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841.
by nyolfen 7y ago
small drones can fly very low. wondering why none of those saudi patriot batteries managed to knock out any? probably because they would have difficulty distinguishing them from birds if they picked them up at all
842.
by nyolfen 7y ago
there are also many, many sincere chinese nationalists, some of whom use twitter. people forget that the number of chinese people on the internet is substantially larger than the entire US population, even if most don’t hang out in the same
843.
by nyolfen 7y ago
i don't doubt his belief, only his conviction.
844.
by nyolfen 7y ago
i suspect the military/leo databases are not the ones being searched in criminal cases
845.
by nyolfen 7y ago
you might try putting some silicone wraps on your airpods so they fit more snugly, eg: https://images.mobilefun.co.uk/graphics/productgalleries/633...
846.
by nyolfen 7y ago
seriously, my immediate impression was that they're visually indistinguishable from $30 rebadged aliexpress crap
847.
by nyolfen 7y ago
what about the chinese state's social responsibility to maintain order?
848.
by nyolfen 7y ago
as we all know, it's a private platform and they have no obligation to host speech that violates their guidelines. nothing to see here.
849.
by nyolfen 7y ago
their ceo previously took a 'stand' before buckling
850.
by nyolfen 7y ago
i'm on the wary side of this thread, but kudos for this
851.
by nyolfen 7y ago
probably the decades of people pointing out that the latter was wrong and research on addiction
852.
by nyolfen 7y ago
i will never listen to a podcast on spotify, stitcher et al for exactly this reason.
853.
by nyolfen 7y ago
it was not only that, it was revealed they ran bots to chat with users to convince them they had a shot with beautiful women that made up the bulk of user activity iirc. no sympathy obviously but it was a total scam
854.
by nyolfen 7y ago
lie detectors are interrogation tools. their actual efficacy is secondary to perceived
855.
by nyolfen 7y ago
i intend to next time i need a tv, but most people aren't thinking so much about their tv's spying on them
856.
by nyolfen 7y ago
i looked around a bit on that site and really enjoyed this: http://toastytech.com/guis/abuse.html
857.
by nyolfen 7y ago
why do cops interrogate people instead of just investigating them?
858.
by nyolfen 7y ago
i feel like i'm back on 2004 lj
859.
by nyolfen 7y ago
prism is generally thought (by my understanding) to be snooping on lines between data centers without the complicity of the companies targeted
860.
by nyolfen 7y ago
i have read repeatedly on this site that it is effectively impossible to buy a new dumb tv unless you get the kind of commercial ones meant for installation on walls in commercial buildings etc
861.
by nyolfen 7y ago
if i wanted to come up with posts to degrade discourse regarding snowden and make people unwilling to engage with his revelations, i would probably make posts like yours
862.
by nyolfen 7y ago
this is probably a bad precedent to set
863.
by nyolfen 7y ago
strong athletic performance drives alumni donations, that’s it
864.
by nyolfen 7y ago
as did MIT if we are to believe ito: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/09/10/former-mit-medi...
865.
by nyolfen 7y ago
encryption by default and privacy as an intrinsic good have been pervasive if subtle shifts in the culture
866.
by nyolfen 7y ago
>They’re more of a threat to their immediate neighbors than anything, and near as I can tell they just want US to back off and let them be, let them have Taiwan, do what they want with Hong Kong and Macau, and let them assert a local heg
867.
by nyolfen 7y ago
i would find it very surprising if more than 2 or 3% of firefox users have ever used about:config at all
868.
by nyolfen 7y ago
adblocking encrypted dns: https://nextdns.io/
869.
by nyolfen 7y ago
very cool! i'm in DFW so the houston library service sounds great. thanks for the suggestion!
870.
by nyolfen 7y ago
i like the idea of voice dream reader in theory, but in practice i find the voice synth kind of poor and difficult to listen to. i should probably just subscribe to audible but the reason i wanted it was for audio of pirated ebooks.

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