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by mmh0000 2y ago
I really don't know how to fight against this. Computers have become quite scary in the last few years. In the 1990s and 00s, when computers were fun, and privacy was taken seriously by us nerds. I avoided a lot of state and corporate
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Or, are humans a bunch of data transformers plugged together to create the illusion of behaving like a computer?
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by mmh0000 2y ago
As someone who bought a Honda Odyssey a few months ago, I don't believe this article. I wanted to save money and buy a used minivan. However, in my area, used minivans (in decent condition) cost nearly the same as brand-new ones, so I
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by mmh0000 2y ago
If I'm not terrible at my math... T-Mobile earned $8 billion in 2023. Some division later, that works out to $21,000,000 per day. They were fined less than one day's income. If I owned that company, increasing IT security would be
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Yeah, but GNU's Not Unix, so... GNU tooling isn't "traditional Unix tooling" =P It might be traditional, but whatever tradition it is, it isn't Unix =D. I could argue this all day long! ;)
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Use homebrew to install gnu coreutils. MacOS uses traditional Unix tooling, not GNU.
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by mmh0000 2y ago
For me, it's: (ytdlp|torrents|weird-russian-media-sharing-sites) + picard + foobar2000 (Linux+WINE) = <3
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Arguably... That shouldn't be the case. Their style guide says: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Principle If you ask yourself in what style something should be entered into MusicBrainz, the following pr
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by mmh0000 2y ago
What is the benefit of sorting on extensions? Since extensions have no meaning to the kernel and, only a few oddball applications (tar, gzip) care about extensions. The emojis are cute, but is it really quicker than reading a `-`, `d`, or `
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Make sure to checkout Picard: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ Which uses the MusicBrainz DB to auto tag and correct audio file names. Makes it really easy to organize a large collection of (pirated) audio.
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MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia(musicbrainz.org)
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by mmh0000 2y ago
When the law protects abusers, sometimes you might have to break the law yourself.
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by mmh0000 2y ago
I mean... they tell you right on their webpage that track you and and use your private information (such as: location, current app, locale, device ID, ...). Sure, it's a "random" identifier, ... tied to your exact location, s
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by mmh0000 2y ago
This sounds like a fun and interesting challenge! I am tempted to try it on my own I’m surprised an LLM actually works for that purpose. It has been my experience with gpt reading pdfs that it’ll get the first few entries from a pdf correct
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by mmh0000 2y ago
While we're sharing neat ssh_config tricks, here's my favorite trick I use: My home network is set up so that if I'm home or on my self-hosted VPN, I can SSH directly to my various things. But if I'm away from home and n
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by mmh0000 2y ago
I get the idealism, but now you're just using Firefox, which has been bastardized and introduces more annoyances (and privacy, but privacy comes with annoyances...). Privacy, like security, is a trade-off between being easy to use and
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Yeah! Text autogenerated from a computer's probability engine will lead to people having "wrong thoughts"! We should ban libraries and books too! I wouldn't want people to have an opportunity to learn for themselves. &lt
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Simply because "bomb" dogs, like "drug" dogs are a scam to give the police a legal excuse to violate your rights. The dogs don't detect bombs/drugs, they detect cues from the controlling officer. https:/&
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Well, who could have imagined that selling greatly overpriced plastic boxes and using MLM resellers who just ooze "scamminess" while simultaneously not accepting all major credit cards would lead to failure? On a side note, Costco
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by mmh0000 2y ago
I really don't get this hatred of systemd. Systemd solves many programs that have plagued Linux forever. Sure, SysV-init was super simple, and it was great back in the 1980s or even the 1990s when your server ran just a handful of daem
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by mmh0000 2y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Security_Screening_S...
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Of course, any article mentioning tea, must include a reference to ISO 3103 — A Standardized Method for Brewing Tea[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Thank you for posting that site. That has led me down multiple rabbit holes that filled my Sunday morning! I love civil infrastructure stuff, and this just tickled the right part of my brain. I'll provide one of my favorite civ-infra r
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Many years ago, at a previous job, I was issued a Toughbook. I loved that I didn't have to even think about babying it. I could just slap it closed when done and throw it (literally) back in the truck. I didn't like the cost of th
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Starting yesterday afternoon, YouTube doesn't play anything in Firefox (+ublock +sponserblock on Linux) for me. Thankfully, youtube-dlp still works just fine, so it's a minor inconvenience.
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by mmh0000 2y ago
I get the motivation. But good luck keeping an organization out of anything you care about when they can: . Legally kill you . Legally compel corporations to embed backdoors . Legally seize all your equipment . Throw away millions of dollar
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by mmh0000 2y ago
If your adversary is someone who can … quite literally … send ninjas in attack helicopters at you. You’re probably going to lose.
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Reddit or Author deleted the post, still available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240824092606/https://old.reddi... And the GitHub repo: https://github.com/feder-cr/linkedIn_aut
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by mmh0000 2y ago
I don't feel too bad for the companies here. They started the arms race by posting fake jobs and giving the runaround to good candidates. From a power dynamic, people NEED a job to have food and shelter. Established companies don'
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by mmh0000 2y ago
Whenever these stories come up, I like to remind people about the Underhanded C Code Contest[1] and the IOCCC[2] TL;DR: Clever C programmers can hide very evil shit in plain sight. [1] https://www.underhanded-c.org/ [2] ht

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