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by jammygit 7y ago
Amazon makes it really easy to accidentally resubscribe to prime, as well as accidentally subscribe to random products that have a subscription option. The dark patterns are such a turnoff. I try to buy locally but sometimes I still need to
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by jammygit 7y ago
Re: the surge protector- did it stop transferring power, or did it fail to protect your equipment?
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by jammygit 7y ago
> Is that the ONLY reason why you dis Lenovo? They installed spyware. That is more than enough reason to lose trust. IIRC, they did it more than once too[1]. If that isn’t cause enough, what is? Would it take pre-installed ransomware to
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by jammygit 7y ago
What cloud advocates always say is that the $50k monthly will save you money from not needing to hire a team to manage it for you, and that over the course of 10+ years you will be ahead. Is that true in anyone's experience? Every once
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by jammygit 7y ago
Why do they begin justifying by talking about 70% of buyers using mobile? Completely off topic
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by jammygit 7y ago
I can’t stand push notifications, I disable them all except for a couple (like signal). They are usually only part of the app to manipulate you into using it constantly
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by jammygit 7y ago
Anything named an antivirus should be possibly to sue for this sort of thing, right? It could not possibly be more misleading It’s like a locksmith company monetizing by sneaking people into your home when you’re asleep
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by jammygit 7y ago
Imagine the near future when governments become more technically adept and those holes get plugged. These stories are scariest because they utterly prove how eager governments are to control access to information and communications. Same th
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by jammygit 7y ago
Its not industrial, but I recommend At the Mountains of Madness by lovecraft for an example of this sort of question being asked in fiction
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by jammygit 7y ago
What terrible browser design to send all that data. I would never have imagined my computer was sending all that off 10 years ago
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by jammygit 7y ago
Every answer to a “recommend x” question is just self promoters pitching their own product too. It’s just advertising at that point, not real information
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by jammygit 7y ago
I’m buying a jetbrains sub in a couple of weeks. Is it correct to say that the webstorm features come with rider? I’m confused by their marketing descriptions.
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by jammygit 7y ago
Is encryption built in yet?
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by jammygit 7y ago
In Canada, it’s now illegal to hide your face during a protest (a gift from the Harper years)
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by jammygit 7y ago
> These efforts are well intentioned, but facial recognition bans are the wrong way to fight against modern surveillance. Focusing on one particular identification method misconstrues the nature of the surveillance society we're in
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by jammygit 7y ago
As a dungeon master, I have to say I did not expect my job to be automated so quickly
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by jammygit 7y ago
Trump likes to target Mexicans too and openly has said he would like to be in Putin’s position with a dynasty. A surprising number of Americans are okay with this. Next election is going to be dramatic. Then there’s China and its minorities
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by jammygit 7y ago
So much for being open minded about ever working for Apple. This is extremely hostile to individual freedom
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by jammygit 7y ago
The biggest example of chemical weapon usage so far was wwi, and it was almost entirely used against soldiers. wwii saw them used them in concentration camps against captives, but not in a military capacity (apparently Italy used them again
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by jammygit 7y ago
I have used simpleanalytics for a while. It offers a lot less granular information because it deliberately collects less for privacy reasons
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by jammygit 7y ago
I know somebody who had an ectopic. She had to more or less abort it, which made her feel unbelievable bad. For years afterwards. I’m sorry to hear it happened to people close to you twice
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by jammygit 7y ago
Its so rare that I didn't even realize you could put gifs in your readmes on github. Slick
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by jammygit 7y ago
He gave a good talk about SystemD once too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo edit: found a version with better camera angles
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by jammygit 7y ago
"I absolutely love this model." You are right, the model is great for some people in some cases. However, its a model where companies use software to lock you out of being able to use your hardware. This is becoming extremely wide
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by jammygit 7y ago
Anecdote: after iOS 13, my microphone started not-working intermittently. It still doesn’t work consistently
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by jammygit 7y ago
I have a handful of certs but I can’t remember what they are or where I stored them. I don’t put them on my resume. The courses were great
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by jammygit 7y ago
A good keyboard with a keyboard driven distribution does the trick too though
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by jammygit 7y ago
Which is the better introduction to Lisp: On Lisp (by pg), SICP, or another text (maybe on Common Lisp)? Or is it better to just go straight to Clojure these days?
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by jammygit 7y ago
Is guile a good choice for going through SICP one day?
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by jammygit 7y ago
Serialization for one thing. You can work with JSON extremely freely without creating weird serializable classes for every combination of data you might need to work with - eg, no class named "DoodadList" for when you want to de-s

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