turc1656

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by turc1656 7y ago
"The laws that govern legal search and seizure have departed dramatically from the protections afforded by the bill of rights." That, right there, is the problem. That should be illegal and should have been shot down every
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by turc1656 7y ago
This isn't new information. Not even sort of new. This has been known for quite some time (20-30 YEARS). Jordan Peterson has also mentioned it numerous times over the years but the original studies are quite old. https://
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by turc1656 7y ago
Entirely agree about the lack of efficiency. No question about that. However, in my personal experience, I have seen no issues downloading old data from any binary group. At least not with the provider I have. In fact, just this past wee
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by turc1656 7y ago
I don't see anyone having mentioned the possibility of posting this data to Usenet at all - at minimum for archival purposes which should be good for ~8-9 years. That way at least the data isn't lost. With so many of those torre
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by turc1656 7y ago
To avoid the ambiguity between the two primary intents, I always phrase the question as "I assume there was a reason you didn't [x]?" That puts any possible idiocy on my end for not immediately seeing the reason [x] wasn&#x2
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by turc1656 7y ago
I don't use Facebook, but I imagine the easiest way of blocking the ads is like most other websites - to block the connection to the ad-server(s), no? That's how uMatrix operates and, in my opinion, that works exceptionally well.
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by turc1656 7y ago
100% agree with this. I switched a while ago and 98% of my searches are easily found through DDG. I use Google's search as a backup when I'm in the rare case of actually searching for something hard to find or very complex. And
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by turc1656 7y ago
I think there's another explanation than the one given in the source article. And that's assuming the base claim is true (that the expected unemployment hasn't taken place). And that's a big assumption because I don&#
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by turc1656 7y ago
Admittedly off-topic, but the GIF they have on that site on the right side of the page with Mac from The Nightman Cometh episode of Sunny to promote the site's dark mode is just too perfect to not mention.
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by turc1656 7y ago
Probably not, but those lists are more than just dangerous and deceptive sites. They also include things that individuals at Google manipulate based on their own opinions which can be one-offs or added to the lists. From the article: &quo
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by turc1656 7y ago
"...even though company leadership has said publicly, including to Congress, that the company does not use blacklists or whitelists to influence its results." Ummm, isn't that providing false testimony and considered perjur
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by turc1656 7y ago
I love how governments love to pretend that either none of these crimes happened prior to the digital communication age or that they never caught anyone prior to it (which they definitely did). Let's also take a step back and consider
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by turc1656 7y ago
Glad I actually read the actual article. I saw the headline and thought to myself "hmmm, that's weird. I thought they wanted to basically destroy privacy, why would they be donating to things that try to preserve it?" Now
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by turc1656 7y ago
If you are already liking KeePass I highly recommending KeeWeb, which is what I'm using. It reads a KeePass database and the desktop app web app are great in my opinion. And everything is free. Web app also caches in the browser and
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by turc1656 7y ago
I basically do that - my core database is encrypted on Dropbox and I use a desktop app and web apps for mobile via KeeWeb which is free. KeeWeb on desktop also backs up locally in the event anything ever happens to my dropbox access, but D
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by turc1656 7y ago
Exactly. It's just a model of how to piss away money and look bad doing it. Haha.
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by turc1656 7y ago
The taxi analogy isn't the same. The rates are being set by the local government , not some non-government third-party whom they work with like perhaps the people who actually own the medallions (most are loaned out) or the people wh
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by turc1656 7y ago
In my book, if you can't determine the price for your service, you aren't a contractor, pure and simple. Uber determines the rates, sets their fees, supplies the clients, and has rules about how many times you can skip/pass
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by turc1656 7y ago
They might have great software - I don't know. But personally I absolutely refuse to use a paid option for a service of this type. There's just too much risk. What happens if my credit card expires and I forget to update/p
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by turc1656 7y ago
Not sure what you mean here. I can't recall cases of people being prosecuted for not ratting on people. And the first amendment protects you from being required to make statements. The only exception to that which I can think of is
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by turc1656 7y ago
I mean if they really did that there would likely be numerous paths to successfully sue the private equity company now controlling the .org TLD. Basic consumer protection laws require, for example, that buyers of like kind be charged the s
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by turc1656 7y ago
That's an apocalyptic scenario and not one likely to survive legal challenge. But if something like that were to happen, then I'd say that there is still a workaround. I forget the name of the browser extension but there is defi
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by turc1656 7y ago
Doubt it. Looks like a done deal. I think either the government or a collective of citizens would have to sue on antitrust grounds, which seems reasonable considering they control the entire .org TLD. But other than that, don't see
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by turc1656 7y ago
Love Proton, DDG, and Signal. Use them all the time. Never heard of Duple. But, FWIW I use pCloud instead - it's a paid service (I bought a one-time lifetime license of 2TB of space). pCloud's software is solid. I battle teste
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by turc1656 7y ago
"Everyone who has participated and not worked to change that system is guilty." Exactly. This is my mentality and has been for years. People like to complain about the "few bad apples" that make everyone look bad. Y
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by turc1656 7y ago
So...as I usually ask when these sorts of things pop up - who's going to jail? Probably no one, like usual. And the NYPD has the audacity to complain about the way the general public perceives them.
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by turc1656 7y ago
Count me out. I already stay away from them as much as possible (ProtonMail over Gmail, DuckDuckGo vs Google search, I never log in to youtube and on Android where you are required I always use incognito, etc., etc.). No way in hell I am
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by turc1656 7y ago
You're talking about something outside of healthcare charging different prices to people based on which insurance they have and said practice is legal? I've never heard of such a thing. You're not referring to the common p
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by turc1656 7y ago
" It sounds like this recent ruling may have rendered that page out of date. " Not exactly. Here, the only change is related to digital devices being searched. Everything else that happens at the border regarding searches is unc
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by turc1656 7y ago
That's not how any other insurance works. Providers charge the same amount regardless of coverage, insurance, etc. and whatever your insurance covers (including nothing at all) you are responsible for. But they also tell you up front

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