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by wtmt 7y ago
What I find quite disturbing in all these privacy invading technologies is that they’re often marketed as fantastic problem solvers whereas the reality is that they have many confounding factors that put the innocent at risk. Even DNA testi
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by wtmt 7y ago
It could make it easier, but it takes a lot more effort and time for the “less well off” to expose “those in power” and be taken seriously enough to bring about change...that’s assuming they’re not harmed in the process of doing so. If info
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How to Build a Digital ID in Layers(pymnts.com)
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by wtmt 7y ago
It isn’t clear to me what the individual tier allows, except for the pageview restriction. There is no FAQ or Support link on the homepage. Is it one domain where all sub domains can have comments enabled? Or is it one subdomain in a domain
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by wtmt 7y ago
> We've built and shipped 7 products recently and if there's one thing we've learned, it's that your personal relationship with your customer is your secret weapon as a startup. Having customers email support@company.
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by wtmt 7y ago
I’ve recently been experimenting with having JS off by default on Brave. Many sites that I don’t regularly use or have an account/relationship with are much more pleasant without JS. There may be some visual breakage in some cases, but
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by wtmt 7y ago
I presume this toggle applies to all windows and tabs. As an example, if some page uses a meta refresh tag to periodically refresh it and also has JS (which wasn’t loaded before), the JS would get loaded at a future point when it’s enabled
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by wtmt 7y ago
This is the best way to go about it if people at the bank aren’t responding. Nobody likes a PR nightmare, and Brian Krebs can handle this better with the right people if the OP provides enough evidence.
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It could be someone who was in tech or was educated (formal or by oneself) on tech but switched to being a diplomat on seeing opportunities to make a better difference with their skills. Depending on the area of work, diplomats could highly
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by wtmt 7y ago
It’s 15 years old and has been refuted by a meta analysis some years later. See the current top comment here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22345421
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by wtmt 7y ago
Yes, I consider it to be expensive. The bigger issue with these storage platforms is that they don’t offer a lower priced tier. Not everybody wants or needs 2TB of storage. If they were to offer a lower quota at a lower price, that would be
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by wtmt 7y ago
Thanks for the link and the commentary. I was aware of what happened in the 8chan case, but hadn’t read too deeply about it.
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by wtmt 7y ago
> The $1/day / $10/month / $100/year has been fairly well received, ...in countries where $100 a year isn’t a lot for one subscription. > but may not be for everyone, especially those who enjoy running their o
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by wtmt 7y ago
Thanks. I’m still wary of the bi-annual renewal requirement. If I register a name today, can I renew it one year later from today to stretch it to two years from then (which would be three years from now) or would I be able to renew it for
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by wtmt 7y ago
Thanks. That makes sense. For some reason I didn’t think of concentrated service providers because I was too focused on decentralization (and to think of it, such concentrated providers are everywhere in decentralized platforms).
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by wtmt 7y ago
Sync is a very nice side feature for containers, and helps make the experience consistent. Going a little off topic, the current UX for using different containers is still cumbersome. Not being able to have or assign keyboard shortcuts or o
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by wtmt 7y ago
Can you elaborate on the spying please?
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by wtmt 7y ago
> Names have to be renewed bi-annually. You don't need to pay a fee, you just need to submit a transaction to prove you still have access to the private key. When talking about email alternatives here, I see a lot of comments strong
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by wtmt 7y ago
I’m a bit wary of larger companies in general, but you could take a look at Cloudflare (which has kicked out certain people/sites) and the news around it to see if that would be suitable for some (if not all) of your domains. The prici
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by wtmt 7y ago
Your suggestion is about a couple of decades late. Nevertheless, I don’t agree with it. Other gTLDs and ccTLDs May have issues of their own (price, control, lack of Whois privacy). Squatting will, and does, happen with other TLDs that are n
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by wtmt 7y ago
Not GP, but I turn off WiFi completely (not the intermediate “disconnecting nearby WiFi until tomorrow”) so that I control when I’m connected and when I’m not.
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by wtmt 7y ago
How does this actually work on something like iOS, which I believe is a lot more restrictive and may not allow access to the SIM except through carrier services (which are in turn susceptible to attacks, including bribes, social engineering
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by wtmt 7y ago
> Red Hat, which purchased the company behind CoreOS in 2018, will, as of Sept.1, 2020, delete all CoreOS images. That means even if you wanted to download CoreOS (without supported updates), you won’t be able to. > Although Fedora Co
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by wtmt 7y ago
> A lot of folks don’t know that merchants pay more for CNP transactions. Why? Well it’s simple, there is no alternative to cards for an online transaction, the issuers have power. That may be true in many countries, but in India, there
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by wtmt 7y ago
The TL;DR I got from this article: * Fees will go up for card not present transactions (online and phone) and fall a bit for card present transactions. * Overall, Visa is increasing fees to make more money than before since there aren’t any
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by wtmt 7y ago
Indiana had some differences like this before April 2006, with most counties following DST and some not following it. Now it’s just most counties using Eastern Time and some using Central Time, with all of them following DST changes.
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by wtmt 7y ago
Was the bedside clock set correctly or was intelligent enough for you to make it on time for the tour? It’s not clear to me from your story what happened with the tour.
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by wtmt 7y ago
Why would a notes database, that’s mostly (or all text) even take up a lot of space and make syncing the entire database slow? If someone is using just a few MBs of data, the speed of syncing that is immaterial. Your servers not being able
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by wtmt 7y ago
Banks can create an amount of money beyond what they get in deposits, but that’s limited by the fractional reserve system and the amount they hold as deposits (this makes some simple assumptions, but is mostly true). They cannot create an i
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by wtmt 7y ago
A few questions and observations: * If I choose to use this notes app on multiple devices, and am careful enough to be the only person using it and complete any note taking on one device at a time (closing the app properly), I should be abl

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