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by k310 1y ago
I believe it very likely that some extremely well known people are in there, and whom politicians are desperate to defend, if not themselves. The problem is that Epstein loved to hang around celebrities who presumably had no interest in his
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by k310 1y ago
2013? One that is of interest to me is the javascript blocker. Obviously, killing JavaScript destroys interactive websites, but most that I visit are basically static content hidden or defaced by cookie popups, begs, promotions and so on. I
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by k310 1y ago
IMO, there's a race/land grab going on, and what gets you in the race fastest wins. All other concerns fade. Just my $0.02
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by k310 1y ago
I was using a friend's server to experiment with various open source web apps. It was very nice. Free hosting! Then he installed some kind of filter for his kid that broke everything. It would be nice to have solutions that protect kid
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by k310 1y ago
https://archive.ph/3nCdR I am glad to report that Bucatini abound (2025) and also that the Mafaldine shortage that I encountered has been remedied. For those unfamiliar with specialty pasta, I highly recommend Mafaldine [0]
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by k310 1y ago
I guess it depends on what the traffic consists of. Please share (some). And it's really an unfair comparison in that the android is white-hacked. Linux Phone? Ready for prime time?
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by k310 1y ago
Google is far more privacy invasive than Apple, and Apple has an ecosystem that works fairly smoothly across devices. Yes, it infuriates me at times. But anything with the Google touch on it can be counted on to be spyware. I do find everyt
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by k310 1y ago
I have always had some mindless habits, like putting something down without thinking, and then having to wonder where it is. I just never filed it. Now that I am old as in 76, I find that things which should be instantly retrievable from me
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by k310 1y ago
Is this the thread that I spent a half hour replying to, and when I got nervous and turned on GhostText, disappeared?
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by k310 1y ago
Please seek help. Or stop posting what your chatbot spit out. I don't have a job because I'm retired and my days are full. I have achieved what people bust their asses and get sick for years to achieve. I play classical piano, I t
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by k310 1y ago
This is bewildering to many who believe that his "Hillary's emails" investigation was a major, if not decisive factor in Trump's first election bid. Then again, Trump never forgets the slightest slight. I've got Bel
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by k310 1y ago
And the bidding for exemptions begins. This story is getting very old very fast.
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by k310 1y ago
Personally, I keep old cameras because they still work (the Hasselblad) or the lenses can be used with the latest camera (Nikon-Z with FTZ) I did optical engineering, so they have special meaning. I keep some mac minis for linux (when I get
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by k310 1y ago
Some wealthy people have their sexual pleasures, however deranged, in private, arranged by Jeffrey Epstein and the like. Other wealthy people choose to shove their private parts in your face. And since ANYONE can do it, well, that raises th
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by k310 1y ago
Even if you are ardently against ad hominem or fundamental attribution error, nazi is as nazi does, and I can fully appreciate people as fellow humans while disapproving of their behavior. One is fundamental and the other is choice. For wha
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by k310 1y ago
I suspect "money laundering".
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by k310 1y ago
What that locked (private) data entails. > What makes this vast private data uniquely valuable is its quality and real-world grounding. This data includes electronic health records, financial transactions, industrial sensor readings, p
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by k310 1y ago
No liquid glass? Weren't crowds surrounding the Apple spaceship demanding it? As an optics person, I just have to chortle every time I hear that. If glass has any liquidity after cooling, it's unobservable [0] (Note, it deforms, b
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by k310 1y ago
Gross misspellings are either a really dumb human (nah) or a chatbot. Same for mass emailings. I missed the earlier post on this. Hard to keep up.
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by k310 1y ago
Every Accusation is a confession. I never believed in infallibility, but this rule is infallible with him.
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by k310 1y ago
Was the brutal cookie banner on the site a dig at cookie banners? Disabling javascript for the site got rid of it. It does so for many sites.
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by k310 1y ago
I got the extended “lose weight with pink salt” video. Tried again and got an AT&T ad. I’d comment on the substack but I avoid posting about religion on Hacker News unless requested. It’s hotter than emacs versus vi. Almost. Thanks for
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by k310 1y ago
Fortunate. I remember when an SD card reader would NOT work on an iPhone, and yet the same device and iOS on the iPad would work. Obviously on purpose. I’m an old Unix guy. Files are files. Card to computer. Process later.
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by k310 1y ago
Keep every pin and passcode in an app with the encrypted safe or copy on a thumb drive or even file share. It's encrypted. Even your phone pin. The app just needs the one (Very long) key. Give it to a trusted person with the key, or ju
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by k310 1y ago
Two factors in play, IMO. 1. The hubris of big companies deciding that they know what you want better than you do. I used to chide Microsoft, not that they were listening, that their motto was "We will optimize you (if you change your
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by k310 1y ago
> What does the internet look like? It looks like the cookie consent popup. That's if you don't get a Cloudflare or other CAPTCHA first.
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by k310 1y ago
Exactly what he accused the Biden administration of doing: "weaponizing the DOJ" Every Accusation is a Confession. Of course, legally substantiated charges are different from social media rage fests.
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by k310 1y ago
Caveat: I did sysadmin/jack-of-all-trades work, with an emphasis on sendmail and friends that opened some doors, but not others where it was the prime qualification. Why? At some point, you are going to fail the age test at FAANG+, wit
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by k310 1y ago
Action, in this case, is writing. > But it turns out that the writing itself is where the ideas come from. I thought it referred to engineering/problem-solving. In that process, you may believe that "necessity is the mother of
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by k310 1y ago
I find most of the internet completely unreadable without a reader extension, often built-in as with Safari and Firefox (yes, I found it).

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