marderfarker2

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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Why is SCS US’s business? No I’m not from 50cent army.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Back in the Windows XP days my dad installed an Enterprise copy on the family PC. You could see per application network access in real-time, and would ask for permission whenever an application tries to make an outgoing connection, unlike W
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
At my company, “heroes” are given their own projects with them given full creative control over every detail, including the people they work with. I think I’ve read somewhere on HN to never let any two person do the same thing, to avoid the
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Ironically the US the largest exporter of unrecyclable garbage to Asia.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Chinese Android TVs don’t have such problems, because you can sideload any APK and boom it works.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
https://ameliorated.info/ works too
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Thought only my cheapo Dell does this. DSP should’ve been offloaded to dedicated audio hardware. Doing it in software is just lazy.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
The longest I’ve had my work laptop up is around 40 days. Usually shorter, as it slowly corrupts itself until it BSODed with memory management or page fault.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
You can absolutely disable them in the Pro and Home editions.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Try disabling Windows update’s ability to wake via GPO. Having neutered Windows update my PC actually feels like a PC again.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Most public wifi block all the ports necessary for VPN except 80 and 443. Even then DPI will stop most VPN protocol right in its track. I’ve never had reliable VPN working over public wifi/mobile network, unless I roll my own custom pr
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Most of the time the end user equipment is the bottleneck rather than the internet backbone
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I feel like our purpose is just to ensure continued existence of our species. Anything that happens between when you were born and die are just steps to ensure you (or your kinds) are worth keeping around, ensuring the continued existence
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Exfiltration via side channel exists. For instance, Facebook will upload your conversations when you report abuse/block a contact, and this is behaviour they decided to publicise, who knows what else they collect.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
> It is practically part of Chinese culture and upbringing. Wow. Didn’t expect such blanket and shallow statement on HN. Are you a Chinese yourself? On what basis do you base your assumptions on? Really. > What we call cheating or ste
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I don’t see Lithuania writing a report or making a fuss about it. Weird.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I know right? This post and the report it links reeks of political motive.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Huh, not YouTube but the companies paying content creators to make videos featuring their product.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
You may not see the value now until you need it. Just like the photos in your phone.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
You already lost control when you let someone else store your files for you. This drive letter issue is just a GUI problem.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Can’t wait to pirate extra horsepower.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Young people have less memory and running “threads” dedicated to adult things. They will not mind branching out to go down a rabbit hole, which will cost time and mental resources.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Was hoping to see some ideas on how to create a DMZ and it still being accessible locally. A use case would be to host internet facing applications at home and still be safely consumed locally.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Really depends on where you live. In where I reside being stuck in traffic driving to precisely where I want is faster than being stuck in traffic on a bus.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
It’s not the commute that sucks, it’s the lack of sense of agency sitting in a public transport that starts and stops on a whim going to places you don’t care about.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
China did the opposite by sealing everything up in the beginning, and now everything has gone back to normal for them bar international travel. Probably it’s down to developed countries having a well-defined response protocol AND its citize
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
It takes the same amount of effort and KYCs to sign up at a crypto exchange and sign up for a credit card.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I was a participant in an Erasmus programme with a German university. In my case the German University created and translated a course to English and the classes and exams were conducted in English. There were some rough edges, such as untr
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
There are tons of other good android phones in the market.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
You can use Lightning cable with only Apple products. With a USB cable you can use it with your camera, power bank, phone, earbuds, toaster so on and so forth. I’ve had a grand total of 2 USB cables, a USB A to micro USB for legacy devices

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