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by pserwylo 12y ago
For browsing, Mozilla is probably the least likely to want to do this sort of logging. There are probably more niche browsers that focus on privacy that I'm unaware of too. As for other Apple products, you can run Linux on a MacBook qu
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by pserwylo 12y ago
Not quite sure why you got down voted. I bought an iPod nano several years ago, because I quite liked the hardware/software that Apple made. However when I found out that they intentionally broke compatibility with 3rd party music soft
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by pserwylo 12y ago
I'm not affiliated with the site, but they encourage contributions at https://github.com/stopthespies/website . I tend to agree with you that this is also an important topic.
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by pserwylo 12y ago
Without knowing the details, would vanilla Tor suffice? The ISP (who is the one being mandated to retain the data) will only know that you are contacting the entry relay, and the rest of the communication should be encrypted between you and
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by pserwylo 12y ago
With this particular legislation, it is very clear to me why it is bad. I am able to articulate to people that regardless of who proposed or supported the idea, it is not a good idea to keep information on my family and friends, such as whe
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Stop Australia's Data Retention Bill(stopthespies.org)
163 points by pserwylo 12y ago|32 comments
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by pserwylo 12y ago
I find it greatly concerning that laws are passed with such haste, and then justified by very recent events. To clarify, the two recent events which seem to be frequently cited by the law makers is: * An anti-terrorism raid across two state
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by pserwylo 12y ago
For internet blocking, AFWall+[0] is a fork of DroidWall which seems to be under active development. Unfortunately, XPrivacy is not available on F-Droid, but anyone who is able to get it building and submitted to F-Droid would have my grati
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by pserwylo 12y ago
And yesterday Australia announced that it will be pushing ahead with an ISP level data retention scheme in the name of fighting terrorism [0]. This is after last year explicitly asking for feedback on the proposal to retain Australian'
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Australia Getting A Data Retention Scheme To 'Fight Terrorism'(gizmodo.com.au)
2 points by pserwylo 12y ago|0 comments
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by pserwylo 12y ago
It's great to see more and more stuff come out of NICTA. For those who are unaware, it is a government funded research institution in Australia. A big difference from other research institutions is that they are especially focussed on
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by pserwylo 12y ago
I would just like to say that I think that this is a great idea(despite agreeing with others here that XML + XSLT would seem like a more logical choice). I hope it gets some traction in the long run. I've posted an issue on github [0][
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Earth Wind Map(earth.nullschool.net)
1 points by pserwylo 12y ago|0 comments
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by pserwylo 12y ago
One of the best pieces of advice I heard from our resident stats/machine learning researcher at Uni was this: If a paper is published which claims to show a technique for profiting on the share market, then it doesn't work. If it
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by pserwylo 12y ago
For those of you interested in what might be a slightly lower level approach: I saw a talk from Andrew Trigell (of Samba/rsync fame) at linux.conf.au. In it, he was bemoaning the lack of Open Source firmware for radio transmitters, whi
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by pserwylo 13y ago
This is a common factor which is considered when researching approaches to crowd sourcing. The article at [0] shows how their approach deals with anti-forcasters ("adversarial answers") by doing exactly as you say - inverting thei
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by pserwylo 13y ago
The issue of crowd sourcing answers to questions is a very interesting one. I've recently been reading research in this area with a colleague, and it is far more involved than the article makes it sound. If you are interested, one of t
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by pserwylo 13y ago
Well, if I order a large Meat Lovers, it is far too easy for somebody else to change it to half a small vegetarian. Then add 15 people, all wanting to screw with eachother, and it is far too easy to stuff up the whole thing. Perhaps "g
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by pserwylo 13y ago
> And I hope ad-hoc/mesh wireless networking technology takes off sooner rather than later Are you familiar with the Serval Project [0]? These guys are working on exactly this solution, for exactly this (and other similar problems).
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I love this. Although it is a bit more advanced than what we had, we suffered a similar problem: On Friday when the boss shouted us pizza, we had a problem with everybody trying to order various pizza's, various half pizza's, and
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by pserwylo 13y ago
Firstly, thanks for doing what you're doing. Even if it is a hassle to get it all together, I hope that the more people engaging in this type of effort can only be a good thing. I agree that the coherency of the text book would be poor
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by pserwylo 13y ago
You are absolutely correct. I guess the answer would be that if such books were, e.g. CC licensed, then hard copies would be able to be printed. Given the prevailence of self publishing firms available, one would hope there is a market for
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by pserwylo 13y ago
I'm genuinely astounded that there is not more of a movement towards open source style text books, that accept contributions (e.g. chapters) from reputable academics from around the world. I understand that there is a huge amount of mo
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by pserwylo 13y ago
Yeah, go for it. That is indeed the correct link. It's funny, because I was happy to read the coverage about the overwhelming amount of letters they received regarding data retention. However I was really dumbfounded when they mailed m
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by pserwylo 13y ago
For those interested, this was also brought up in 2012 [0]. Among 44 different things that were requesting comment, was this, tucked away in section 15c [1]: "tailored data retention periods for up to 2 years for parts of a data set, w
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Timeline: 25 years of the World Wide Web(abc.net.au)
1 points by pserwylo 13y ago|0 comments
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by pserwylo 13y ago
Well there you go. Now that you've mentioned The Invisible Hook, it occurs to me that this is what they were talking about on the radio. Thanks for the link.
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by pserwylo 13y ago
This sounds like a discussion of pirates I heard on the radio the other morning. It was about how pirates of a few hundred years ago had a very good idea of democracy, and how to ensure that the captain didn't become too far removed fr
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Ukraine protests: Before and after photos from Kiev's battle zone(abc.net.au)
120 points by pserwylo 13y ago|114 comments
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by pserwylo 13y ago
This was a very well written discourse on the existence of different universes, and a bit of an intuition about how to think about them. It reminds me a lot (though it is quite different) of "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions&quot

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