on my drive, that I had to pay a specif
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by iso1210 5y ago
> The distinction between buying and renting a house, or buying and leasing a car In the UK you can buy a freehold house for £250k and that's it. Or you can rent one for £800 a month, although that confers certain rights. But betwee
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by iso1210 5y ago
What there should be is a local store that stocks everything (rather than having to choose between one of 50 different specialised stores), and rather than self service from walking around the store, you simply ask the shopkeep to bring you
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by iso1210 5y ago
> After experiencing not being able at all to go to a high street and buy things and forcing everything to be online, I realized just how bad the experience is I have rarely been to a high street to buy stuff (rather than say a cafe or h
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by iso1210 5y ago
20 years ago I used to spend 2 hours a week walking round a supermarket. I haven't done that for 15 years. That's 100 hours a year and 1000 miles of driving that I don't need to do. If a lightbulb blows, I could get in the ca
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by iso1210 5y ago
In the UK we had shops that sold everything -- Argos has done catalogue shopping for decades. Sainsburys, a major supermarket, owns them, and does delivery. Amazon makes it trivial to buy pretty much anything I want and get it the next day.
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by iso1210 5y ago
> You don't need to run it in browser at all, there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with it. I don't care about anyone else's OS. I have desktop zoo
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by iso1210 5y ago
Because it isn't fully featured - it lacks the majority of features of the native client
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by iso1210 5y ago
Webex is so shockingly bad. Zoom, Teams, Slack, all seem to work fairly well, all have clients (and can run in the browser) Webex - which I have to use as part of a university course I'm doing on the side - requires you to run it in
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by iso1210 5y ago
9-10% of the 8.8 million would be 800-900k, taking population back to about 2010 levels.
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by iso1210 5y ago
"I understand that this is largely a pre-Covid population, but adding over 600,000 people is like adding the population of Miami."
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by iso1210 5y ago
Didn't Austrailia sue NASA for littering with skylab?
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by iso1210 5y ago
> At some point, we will hopefully have an "organized data movement" where people work together to be able to make effective demands about how their data can be harvested and used. We aren't there yet. The GDPR comes along
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by iso1210 5y ago
Interesting, tried myself on a test VM ~/test$ time for I in `seq -w 1 1000000`; do touch $I; done real 27m8.663s user 14m15.410s sys 12m24.411s OK ~/test$ time ls -1f | wc -l 1000002 real 0m0.604s user 0m0.180s s
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by iso1210 5y ago
"We asked 100 people who were interested enough to write to their MEP about digital privacy and 80% of them said digital privacy was important" People who are motivated enough to know and comment about these proposals are not a re
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by iso1210 5y ago
20 years ago the area around Edinburgh was known as "Silicon Glen". Then there's "Silicon Roundabout" on Old Street in London. Every area where there's tech gets compared with "Silicon Valley". It&#x2

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