motters

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by motters 12y ago
I think that choosing a life of being a perpetual precariat is likely to be a bad choice. You can view extreme risk taking as brave or as desperate and foolish. But I also agree that programmers should grow a spine. In modern society they
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by motters 12y ago
I think the situation today is that many of us do waste time with unproductive distractions in the workplace. It's my observation that if you monitored people in offices much of the time what they're doing is not actually "wo
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by motters 12y ago
I don't know where you're living, but here in the UK the government only does a fraction of what ideally people would want and as time goes by it does less and less. There is indeed plenty of work to be done as you say, but typic
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by motters 12y ago
If there were a basic income guarantee, which I'm in favour of, and if it were sufficient to fulfil my basic needs (food, clothing, housing, electricity) then I'd use second hand hardware and become a free software developer full
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by motters 12y ago
Adblock Edge is the better version, since it genuinely blocks ads, whereas Adblock Plus still lets some through by default.
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by motters 12y ago
I'm also working on database encryption for Bitmessage, such that the data at rest always remains encrypted, regardless of whether the underlying file system is.
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by motters 12y ago
This sounds ok, but the lack of a secret ballot could be a problem. Having your name associated with a particular vote for a particular decision or party can have repercussions if you do not belong to a privileged group.
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by motters 12y ago
I don't really care what Microsoft is doing. I don't use any of their products. I don't intend to in future either. It took me years to fully extricate myself from the disaster zone which was Microsoft Windows, and having don
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by motters 12y ago
I don't want one. I'm old enough to remember the trendy digital watches of the 1980s and how quickly the novelty of being able to tell the time in Tokyo and New York, or being able to do calculations, or being able to play a beepy
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by motters 12y ago
They've missed the elephant in the room. From having once been a teenager I can say with confidence that peer pressure and general social expectations about what is or is not normal to be doing on Fri/Sat nights is a huge factor
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by motters 12y ago
So if I declare that the Bing web crawler is ignoring robots.txt and DDoSing my server then I can take over microsoft.com to "clean" out the bad stuff and redirect all traffic to zombo.com?
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by motters 12y ago
I'm also running CyanogenMod without the mothership, and that's exactly what I thought. While apps such as TextSecure appear to have a good reputation needing to install probably backdoored proprietary software to obtain them see
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by motters 12y ago
My opinion on Wonga and other similar companies is that the usury laws which were repealed in the mid 19th century should be reinstated. In those times convicted usurers danced on the end of a noose, but I'm not suggesting that be use
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by motters 12y ago
Having briefly looked at this I don't think I'd recommend it, especially if you are a "non US person reasonably believed to be outside of the US". Minimising dependency on Google, or any single company for that matter,
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by motters 12y ago
"The judge opined that the search would take place only when the e-mails were opened and read" That's a silly argument, because it's like saying I'm going to grab papers from your home, but I'm not searching yo
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by motters 12y ago
I can sympathize with the woman in the video because I also always kept declining to link my YouTube login to my G+ login. I'm also considering deleting my Google account, and I expect that due to the horrible Microsoft-style integrat
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by motters 12y ago
Finding a word other than "cracker" to designate people using computers for illegal purposes would be a useful exercise. Otherwise a lot of entirely legitimate activity gets tarnished and if you describe yourself as "hacking
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by motters 12y ago
That has already been the case for a long time. There have been many neural net libraries which don't require the developer to understand the details of the algorithms.
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by motters 12y ago
Yes. There is lots of room for improvement and more tests. libdeep isn't something which I've been actively developing recently.
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by motters 12y ago
I've also seen that talk. In many cases I think the advantages which may be had from deep learning are likely to be marginal - a few percent improvement over the next best algorithm. Multi-layer neural nets already existed for a coup
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by motters 12y ago
I didn't know there was a deep learning gold rush. Maybe this explains the crazy number of stars on my libdeep library on Github, while there being no comments or issues raised. Deep learning is not any sort of magic bullet. It may b
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by motters 12y ago
The lesson of Levison is that privacy assurances by email service providers are not necessarily trustworthy. Levison balked, but most wouldn't want to shut down their businesses. For now the best bet is either to self host (it's
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by motters 12y ago
If I was in that situation I'd try to get a different job. I know how hard it is to do that in the current economy though, so failing that I'd just do the minimum needed and be uncompromising about working only the assigned hours
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by motters 12y ago
The most likely explanation I think is that these extra chips are targeted for implantation as part of Tailored Access Operations, or the GCHQ equivalent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations
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by motters 12y ago
I don't think this is an especially good article, and I don't much like the term "viral" in this context since it seems to be being used for propaganda purposes. There's no reason why businesses can't use softw
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by motters 12y ago
If the source code isn't available then any claims to being secure should be treated cautiously. For instance, how do we know that there aren't heartbleed-style errors in this anti-surveillance app?
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by motters 12y ago
I'm not sure that it's a great idea to keep giving Linus prizes. He probably already has quite a collection of them. Instead I think some of the other kernel maintainers should get prizes.
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by motters 12y ago
Strange that this article was written in 2014, because Twitter already is a platform of the masses and it already is something which people use while watching TV. Seems like a prediction of the past to me. Using a hashtag isn't some
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by motters 12y ago
You don't need to pay to ensure the existence of a microblogging system. pump.io or GNU Social will continue to be around whether or not anyone pays for them.
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by motters 12y ago
If you enjoy programming then going into management or becoming an architect is really a demotion to something less interesting and which likely requires much less skill. Becoming an n-th level uber-engineer really only makes sense if you

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