prutschman

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by prutschman 6y ago
How would you characterize the following statement by Dr. Fauci in terms of its transparency and honesty? I'm not asking whether "noble lies" are necessary, useful, appropriate, or a good or bad idea in the long run. I'm
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by prutschman 6y ago
I think it's a pun on the `sudoedit` utility used in one of the exploit paths.
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by prutschman 6y ago
Fortunately, the ISOs themselves are served over https: https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop links to https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/thank-you/?version=20.10...
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by prutschman 6y ago
Do you have reason to believe there's a problem with the gpg signatures in their repo?
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by prutschman 6y ago
To anyone who hasn't seen this yet, it's worth a watch. Half of it is a lawyer talking about why you invoke the 5th even if you don't think you're a suspect. The other half is a response by a police officer whose opening
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by prutschman 6y ago
Business purposes include: "Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, the contextual customization of ads shown as part of the same interaction" So, they don't go to Data Brokers Inc and say "I'll se
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by prutschman 6y ago
> Ways to [support a market for longer-lasting clothing] include offering warranties on clothing and making tags that inform consumers of a product's expected lifespan. Yes, please!
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by prutschman 6y ago
So I can cryptographically prove that at a particular date at a particular time with a particular camera that I authentically pointed my camera at a screen projecting faked content? I think this only works if you're signing something c
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by prutschman 6y ago
As I understand it, there are two definitions of technological measure in the DMCA. One is in the anti-circumvention portion, the other in the anti-cirvumvention-tool portion. In the latter case: 17 U.S.C. Sec. 1201 (b)(2) (B): a technologi
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by prutschman 6y ago
How does one "accurately" colorize something from over a hundred years ago?
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by prutschman 6y ago
> Good open rate data gathering results in you not knowing that it's being tracked At some level you know that people react badly when they know they're being tracked, so it's important to help ensure they are not aware of
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by prutschman 6y ago
This is a criticism of Forbes, not Chuck Feeny: He has $2 million in retirement. That's over 7 times the median net worth of Americans 75+. He's anything but "broke".
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by prutschman 6y ago
You might find "tensor displays" interesting. https://web.media.mit.edu/~gordonw/TensorDisplays/
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by prutschman 6y ago
I don't see what was incorrect about the parent. It goes on to say "However, there are microdroplets which stay in the air for 30+ minutes depending on the air currents." It sounds like you're both in agreement that larg
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by prutschman 6y ago
Opposed to lying, stealing, and worshiping artifacts, no less.
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by prutschman 7y ago
The complete vehicle customization possibilities were what drew me to it, but it's incredibly full of great stuff over-all. I've also found the developers very friendly and welcoming to new contributors.
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by prutschman 7y ago
Conversely, if you make it for the lulz, you should be fine. Unless the intended use is for the lulz. I so wish there to be jurisprudence on this...
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by prutschman 7y ago
How well is the trackpad supported?
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by prutschman 7y ago
Rather obviously it isn't. I'm not sure why you'd even ask. I'm not the only one with external NAT that I can't do anything about; the question is what to do to mitigate this. Switching to an explicit hub-and-spoke
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by prutschman 7y ago
I've had a similar experience. In particular links will just "drop out" for periods of time. The public forwarding nodes were overburdened for quite a while. I set up my own "moon", but one of the sites has a cranky
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by prutschman 7y ago
There's a Reggie Watts song about this..
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by prutschman 7y ago
They're hoping to hook you on something else so you'll keep your subscription after you get tired of watching Friends.
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by prutschman 7y ago
Have you read "Schild's Ladder" by Greg Egan?
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by prutschman 7y ago
Mangband (multiplayer-angband) has a Mac OS port of both client and server: https://mangband.org/
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by prutschman 7y ago
I'm glad to see the SIG improving the baseline audio codec. SBC is/was a weird little codec. It's like a dumbed-down MPEG-1 Layer-1 audio, but with only 8 sub-bands. Like layer-1, the filterbank isn't perfect reconstruct
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by prutschman 7y ago
Apparently the irony is over my head. Could you explain?
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by prutschman 7y ago
I don't think most people literally believe every man is stronger than every woman. I think it's much more common that someone will say "of course there are some women who are stronger than most men" then go back to tend
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by prutschman 7y ago
How do people rationalize this? When people start out by lying to prospective customers, do they have a plan for when they will start telling the truth instead?
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by prutschman 7y ago
I was curious whether it ever torques the other direction in individuals, and came across a claimed link between inverted torque and stuttering: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537737/
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by prutschman 7y ago
I believe you "merely" need to disable SIP, then remount the root partition as read/write.

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