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by pgalvin 5y ago
It is laughable to suggest that history does not change. Even studying history at the equivalent of high school had me comparing secondary sources from the 1960s, to the 1990s, to just a couple years prior. History, or rather our interpreta
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Building electronics that can survive under Greenland’s ice sheet(arstechnica.com)
2 points by pgalvin 6y ago|0 comments
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by pgalvin 6y ago
It’s worth noting too - she had only newly turned 18 when she appointed her father as her campaign manager, he hadn’t been convicted, and she was a minor when he was charged. Not defending her other actions re. her husband, but the thing wi
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by pgalvin 6y ago
The issue is such lighting (blue) also makes your night vision far worse. They’re actually much more dangerous and have increased road traffic accidents where they have been installed. Warmer lighting seems to be worse, as it does not illum
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by pgalvin 6y ago
This is NOT true. Message keys are never sent to the cloud in WhatsApp, no matter what. You’re referring to the optional backup that requires users to opt-in. This sends an encrypted blob of all your messages to Apple/Google, and Whats
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by pgalvin 6y ago
You’re definitely, definitely wrong. This is not true. WhatsApp messages have E2E encryption by default, you can not opt out, and the keys (each message has a different one) are never sent to WhatsApp or anybody else. Users may OPTIONALLY e
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by pgalvin 6y ago
Unfortunately that’s for the Android app. Signal iOS has no way of backing up your messages, at all.
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by pgalvin 6y ago
With respect, as I otherwise feel you’ve made an amazing app on Android and iOS, why do you allow local backups to internal storage on Android but not iOS? Enabling a backup on iOS, even if buried in advanced settings, that lets me export a
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by pgalvin 6y ago
iOS has had a Files app for years, locally. You could easily export an encrypted .zip from Signal and save it locally, just like how Signal on Android saves it to your internal storage. For some reason, the Signal devs won’t even acknowledg
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by pgalvin 6y ago
I can think of many reasons full message history is valuable. - a friend says something that you don’t realise is important until months later and need to reference - a friend or partner dies and you wish to revisit old times by reading you
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by pgalvin 6y ago
Most of what you said is false. 1) this has now been peer-reviewed (iirc) and confirmed by multiple countries’ regulatory agencies. It does have 95% efficacy. 2) actually, it was tested on people with allergies and they were aware that some
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by pgalvin 6y ago
This actually isn’t really true. Europe jumped the gun out of caution, but multiple later studies have found no link. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcoleps...
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by pgalvin 6y ago
Interesting fact; the vaccine probably didn’t increase rates of Narcolepsy at all https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcoleps...
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by pgalvin 6y ago
You might not know, but that’s been discredited since. The vaccine didn’t cause narcolepsy. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history.... and https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety&#x2
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by pgalvin 6y ago
Not gonna throw my hat into the ring with my own opinion... but isn’t this totally off-topic? We’re talking about YouTube being used as a platform for spreading misinformation/conspiracies/etc. and you’re talking about sexualisat
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by pgalvin 6y ago
On the contrary, most of the emulation community looks down on YouTube videos as an out-of-date source of incorrect information contrary to best practices. I think you'd be surprised at the wide availability of written information and
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by pgalvin 6y ago
In fairness, I think that line of defense is more a moral, rather than legal, argument.
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by pgalvin 6y ago
Yep, the SHA1/256 checksum of the original on my Android device is the same as the one from both Google Takeout and downloading from the Google Photos Web UI. Same for the .heic files on my iPhone, too.
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by pgalvin 6y ago
> metadata gets scrambled by both their "high quality" and "original" settings. This is NOT true, at least for the "original" setting. Upload an image, download it again - the checksums are identical. If you
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by pgalvin 6y ago
Google intentionally slows or cripples many of their products on Firefox - simply changing the user agent makes them load faster and have all their normal features. See: Gmail & Google Photos on Firefox desktop (painfully slow, fixed wi
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by pgalvin 6y ago
Perhaps the biggest long-term issue of this (once the immediate damage is repaired, which would perhaps take years) is the loss of decades of human knowledge - everything on hard drives, tapes, flash memory, and just about anything that isn
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Buying Bitcoins in the UK – if you're under 18(galvin.pw)
1 points by pgalvin 11y ago|0 comments
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by pgalvin 11y ago
If this guy was like, 13, maybe this would be ok. But 17... he should be punished.