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by joveian 8y ago
My experience matches jstanley's: with basic ISP filtering and disabling as much filtering as they let me disable my ISP reports blocking 181 messages in the past month mostly via some list (they don't say which one). I see a few
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by joveian 8y ago
It has been a while since I read it but the first thing that came to mind is this talk by Dan Geer (who is closely connected to US intelligence agencies): http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt
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by joveian 8y ago
It does and using it in a dark room is worse than having background light. Fully avoiding artificial light after 8 is quite difficult but limiting blue light and bright light is easier.
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by joveian 8y ago
As someone who has had a ton of sleep issues over the years this seems like the best advice here, although I would not increase past 8 hours and a regular 7 hours is likely to be fine for most people. Sleep apnea and circadian issues are c
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by joveian 8y ago
In my experience, comparing organic food at whole foods vs elsewhere whole foods is similar price and sometimes the better deal. However, the conventional stuff they have (that makes up a large portion of the food they sell) seems to alway
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by joveian 8y ago
Portland does have some day centers with laundry and showers, however the usage is way above capacity.
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Polluted by Money(projects.oregonlive.com)
2 points by joveian 8y ago|0 comments
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CAESAR Cryptography Competition Final Portfolio(competitions.cr.yp.to)
3 points by joveian 8y ago|0 comments
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by joveian 8y ago
For detailed daily reporting on the Mexican drug war with translations of Spanish language articles see Borderland Beat: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
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Also Life on Earth by David Attenborough
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by joveian 8y ago
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta. Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People by Thurman Wilkins Also the NVC book and Walden that have been mentioned.
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by joveian 8y ago
That is rather amazing. There was one case I remember reading about 15-20 years ago where someone in the UK dropped a letter into a mailbox with just a name, street number (IIRC), and street and it managed to get to the recipient in Pennsyl
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by joveian 8y ago
The problem is most of the time I want them to not animate, but occationally I do want them to at the time of my choosing and poentially multiple times (most or all of the ones I want are explaining something that I want to learn). A play
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by joveian 8y ago
They leave the problems for the very end, where they note that the supreme court has already said that classifying a cable modem as an information service is an allowed reading of the law. My overall impression reading the definions is what
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by joveian 8y ago
"You reviewed what I posted with an aim to proving me wrong" As an uninvolved reader I had the opposite impression.
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by joveian 8y ago
The 60% mentioned in the posted article excludes China, the numbers in the link do not.
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by joveian 8y ago
It can at least be confusing and there might be conflicts. I'd recommend turning off the built in tracking protection if using other tracking. They might have fixed the particular issue, but at one point I had stupidly enabled "s
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by joveian 8y ago
Thanks! I also found this page with a bit more info on the settings: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FirefoxMediaAut... I changed all the media.autoplay settings from the default except blo
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by joveian 8y ago
There was also an article recently about how the state kicked a bunch of people out of residential facilities: https://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2018/11/moving_o... It seems like everyone agree
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How Oregon ensnares mentally ill people charged with low-level crimes(oregonlive.com)
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I agree share icons (at least for off site sharing) shouldn't really exist at all in web pages, although I think it would be a good idea for browsers to have a share function integrated so that you could add a new share option similar
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by joveian 8y ago
Not all content is the same an it is annoying to keep resizing windows (which is why I use the ratpoison window manager). I wish it was easier for the user to indicate with preferences, but I'm not sure if there is a good way to do th
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by joveian 8y ago
"The worst offense I see around the web is super tiny font sizes." Yes! So much so that I've been forcing 16pt DejaVu for everything for years and it makes the web so much nicer that it is worth the annoyance of working arou
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No More Deaths Trials(theintercept.com)
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Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending?(rollingstone.com)
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by joveian 8y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. Unchecking 'Provide Search Suggestions' didn't help and I already had 'Show search suggestions in address bar results' unchecked. Shift-delete didn't help either. I made a somewha
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by joveian 8y ago
I tried that on each character where it shows that completion after seeing your initial suggestion, but it didn't help (it makes the suggestion go away that time, but it is shown again next time). I finally figured out that I had book
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by joveian 8y ago
1. I really dislike the firefox omnibar and that I can't set it to just be an address bar. I sometimes visit washingtonpost.com but not often enough that I have a bookmark, and every time firefox insists it should be wasingtonpost.com
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by joveian 8y ago
Also see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120672/ This is the study refereneced about mice developing chronic kidney issues from delayed hydration (even given the same amount of water overall).
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by joveian 8y ago
The posted article is not just blogspam and has a reasonable argument: the story touches on multiple non-obvious issues that could be real issues for many people. The author gives an example that even having written quite a bit about stude

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