iszomer

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   by iszomer 5y ago

   Never heard of a piratebox before?
2. 482.▲
   by iszomer 5y ago

   Or turn you into a temporary vegetable so law enforcement can come pick you up.
3. 483.▲
   by iszomer 5y ago

   I use them all for specific purposes.
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   by iszomer 5y ago

   Orly? Rekt.news has some juicy details.. https://rekt.news
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   by iszomer 5y ago

   So much packaged sophistication yet can't match high fidelity audio. I picked up a KZ-ZSN with a pair of dynamic and balanced armature drivers and haven't looked back in terms of sound quality. Imagine my surprise when I purchased
6. 486.▲
   by iszomer 5y ago

   Got conned by BAT and have a growing sentiment that by continuing to use Brave, I'm enabling the company to make back the advertising earnings promised; I refuse to do KYC to redeem them.
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   by iszomer 5y ago

   Seal of Nehahra was an excellent machinima, especially when the entire voice acting was done by one person, iirc. Scourge Done Slick [1,2] is also another well done machinima/film showcasing the speedrunning community. [1] Part1: http
8. 488.▲
   by iszomer 5y ago

   "Clean energy" always has it's drawbacks. TIL the issues with the Yucca Mountain Range Nuclear Waste Repository is still being disputed in the state of Nevada.
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   by iszomer 5y ago

   If it's really about neutral authentication, tweet a keybase identity proof.
10. 490.▲
    by iszomer 5y ago

    Wouldn't it be amusing if Twitter started doing verified red badges to signify Republicans? I guess if they really want to be all-inclusive, allow users to customize their badge colors too. (I didn't know what a blue checkmark was
11. 491.▲
    by iszomer 5y ago

    Took a few hours to compile on a ryzen 2600. Worth it until the next "update", I think.
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    They've never watched the 1957 courtroom drama film 12 Angry Men and it's 1997 remake.
13. 493.▲
    by iszomer 5y ago

    I think some will initially see this as an attempt at jury tampering.
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    There's a growing popularity (community?) for art NFT's on alternative blockchains like Tezos with Hicetnunc mainly due to Ethereum's barrier of entry and restrictively high gas fees.
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    It was particularly amusing to see the Windows installation identify it as a Cyrix* processor.
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    I know this is a false equivalence argument but one might frame vaccine hesitancy as simply people unwilling to be mandated to inject anything into their bodies. Can you imagine if the government sought to mandate heroine injection as the o
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    Indeed! Lots of cowsay moments..
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    Then again, there are people who police themselves and others. Here's an interesting story about an investigation into a camouflaged jammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZjInmHsWdM
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    > Could you provide some sources to substantiate your viewpoint? I cannot as I'm only learning of this now and reflecting on what I've known from before. Trump directing "the EPA to remove statements about climate change&q
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    > The viewpoint you're responding to is the GOP strategy, not a viewpoint derived from facts. I wondered about this too but wasn't aware this is a "GOP strategy". In contrast, I only responded because I'm still w
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    > Now, the GOP has leaned into anti-scientist, anti-elitist sentiments, fed by Fox News and others.. I wouldn't fault them for your view of their broad sentiments on this trend but I think if you went back over the last twenty years
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    Fun trivia: iirc, John Carmack used his .plan as his then "blog" before Twitter came along.
23. 503.▲
    by iszomer 5y ago

    What they don't tell you about BAT is that you cannot extract or trade the ERC20 without first going through their authorized 3rd-party custodial wallet service with KYC and your "earnings" don't accrue in your native
24. 504.▲
    by iszomer 5y ago

    That is what I missed after lurking on HN for so long since it's inception: the willingness to read comments, however good or bad (and articulate) they are.
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    Prior to all this cloud madness, I used to rely on a WiFi Direct app called HitcherNet and later, Superbeam. But when it came to actually syncing across a network, I've settled on Syncthing.
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    > Bin Laden attacked the USA in the 90s (the original twin tower attacks). Thought it was the "other guy".. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzi_Yousef
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    > Why do you believe that to be true? I don't but I think it has the potential to be framed that way. If your phone was seized by law enforcement looking to extract your personal data, I imagine "plugging it in" will be th
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    I do this as well and it is the main reason that's keeping me from upgrading beyond Android 10.
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    The catch with Titanium Backup is that it requires root access.
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    by iszomer 5y ago

    It could also be argued as "more secure" if traditional wired data exfiltration is hindered by the lack of ports.