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by rlpb 6y ago
Ironically, the reason I often don't read the article is because of the obnoxious "consent" dialogs, Javascript apps and tracking that I have to go through in order to read the articles that HN often links. HN itself is a muc
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by rlpb 6y ago
> Even worse, the Bitcoin hashrate goes up as energy costs come down. The amount of energy burned is an equilibrium. Sort of. What you say is true because the energy spent on mining is in equilibrium with the value of the Bitcoin produce
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by rlpb 6y ago
Something I try to do, if I want to write an unfavourable review, is write a few positive reviews for other companies I've had recent positive experiences with first. I figure that this gives my negative review some credibility, and it
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by rlpb 6y ago
> Things like a gui or basically anything X11 related is somewhat cringeworthy and makes a mockery of all the sandboxing claims. Again, this isn't relevant to Ubuntu Core , which is for IoT appliances and the like.
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by rlpb 6y ago
It isn't for users who interactively run basic shell commands. The article covers the relevant use cases.
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by rlpb 6y ago
Further, a hash is the wrong primitive to use to store passwords. Just as you wouldn't attempt to invent a cryptographic hash function yourself. The correct primitive to use is a key derivation function . Examples are PBKDF2, bcrypt,
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by rlpb 6y ago
The most urgent and pressing thing is democracy and the rule of law, since everything else that I value flows from that. I therefore elevate democracy and the rule of law over everything else, because without those, all else is lost. If pol
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by rlpb 6y ago
Try PilotAware (pilotaware.com). It's a Raspberry Pi with SDR comms. A web app gives you a radar type display. It'll integrate with moving map software for navigation if you want (eg. I use SkyDemon). I'm not sure about avail
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by rlpb 6y ago
> ...it's never been illegal to encode or encrypt mail or other private papers or communications In what country? France, for example, used to restrict the use of strong encryption. Example summary: http://www.opengroup.o
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by rlpb 6y ago
> But don't you want something more substantial and created with more craft? No. My furniture is...part of the furniture. I care about it being practical. I don't care about its heritage. IKEA quality is perfectly adequate for
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by rlpb 6y ago
I understand your concern. On the other hand though, if fossil fuel based business is going to shrink massively over the next few decades and their entire business resolves around this, switching while carrying across their brand and releva
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by rlpb 6y ago
> And yet... for whatever torque the motor supplies at 0 RPM, you could have 4 times as much torque with a 4:1 1st gear. There's no point. The tyres can't provide that much traction. My Leaf wheelspins if I put my foot down at
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by rlpb 6y ago
> Snaps require you to allow each publisher to automatically push arbitrary software updates to your machine, and snap deliberately does not allow you to disable this misfeature. Your emphasis is completely unwarranted here, since it&#
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by rlpb 6y ago
> The Ubuntu Certbot packages have been horribly broken for well over a year, probably at least two. I think you're mistaken. The Ubuntu Certbot packages are maintained and work fine. What you're referring to is the PPA, which
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by rlpb 6y ago
The point is that the economic equation will change. Why is it that it's cheaper to buy new than repair old? In part, it's because the cost of disposal has been shifted away, rather than being incorporated into the price of the re
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by rlpb 6y ago
How about this, along the same lines: Manufacturers must pay 100% of the cost of safe, environmental disposal of all consumer goods they sell. This is collected in the form of a tax, for all manufacturers over some threshold sales value&#x2
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by rlpb 6y ago
For unusual fixed features like this, perhaps car manufacturers should start putting exceptions into their navigation databases, rather than tweaking their automatic detection. You generally don't want to be driving over cattle grids,
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by rlpb 6y ago
Oh, I see, thanks. It's a location offset, not a distance offset.
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by rlpb 6y ago
If it's a fixed offset for a particular person, then isn't that just another variable in a simultaneous equation? You'd just need one more sample to solve for it.
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by rlpb 6y ago
They don't send surprise inspections to your house to check if you're engaging in criminal activity, either. My point is that you're moving the goalposts. Law enforcement generally always requires a complaint that justifies a
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by rlpb 6y ago
> That's the point of using SQLite instead of implementing it yourself. Because of how SQLite supports transactions, you can just update the database as you go; your changes will be physically written to disk, but they won't ac
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by rlpb 6y ago
> The atomic update capabilities of SQLite allow small incremental changes to be safely written into the document. This reduces total disk I/O and improves File/Save performance, enhancing the user experience. How would this wo
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by rlpb 6y ago
That depends on what personal data they're collecting and for what purpose, in the case that a person hasn't explicitly opted-in by giving consent freely. I don't think it's possible for us to figure those details out ex
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by rlpb 6y ago
No. That does seem to be a common myth though. I would give you a citation, but I cannot prove a negative.
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by rlpb 6y ago
The GDPR isn't about "3rd party analytics". It's about collection of personal data as qualified by the purpose of that collection, regardless of who collects it.
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I agree, though I prefer to frame this a little differently. If websites make me click on "I agree" by deliberately making it difficult for me to get through to the actual page without jumping through an extra bunch of hoops, then
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by rlpb 6y ago
Doing "tracking in-house" does not exempt you from GDPR requirements. The requirement is exactly the same: explicit and freely given consent is required to collect extra private information not specifically necessary to provide th
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Oculus Facebook account row prompts German competition probe(bbc.co.uk)
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In my view, the retailer isn't even legally at fault. Oculus is, for modifying the your device such that you can no longer use it. Imagine buying a chair. A year later, the carpenter who made it lets themselves into your home and modif
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by rlpb 6y ago
This happens in The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke, in so far as it is set in a civilisation that started this way. Except that there was no crash landing - it was an intentional method to colonise other planets. https:/&#

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