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by utucuro 3y ago
As I recall, the term for a pirate, operating legally and targeting government sanctioned targets was privateer. So maybe the term we need is privateering?
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by utucuro 3y ago
Have you given ShareX a try? Also open source, but maintained, unlike Greenshot.
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by utucuro 4y ago
Wait, what is the difference between this and procrastination?
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by utucuro 4y ago
You could open web3news yourself, the software for a forum like HN is available [0] from Paul Graham himself after all. However, a site that is defined as being dedicated to controversial topics is likely to turn into a flame-fest or an ech
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by utucuro 4y ago
> I assume they want google apps to have access to the whole phonebook without looking too suss though. This is why I hope Google and Apple both get forced to give up control of either the OS or the app marketplaces. No company should o
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by utucuro 4y ago
Annual pricing still shows this for Premium: $1,525 a year User tier: -987654320 - 10 Negative users anyone?
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by utucuro 4y ago
Quite true, and yet I'm saddened by it. Currently have my smartwatch at the repair center, so I'm actually relying on ringtones again after years of silence and vibrations, and it kind of annoys me that I can't just blast th
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by utucuro 4y ago
Yes, I do, with partial whitelisting of sites I use frequently via uMatrix and uBlock. I also use Cookie Autodelete and containers to keep everything separate. Out of all people I know outside of HN, I'm the only person who does even o
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by utucuro 4y ago
Not how the law works here - you're always liable in either case, but it is hoped that the message might prevent some cases of fraud. It's difficult to secure people against social engineering...
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by utucuro 4y ago
I think this is a very meaningful article. Without knowing anything else about Bloomberg, it allows the reader to see just how bad the quality of their content is.
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by utucuro 4y ago
In Turkey, 2FA tokens for banks generated by app or sent by SMS all contain a message about never giving the token or your password to a bank employee...
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by utucuro 4y ago
A someone who is living in a country where the chosen timezone is 3 hours ahead of solar time, I wish governments had NO authority whatsoever over timezones.
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by utucuro 4y ago
Today, I'd say reproduction of results is far more important than getting more research published. I would even go so far as to say that peer review is worthless, it may well be time to replace it with peer reproduction as a prerequisi
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by utucuro 4y ago
To add to this - I have a dedicated sound card on my desktop - it lives inside the USB tiny dongle of my gaming headset and makes it emulate surround sound a little bit better. My two tinny tiny speakers are connected to the onboard audio o
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by utucuro 4y ago
Having said all that, do you have a recommendation?
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by utucuro 4y ago
Surely you mean "Muhlama"
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by utucuro 4y ago
Firefox Mobile on a Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G with 8GB of ram, I've now been waiting for over 9 minutes for the gallery.platform.uno to load... The bar pretty much stopped moving at about 55% - 60% at minute 2 or so... THis is where I g
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by utucuro 4y ago
Ah Universal Paperclips... See you in the future then. Also: Kittens game by bloodrizer (and no, you won't be getting out of this one as easily as you might get out of Universal Paperclips, so search with care if you need to do anythin
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by utucuro 4y ago
That took me back on a trip down memory lane... My father had a psion, can't remember the specific model, though most likely from the 3 series, because he was using Palm devices by the time of the 5 Series launch. The form factor was o
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by utucuro 4y ago
The Palm Pilot 1000 was launched in 1996, the Rocket, 2 years later in 1998.
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by utucuro 4y ago
I do not have any information about the current state of messenger, so I cannot comment. Here is my issue with WhatsApp though: How will I know that Meta is still shipping an application based on an uncompromised version of the Signal proto
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by utucuro 4y ago
Several things come to mind at once. Thinking, with intent to convey that thinking into words understandable by your chosen audience, involves understanding your audience in the first place. You must learn to observe your audience; this is
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by utucuro 4y ago
According to the page you linked, that seems to fall under abuse of the grace period.
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by utucuro 4y ago
Apple colluded with Google when it suited them before, I cannot see a reason to trust them any more than Google.
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by utucuro 4y ago
Literally, as in, if a passenger finds a way of getting out of the trolley somehow, they will be put back in so the thought experiment can continue working as intended. Absurd amendment to an absurd trolley problem.
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by utucuro 4y ago
At this point, I think it's safe to assume that Google will lie, both internally as well as externally, cheat, or break any law, if they calculate they will profit by it or can get away with it. Their track record [1][2][3] does not sh
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by utucuro 4y ago
Aluminium free deodorant is more expensive where I live, so do you mind pointing to a source or two for that claim?
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by utucuro 4y ago
"That's about it" corresponds to large swathes of the Internet for some of us living in parts of the world with arbitrarily censored and restricted Internet access.
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by utucuro 4y ago
Who says that they managed it? I went from Google Talk to Hangouts to no Google Services aside from Play store, kept only because of Android devices... Ideally I would not rely on any Google services, but it is not feasible for me...
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by utucuro 4y ago
I don't. Life is short. You must choose what you spend your time and energy on. Only you can decide what is worth pursuing with the resources you have. In contrast to your last sentence, I believe that if you are not using your time of

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