paulv

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by paulv 4y ago
> The euphemism treadmill is a running joke, from negro, to black, to African American, to Black, to person of color. You missed a couple at the beginning of your list. A really significant one in particular.
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by paulv 4y ago
My ubuntu 22.04 LTS (jammy) is running Xorg as root. I have just dist-upgraded since I installed 18.04, so maybe fresh installs don't?
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by paulv 4y ago
> In response the really elite players just go back to bending over to pick up the ball with their hand, signaling that they're too skilled to bother signaling how skilled they are. Truly elite players have ball boys and girls pick
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by paulv 4y ago
I recently watched the video where he said it, but I can't remember which one it was. It was one of the ones on the Tested channel, either an ask Adam or one of the questions from a live stream they made in to a video.
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by paulv 4y ago
Doesn't fly.io have tailscale integration?
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by paulv 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand the question? I close the lid. How do you do it?
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by paulv 4y ago
> he owns the worlds largest auto company No, he doesn't. That would be Volkswagen.
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by paulv 4y ago
It isn't, though. His daughter worked for him in the White House. His sons stumped for him. Hunter Biden has done neither.
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by paulv 4y ago
The "someone else" in bullet point 3 is the co-founder of Xamarin (as well as the former GitHub CEO post Microsoft sale) with the person in bullet 4.
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by paulv 4y ago
I discovered this issue on my rpi3 and rpi4s. There is always just enough latency when using ssh to drive me up a wall, but it went away when I tried to debug with ping. The first ping packet always took a bit longer than the others. I just
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by paulv 4y ago
This is a pretty coordinated release, I think the ubuntu security team probably has packages ready to be released. The security repository should have the update right away.
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by paulv 4y ago
I pretty much only use the signal protocol to chat with my husband, who I convinced to install the app because I could help with any problems that arose. I'm not going to use one app to communicate with just him and another to communic
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by paulv 4y ago
> Brendan Eich also happened to be an anti-gay-marriage activist and donator (afaik, only his spare time, not at work) Presumably the donations were of money that he made at work.
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by paulv 4y ago
Abortion bans impact liberals and others who didn't vote for Trump in red states. The majority of the country wants abortion to be legal. Making people suffer for the bad decisions that their states make is...disgusting.
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The Enigma of Peter Thiel(johnganz.substack.com)
11 points by paulv 4y ago|10 comments
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by paulv 4y ago
They also have access to a lot of other metadata (IMEI, IP address, OS version, MAC address, email/phone number that you signed up with, etc) that they could combine with data from brokers to identify you as well. I'm not saying t
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by paulv 4y ago
That...seems completely reasonable to me.
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by paulv 4y ago
Can someone explain the capturing "keystroke patterns" part? Are they saying the app is somehow capturing keystrokes while other apps are running?
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by paulv 4y ago
The issue is that an exploit could write a file in ~/bin/ and trick you in to executing it. But, if something malicious is writing files in your home directory, you've already lost.
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by paulv 4y ago
You can take a look at the 990's, Bradley is _definitely_ NOT getting rich off of his work with the SFC.
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by paulv 5y ago
Same. My high school was very near a GE plant in northern Cincinnati and I frequently heard how we were a target because of that. Seems plausible but based on other comments in this post, it may have just been cold war propaganda.
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by paulv 5y ago
> IDK applications cannot be run on Roku TVs, Roku streambars, or updatable/legacy streaming player models. This is unfortunate. I was only interested in the IDK because roku is built in to my tv.
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by paulv 5y ago
FWIW, there was a multi-year period, just after the do not call list went in to effect, where the amount of spam phone calls I got dropped to zero.
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by paulv 5y ago
"Radical feminism" is a branch of feminism. It is not used as a pejorative in the acronym.
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by paulv 5y ago
> 2. Feminists (TERFs) I worry that this can be read as "all feminists are terfs", which is not accurate.
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by paulv 5y ago
It is letting pitchers throw pitches that are on the edge of what they can control. Also, when pitchers throw balls the same way they have for years, changing the way balls move in ways the pitchers haven't been able to account for. Th
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by paulv 5y ago
> “toxic masculinity” is a political dog-whistle, not a legitimate psychological concept. This is misleading at best. Toxic masculinity has been written about in great detail and at great length in academia (in gender/women's s
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by paulv 5y ago
I know a significant number of progressive users that frequently get their videos taken down or have some videos "shadowbanned" where the engagement metrics are dramatically different than even their non-popular videos.
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by paulv 5y ago
Think of the 3 words like a phone number. They could try to sell access to the only phone book that exists. Requires some kind of critical mass, but I've heard of worse business plans. They could also probably sell novelty "phone
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by paulv 5y ago
> how many man-millennia have been wasted because of the armies of people who have posted something they're proud of, but is complete rubbish, on npmjs.org? None. If someone is proud of something they worked hard on, why shouldn&#x2

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