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by vezycash 7y ago
>Personally I've noticed with Snowden is that nobody really attacks what he said, they attack his perceived motivations Character assassination. They pull a, "He's a rapist, child molester" and everything the whistle
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by vezycash 7y ago
A Telegram bot please. >When would you prefer an SMS/WhatsApp message over an email? Formatting issues with email. And I don't check my mail often, on my phone alerts for chat is instant, email delays. With telegram, whatever d
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by vezycash 7y ago
It's probably going to supply the tech if Nigeria's social media bill passes - Death penalty for 'Hate Speech' on social media.
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by vezycash 7y ago
>Does it take a twisted mind to apply that pattern Not necessarily. They say the best liar is one who doesn't know that he's lying. Take the state of news today, we have bloggers who parrot a source with no verification and oft
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by vezycash 7y ago
The habit of saving money is a teachable skill that parents can cultivate in their kids. Typically, kids learn more from the ACTIONS of adults in their lives than WORDS. I may have picked up my simple way of life from my parents when cash w
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by vezycash 7y ago
> when I started college, a third of the class didn't even know touch typing At least 3 of my lecturers didn't want me using my laptop in class. One cited the, "You learn more writing with pen and paper" crap. This d
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by vezycash 7y ago
Critical thinking is good. Building the 30 seconds habit of verifying stuff online is better for fake news. And it's teachable. Regularly mix in half truths or outright lies and see who challenges you. Check a few classes later for who
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Illusory Truth Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
110 points by vezycash 7y ago|55 comments
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by vezycash 7y ago
Clone Outlook's SWEEP feature. It's a simple but powerful tool for creating email rules.
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by vezycash 7y ago
Eric's contribution to Google was paranoia and urgency from his bitter experiences losing twice to Microsoft. He knew Microsoft would come after them. So, they to widen the gap so far that when the "sleeping giant" woke up, i
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by vezycash 7y ago
>How to use the Internet to learn: Google, Wikipedia About 10 years ago, in my second year CS program, I created a program to Teaching secondary school students how to use the internet to find stuff online for free and learn. This was in
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by vezycash 7y ago
Try this extension - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist... Blacklists domains from search results in 1-click Firefox Version https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox
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by vezycash 7y ago
That's not the issue. The issue is that as more of the web uses cloudflare, it becomes a gatekeeper of the web. Any person that cloudflare kicks out will be cut off from much of the web. (It's already happening, with people having
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by vezycash 7y ago
Vista was necessary. Forced people to upgrade devices. Introduced the security prompt - where everything doesn't run with admin privilege. Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 also came under Ballmer.
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by vezycash 7y ago
>One problem is that you aren't allowed to make mistakes in social situations anymore without facing extreme consequences This is what happens when children aren't allowed time to play with fellow kids. They'll won't
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by vezycash 7y ago
Outlook now has a wait period of 30 days before some certain security changes can be made - e.g. account recovery options. I've never used it though. https://support.microsoft.com/en-my/help/4057241/micro
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by vezycash 7y ago
>There is no Windows equivalent of Little Snitch BW Meter is closer to Little Snitch than Glasswire. And it's very light on resources.
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Bank Had the Worst Password Policy We've Ever Seen(vice.com)
12 points by vezycash 7y ago|6 comments
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by vezycash 7y ago
You ignored the 500k per year contribution to linux, VS code, the ongoing effort to fully open source dot net, them dumping Edge for chromium, their contributions to chromium especially on efficiency for battery is non trivial. Microsoft co
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by vezycash 7y ago
>It in no way means they're suddenly "good guys" (etc). Irrelevant to the topic at hand >Am I out of the loop, what have Microsoft done to support open-source? That's what I responded to.
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by vezycash 7y ago
They are one of the largest contributors to linux, donate $500k annually to Linux foundation (since 2016. Google joined in 2018), VS code, .net is open source to large degree, typescript is open source. Here's a list of their open sour
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Bill Gates: People would use Windows Mobile if not for antitrust case(cnbc.com)
2 points by vezycash 7y ago|2 comments
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Period tracker app spied on me and told advertisers it thought I was pregnant(mirror.co.uk)
20 points by vezycash 7y ago|2 comments
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Tiny, privately owned satellites are changing how we view the Earth(nbcnews.com)
1 points by vezycash 7y ago|0 comments
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TrackMeNot(trackmenot.io)
2 points by vezycash 7y ago|0 comments
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by vezycash 7y ago
>I said that a specific quote about how anybody can FIND some damning thing in what others have wrote/said to attack them with, is not the same as a quote about privacy The act of FINDING anything one has said/written is privac
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by vezycash 7y ago
>But it's not meant to be a warning about [private communication], but about how anyone can something something that can be used against them, privately or not Okay, the internet was created for military communications. So, with you
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by vezycash 7y ago
Anti viruses are typical bundleware installed when installing 'free' software. If you don't look carefully, when you click, 'i agree,' you'll get a bunch of other software you don't want. Some crazy softwa
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by vezycash 7y ago
"Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough in them to hang him."
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by vezycash 7y ago
Hi. Sent in feedback yesterday concerning addon privacy. Specifically, the option to grant or restrict addon access on per site basis. I'd want to be able to right click an addon icon in the toolbar and click, "Don't run on t

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