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by techrat 6y ago
Since this requires root, what benefit does it have over having a HOSTS file that also blocks the trackers directly by holing the hostnames?
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by techrat 6y ago
Because it's still their job to do so.
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by techrat 6y ago
Intel attempted a GPU that was effectively a cluster of x86 cores with a massive process shrink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)#D... Not quite as old as 486s, but damn close: The cores were
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by techrat 6y ago
GoogleFi still uses the T-Mobile network. I suspect that without a way for MVNOs to have a way for their customers to log into the T-Mobile page to opt-out, the data sharing is still in effect. On MintSim, myself.
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by techrat 6y ago
They were always a bit warty, if you ask me. I got stuck with a $300 cancellation fee with T-Mobile after using their Starbucks Wifi service. When I told them I had specifically signed up for only one month's service, I was told over t
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by techrat 6y ago
You could even argue that if it wasn't for Bitcoin, we could shut down another unsafe Nuclear power plant or two. https://www.dw.com/en/why-does-bitcoin-need-more-energy-than... >Back at the start of 2017, Bitc
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by techrat 6y ago
1e100.net is for dns resolution and captive portal detection. > adb shell settings put global captive_portal_mode 0 will disable it.
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by techrat 6y ago
You had an iMac Pro. Filtering fan noise is trivial with that kind of processing power.
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by techrat 6y ago
The internet also fundamentally changed how people perceive of their data being accessible. When I was trying to give advice to someone after their Chromebook bit the dust (from being dropped too many times), doing things like using a thumb
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by techrat 6y ago
At lower pixel or subpixel brightness OLED is still terribly affected by PWM strobing. Turn/move your head and you can see the on-off-on-off steps required for dimmer scenes or dark portions of a scene.
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by techrat 6y ago
"Cha-ching!" Business hasn't been about the long term for a while, especially if you're a startup. The goal is to gain recognition and sell at the first good chance you get... rinse, repeat. You only need to look at what
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by techrat 6y ago
And then Half Life came along and showed you could have a game without any cutscenes whatsoever, with story and expositional moments parts of the game you could still interact within the map. Listening to the security guards in the main hal
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by techrat 6y ago
The amount in which I've experienced this exact scenario on Hacker News is quite disheartening. When I provided a cite wherein Brave was caught whitelisting trackers, I was responded to with basically "those who are so quick to cr
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by techrat 6y ago
You forgot one. Whitelisting cross-site trackers from sites like Facebook and Twitter.
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by techrat 6y ago
Acquisitions don't happen exclusively because a company is buying out someone who is better than them. Sometimes they happen so a company can buy out someone so they won't have the chance to become better than them and a serious c
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by techrat 6y ago
[citation needed] Show me what data they have sold and to who. Evidence. We have evidence that Facebook directly sold user data to Cambridge. What Google sells is targeted advertising. Eg, "We can directly display your ad to those are
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by techrat 6y ago
Honestly, the video just looks like someone re-inverted an image several times over using a fade. What am I missing?
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by techrat 6y ago
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. TikTok, collected information on children and sold it, sold US user data to the Chinese Government. For all the people who go "Google, bad!", I'm still waiting for actual examples of what the
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by techrat 6y ago
That enables whoever gets the number next to access my account. I'm not fond of leaving irrevocable details that aren't mine on an account that is.
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by techrat 6y ago
>What does Google have to do with Xiaomi spyware? False equivalence. If people in here actually broke down the differences, they would have to admit that their "Grr, Google just as bad!" hyperbole is more than just a tad dising
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by techrat 6y ago
If you cannot replace the software on the Black Shark with alternatives without possibly bricking the phone, I would say that's a substantial deviation from the norm where most other devices have unlockable bootloaders and Rom support
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by techrat 6y ago
Except Brave itself also collects telemetry and has been caught whitelisting cross site apis from sites like Facebook. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/12/privacy-browser-... Honestly, when Brave make
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by techrat 6y ago
With caveats. While my UID and password still work, I am unable to change my (horrendously insecure, attackable) password without first providing a phone number. Given that ICQ's ownership and cooperation with governments both raise qu
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by techrat 6y ago
Ultimately, OP was looking for a low power server without relying on a MicroSD. So no, it's not strictly an alternative to a Raspberry Pi because once you boot from USB, MicroSD durability is no longer the issue.
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by techrat 6y ago
MicroSD cards tend to have much worse durability and IOPS than common USB sticks, and especially, say, an M.2 SSD to USB adapter.
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by techrat 6y ago
I'd stick with a RasPi. There's a process to set a boot flag to allow booting from USB media. From there you can install Raspbian (or your other distro of choice) to any USB connected storage device. I've been using the same
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by techrat 6y ago
It's getting there. Prior to vaccinations, California had 40,000+ new daily positive cases. One month into, that's down to 6,000.
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by techrat 6y ago
>1MB is one million bytes, and files do not intrinsically come in power-of-two sizes. Given the foundation of computing is binary, yes, files actually do come in power of two sizes. 1 and 0. Two. Base two. From then, the way our bits, th
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by techrat 6y ago
> In an ultra packed City like HK, I could detect at least a dozen AP at any given time. On a rooftop in Philadelphia, just standing in one spot and turning 360 degrees in a circle with my laptop, I was able to detect over 50 Wifi APs...
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by techrat 8y ago
It's available on Android but still pretty broken. You can CD to your SD Card but not list the directory content. You can run executables but dependencies are an issue if you don't know which ones you need to have installed in adv

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