sdwisely

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by sdwisely 8y ago
> It’s an okay operating system, but it could use a good text editor. is an old meme. > I am not an emacs or vim user, but doesn't emacs support vim style editing(key bindings) or it supports just a subset of vim? it supports q
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by sdwisely 8y ago
from memory they recently wontfix'ed some issues about this saying they leave things like updates on http so they can be cached on corporate networks.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
sadly in my experience I've met a few true believers and youtube being the source doesn't surprise me as "look it up yourself on youtube" seems to be the go-to response to my questions about things like iridium satellite
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by sdwisely 8y ago
honestly I'd be really happy with a keyboard that folded out to around the size of one of the smallish bluetooth keyboards, X emacs a browser and a terminal on my phablet. The closest I've come was a nexus 7 with a keyboard case a
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by sdwisely 8y ago
ah I was confused in a different way. I scrolled straight down to the body and missed the credit. I briefly thought NNT was the author of a very strange critique of his own work.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
this was a bit confusing without context. It seems to be a (satire?) book summary. I haven't read Skin in the game.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
thanks, that's actually really interesting! I can see how it would be useful for invalidating data in analytics, seems like a bad choice of partner for an app promoting privacy though. As an anti-analysis tool it seems like it's m
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by sdwisely 8y ago
I remember him from the Ruby community before that. Is there a correlation? probably not. Life happens.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
my summary (not a native speaker and pasting the full translation was too messy). the nordvpn app for android is sending device data to multiple trackers. It contains all the normal things you probably expect, screen size, manufacturer, uui
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by sdwisely 8y ago
which surely is the best possible without the original author signing it? All that can be assured is that the content that the person mirroring it and linking you to it is as they intended.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
I feel like it's to explicitly allow b-roll for media.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
My girlfriend does it too, it was very confusing to me for a while. It's like a seething rage of joy.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
it doesn't seem like they have mentioned it but this is an alternative to their existing self-hosted dns solution. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
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by sdwisely 8y ago
> I wonder if people knew back then that this was going to be such an influential game (after it was famous, but before time had passed). I don't think anyone could have picked how lasting and influential it would be. It was one of
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by sdwisely 8y ago
Pillars of Eternity has also done a fantastic job in this regard.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
it's more complicated than that though. Nobody is lamenting the loss of the edge engine. Things like choice of video codec, drm module, etc have shown is it's a good thing to have a few different vendors with a seat at the table f
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by sdwisely 8y ago
and it looks like it just passed the senate unammended. We are officially bad citizens of the internet and our contributions should be scrutinized as such. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-06/labor-backdown-fede
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by sdwisely 8y ago
As an Australian - good. Move away from us, we should be considered toxic. It's the best thing that can happen for the rest of the world and it's the best thing that can happen for Australians.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
yeah, most of them you have to wonder why they bothered and others you have to wonder why they would let go of them. .mcdonalds for example seems like a strange one to let go of even if just for easy memorable addresses people see in store.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
I'm not thinking of the card as the weak point, more the reader. a rogue employee putting a false reader that relays to the real reader. Back when I worked in retail we had an issue in our local area where a group impersonated our supp
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by sdwisely 8y ago
Absolutely fine to be! I actually gave it a quick thought that I was curious how the hostnames were assigned but posted right before bed.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
wow, I thought you were talking about a normal size household. 300+ of them were registered to the same address.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
"Tor Hidden Services" are services hosted on the tor network and inaccessible outside it. Hosts are assigned a dns name <id>.onion so clients can connect to that service.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
> The app is useless, so a cheaper version without WiFi and bluetooth would be great. have you tried it with hass (home assistant)? I've been considering getting one and running it via that instead.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
some good eli5s here, just adding for the grandparent post to remember that light bounces so the calculations get rather iterative and expensive.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
Great run-through, thank you!
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by sdwisely 8y ago
Another challenge is the trustworthiness of the x86 platform. I can only imagine that's incredibly frustrating. Knowing no matter how hard you work on Qubes, x86 isn't really deserving of trust right now.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
Same here - people think, "why do you need a car, I certainly don't need one on the Upper East Side!" - and for them, they don't. In rural Texas, not having one means you're very geographically bound, and effective
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by sdwisely 8y ago
I actually got quite depressed playing the game, then reading the quite dismissive comments of 2011. It was kind of nice to switch back to the current discussion and see it lean a bit more toward empathy for the poor.
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by sdwisely 8y ago
> But it’s clear that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that impacted “View As”, a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else. This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens whi

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