yosamino

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by yosamino 9y ago
> I have no concerns over privacy. And that is your right. Where I have problems with this attitude is the question wether all those around you, family or guests you might have over, feel the same way. They're also impacted by this
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by yosamino 9y ago
Because the datastructure being manipulated is the "decentralized" feature here. And to manipulate a datastructure you need software. I am intrigued by your comment and your expectation about"decentralized", though. And
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by yosamino 9y ago
> Purpose matters. The point about many of these privacy related issues is that purpose can change. Almost nobody is arguing that it's not a good goal to feel safe on the streets. But there can be an argument made that cameras don&#
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by yosamino 9y ago
In case you did not know about this tool: https://asciinema.org/ is a very pretty way to create gif-like presentations from terminal sessions. No affiliation, I just think it's really neat.
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by yosamino 9y ago
It's shipped with Google services, but the updater lets you change to without Google services without hassle.
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by yosamino 9y ago
As would the majority of US devs. I just don't think there is a big difference.
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by yosamino 9y ago
> I dare you to find European devs who believe terms slave and master in tech context are offensive and should be replaced. What's with the Europeans or Americans believing all sorts of generalized falsehoods about their counterpart
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by yosamino 9y ago
> The apparatus therefore permits caller's having special needs to be automatically routed to suitably trained attendants. ... so last time I was on the phone with my ISP about the issue of ipv6 availability and after waiting for th
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by yosamino 9y ago
> In the bright-eyed naiveté of my first few weeks as Facebook's first leader of the ads targeting effort Not to be too snarky, but this is facebook's (ex?) ad targeting leader telling us that everything is A-OK? He might well
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by yosamino 9y ago
I always wonder, people who leave snide comments like this on privacy related issues: What is you stance on your own freedom and independence and those of others around you, who might have not want large parts of their lives digitized and c
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by yosamino 9y ago
The more the way things change ... It's not new knowledge that "Cool URIs don't change" [0], and I sympathize with the desire to not get your rug pulled from under you like that, but the anger > I can't even
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by yosamino 9y ago
> The only royalty check [...] was less than a dollar. And to think that royalty is usually associated with crowns and gold and jewels and such ...
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by yosamino 9y ago
> First things first: I'm talking about the date picker But then why are you complaining about the timezone ? A datepicker doesn't need a timezone. Or are you under the impression that ISO 8601 requires a Time component? In cas
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by yosamino 9y ago
To be fair, there would be a relatively easy way to test for support to implement a fallback. var el = document.createElement("input"); el.type = "time"; var supported = (el.type == "time"); If only
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by yosamino 9y ago
First things first: The scope of this control is to let you pick a time, the hour and the minute of a day. Possibly from a native widget (i.e. on mobile it pops up a clock where you have to select an hour and a minute). It is then submitted
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by yosamino 9y ago
I use (i)khal and vdirsyncer from here https://pimutils.org/
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by yosamino 9y ago
This is correct. The point is not to make Cloudflare private law enforcement. But Cloudflare makes it impossible for me to even find out whom I should report to the relevant authorities. Cloudflare basically ignores any information I send t
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by yosamino 9y ago
... and fraud. And spam. And phishing. Or to put in their words: > Note: as Cloudflare is not a hosting provider, we have no way to remove the website or it's content from the internet. Which is basically the only sentence that they
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by yosamino 10y ago
... because they aren't using an editor cough vim cough that correctly positions their cursor automatically or let's them jump to the beginning of a line with a single keystroke ?
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by yosamino 10y ago
> People can pay to view other people's shortcomings. Don't you think this will discourage potential users? What's my incentive to use this service, if you are basically going to sell my fears about myself for profit?
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by yosamino 10y ago
Well, they could drugtest your wastewater [0] and measure your water consumption with one of these "smart" meters at small intervals. It's not at the scale of data that an ISP could sift through, but with a little imagination
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by yosamino 10y ago
> because if I objected to Google mining my private conversations to advertise to me I wouldn't use Gmail. This incorrect and short-sighted. The private conversations that you have are with someone else, who might have not opted in
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by yosamino 10y ago
> but we're not talking about use or transmission, we're talking about existence. A part of me wants to apologize, because I wasn't using that narrow of a definition, and under it, I think you are correct. The other part o
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by yosamino 10y ago
> Creating smallpox given any amount of any information[...] That's why I used "enable", but point taken. > But information so powerful that merely having it should be worth automatic prison time? I don't think any
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by yosamino 10y ago
You're saying that like information can't be powerful. That certain collection of bits, can enable you to create smallpox, ricin, a gun, a nuclear bomb and all sorts of other things, can't it?
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by yosamino 10y ago
I think you need to be more specific with your criticism. There are roughly two kinds of > "information wants to be free" proponents The newer kind, who are of the "post-privacy" persuasion, who don't believe pri
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by yosamino 10y ago
> Where is my logical mistake then? Your logical mistake is in understanding "discrimination" as happening mostly on a personal level, and pretty much disregarding that there is systemic discrimination through which, while ever
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by yosamino 10y ago
You could wash your hair with clay : http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-wash-your-hair-with-clay/
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by yosamino 10y ago
That's not quite the point though. All that foraging that you describe comes with the advantage of being self-reliant and completely in charge of your life. While in that life you have to be in charge, you also get to be in charge.
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by yosamino 10y ago
That's why I wrote cache. I would imagine that on average a page is retrieved more than it's edited. So even even in the case of poplar pages, there is potential for saving bandwidth. But I don't know the actual statistics fo

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