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by patrickk 10y ago
> Although I confess I don't fully understand why American corporate interests can throw around such weight in New Zealand -- in this judgement, or in the original paramilitary raid on Dotcom's home, either. > What's th
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by patrickk 10y ago
You can drag and drop a local file into a Chrome tab and play it on Chromecast. You can basically stream anything in a Chrome tab, e.g. open an online stream on your laptop and stream it to the Chromecast in full screen, useful for e.g. spo
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by patrickk 10y ago
Many Japanese cars from the 90s-early 2000s fit the bill. Civic, Skyline, Supras, MR2, RX7, S2000, Subaru WRX, Lancer Evos, many many more. If you like this sort of thing, check out this hilarious and informative youtube channel: https:&#x
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by patrickk 10y ago
Not to mention that they're the easiest things ever to wash. Just put it under a tap and air dry.
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by patrickk 10y ago
Projectors have gotten much cheaper in the past few years (I used to look in awe at some of the incredible creations on the now-defunct lumenlabs forum at the DIY creations people would build because of the high projector cost back about
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by patrickk 10y ago
If you Google "hedge fund satellite data", you'll get loads of results, e.g: > Every five minutes a satellite captures images of China’s biggest cities from space. Thousands of miles away in California, a computer looks at
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by patrickk 10y ago
Coin sorting via weight or size would also be cool.
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by patrickk 10y ago
> I would hope this is just poor execution on the manufacturers behalf and will eventually realize that making the battery an upgradable module would be a great selling point. Older phones, e.g. Nokias would commonly had standardised, re
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by patrickk 10y ago
Exactly, there were "rebels" driving around in Russian armoured vehicles, using modern Russian military equipment, just without insignias on their uniforms. This story[1] is one of many from a few years back about poorly-disguised
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by patrickk 10y ago
I've heard good things about Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/ You get the benefits of strong German privacy laws, on top of the EU's data protection directive[1]. [1] https://en.wik
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by patrickk 10y ago
> 20 years ago you could pick up a world-class Supra or a proper Land Cruiser or a Tacoma or a Camry or Corolla that could practically be the last commuter car you ever need. All of them stubbornly reliable. many of the cars Toyota had o
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by patrickk 10y ago
DevCon2? Lots of people on /r/ethereum were upset that videos of the talks were not available for weeks afterwards because it was in Shanghai.
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by patrickk 10y ago
It depends what hardware you are running Kodi on. I was running OpenElec on a raspberry pi, it was pretty much unusable for me. When I opened Kodi, the scan for new media would take ages, and often not work at all. Now I had a dedicated Win
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by patrickk 10y ago
Another "inspirational" list thanks to the US government, from a HN comment[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13237667 [2] https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2016-Out-of-
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by patrickk 10y ago
This is a insane setup, congrats ;) I thought I was doing well running flexget[1] on Ubuntu on a crappy old netbook. HTPC manager[2] might be worth a look too. [1] Setup guide: http://www.htpcbeginner.com/blueprint-flexget-s
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by patrickk 10y ago
Ireland too. We (essentially) don't have a military, let alone a budget line item for US-style mass surveillance projects. We're non-NATO, non-five eyes (or it's derivatives) and have a strong mechanism in place to preserve o
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by patrickk 10y ago
> Good luck with that. Europe doesn't provide the environment (neither culturally nor financially) needed for these types of companies to arise. I think a large part of the success of US tech companies is the large size of the domes
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> Some of the stuff should be verifiable at this point: If he's signing executive orders, surely there are copies. In this instance the second word in the Techcrunch article literally links to the executive order text, hosted on whi
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The reason I mention it is because if you don't have a US connection, this concern goes away. Imagine if this happened to a small data storage company that didn't have deep pockets of Microsoft to fight the case...
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Interesting. Can you give some examples of companies doing good work? I have a particular interest in this space.
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Relevant case: the DOJ attempted to gain access to Hotmail data residing on a server based in Ireland: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/09/microsoft... Any US connection is worrying from
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by patrickk 10y ago
Yes, but is Owncloud as easy to use as Dropbox? Is is heavily marketed at non-technical users like Dropbox is? Most non-tech users won't go to the hassle of researching this stuff, they barely know about mass surveillance and don'
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by patrickk 10y ago
I phrased it like that as I am not an expert on US privacy laws. But yes, certainly everything I've read over the past few years seems to indicate that the EU is way ahead of the US when it comes to protecting user privacy.
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by patrickk 10y ago
> Having strong privacy regulations in the EU could create a market for this kind of products. In some ways, the EU does have stronger data protection for it's citizens than the US. See for example the case where the ECJ ruled that
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> I still support aggressive competition from the EU simply because the EU needs to stand on its own legs but don't pretend that it's for privacy of its citizens. I was more thinking along the lines of immunity from National S
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by patrickk 10y ago
We need to wake the fuck up in the EU and start aggressively building European-based competitors to US tech companies that actually respect user privacy. A good area to start would be in the data storage industry, and perhaps social media t
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by patrickk 10y ago
Immutability. But yeah, not ideal use of the Bitcoin blockchain at least.
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by patrickk 10y ago
A quick google for "kdbx android" turns up this: http://www.keepassdroid.com/ Maybe that fixes the downsides of using KeeWeb on Android.
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by patrickk 10y ago
On iOS, I use MiniKeePass, as KeeWeb is compatible with KeePass databases. I sync by pushing the latest copy of the DB via iTunes maybe once a week, takes about 30 second. Maybe that helps.
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Plus the password database is likely encrypted with a decently long master password and encrypted with AES (assuming this if the user has gone to the trouble of using a PW manager with Dropbox sync, hopefully with Dropbox 2FA also). That sh

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