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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Could very well be. And those are definitely interesting questions. But what I find troubling is the massive extrapolation that happens next: > This experiment helps to explain Wall Street bonuses and CEO pay, and I’m sure lots of other
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> With incredible consistency the person arbitrarily appointed leader of the group grabbed the fourth cookie, and ate it. Not only ate it, but ate it with gusto: lips smacking, mouth open, drool at the corners of their mouths. In the end
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> Foss shouldn't be about us going out on our way to block others. Sure, but this is about the Alpine project getting tired of being mistaken for the maintainers of a fork of their project. How would you feel if the power company wo
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
I never understood the woodchips thing. Even the political green parties bought in to it; Nuclear, hell no! Burning woodchips, great idea! How on earth can you ever sell burning wood as a environmental sensible thing to do? It's even d
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3D printable cat feeder (2020)(piotr.westfalewicz.com)
85 points by jsiepkes 5y ago|65 comments
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
I wanted to translate the Dutch text under the source Video for my fellow-HN'ers but Google translate can actually do a pretty decent job! So for your convenience here is the text as translated by Google (and proof read by a native Dut
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Even if they would the browser CA forum is clamping down on maximum certificate lifetime. While it will be a while before the max allowed lifetime is 3 months for all certs I suspect eventually it will happen. The main reason being that rev
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> This is a good feature in my opinion. Some links include automatic login functionality. I definitely don't want Google logging in to my accounts.
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Wazuh: Open-source security solution for threat detection and compliance(wazuh.com)
3 points by jsiepkes 5y ago|0 comments
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In the west (very generally speaking) you alert your superiors real fast in case of problems. Mostly to cover your own behind (by making other people complicit). In the east (again, very generally speaking) you alert your superiors only whe
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Yearssss back when I was still on Tinder they did the same thing in the app with the "Delete my profile" button. There was first a "log me out" option then a lot of whitespace followed by the "Delete my profile&quot
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Block and unblock people in Google Drive(support.google.com)
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> There's a checkbox to encrypt the disks when installing some linux distros. While I'm not going to defend moving around unencrypted disks it is not as simple as that. The difficult part is not the encryption. The difficult pa
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Google Ads will be charging surcharges for ads serving in specific jurisdictions(support.google.com)
3 points by jsiepkes 5y ago|2 comments
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Probably because the headline is misleading. He doesn't get paid 1.6M (which he would be very well entitled to if you ask me). For example if you you look at the report you can see that 900K of the total 1.6M is listed as "Retirem
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
You can for example run a build in a chroot as a unprivileged user.
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
I'm hanging in there with Firefox as a matter of principle. Since Gecko is the only alternative engine left. However under Linux I feel the performance is worse then under Windows. On Windows Firefox performance feels closer to Chrome&
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
>Step 2. Turn off “safe browsing”. >Firefox has a feature called “safe browsing” which reports information about your browsing to Google. I'm no fan of Google's practices but that list is just fear mongering. For example Goo
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> It seems like there's something bordering on unhinged in that behavior. While I personally wouldn't do it and also think it comes across as kind of weird and unsettling I also think that what you are saying is based on your o
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
So from just that you can extract my words must mean he "either knowingly damaging the environment, scamming vulnerable people or wasting energy"? But I do think you need to be spotless for the term "pure of soul". And n
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> The implication you're making is that he is either knowingly damaging the environment, scamming vulnerable people or wasting energy without having to do anything to support that assertion. I don't have to support the assertio
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
That's a good thing! Also if Curl wasn't able to raise a substantial amount of money with sponsorship I guess no project could. So also good to see it can work in certain cases!
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
> Bezos said his new hires should stop trying to find "balance" within their professional and personal lives since that implies a strict trade-off between the two. Instead, Bezos envisions a more holistic relationship between w
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Brexit Means Mobile Roaming Charges Return for Users of BT’s EE(bloomberg.com)
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> Unless you want to pay like three to five times the price and get a product built in, say, Scandinavia. Sure, if that what it takes to solve the issue then I guess that's what it takes. Or are we seriously going to say slavery isn
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
While this is addressed at countries I really would like western companies to take their responsibility in this matter. For example time and time again the supply chain of Apple becomes "contaminated" with forced labor by Uyghurs.
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It's a cultural thing. For example look at this footage [1] where Chinese police are using umbrella's to try and block filming of Tiananmen square. In western culture you try to keep up the appearance, in Chinese culture you try t
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
For anyone reading this thinking: "huh?". This is presumably about Hitler's "Mein kampf". Which wasn't banned by law in Germany. The province of Bavaria simply inherited the ownership (copyright) of it and deci
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
Certainly impressive. And sure, maybe in a distant future. Though I think this is like one of those things where creating a working prototype that is 75% complete is the "easy" part. The other 25% (which you need for an actual wor
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by jsiepkes 5y ago
The scammers probably live somewhere where it is "easy" to manufacture such a product (including packaging etc.). However getting access to someone who besides fluent English also "knows" western culture enough to use th

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