philjohn

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by philjohn 5y ago
I've seen more than a few posts where people have said "I really don't get this whole issue, but live and let live" and haven't been descended upon, that's just anecdata though.
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by philjohn 5y ago
You seem to be ignoring Pat Buchanon who literally used the term "culture war".
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by philjohn 5y ago
See also the utterly disgraceful handling of HIV/AIDS under his watch, throwing long standing gay friends of Nancy and himself under the bus to woo the evangelical vote.
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by philjohn 5y ago
No, it's that there is a healthy balance on the site, and the people who get banned have typically posted some REALLY unsavoury stuff - and plenty of left wing people have also been banned for posting unsavoury stuff.
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by philjohn 5y ago
It'll be due to the exit nodes for the VPN having been put on a blocklist. If you're tunneling through your home network it's unlikely to cause problems, unless you've been doing nefarious things from your home IP and th
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by philjohn 5y ago
1. Twitter has a terms of service, and advertisers don't want their adverts next to hate speech. 2. there are SO MANY right wing people on twitter, tweeting away merrily. They adhere to the Terms of Service. 3. Once again, I mostly see
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by philjohn 5y ago
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-data-brokers-...
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by philjohn 5y ago
I'd argue that the outrage began far before the internet, it goes back to moral panics of yesteryear, and outrage being peddled on talk radio.
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by philjohn 5y ago
The thing is, "big tech" aren't really the really scary data collectors, the data brokers are. They buy details from your supermarket, health insurer etc. And yet people here don't often bring them up.
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by philjohn 5y ago
Similar problems when dealing with books. J.K. Rowling has written works under other names, e.g. Newt Scamander. And then you have the case of the (actually recorded this way by the Library of Congress) author "Mark Twain (ghost, throu
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by philjohn 5y ago
After setup go to user admin, add a new administrator account, and then disable remote access and remove the cloud account. https://community.ui.com/questions/CloudKey-Gen2-or-setup-wi...
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by philjohn 5y ago
Oh well I must say this is a bit of an extreme/maximalist position to take - I agree being local only by default, or having the option to choose during setup would be better, but the option is there.
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by philjohn 5y ago
I would guess that truck is a much larger outlay than a laptop? And is your dad a Truck person? He may have enjoyed the research process (heck, I enjoy researching tech purchases).
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by philjohn 5y ago
I'd argue that's not a helpful take. This appears to be downloading and executing new code, and potentially returning results back to the mothership. That there is no explicit opt-in, or even much information about WHAT this is do
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by philjohn 5y ago
> One thing I did do while I was building that first linux pc, and for every computer I've bought or built since then, was a tiny bit of research on driver compatibility. Just something as simple as typing '<laptop model>
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by philjohn 5y ago
I'd say sim racing stands out a little as the cost of entry into doing it for real tends to be a lot more than a computer, wheel and pedals.
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by philjohn 5y ago
I think initial login is via your UI.com account, and then it's very easy to disable cloud login and create local-only admin account, as well as completely disable remote access via unifi.ui.com.
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by philjohn 5y ago
It's worth mentioning that no, you don't need an online login any more, they quickly reversed that when people pointed out it was a silly idea.
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by philjohn 5y ago
New ones do, but 5 year old PCIe3 ones, such as the SolarFlare 7000 series which are still supported with drivers by Xilinx can be had for around $30 off ebay for home use.
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by philjohn 5y ago
That doesn't track with what I've read ... Unitary Executive Theory for instance.
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by philjohn 5y ago
Remember - there's always money in the banana stand, no, wait, that's Amazon.
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by philjohn 5y ago
I don't - I think a better product came along, one that was aggressively pushed by the dominant search engine that swathes of the internet used each day (which is not in and of itself a good thing either, FWIW).
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by philjohn 5y ago
In the UK we have another problem - land banking. Housing developers are sitting on huge swathes of land that have planning permission (every council has a housing development plan), but by building slower, and with no real penalties for no
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by philjohn 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BO6GP9NMY
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by philjohn 5y ago
Except there are missile silos in the midwest that would be first-strike targets. Your best bet is to move somewhere in the southern hemisphere, such as New Zealand. Hey ... that's where a lot of the mega rich have been buying property
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by philjohn 5y ago
We can extend that - "after we've promised our customers that a computer would never be left unlocked and logged in to sensitive things in a public place, but would instead be behind multiple locked doors." It's really n
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by philjohn 5y ago
Will this slow down the bots? It's just an extra (simple) hoop to jump through, TOTP is easy to implement.
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by philjohn 5y ago
It could be argued that if you don't care about your customers, you won't be in business long enough to please your shareholders.
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by philjohn 5y ago
"were taken from a Sitel support engineer’s computer upon which an attacker had obtained remote access using RDP. This device was owned and managed by Sitel. The scenario here is analogous to walking away from your computer at a coffee
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by philjohn 5y ago
But dangerous as they can be easily spun into sound bites to be repeated ad nauseum.

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