jammygit

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811.
by jammygit 8y ago
Agreed, but in this specific case Gnome had some performance issues that are addressed by the 18.10 / 19.04 update that really help with quality of life. Hopefully 20.04 will be snappy enough that I can use the huge support window for
812.
by jammygit 8y ago
I will update an xps 13 later today. I'll try to remember to post about it.
813.
by jammygit 8y ago
Installed this last night a couple of hours early. Compared to 18.04, boot times and the ui seems a lot snappier because of some gnome updates. This was the reason I did the upgrade so I'm pretty happy. Haven't tested on my laptop
814.
by jammygit 8y ago
I think this is the official announcement by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association: https://ccla.org/ccla-commences-proceedings-waterfront-toron... The gist is this (from Boing Boing's article): "“You can argue
815.
by jammygit 8y ago
It sort of is a reason to use it more often though, no? If ordinary people start using the protocol, it helps to obscure the activity of journalists or other targeted groups.
816.
by jammygit 8y ago
First they ask for email passwords. Then the new users assume Facebook won't comprehensively mine their emails. Then Facebook awkwardly gets caught uploading 1.5 million users' email contacts. It doesn't make sense for people
817.
by jammygit 8y ago
Agreed, the book was very well written and the audiobook had a great narrator. Because of that book, I'm not surprised that the checklist reduced deaths, but its a bit shocking that its by a third. Then again, the base rate was very lo
818.
by jammygit 8y ago
"More fake than real" Source?
819.
by jammygit 8y ago
Its funny to read this today. I'm working my way through Atlas Shrugged and the utopia in the book is the opposite: pure self interest > greater good, and there is a 'for the public good' apocalypse taking place. It seems
820.
by jammygit 8y ago
Personally, I don't want backups. I don't want to worry whether some joke I made 10 years ago would look bad in a future data dump. If messages could self destruct after three years that would be lovely
821.
by jammygit 8y ago
Depends as well on centralization of wealth. Maybe well see somebody like Bezos will build a pyramid in orbit to be his or her tomb
822.
by jammygit 8y ago
Transfer of liability? There are candid emails between Steve jobs and Schmidt about the topic. Edit: They made a minor settlement and there was a lawsuit that got a tiny amount of press. http://time.com/42322/steve-jobs
823.
by jammygit 8y ago
I'm imagining a future cottage industry with companies holding offices in India/Russia/China/<elsewhere> with a full staff reading emails for blackmail material (naturally finding a politician or celebrity once in
824.
by jammygit 8y ago
I wonder how fastmail is in this regard. Makes me want to reopen my protonmail account honestly
825.
by jammygit 8y ago
Can you call it a conspiracy? Its more of a temptation combined with financial risks for not doing it
826.
by jammygit 8y ago
Its unfortunate. The bad actors that created the problem the app tries to help with also make people very untrusting. I wish you luck with that one. A verifiable 'code available' license would be a bonus
827.
by jammygit 8y ago
It sounds like the easy solution is to increase surveillance further. I hope that better solutions are sought after than this however
828.
by jammygit 8y ago
reminds me of an extension that does that with browsing history: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
829.
by jammygit 8y ago
If you delete your account, is there any way to make sure your data is deleted? I feel like disabling my account probably only denies myself access to their data on me
830.
by jammygit 8y ago
Interesting thought, thanks for sharing
831.
by jammygit 8y ago
I'm imagining a dumpster diving industry arising where people find hair scraps and sell them to insurance companies
832.
by jammygit 8y ago
Election day is... Next week? Its so hard to predict things with popular political parties taking opposite stances on matters.
833.
by jammygit 8y ago
I like it on first impression but I wonder whether tools like this will convince people they have privacy, when really they are getting a better interface to semi-privacy settings in existing privacy invasive apps.
834.
by jammygit 8y ago
From the privacy policy: "Analytics Our iOS application can send analytics to our analytics providers: Segment and Amplitude. We do not track or store any personal information in our analytics. Instead, we ask Apple to generate a uniqu
835.
by jammygit 8y ago
Zero emission sounds nice, but Alberta next door gets its power largely from coal. Just because it isn't coming out of a car doesn't mean its zero emissions
836.
by jammygit 8y ago
Github issue got closed or removed it looks like. There is a new issue where people are complaining about the first getting closed: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/issues/367
837.
by jammygit 8y ago
There is a Hardcore History episode about Roosevelt that included a horrifying section on the Philippines. Its a fantastic episode but its unsettling too
838.
by jammygit 8y ago
Persecuting journalists for what they write is becoming more and more common. "[Reporters Without Borders] is also still troubled by the arrest of journalists during #Blacklivesmatter protests in Baltimore and Minneapolis." https
839.
by jammygit 8y ago
I don't know the details, but Wiki leaks did publish leaked material about Russia over the years. For example, the surveillance stuff turned up after a quick search https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/
840.
by jammygit 8y ago
My understanding, which may be inaccurate, was that manning was tortured via not letting him/her sleep for more than a few minutes at a time for several months on the grounds of suicide prevention. I'm quite worried about assange:

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