progman32

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by progman32 3y ago
Very common in Italy as well - search Images or Youtube for "finestra tapparelle" for an idea. The sound of tapparelle is super ingrained in many european minds, i.e. https://italybeyondtheobvious.com/taparelle&#x2
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by progman32 3y ago
No worries. Just wanted to make sure I understood. > More that govt's, in general, have a habit of leaking personal information for their own benefit. I 100% agree with this. Cheers!
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by progman32 3y ago
If you'd like to make an argument that my work led to the publication of personal records, please make it more explicitly. I'd love to hear it fully articulated. Otherwise it's hard for me to read it as anything beyond a swip
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by progman32 3y ago
Yes, my background is in publishing open government data, such as budgets, election results, environmental info, economic data, and government program accountability studies. Not personal information. And yes, I do have strong opinions on h
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by progman32 3y ago
I feel this is a straw man. The risk profile posed by this leak is not the same as someone going around and collecting people's DNA off the street. The leaked database is a highly concentrated artifact, complete with likely-correct PII
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by progman32 3y ago
And we now (hypothetically, in the context of leaking genetic info) know Meryem is Uyghur, James is trans, and Alex is related to a deeply divisive political figure.
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by progman32 3y ago
That's great, feel free to do that. Many others would rather keep their ancestry or genetic attributes out of the public eye. Maybe it's a source of pain for them, or is required for personal safety reasons. And just because somet
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by progman32 3y ago
Your link is broken.
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by progman32 3y ago
Such accusations should be backed up with facts and examples.
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by progman32 3y ago
Also cool, but that ain't Linux.
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by progman32 3y ago
For him, the reward of those activities possibly justifies the risk in his mind. I sometimes also mask in public, because it bothers me approximately zero.
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by progman32 3y ago
I see, thanks. If that's the case I wish they'd just say they're not willing to give out their name, but so it goes.
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by progman32 3y ago
Expand?
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by progman32 3y ago
Counterpoint, I don't disagree with the advice given but I wasn't put off too much by this. I think that if I ran across this resume with no additional context I'd think it's a bit silly and make a note to evaluate profe
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by progman32 3y ago
Once I pulled all my data off my stricken phone in my hotel room using nothing but the veggie sausages I'd stashed in the mini fridge as a cold sink. Failed at just the wrong moment the evening before an important event, of course. No
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by progman32 3y ago
- Being asked to twerk at work. - Being denied basic equipment for her work, vindictively. - Being bait-and-switched with additional contracts _after_ moving to a new country for the job. - Being forced to manage an OnlyFans against her wis
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by progman32 3y ago
You're not alone. Just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should. We waste at our own peril.
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by progman32 3y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think the last sentence holds if one looks beyond money. Everyone ends up paying for it eventually, in the form of the resources that went into growing the cotton, burning the fuel for electricity and transportat
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by progman32 3y ago
Unfortunately there isn't a true, affordable (for an individual or small group) circular solution that I've found. I've taken to gathering all my scraps in a bucket (not mixing plastic types) then occasionally having a "
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by progman32 3y ago
I bought a carpet cleaner "new" from target via curb pickup. It was clearly used (presumably once), there was water in the plumbing, the bottle of cleaner was opened, and the cord was not machine wrapped. Never used curbside picku
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by progman32 3y ago
Why is a blockchain better here, vs a normal database?
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by progman32 3y ago
I suppose that's a tangible benefit to hiring well- you don't have to ask your team basic questions like these. Presumably the engineer well knows to check licenses.
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by progman32 3y ago
That makes sense and is much closer to how I understood things. Parent comment made it sound to me like there is a whole subsystem dedicated to plane DRM.
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by progman32 3y ago
Heh. If there's anything worse than an open office in my mind, it's being locked in a small room with someone else. At least the pervasive need to self monitor due to constant surveillance is somewhat diffuse in an open office. In
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by progman32 3y ago
Agree. I was born way after the C64 came on scene and never touched one until I bought one ten years ago. I'm in it for the perspective it brings (and I like fixing things).
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by progman32 3y ago
You're telling me that there are devices built into civilian airplanes that are able to disable or hobble the engines based on the whims of _business agreements_? It seems beyond reason that a pilot would be denied an engine's ful
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by progman32 3y ago
Given this info, the pilot could prepare for brake failure.
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by progman32 3y ago
There are links to further pages with some of the information you mention. Though, Wikipedia lays it out in a more digestible format.
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by progman32 3y ago
It's useful for some practical conversions like fuel efficiency calculations. I think in USD per mile and it's handy to be able to directly take CAD/liter and l/km for my trips to Canada.
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by progman32 3y ago
I unlocked a whole extra gallon on my i3's fuel tank (just about doubling its capacity) just by poking it with a computer, there's definitely people around willing to pay for this service.

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