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by isomorphic 9y ago
I don't think GPS is accurate enough for that sort of thing, you'd need ground radar, working with onboard computers that understand which runway you're cleared for, etc. (I'm not a pilot, I'm speculating.) If you
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by isomorphic 9y ago
> There are many such loopholes. Exactly. I force-quit apps for privacy reasons, not because I believe I'm better than software at memory-management and caching. I realized how sad that statement is just as I was writing it. Our
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by isomorphic 9y ago
If you view the new Google "News" from a desktop browser with a narrow width (well, narrow for these days--1024 pixels, so I can actually have other windows on my screen), the "content" takes up about a third of the page
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by isomorphic 9y ago
> offering you goods and services you may be interested in The thing is: never, not even once, has Google offered me an ad with goods and services I was interested in.
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by isomorphic 10y ago
As an aside, I added Twitter to that for a sense of scale: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Facebook... (Short version: Facebook dwarfs Twitter.) However, the "Interest by region" is am
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by isomorphic 10y ago
The benefit is to normalize unreasonableness. And to add another scene of "doing something" to the never-ending production of Security Theater.
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by isomorphic 10y ago
Also note that Fitbit can cover some of its costs (or enhance its profits, however you look at it) by wholesale spying upon its users.
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by isomorphic 10y ago
> remind you that we’ve lived a bold and daring adventure around the solar system’s most magnificent planet Other than the one we're standing on, you mean.
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by isomorphic 10y ago
The US$19.99 price is a bit steep to buy sight-unseen. That's more of an App Store problem than Blink's fault. Obviously the price is fine if it works better than Prompt.
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by isomorphic 10y ago
One of the things I take away from this graph isn't just the peak wind speed, but the amount of time you'd be under hurricane-force winds. A couple minutes of 90mph winds is one thing... hours of 90mph winds is entirely anothe
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by isomorphic 10y ago
Searching about:config for e10s, I see I'm in the "disqualified-control" "e10s.rollout.cohort". Looking further, I see "extensions.e10sBlockedByAddons" and "extensions.e10sBlocksEnabling" are bo
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by isomorphic 10y ago
I agree; no checksumming of user data is very disappointing. If there were performance issues, they could build checksumming into the filesystem, but make it a volume-specific option. No checksumming on the watch, strong integrity guarant
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by isomorphic 10y ago
Blank white page on Firefox 47.0, OS X El Capitan, cookies disabled.
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by isomorphic 10y ago
I have multiple WAN connections (multiple ISPs). This actually (correctly) reports the aggregate download speed! Obviously if they are "downloading multiple files," they aren't waiting for them to complete synchronously.
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by isomorphic 10y ago
Collecting telemetry data without letting users even know about it (much less opt in) isn't cool, either.
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by isomorphic 10y ago
For posterity, Homebrew is using curl to talk to Google Analytics. You will have to selectively block curl by destination in Little Snitch (or only allow the various other hosts Homebrew uses).
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by isomorphic 10y ago
I block Google Analytics in my web browser, too...
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by isomorphic 10y ago
I am confirming that Homebrew silently starts talking to Google with no warning after a "brew upgrade".
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by isomorphic 10y ago
Or, you could edit /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.rb to send Google Analytics garbage (from random UUIDs) until Homebrew makes this feature opt-in.
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by isomorphic 10y ago
Right, the article even mentions this: > DCI-P3 will be the gamut to have when UltraHD content rolls around, and Apple choosing it instead of Adobe RGB was a well planned move.
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by isomorphic 11y ago
> These people know how crypto works, at least at a high level. I respectfully disagree. I believe they think they know how crypto works, and that they may even have excellent advisors who know exactly how crypto works. But I believ
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by isomorphic 11y ago
"We don't have the first notion how cryptography works," said the politician-senators in a joint statement, "but we're hoping the voters will see past the blatant trampling of civil liberties to think we're doi
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by isomorphic 11y ago
I'm just not going to put all of my financial records in once place under one vendor in the cloud. On the other hand, I'm not going to trust Quicken after years of neglect and no sane way of getting my data out. I used GnuCash fo
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by isomorphic 11y ago
This comment may be lost, but for Google posterity, it appears that this feature only sets the window titlebar if you aren't displaying the tab bar. Otherwise, the escape codes set the color of the tab . It would be nice to have se
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by isomorphic 11y ago
I didn't know that. Thank you!
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by isomorphic 11y ago
I love iTerm2, I keep up with the "current" beta versions, using them all day in production. I would love it if they'd make a "dark" titlebar version of the window chrome. My setup currently has windows without any
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by isomorphic 11y ago
Linus' gifted-child problems aside, calling Linus out over a refusal to use "systematic version-control" might have had some small role in causing Linus to write Git, if for no other reason than spite. That alone makes this
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by isomorphic 11y ago
> So, in the coming weeks, we will restrict access to articles on WIRED.com if you are using an ad blocker. Good luck with that, Wired. The people-who-will-never-pay group will split into two: People who never visit your site again, and
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by isomorphic 11y ago
Most states have some form of income tax. The federal government could work with an average UBI amount, which each state could increase (or not) from its own budget. (Not that the above isn't contentious and probably stands no chance
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by isomorphic 11y ago
The Everykey device holds a decryption key (or key-equivalent) for your keychains, and it has over-the-air upgradeable firmware ? Even if the firmware is signed, and the upgrade procedure is password-protected, the feature may expose th

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