stef25

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   by stef25 5y ago

   It's a really complicated problem but one thing that just stands out to me is the role the doctors play: It's not normal to send people home with these massive prescriptions for opiates. Here in Europe doctors are very, very conse
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   by stef25 5y ago

   Here in Belgium we have smart card IDs. You assign a 4 digit pin as password and then use a smart card reader to access various govt websites. Only problem is you have to install a browser plugin that has to be compatible with your browser
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   by stef25 5y ago

   > This is a country where when they installed license plate scanners on highways they accompanied them with large screens that show the plate that was just scanned. This is done in France when it catches you driving too fast. "ABC
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   by stef25 5y ago

   What are you trying to do?
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   by stef25 5y ago

   Nice. With speakers that cheap being so good you wonder why you need more.
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   by stef25 5y ago

   They have to balance things like audio being delivered by streaming mp3s from phones to a tv's built in speakers. Something I encountered at a party, equally horrifying. Too many people measure the quality of their audio by how much ba
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   by stef25 5y ago

   > JBL 305 You mean LSR305? Have those sitting on my desk.
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   by stef25 5y ago

   Interesting that more and more people seem to be using remote dev environments. Do you have any guides on building a good setup? I get the VS Code + ssh plugin part but how do you manage urls / domains and keeping things private?
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   by stef25 5y ago

   > Coworking It's not cheap but I do love it. Nicest offices I've ever worked in, never obliged to talk to anyone.
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    by stef25 5y ago

    There's a PHP port of Readability and it works for some sites, for others not at all. Very far from perfect.
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Rotate through a bunch of proxies.
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Does that imply ICIJ is acting illegally?
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Even if it's morally correct, that doesn't make it legal
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Is there less espionage going on now than before Snowden? Very few people outside the tech world care about privacy, if they even really understand it.
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Has anybody said anything about the source of these leaks? From what I understand they come from multiple (14?) off shore service providers. Were those all compromised by the same perpetrator? Quite a feat. How can we know the data wasn&#x2
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    by stef25 5y ago

    That's incredible. I'll do my best never to kill one again.
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Doubtful this (good) dietary advise alone can cure people from severe depression.
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Did your problems get solved by eliminating certain foods and if so, how did you go about narrowing down the culprits? One problem with depression, as mentioned in the article, is that it's hard to define exactly what the problem is (t
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Personally I can't get myself worked up over this, mainly because I don't think it would make a difference if these people didn't do what they did. Would our lives be any different if the king of Jordan had paid his taxes? Wo
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    by stef25 5y ago

    So you're saying that covid measures wouldn't exist if there were more guns, and that would be a good thing? Maybe the remarkable low covid rates are there because of the authoritarian pressure? Authoritarian is never a good word
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    by stef25 5y ago

    France is diverse because it had a colony several thousand Km to the south?
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    by stef25 5y ago

    check reply to OP
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Here's a few that might be relevant, some are more military than espionage - SPECIAL OPERATIONS, IRREGULAR WARFARE, AND OPERATIONAL ART: A THEORY OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS, Major William D. Harris Jr. - The counter insurgency manual, Leroy
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    by stef25 5y ago

    If you send me a reminder I can send you a whole bunch when I get home.
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    by stef25 5y ago

    There's a whole bunch of books about the CIA and the lead up to and aftermath of 9/11: - Currently absorbed in Ghost Wars in audiobook format. Won a Pulitzer. All about the CIA and their dealing with their Pakistani counterpart IS
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    by stef25 5y ago

    The article's full of references to LeCarré
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    by stef25 5y ago

    > Using a public VPN anonymizes your traffic if you assume many other people are using the same VPN server Gotcha > Plus setting up a DO droplet VPN sounds like a PITA It's actually very easy using https://getoutline.o
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Always wondered why people don't just create their own using something like Outline on a DO droplet (bithost) ? How is Mullvad better? I don't understand how we should trust a company we know nothing about other than the text they
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    by stef25 5y ago

    - The Stuxnet one is pretty good. Went straight out and bought the book. - The one about Pirate Bay if you want to hear what a collosal, confused prick one of the guys behind it is
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    by stef25 5y ago

    Especially in the EU the gig economy is relatively new and its not at all like factory workers who're getting shafted more and more as the years go by. Being an Uber driver is a new thing which people started doing voluntarily knowing