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by mirkules 8y ago
This is also true of other services. While Facebook is famous for its shadow profiles, equally (if not more) concerning are DNA ancestry services - effectively, if any of your relatives submit to these tests, your DNA can be easily matched
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by mirkules 8y ago
Your comment takes me back to AOL days of “keywords”. Then I realized that’s essentially what Facebook (and co) is: modern-day AOL. The similarities are striking: - Keywords instead of URLs? Check. - Chat within the app? Check. - Standalone
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by mirkules 8y ago
I can actually see this as a useful attack vector on criminal organizations, since LEOs can legally search through trash without a warrant [0] They could collect the trash every week, obtain wifi passwords, and obtain a warrant to perform e
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by mirkules 8y ago
It’s just an Outlook upgrade, nothing to see here...
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by mirkules 8y ago
Wow, you have just described my Amazon shopping experience, except without being absurdly (or even remotely) rich. But seriously, I actually got caught up in Amazon’s anti-fake-review dragnet and my account cannot review anymore without pos
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by mirkules 8y ago
> “It shouldn’t be called an outbreak,” Seattle-area mother Bernadette Pajer, a co-founder of the state’s main anti-vaccine group, Informed Choice Washington, said of the measles cases, arguing that the illness has spread only within a s
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by mirkules 8y ago
In my high school, gym was a practical course. We could even elect to be on a team, practice a real sport and not be in the “general” fitness class. We also had a theoretical “health” course where you learn about healthy eating, calories, e
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by mirkules 8y ago
Thanks, I appreciate it. I may try it again now that you said that - it’s been a solid year since I installed it (version 10?) right after the split from OwnCloud. I often find myself in your shoes in my daily work - answering frustrated us
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by mirkules 8y ago
Not sure why you’re downvoted - those are legitimate questions. I’m on a local network over WiFi. The “server” is a RPi3+ with an extrernal USB 3 drive. Granted, I don’t expect it to be blazing-fast, but not 3-5 pictures-per-hour slow eithe
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by mirkules 8y ago
On iOS it takes forever . Days. The upload rate is slow as hell.
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by mirkules 8y ago
> Sometimes I wish it were easier to just sit down, take the highest rated bug on a project, and spend all the time it would take to fix it. Its a shame I wasn't lucky enough to be born into wealth so I could just do that all the ti
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by mirkules 8y ago
I understand the need for people to feel like they have a choice by using free software (the choice to modify it if they want to), but at this point it is just an illusion unless you are prepared to dedicate a huge amount of time. If you p
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by mirkules 8y ago
Also, compare OS updates: Android has significantly more critical security fixes than iOS, every single time. Maybe it means they are finding more bugs and fixing them, or maybe it means Android is basically security Swiss cheese. my money
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by mirkules 8y ago
I chuckled when I read: > Although Android is Free Software, meaning I can modify the code, it would probably take me months to learn enough about music decoding and the Android-media-player-service to write a fix. Followed by: > APPL
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by mirkules 8y ago
That’s brilliant, in an evil way. At that point I would just draw the text on a canvas (not to give any ideas). It’s ironic that people who use adblockers are the exact people you don’t want to push ads onto, even if you can . They have ad
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by mirkules 8y ago
I get that Microsoft is trying to reinvent itself, but at the core they are (were?) a software development company. It kind of looks bad when you throw your hands up and say “this is just too complicated, we’ll replace it with an OSS compon
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by mirkules 8y ago
One thing that’s worse than Microsoft not adopting a technology is Microsoft adopting a technology. Historically, they’ve used the “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” strategy quite often, and maybe that’s what’s happening here. But maybe I’m bei
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by mirkules 8y ago
> Really? How much money have you donated to help provide clean drinking water to poor children in third world countries? I was born and raised in a third world country, and I assure you the problem is much bigger than simply throwing mo
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by mirkules 8y ago
You can play this moral dilemma forever. If the one LPLD patient happens to be an expert in 3rd world diseases, then his death would lead to an even bigger tragedy. In reality, there is no dilemma. The people who can help are morally obli
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by mirkules 8y ago
"I'm afraid your walk isn't silly enough"
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by mirkules 8y ago
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned how big of a target this is for the criminal enterprise. Gaining unauthorized access to someone's account through this portal would be a gold mine, even better than iCloud alone.
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by mirkules 8y ago
I can tell you a similar anectode. My family used to live in a eastern Europe communist-at-the-time country. Computers were hard to come by and the only place you could get good hardware was in Germany. My dad went to Germany and bought an
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by mirkules 8y ago
Continuing the "devil's advocate" perspective, perhaps the thinking that phones are an extension of the brain is the wrong way to think of them. > I know it's an encrypted, secured device I always have with me What if
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by mirkules 8y ago
I sometimes use touch on my XPS. I realized it's only when I'm showing stuff to others, and because the touchpad is inadequate (like broken side scrolling). But I'm a "don't leave smudge marks on my screen" typ
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by mirkules 8y ago
I used to work for a Toyota supplier years ago, and got to visit one of their ports where cars and parts enter the US from Japan for further assembly (like a mix of car garage and factory). It was striking how organized and neat everything
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by mirkules 8y ago
Heh, I am reminded of a little exploration I did a few years ago: http://mirkules.com/blog/music-theory-for-guitar/ I wish I had this tool back then!
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by mirkules 8y ago
Half the developers on my team wouldn't notice this. Another 45% wouldn't care. The last 5% would lose their hair trying to convince management why customers would hate it and how detrimental to the UX the font is, while consisten
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by mirkules 8y ago
That sounds pretty handy. Not sure if it's the same thing, but Charles Proxy offers throttling too. Either way, I'll take a look at your when I'm not on a phone
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by mirkules 8y ago
And if you never noticed either way then it doesn't matter!
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by mirkules 8y ago
My favorite example of forbidden ingenuity is the "sucker car" (Chapparal 2J) which used a plastic skirt to seal the car to the ground, and pump that sucked the air from underneath the car, producing an insane amount of downforce.

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