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by sildur 6y ago
The standby mode of only the devices in the US consumes 1.5 times the energy of the entire bitcoin network. At least the bitcoin network is doing something useful.
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by sildur 6y ago
It does match my experience. I have a personal mail server with every bell and whistle working and my emails arrive to gmail addresses. My IP address was used by a spammer in the past, and took me some time cleaning it up in a bunch of dnsb
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by sildur 6y ago
> I'd love to be able to lock my system in a trusted state and try some dangerous things, having another level of isolation between kernel and root, as long as I have the keys to revert/modify the state. You should take a look
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by sildur 6y ago
I have been using an iPhone for two years, and I have seen my share of "your iPhone is infected, click here to scan" ads, which pointed to a dubious app in the app store. An app that I had no way to report as fraudulent, by the wa
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by sildur 6y ago
Could you please tell me who is registering these domains? I'm honestly interested, I don't want to use the services of such crooks.
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by sildur 6y ago
I live in Europe, and in general we don't distrust the state, and we don't want to pay less taxes (we would like more efficiency managing them, though).
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by sildur 6y ago
> Just stripping the parameters would be an absolute disaster and wildly irresponsible. It's not worse than allowing a randomly selected subset of HTML in the emails, and nobody is saying it is an "absolute disaster" or sa
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by sildur 6y ago
> Crop the parameters and you have no reason to assume it points at the same image. Well, that is going to be a problem for the mailer. I'm totally fine with banning dynamic parameter dependent images. > Good luck explaining to y
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by sildur 6y ago
As I said in another comment, crop all the parameters from the URL, and the problem solves itself. Path is case sensitive, the domain must be lowercased anyways, so no problem either.
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by sildur 6y ago
Did he obtain the SMS apps from alternative app stores?
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by sildur 6y ago
Crop all the parameters from the URL. Problem solved.
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by sildur 6y ago
Which innocent third party provides thousands of unique image URLs?
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by sildur 6y ago
How? If you send an email with an image to 15k recipients in a mail server the image would be fetched once and the recipients would only get the cached version.
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by sildur 6y ago
Just all the always-on devices in the US alone consume 1.5 times the electricity of the entire bitcoin network. And at least the bitcoin network is doing something useful.
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by sildur 6y ago
I trust you. It's only I'm seeing a surge of anti-bitcoin news since Tesla bought some.
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by sildur 6y ago
I think it would have been way more private if they had used tor, defaulting to apple servers if tor wasn't available.
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by sildur 6y ago
The sudden barrage of anti-bitcoin news looks slightly suspicious.
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by sildur 6y ago
I suggest gopher.
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by sildur 6y ago
Hey, free immunization. With a side of extreme sport.
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by sildur 6y ago
The title lacks punch, though. I would have used "Mastodon considered harmful". That's timeless.
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by sildur 6y ago
> Clipboard is weird. Hopefully you are not referring to the fact that there are two clipboards in X, because I really like that "weirdness", and I'm really used to it.
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by sildur 6y ago
In Europe we have instant transfers. We can transfer from any bank to any bank in the EU in less than 20 seconds, guaranteed.
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by sildur 6y ago
ING does too. I've been bitten by that.
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by sildur 6y ago
I was expecting jQuery.
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by sildur 6y ago
That's another advantage of using Qubes. Worst case scenario I botch the image-burning Qube, which is temporary anyways.
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by sildur 6y ago
> That's what the post is arguing against. You seem to be under the impression that separating "users" and "developers" implies taking control away from the former - which is false. Users are different than you -
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by sildur 6y ago
> If by "we" you mean the population of HN - that is blatantly false. The average HN user is far more technically sophisticated than the average computer/phone user. Elitism, again. > This is completely true, and not &q
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by sildur 6y ago
> But then I realized how much I struggled to get my Android UI the way I wanted, until I installed Nova Launcher that gave me Linux-levels of tweaking. The average user does not do this. No. Stop, please stop with the paternalism. I cri
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by sildur 6y ago
Most consumers miss being able to simply connect their laptop to their tv with an HDMI cable, but they know they have no voice in this modern day enlightened absolutism.
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by sildur 6y ago
Then it's fine, thanks.

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