motters

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by motters 13y ago
Hadrian's firewall
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by motters 13y ago
It's a bit like saying that they're going to install cameras linked to a spy agency into every home, but don't worry because only a few homes will be scrutinised closely.
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by motters 13y ago
That is essentially the manifesto of the Freedombox Project, which has also been around for a few years. For a variety of reasons FreedomBox doesn't seem to have made much real progress on bringing data privacy to the masses, but ther
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by motters 13y ago
I've been running my own web services for the last three years. For email I use exim/dovecot/roundcube and am also experimentally using Bitmessage For social networking I use Friendica, and eventually I'll be on the Red
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by motters 13y ago
My guess is that this message is Wired asking Snowden for a chat so that they can get some kind of exclusive story. However, as others have pointed out, Wired magazine doesn't exactly have a good reputation when it comes to defending
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by motters 13y ago
I'm sure that they will also be digging around in his records for anything sexual. They'll probably also claim that he was "a loner" who spent a lot of time browsing Wikileaks, or "conspiracy theory" sites. The
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Don't worry about the metadata(youtube.com)
1 points by motters 13y ago|0 comments
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by motters 13y ago
The focus on the salary discrepancy is in order to suggest that other elements of the story might be exaggerated or false.
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by motters 13y ago
As far as I remember Paxo is no dummy, so this looks like a superficial fluff piece to fill time on a slow news day. What would have been more insightful would be for them to talk about the commodification of the self and how various aspect
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by motters 13y ago
I got to this point in 2011 - i.e. looking at my Facebook stream and considering whether any of it had any relevance to me at all (it didn't). Was I just wasting my time looking at this? (yes I was). And so I left and closed my account. S
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by motters 13y ago
Also see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0rwLxPi1Lg&list=PLE0E8B6... for some context on how the economic arrangement is organised.
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Science and the Compulsive Programmer(sacbusiness.org)
5 points by motters 13y ago|1 comments
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by motters 13y ago
Thinking about scalability or portability of the code from day 1 is useful because it may be difficult to crowbar those things in on day 200. That said, don't dither too much over writing code. History favours the doers rather than the vac
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by motters 13y ago
This makes little sense, and seems like Google moving to distance itself from the open source community. Without downloads it's extremely unlikely that the average user will be able to try running an open source application. Especially fo
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by motters 13y ago
Downloads are hardly a minor feature. Having a downloadable package makes it significantly easier for users to try open source software. The average user is very unlikely to want to compile from source.
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by motters 13y ago
I assume that the orbits of most planets is not perfectly circular and that the axis of rotation is not usually perfectly aligned with that of the host star.
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by motters 13y ago
True, but just measuring carbon dioxide for the whole planet does show a distinct seasonal variance and that's for the reasons previously stated - there's a lot of land mass in the northern hemisphere and terrestrial plant life has a signif
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by motters 13y ago
In the search for exobiology one possible sign to look for within planetary spectra might be a predictable annual oscillation of carbon dioxide levels as occurs on Earth when plants photosynthesize more in the summer than the winter.
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by motters 13y ago
So it's a chicken an egg situation. If consumers aren't demanding it's probably because they don't have enough disposable income and if the ways of obtaining an income are becoming scarcer then you have a positive feedback effect which dep
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Laurie Spiegel interview(sexmagazine.us)
1 points by motters 13y ago|0 comments
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by motters 13y ago
Google may be able to improve on most of these problems, but they won't be able to eliminate the headaches unless they fundamentally alter the design. The problem is that this type of display requires the wearer to change focus when using
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by motters 13y ago
I was once a big Gmail fan and have had a Gmail account since 2005. However, in recent years I think they screwed with the user interface too much, turning something which was once very simple and elegant into a confusing mess. There's al
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by motters 13y ago
I would like to buy one. If they get cheaper and my income increases then it will be on the shopping list.
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Self Replication(youtube.com)
1 points by motters 14y ago|0 comments
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by motters 14y ago
This sounds like the final destination of burnout. Probably there should be more education about the effects of overworking on mental/physical health so that people can recognise bad situations when they're getting into them and pull out b
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by motters 14y ago
News isn't necessarily bad for you, and it's not a good idea to live in a bubble of cherry-picked information. However, the mainstream news is fraught with all kinds of problems so you need to be prepared to believe that what appears there
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by motters 14y ago
There are a few points. - Avoiding being alienated from my own work. - To produce software which anyone can use, regardless of financial or geographical situation. - To produce better quality software by not reinventing the wheel and by the
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Genetic artworks with Paintatron(github.com)
1 points by motters 14y ago|0 comments
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by motters 14y ago
Chess doesn't seem like a useful CAPTCHA. To begin with not everyone knows the rules of chess, and secondly computers are much better and much faster than the average human chess player.
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by motters 14y ago
It's unsustainable in the sense that behind almost everything we do or eat is a lot of fossil fuel. That's a finite resource which will not always exist.

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