mmerlin

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by mmerlin 8y ago
First Dog explains it well in cartoon style. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/05/why-we...
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by mmerlin 8y ago
This shows how clueless politicians are when it comes to technology. PGP and similar are widely available since the 90's. Mailvelope and many other OpenPGP tools exist. This idea is as clueless as Abbotts plan to kill the NBN fibre-to-
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by mmerlin 8y ago
“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” ― Edsger W. Dijkstra
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by mmerlin 8y ago
YouTube was VHS, Google Video was BetaMax, but this time Sony acquired JVC
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by mmerlin 8y ago
VGG Image Annotator https://gitlab.com/vgg/via/
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by mmerlin 8y ago
I don't get it. Putting style before substance. To disable the annoying behaviour: chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains
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by mmerlin 8y ago
DNS66 is pretty much always running on my phone for a more pleasant web browsing experience (ad blocking) DNS66 establishes a VPN interface, and redirects DNS server traffic to it. The VPN interface filters the traffic, only allowing querie
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by mmerlin 8y ago
Once Oracle buys them
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Meet gallenene: Gallium joins graphene in the second dimension(newatlas.com)
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by mmerlin 9y ago
On Android, having DNS66 installed via F-droid prevents all those advertising shenanigans completely. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Happens in Australia too $4.55MM to $12MM in a year... dodgy! https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/01/another-money-laund...
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Did exactly that and found 1.2 to 1.25 is best depending on the voice pitch and cadence
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Any hint of a timeline for .app availability? https://www.registry.google/about/domains.html
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by mmerlin 9y ago
This sounds like the new govt policy being introduced in China to publicly shame loan defaulters http://fortune.com/2017/10/11/china-debt-evaders-loans-black...
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by mmerlin 9y ago
same in Australia too
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by mmerlin 9y ago
They're much more than a single issue party :) - Stop undemocratic privatisation - Establish an independent Federal commission against corruption - Require more timely disclosure of political donations - Invest more in renewable energy
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Somewhat, although he backed away from One Nation after Pauline wore a Burka in parliament. It's a shame the media has conflated any discussion of an immigration policy with racism (ie because of One Nation) Dick's not running tho
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Sick of politicians? Sustainable Australia party is who you're looking for. William Bourke is eminently sensible. Dick Smith joined. The anti-corruption fighter who wrote "Game of Mates" Dr Cameron Murray is running for the
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Acow_Adonis, I think you've failed to consider a few factors. A quarter of new NSW properties were sold to foreigners the past year and 89% of those foreigners are Chinese [1] 70% of Chinese are buying property with 100% cash [2] $3.
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Bose Hearphones app annoyingly/invasively forces you to enable GPS location tracking (also a waste of battery), and they data-mine (send back to bose servers) every song title you listen to plus your contacts list :-(
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by mmerlin 9y ago
* DNS66 for adblocking is pretty cool too
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Salient points. re Sydney and Melbourne (and Australia in general) FIRB is easily circumvented (just buy properties using a company structure, no need to tell FIRB now) Also regarding the $800k overage paid, this kind of thing has been happ
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Yes why only Python?
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by mmerlin 9y ago
That sounds like Sydney and Melbourne nowadays
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by mmerlin 9y ago
They could mention Weex https://weex.incubator.apache.org
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Processwire.com is the new PHP Lego. Move on from wordpress
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by mmerlin 9y ago
So so sad when a country devolves into quasi-dictatorship
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Change the name. Cardinal George Pell is hopefully going to jail soon
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by mmerlin 9y ago
I read that last line as funny / tongue-in-cheek, as if every normal person learns their ATGC's as easily as their ABC's :-D
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by mmerlin 9y ago
Al-free tea tree oil based rollon works for me

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