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by trumped 8y ago
Hopefully Facebook will die first, but maybe Amazon will be next...
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Apple’s Amsterdam store evacuated after iPad battery explodes – 9to5Mac(9to5mac.com)
1 points by trumped 8y ago|0 comments
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by trumped 8y ago
oh good, maybe that will help reduce the general reliance on CDNs... (me dreaming)
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by trumped 8y ago
it started a while ago: https://reelgood.com/blog/netflixs-us-catalog-has-shrunk-by-... (actually, I think it started prior to that... maybe when they started to push people away from DVDs by almost doubling the cost)
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by trumped 8y ago
> The plan is to achieve a noise reduction of up to 10 decibels. If they can achieve that goal, it sounds very good [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel
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by trumped 8y ago
sure, it depends on your use case, but a small bluetooth keyboard with a phone mount is probably more portable... something a bit like this: http://www.tuemarket.com/img/iphone-bluetooth-keyboard.jpg , or if you just ne
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Pale Moon Browser V28 Released(palemoon.org)
3 points by trumped 8y ago|0 comments
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by trumped 8y ago
> My next laptop will probably not be a mac. maybe it shouldn't even be a laptop
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by trumped 8y ago
Cloud<everything> should not really be trusted for anything that requires privacy (unless you encrypt the data locally first using GPG or something similar).
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by trumped 8y ago
This page is blocked by uMatrix (pretty rare that it happens to me)... but it sounds like they are talking about the opposite of Angular.
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by trumped 8y ago
This is an Android problem that is sold as a feature by Google... still a problem on my version of Android (in Android 5.0 and later, an app can request the permission for reading/writing to a folder on the SD card though: https:&#x2F
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by trumped 8y ago
Terrible idea. The $6000 should instead be a percentage of your income (above a certain point, like poverty)... i.e.: ($60,000 - $12,000) * 0.05
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by trumped 8y ago
Could an esp8266 be used for this purpose? the last 2 boards that I ordered are defective and can't test it...
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by trumped 8y ago
Could be great... and they could give you a few options... ie: filling with your spouse, itemized deductions, just plain and simple or you're on your own.
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by trumped 8y ago
maybe because people don't want to become victims of crimes but they don't care as much if they buy the "best" TV.... but either way, the government has access of all the data ...
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by trumped 8y ago
loosing bitcoins is really easy when most people don't eveb know that sharing everything with the cloud is very risky
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Ask HN: Banned URL?
4 points by trumped 8y ago|2 comments
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by trumped 8y ago
sometimes they do a "soft" censor and just push them down the search result list so that any casual user would never see them... but they also do some hard censoring.
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by trumped 8y ago
well, at least I don't work for Facebook or Google ;) /s
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by trumped 8y ago
not if they have to pay it to everyone who can link their cancer to a Monsanto/Bayer product
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by trumped 8y ago
I'm cheap, I'd probably do it for $10k (1/4oz)... If it's a recurring deal, I might even do it weekly for $5k each time...
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by trumped 8y ago
> A better way would be "Fortnite is big enough to bypass Google and still make $180MM", rather than acting like this is Google's fault. > I mean, the fact that phone OSes get a cut of everything on their platform is al
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by trumped 8y ago
that possibly could be easily detectable... it might be better to have hardware switches that would allow you to disable all sensors individually whenever you want some privacy... there are many sensors on my phone that I never need but pos
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by trumped 8y ago
that's a good point, but if you go with any of the major "cloud" providers, I don't think that you would be in a better position.
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by trumped 8y ago
might be true today
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by trumped 8y ago
you should be aware that VPN traffic still goes toward your 1TB data cap... actually, it probably uses a tiny more data then if you were not using a VPN...
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by trumped 8y ago
using a cloud server as your VPN? what made you come to that decision? how is that better then your ISP?
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by trumped 8y ago
> Facebook is not a public good I thought Facebook was on the stock market...
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by trumped 8y ago
> The fact that it's "at least as [secure]" as something that stores chats in plaintext on their servers (Telegram) is not exactly news... probably news to most people... because most people appear to be trusting it....
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by trumped 8y ago
Signal is at least as good as all the other cloud messaging apps... (privacy wise)

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