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by jammygit 7y ago
That sort of acceptance is why amazons ring is so dangerous: there are new business models around aggregating and automatically processing and mining that footage
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by jammygit 7y ago
I have been frustrated by those lines for years now, I don’t understand how they could even be legal but they are ubiquitous in online contracts
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by jammygit 7y ago
Snowden was not a national security threat, he was a government embarrassment threat. It’s not okay to conflate the two
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by jammygit 7y ago
These are daily programming puzzles? How long do they take on average? Also, I know somebody who is just starting out at coding. Would it be too hard for them? They are brand new, learning about loops
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Searchable Leaked AOL User Search History(2006)(searchids.com)
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by jammygit 7y ago
How is this information logged/preserved, and for how long? Just because it isn’t being used for ads doesn’t mean a person is comfortable filling up a database with their activity. IMO, ads are probably the least worrisome way the data
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by jammygit 7y ago
The Starcraft community requested subscription content for years during the hots years. The popular reasoning was that the game needed refreshing and updating but that a company can’t afford to do it without incentives - and the ongoing rev
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by jammygit 7y ago
Think for example about the difference between pre-Hastings England and 100 years later. The castle sprawl was really dramatic after William took over, it really changed the dynamic
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by jammygit 7y ago
(Not op, just chiming in) I really love working in Godot, it’s a wonderful and fast program. It is tedious to find how something works however because the docs are pretty sparse and the tutorial community is so small. It can take forever to
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by jammygit 7y ago
Does anyone know what it’s tech stack is or whether it was architected/designed well enough to build off of? It’s a cool project but it has been running a long time
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by jammygit 7y ago
The connection is more clear in this sub-link imo: https://www.gnu.org/software/network/ It links to a Savannah page that links to gnunet.org
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by jammygit 7y ago
Reminds me a lot of simpleanalytics, but foss and self hosted. Very cool
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by jammygit 7y ago
DDG isn’t as good at indexing various forms of social media, but is decent otherwise. I find it depends where my results live Eg, Reddit, forums, stack overflow (sometimes), YouTube, etc
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by jammygit 7y ago
Same for me (safari on iOS)
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by jammygit 7y ago
Credit card payments are sort of scammy: they pay you 1% so they can charge vendors 3%
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by jammygit 7y ago
Pick a foss project you use regularly and contribute!
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by jammygit 7y ago
Digital ocean would be $5 per month. I’m not sure what their logging/privacy policy though because I found their terms documents so broad and confusing
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by jammygit 7y ago
Incompetent seems a bit harsh. Sloppy or careless is more accurate
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by jammygit 7y ago
Did not know this
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by jammygit 7y ago
The wirecutter did an article [1] on VPNs and recommended tunnelbear. I’m not sure who to trust but I’m going to at least give it a re-read [1] https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-vpn-service/
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by jammygit 7y ago
No. You could associate the two profiles later on
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by jammygit 7y ago
We need to take these foreign stories as serious cautionary tales. For anybody who has been in doubt so far, this is what all this surveillance tech looks like as soon as the government decides it wants to gain power with it
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by jammygit 7y ago
Why are “these calls to action” just preaching to the choir? Over the last year a bunch of people I know have stopped using google search, Facebook, and the epic games launcher. It’s working slowly
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Epic Games Privacy Policy(epicgames.com)
1 points by jammygit 7y ago|0 comments
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by jammygit 7y ago
In 20 years it will probably be 3
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Hong Kong Police Threaten Live Rounds after Violent Confrontation(washingtonpost.com)
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by jammygit 7y ago
I didn’t know that
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by jammygit 7y ago
Announcement of an announcement
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by jammygit 7y ago
I was deciding what engine to make a hobby game with last week and was looking at ThreeJS. I couldn’t find any projects with good higher end visuals that had acceptable performance however. I settled on Godot, but I’d love to be proven wron
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by jammygit 7y ago
My wife got rid of her spare Fitbit bands and plans to not use the Fitbit, and to replace our scale without mentioning it on social media.

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