CPAhem

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Thomas North Wrote the Plays That Shakespeare Later Adapted(dennismccarthy.substack.com)
1 points by CPAhem 2y ago|1 comments
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by CPAhem 2y ago
Not only insurance companies, but many others. Airlines do it too. One dark pattern I experienced during Covid was that the airline call system was automatically set to hang up after 30 minutes. If you were lucky you'd get to speak to
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by CPAhem 2y ago
We use Syncdocs ( https://syncdocs.com ) to do end-to-end Google Drive encryption. The keys stay on the client. It is secure, but means the files are only decryptable on the client, so keys need to be shared manually. I guess secu
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An Ode to My 5-Year-Old Samsung Galaxy S10e(mbrizic.com)
23 points by CPAhem 2y ago|15 comments
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by CPAhem 2y ago
It is a pity it does not apply in Australia. They search 40,000 devices a year there, and consfiscate your device if you refuse.
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by CPAhem 3y ago
Many of the technical and science stuff is still pretty good. Not like it used to be, but it's a recurring theme, when the Internet expanded, UseNet also became rubbish, "infested by AOL'ers and spam" was the complaint i
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by CPAhem 3y ago
You can use Rsync to copy everything from Google Drive as a cron job. If you want copies of your Google Docs and Sheets you'll need something like SyncDocs to download and convert them to MS Office format.
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by CPAhem 4y ago
And while they've got your device, in Australia, the government can legally install rootkits on your phone or laptop without informing you.
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Australian customs searched more than 40k devices in 5 years(itnews.com.au)
39 points by CPAhem 4y ago|12 comments
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by CPAhem 4y ago
OK, I will so in future. I tried to summarize the article in the title. Will follow the guidelines from now on.
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Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)(pupuweb.com)
325 points by CPAhem 4y ago|307 comments
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China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs(bloomberg.com)
1 points by CPAhem 4y ago|0 comments
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Pop _OS 22.04: New kid on the Ubuntu block starting to show real muscle(theregister.com)
16 points by CPAhem 4y ago|6 comments
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Plastic Grocery Bag Bans Boost Sales of Small Plastic Bags(link.springer.com)
4 points by CPAhem 4y ago|0 comments
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by CPAhem 4y ago
There are quite a few clients for Linux, I use Syncdocs https://www.syncdocs.com/ as it has built in encryption. Non I've seen do a proper job of mounting as a drive, NFS or SMB would be nice.
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by CPAhem 4y ago
Ah world.std.com, the first ever ISP.
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by CPAhem 4y ago
The Mullvad app is huge ~100MB which is odd for what it needs to do.
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by CPAhem 4y ago
Unless it happens on the backend - which is what the article appears to say. I'm on Linux with Syncdocs for syncing Google Drive so will wait and see how it handles things.
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Atlassian Jira, Confluence outage persists two days on(theregister.com)
3 points by CPAhem 4y ago|0 comments
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by CPAhem 4y ago
Yes, it's odd, that a driver which should be small enough to fit in kernel memory comes in such a package (for Windows at least) that is a few hundred mega-bytes.
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AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking(tomshardware.com)
14 points by CPAhem 4y ago|2 comments
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by CPAhem 4y ago
A review of Phantos OS from 2009 https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/03/phantom_russian_os/
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by CPAhem 5y ago
For those who have the ability to do so, please make an Archive of all the Vanced Versions before the download links are taken down https://mirror.codebucket.de/vanced/
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by CPAhem 5y ago
Syncdocs is also an easy end-to-end encryption/sync app for Google Drive https://syncdocs.com
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A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco(economist.com)
185 points by CPAhem 5y ago|354 comments
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by CPAhem 5y ago
You can encrypt stuff to Google Drive. You can sync a Truecrypt ( http://www.truecrypt.org/ ) folder or use something like Syncdocs ( https://syncdocs.com ) that does the encryption/decryption automatically. Do
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Taiwan Semiconductor Is Hiking Chip Prices Up to 20%(zerohedge.com)
7 points by CPAhem 5y ago|0 comments
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Scientist Unerases Deleted Google Cloud Early Covid Data to Help Explain Origins(scribd.com)
2 points by CPAhem 5y ago|0 comments
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by CPAhem 5y ago
We're forced to used GSuite. I find https://syncdocs.com useful - it lets me collaborate using MS Office on top of GSuite
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Anom Encrypted App Analysis(webcache.googleusercontent.com)
90 points by CPAhem 5y ago|69 comments

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