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by wegs 6y ago
Anything which spies on me for Microsoft, I want disabled. I'd like my Windows to: * Occasionally grab a list of patches available, see which ones apply to my system * If I install new hardware, with my permission, find drivers. Sendin
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by wegs 6y ago
I have a Samsung phone. It doesn't seem to have an option to automatically disable MMS downloads, and last patch is from March. I'm wondering if I'm vulnerable.
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by wegs 6y ago
If it were me, I would: 1) Contact the maintainers of the other repositories. 2) Draft a DMCA counter-notice, laying out that: "The repository was open-sourced by Dmitry Yusupov who is co-founder and CTO of Nexenta. This was publicly a
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by wegs 6y ago
It is complex, and none of us have the background to make this determination without knowing the full background of the case. However, the standard I learned here was pretty low. In my law class, the example of where apparent authority woul
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by wegs 6y ago
Can someone post a TL;DR for those of us who can't watch video? * What's the vulnerability? * Has it been patched? * How do we mitigate it?
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by wegs 6y ago
It's a bit more complex than that. There's the legal concept of apparent authority . Let's say I go into a bank. The bank requires an officer to approve all loans. A minimum-wage teller offers me a loan with a 2% interest
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by wegs 6y ago
I like and trust the EFF, but that's not my lived experience, and so I don't believe the stats say what the EFF claims they mean. 1) My patent lawyer, following Alice, told us to not even try for most patents we were previously co
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by wegs 6y ago
You're missing developer tools in your browser, I think. :)
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by wegs 6y ago
No, it doesn't. There are definitely times when being a good person and having a fulfilling life does make me happy. There are also times when it's tough and painful and makes me unhappy. There are more of the former than the latt
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by wegs 6y ago
I personally find GIMP more intuitive than Inkscape. I think most of it depends on what you're using the tool for, though, and I think I just do more GIMPy takss than Inkscapey tasks right now. Try using Inkscape to cut a person out of
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by wegs 6y ago
They don't do the same thing. Inkscape/CorelDraw/Illustrator/etc. are drawing programs. They deal with vector images. Gimp/Photoshop/Paintshop Pro/etc. are painting programs. They deal with bitmaps. They&#
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by wegs 6y ago
To me, a lifelong search for happiness seems flawed and ephemeral. It's culturally very American, but doesn't seem to lead to happiness. I strive for purpose, meaning, and positive impact. When I succeed, I'm happy. That driv
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by wegs 6y ago
Why do you think he's a parasite? He seems to live a modest life, and work very hard to make the economy work more efficiently. He's giving almost all of his money to philanthropic causes, and seems to campaign for all the right c
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by wegs 6y ago
They do, but the intelligence of kids is highly underrated. This started with Piaget, and although Piaget has been widely debunked, teachers still believe it.
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by wegs 6y ago
It is. That doesn't prevent bugs in FUSE itself.
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by wegs 6y ago
sshfs (and samba for that matter, even more so) can cause odd kernel behavior and crashes, unfortunately. They're great when network is 100% perfect, if you never suspend laptops, etc. If any of those assumptions go away, you've g
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by wegs 6y ago
He's also 64. That's near retirement age, and I imagine he can afford to retire early.
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by wegs 6y ago
States are supposed to be using national guards to protect things they buy from seizure by the federal government? Can you explain why you believe that?
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by wegs 6y ago
States are reacting to confiscations which have already happened. See Massachusetts' first order of medical supplies of China. Second order was flow in on a private jet protected by the Massachusetts National Guard. No one knows what h
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by wegs 6y ago
Sometimes. Self-promotion tends to help specific universities and researchers. If my name make NY Times, that's a big deal. On the other hand, blame is diffuse. People start to distrust the scientific establishment as a whole. Successf
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by wegs 6y ago
I wore masks in public early. Everyone on the street observed social distancing with me. As with most anti-mask excuses, statements didn't match reality.
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by wegs 6y ago
The title is 100% accurate, just misleading. "Data do not back" is intentional weasel language commonly used in university press releases. Data does not back that if you (anorphirith) shoot me (wegs) in the head with an AK47, I&#x
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by wegs 6y ago
No one honest can, because masks do help. What's not clear is how much they help. They'd have a huge effect on large droplets, but potentially a very small effect on bioaerosols. Until we know more about how COVID19 typically spre
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by wegs 6y ago
I suggest clicking through to the NAP paper, which unlike this reporting fluff/hype piece, is very reasonable. This is part of the standard academic fake science pipeline. The researchers did reasonable work (best summary: "We don
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by wegs 6y ago
I ran Debian for maybe 15-20 years before switching to Ubuntu. The first few weeks are rough. But once you get it configured up the way you like, it keeps on ticking for a decade with no announced changes or surprises. You front-load a lot
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by wegs 6y ago
Is there any stable way to go Ubuntu -> Debian? I don't want testing. Stable is fine. I find each version of Ubuntu worse than the previous. It's change for the sake of change, and as in this case, something really thoughtful l
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by wegs 6y ago
Inflation doesn't hurt people who do real work for wages. It helps people who have debt. It hurts people who have cash savings. It's neutral for people who live paycheck-to-paycheck. But on the whole, that summary misses most of t
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by wegs 6y ago
I think it's the right move. It worked really well in academia in its hay days (1950-1990): 1. High bar to get a job. 2. Modest, but livable salary. 3. Long-term job stability. This guarantees you don't really need to worry about
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by wegs 6y ago
Yes it does. Value is being destroyed by the lock-down. Nest eggs are drying up. There's a lot Congress could do to stem the bleeding from a flood to a trickle, but it's not doing it. I don't think there's much individua
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by wegs 6y ago
I went to MIT. MIT is corrupt as !@#$. The amount of money flowing into private pockets at the higher levels is insane. Corrupt isn't the same is criminal -- most of the activity goes through networks of lawyers and loop holes (althoug

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