justabystander

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by justabystander 10y ago
Ad networks regularly serve various forms of malware and spyware, as well as tracking beacons that put my data at risk of being stolen or misused. And once it's in a database somewhere, it's only a matter of time until it gets sto
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by justabystander 10y ago
Virtualbox 3D progress has been unfortunately slow for a long time. It was kind of anticipated with Oracle's acquisition, as their laser focus on legal engagements and consulting pushes a lot of technical projects to the back burner. I
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by justabystander 10y ago
Any major corporation has lawyers (either in-house or on retainer) to verify that court orders are valid before complying with them. Bank of America either chose not to use them, or they didn't do their own due diligence. You can bet t
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by justabystander 10y ago
It's not like unusual name support isn't a common issue, but they also had a unique key that they failed to check - the SSN. The name at stake could have just as easily been Bob Smith. The issue in this case wasn't a technolo
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by justabystander 10y ago
Honestly, I think it'd be better to start a non-profit that releases tax software, first. It could compete with tax software, like from Intuit & H&R Block, as most of the needed services are rather simple. It would either charg
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by justabystander 10y ago
> outsources its IT work to an Indian company, Infosys Infosys was also under scrutiny for the same visa fraud that's mentioned in this same article. They settled out of court for $34 million while claiming they just wanted to avoid
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by justabystander 10y ago
He might be referring to manufacturing defects, some of which didn't get proper attention until it became a reputation stain. Many people encountered the known GPU issue in 2011 macbooks just after the warranty expired. Here's a 2
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by justabystander 10y ago
I still use GV, but it's been frustrating. I stuck with the actual voice app as long as I could manage, but Google was making it really difficult to avoid using Hangouts. As in, there were features you wouldn't get if you didn&#
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by justabystander 10y ago
> Yet they have the best mainline driver support, with a fully open VPU driver. It is not fully open. ( http://linux-sunxi.org/CedarX ). Partial code was published a year and a half ago, but the video engine still isn&
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by justabystander 10y ago
> The OPi chip maybe for not cone from a "respected" western company This isn't some petty nationalist agenda like you're claiming. AllWinner's lack of respect stems from their pathological refusal to cooperate w
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by justabystander 10y ago
Any chance you could recommend someone to finally get us different logins for the different profiles? It's kind of ridiculous to have parental controls when they can just change the profile to watch whatever they want. I also don'
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by justabystander 10y ago
I dislike his stance on encryption and warrantless surveillance more than anything. ( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141019/07115528878/every... ) His incompetence/misdirection on technical matters co
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by justabystander 10y ago
He probably means VT-d since he mentioned passthrough. VT-x is just the virtualization extensions needed for many hypervisors, while VT-d lets your VMs directly access the actual physical hardware. Like dedicating a physical GPU or NIC to
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by justabystander 10y ago
Actually, it was rejected only in its current state. AMD is still iterating on that driver to get it in the kernel, and is working with the kernel team to get that in there. That said, they were warned 6 months before the rejection that a
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by justabystander 10y ago
I don't know if you've noticed this or not, but, while the .NET Core has hit RTM, the tooling is always marked as being a "Preview" for good reason. ( https://www.microsoft.com/net/core ) They'
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by justabystander 10y ago
> It's strange that there is so much push back against foreign investment. You say "foreign investment" as if they're looking to develop or improve the local economy and in the process make a profit. Many Chinese buye
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by justabystander 10y ago
Given that we're currently struggling to help four kids adapt and recover from a "homeschooled" education where the parents literally went off the rails into occult chanting and conspiracy theories, I find myself conflicted o
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by justabystander 10y ago
"Leave it to Beaver" families are not the only type, nor do children only exist in family contexts. It's rather conceited to make assumptions that assume only the best-case scenarios, or that problems only come from incompete
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by justabystander 10y ago
Vertical integration like this is one of the major reasons for the promotion of bandwidth caps. Which certainly do affect cord cutters. It can also results in reduced network investments and higher traffic congestion. It can also cause digi
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by justabystander 10y ago
Some people avoid projects because of the language it's developed in, unfair as it may seem. This could be because they've used a similar project with performance or maintainability issues written in some other language. That coul
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by justabystander 10y ago
> Any evidence of FB going directly against their privacy rules Whether or not they go against their own rules is a moot point, given their history of changing those rules and systems with little to no notice or documentation. They'
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by justabystander 10y ago
> If an elite candidate balks, then you've learned something about them: they'd rather your process suck and keep sucking than take any time to help fix it. That sounds to me like someone who isn't prepared to invest their
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by justabystander 10y ago
I was looking into doing this today. Specifically, I needed to reference a particular property (a token in the JSON/XML content) in future requests. The docs discuss using the nunjucks templating engine, and nunjucks supports setting v
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by justabystander 10y ago
I've got a large amount of extended family and married friends, so good shows like these are super helpful in positively connecting with their kids. And shared media interests is actually part of a large social aspect of public school.
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by justabystander 10y ago
> it's the US companies fault that they can't be innovative enough to figure out the Chinese market Western business failures in China are more attributable to a lack of understanding of the business culture and excessive regul
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by justabystander 10y ago
You're not getting very technical responses to this, so I'll bite. > Why not just cut the wobble edge of a real CD off and attach it to a burned CD? This would have a very low success rate, as the precision required to accurate
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by justabystander 10y ago
Cross-compiling Windows apps from Linux using Mingw has been a thing for a very long time. Mingw itself is 18 years old. There are also options for using LLVM or compatibility layers like Midipix. So, no, Windows is not required and hasn&#x
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by justabystander 10y ago
> breaking everything This behavior can be disabled by the distro or admin with a single line change, and there's a policy for users to be able to set the behavior for themselves with a single line. They fixed a problem with that po
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by justabystander 10y ago
> Still, seems like this should be done at the distro package level. This can be done at the distro package level. Packagers would edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf and set KillUserProcesses=no to disable it. It's a s
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by justabystander 10y ago
Yes. Many ISPs still do this, both mobile and wired. The latest one I saw was Frontier (in the US).

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