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by zigzaggy 8y ago
I have had a loss of visualization over time. I can recall having vivid images in my mind’s eye when I was younger. I think my loss of imagery happened after I went blind for a couple of years. But the temporary blindness was due to retinal
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
Thanks for this new information. It’s especially hilarious that Mr. Campbell was accused of being a conspiracy theorist for thinking _NSAKEY would be exactly what it sounds like. Even better, it turns out the key WAS for the NSA (!) “becaus
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
>Fresh water is what future wars will be fought over. Yes, even more so than today. Being American, I never realized how scarce water actually was until college. I studied inter-regional conflict and learned all about water wars. Related
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
I’m with you. I am very much a night owl. I do my best work between noon and 9pm. Fortunately, my work can be done any time of day. In fact, projects I manage are “jobs in addition to” for most team members. Which means they work on my stuf
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
I use streisand on a VPS. Its always fast and reliable. Highly recommend. Edited to add link: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
I don’t always use cash, but I almost always walk inside to pay for gas.
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
Yep. We (the US) could / should start by legalizing and taxing marijuana, and use that money to provide healthcare for addicts (or just everyone). We should also take a more “whole health” approach to mental health. The stigma of drug
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
I guess you’re getting downvoted because some people think this is nit-picky? But I wholeheartedly agree. This is a correction that is important in my job as a technical proposal writer. It important to call “tools” etc. by their correct n
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for contributing your thoughts to this conversation. But I’ve held this similar view for a long time. We are all connected energy and we all form this group consciousness together. We’re conscious of ou
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
Tim Cook has been a single light of hope in this vast dark ocean of surveillance capitalism. I’m so tired of hearing the “nothing to hide, nothing to fear” type responses. Privacy is not “hiding.” I shouldn’t have to hide to keep my busines
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What do other planets sound like? (Podcast) “Space” on 20K Hertz(20k.org)
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
Exactly. Even my personal VPN (Streisand) running on a cloud-hosted VPS is not safe if I decide to become a criminal. All LE would have to do is subpoena my hosting company and monitor incoming connections. A VPN may slow a nation-state dow
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
I’ve seen this information discussed here before (1) and the response was pretty hostile. I’m not sure why the article was flagged but I find this topic extremely relevant to our community. No use throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
This article is from 2014. I did a lot of research on this a few years ago, and found plenty of circumstantial evidence that either (a) TOR is a honeypot, or (b) a large % of users have bad OPSEC, or (c) both a and b are true. Because of “p
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
I agree with you, in theory. But these days, with the revolving door between gov leadership and corporate leadership (1) this is a distinction without much of a difference. And we all probably know about the vast data collection by the PRIS
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
This is a good idea too. I guess I always assumed I would need to “work my way up” from entry level. But I do have a lot of experience running teams and managing budgets. Thanks for the input. I’m going to broaden my search and look for the
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
Good idea, that’s possible. The challenge has been finding that job opening, and then getting it. Maybe I should go to the companies where I know that position exists and proactively bid on a position, rather than waiting for one to open up
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
All very good questions. I’m at the Senior Manager level in my profession, trying to switch to entry / junior level in IT security. I have solid experience and great references, and I get calls from clients and recruiters constantly fo
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
Flak - exactly the word I was looking for, thanks all! I knew that didn’t sound quite right.
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
I agree. I switched to DDG years ago, and brought several people with me. I never have any problems finding what I need. I’m as de-Googled as I can be. I caught a lot of slack (?) from some people over it. But it’s a relief for me.
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
Great idea! This is going on tomorrow’s to do list. I’ll come back with comments soon. I’ve got a couple of friends who are gonna love this too. Thanks for showing this.
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Ask HN: Doing remote work for a business in the UAE
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
I use streisand and I love it. Easy setup, lots of options, and most importantly, I don’t have to trust a VPN provider. I do have to trust my cloud provider. But it’s encrypted and, to my knowledge, pretty much opaque to them. Either way my
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
These are awesome. I’m a proposal manager, and I sketch out storyboards with pen and paper during the planning stage. Something like this with pages divided into 1/4ths and 1/8ths would be very helpful.
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
This must be a case of boiling the frog slowly. I probably qualify as overly concerned with privacy (some might say obsessed). But even I am feeling the fatigue that comes along with the daily news of data leaks, and stories about untrustwo
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
Most of the time I see “nonprofit” and “not for profit” being used interchangeably. Profit, or “fee” in the government contracting world, is almost always being earned. It’s a question of purpose. Theoretically nonprofits focus on some othe
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
This may be a culture thing more than anything else, and more deeply how certain environments affect culture. For example, in my career I’ve seen nonprofits, large and small, being very hawkish in competition for government contracts. So mu
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
Just finished spinning up streisand to run Wireguard on my home network. This is my second time around with this set up, and it works great for me. https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
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by zigzaggy 8y ago
41 - learning to trade options on the stock market.