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by stevenjohns 6y ago
The technology and the research has always been cool. That doesn’t mean people are happy with the application of it. What you’ll also find is that the people who like the surveillance could barely give a crap about the technology that enabl
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Probably worth checking out Mitogen[0] if you want to take away some of the pain points with Ansible. It’s an extremely well built product that really complements Ansible. [0] https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Twitter didn’t even remove ISIS content until the US government finally yielded that it wasn’t a grassroots rebellion and that it was a bad organisation. I reported dozens of accounts spreading propaganda in 2014 and it was never actioned.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Where I'm at now is my first foray with GraphQL - Graphene on the Django backend and Apollo on the frontend. I'm not sure if it is the implementation - and it could very well be - but there has been more overhead and complexities
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Still very much the case, it’s always been “optional” but you can’t opt out of being bugged to add one over and over https://imgur.com/a/5JzEnTI
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I actually have a particular use case for not adding one - as a running joke I changed my Signal name to the screen name of a buddy that went AWOL. Adding a last name doesn’t work in this model. So it’s not just about not wanting to share i
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Signal does weird stuff sometimes. For a while it has been bugging me to add a last name with the only options are either to add one or to “remind me later.” And they of course never forget to remind you again and again, week in and week ou
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Lots of people were also convinced Google wouldn’t go down that route and would be dismissive of criticism. I feel like when a company grows to a certain size, we have to drop the “assume good faith” outlook we give to small businesses and
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I actually did let her keep a portion of the change, the problem was that she had already ran off to break the note before I realised what I had done!
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Similar situation, although not as intense. I bought a skewer of grilled meat from a poor elderly woman in central Colombia. The skewer was 5,000 COP and all I had was a 50,000 note (which I discovered when the food was ready) which is abou
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I’m not sure what you’re trying to achieve by leaving multiple successive comments threads about the same topic. I will reply to this message and will withdraw after this. —— The sentence reduces to “trademark violations are considered to h
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
No, my correction is fine. It helps if you read the sentence in its entirety rather than stop reading at the comma... you know... where I specifically go on to say "or" followed with a whole bit on how it can be violated unintenti
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
If you see the second half of that sentence, with an example of how... > or they could be unintentionally confusing [to the customer]
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I meant trademark violations . My bad. I edited the post and added the missing word.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
“We must” is nonsense on the part of Kik. That’s part of the corporate b/s where people make it seem like things are “out of our hands.” If he was releasing a messenger app called KikAss, then sure, they “must” enforce the Kik trademar
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Good luck trying to enforce trademark law for namespace on a public code repository. It’s “classic trademark stuff” insofar that people classically don’t understand what a trademark is or how it’s enforced. Consider reading through Github’s
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
It seems that lots of people are missing that part. The Kik guys were doing their corporate double-speak b/s about ‘let’s find a solution’ when the only solution is handing over the name. All while threatening with door-banging lawyers
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
I interpret this as Created by <api provider> but you do not need anything from us or from anyone else to get the software going, it just works out of the box.
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
As a counterpoint, I’ve found these books to be extremely useful and it has had profound positive impacts on my decisions. It’s not telling you to wake up at 4am because that’s what [unicorn startup ceo] does. The advice given here is how t
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
A less known fact is that /r/The_Donald was created and moderated by a group loosely called “Nolibs” that have been pushing pro-Israel, pro-police propaganda for years through thousands of sock puppet accounts. They were in contro
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Is Germany truly considered to carry “Western culture” within the English-speaking world? “Western culture” to me, when mentioned by the English-speaking world, has really just meant the shared ideals of the metropolitan parts of English-fi
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
> Around that time, Bremer decided to bar former ba'ath officer from either serving the new military or getting pension. That decision almost single-handedly created the backbone of the terrorist networks that would become ISIS. Thi
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Nothing is worse than the licensing of Archicad. Downloaded the trial? Great! Enjoy. If you don’t read the license terms, then you don’t find out that anything created or edited with the trial version is encrypted to the installation . I f
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by stevenjohns 6y ago
Tell me about it. Even using Firefox with a couple of adblocking lists is enough for Google to think I'm high risk enough to need a half dozen captchas.
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
There is more than one way to deal with this, unfortunately it's all quite messy. But it is possible. One is to use Inkscape to layer the image as an OCG, the other is to treat the image as a "watermark" (which is really just
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
After using it for a month or so, the $10 was a no-brainer for me. Great piece of software!
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
I may be mistaken but I can’t see N95 mentioned anywhere? The common surgical masks and N95 masks are two very different things.
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
The first three (ignoring their legitimacy) have nothing to do with what makes a country an ally. Israel’s relationship with the US is central to all of the international problems and threats the US faces in 2020. Including threatening the
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
Every domain had the same content, was styled in the same format (something like a28d92.com, then b28d92.com...) and all were acting as redirection platforms for phishing sites and all were registered on the same day. It wasn't hard to
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by stevenjohns 7y ago
For what it’s worth, I reported dozens of domains used in phishing scams to Namecheap and their support could not possibly give less of a crap. I reported about 26 domains used in SMS scams in Australia and Namecheap refused to action more

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