vonuebelgarten

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by vonuebelgarten 11y ago
Due to the general architecture, I think it's better compare Bleep with Tox.
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
I though the spies would interpret it as "We are tracking an undercover agent" but now I see it was a silly interpretation.
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
That's a pretty common application when you need to synchronize clocks to microsecond accuracy or to a second accuracy but have neither a stable network connection nor a time broadcast (like the German DCF77). It's also used to re
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
There is a lot of ethical uses of such trackers (e.g. a company tracking its own vehicles, shipping container tracking, etc.). We can't assume the developer of the original board knowingly designed it for evil purposes. Full disclosure
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
It would be fun injecting fake paths to some NSA datacenter, a military supplier IC foundry, Area 51, and CIA HQ. The people monitoring him may draw some strange conclusions.
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
So, a system that automates generating a Linux distro from scratch. Except for the fun, I can't figure out the application. It doesn't seem to match Buildroot or Yocto for embedded systems, but people can assume that; I suggest de
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
I'm not German, but I understand Germany is very strong in the personal rights department and have a serious separation between government and state, which minimizes the influence of the gov-of-the-day on business matters -- maybe I&#x
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
Also, I think the perceived value of the application finally fell to the deserved zero. Who will "anonymously" share secrets through an application which doesn't uses Tor, asks for phone numbers and requires a Facebook login?
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
I just use GnuPG with some specific temporary keys (eg. "Project P File Transfer Key"). All transfer are among desktop/laptop machines, so mobile apps are not a requirement. And I don't use GDrive to sync data to my phon
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
I suppose Microsoft started using some fuzzy/NN/heuristic/etc. pattern matching algorithm to identify pornography, so it caught the photos my friends uploaded even if they didn't came from a know database.
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
Last year a friend couple uploaded photos of their one-year son (I understand it were those "bathtub photos" parents like taking to embarrass the children when they grow up) just to get their paid account blocked. They panicke
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
And still no tengwar :(
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
Sometimes these shrinkings are (accidentally) synchronized. In the early 2000s almost everything available from big manufacturers in Brazilian groceries shrunk while keeping the same prices (e.g. cookie bags going from 300g to 290g). Last y
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by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
Or Retroshare
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by vonuebelgarten 13y ago
This site also summarizes what I hate in the current webdesign trends: broken back button and spurious event handlers attached to the not-quite-linky-links.
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by vonuebelgarten 13y ago
As a Brazilian, I see these factors (not only for PS4, but for all imported items and some domestically manufactured too): - Insane taxation ('nuff said); - Primitive transport infrastructure (bad roads, don't ever try to put some
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by vonuebelgarten 13y ago
Also, Outlook 2003¹ PST files, also when created with the "strong encryption" option, are no more then obfuscation. libpst convert them to MH with no worries. [1] Not that updated, I know, but I do not use Outlook since then.
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by vonuebelgarten 13y ago
GP may read as a political rant, but I'm focusing in the first sentence; Brazil restricts a lot of privacy and, for my dismay, people seems to accept it. For example, I have to give up my name and ID number every time I board an inters
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by vonuebelgarten 13y ago
I opt-out by preventing the browser from emitting that HTTP requests. Why will I trust the ad-server from doing evil things?
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by vonuebelgarten 13y ago
I think his username gives a tip. He failed to parse the context :)
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by vonuebelgarten 14y ago
If Germany is not safe enough for your money, nowhere in the Eurozone will be. Recent history shown that German banks are safer than USA or UK ones. As a small saver, if I was a Cypriot, I would move all my remaining (i.e. not-yet-stolen) m
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by vonuebelgarten 14y ago
That CNN page itself have a lot of trackers. My adblock filters saved me from these ones: http://i.imgur.com/NGbiIaV.png
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by vonuebelgarten 14y ago
This answer the question about how do they make money. I think there is a lot of buyers for the information they grab with this. I stick with newsbeuter. No web-based readers for me.
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by vonuebelgarten 14y ago
> cutting any product that has a usage they don't think is significant. Curiously, some products that are moribund for more time still alive (e.g. Orkut).
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by vonuebelgarten 14y ago
Well, that's a feature of Google Reader I didn't know. Blame, since I never bothered to test it.
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by vonuebelgarten 14y ago
I just saw half my twitter timeline panicking about this. Is there so much people using it? What happened to desktop feed readers? Newsbeuter is serving me well, as usual, for years.
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by vonuebelgarten 14y ago
I don't use Facebook as people usually use but I have some accounts for API tinkering and some groups I follow. None of them use anything near my real name, residency, photos or other real personal data. It's a bit odd to explain to people
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by vonuebelgarten 14y ago
Seems an interesting idea for a Firefox add-on. Also, randomizing part of the user agent for each domain should be nice too.
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by vonuebelgarten 14y ago
Or just remove anything from Unity and install Gnome Shell. I do this. My laptop runs a Ubuntu which is, interface-wise, a Debian with faster updates.
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by vonuebelgarten 14y ago
So, is it an Apple Ping 2.0? Destined to the same fate, I suppose.

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