LionRoar

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by LionRoar 4y ago
I find the idea of old photo/data degradation strangely comforting. Even digital data seems to be unable to escape the law of entropy (don't mention the black holes). On another note; if corrupting data/photos was a wide occu
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by LionRoar 8y ago
I grew up, not with the satan idea, but was told that there was a relation between the apostle Peter and the symbol. The reason for that was that Peter was crucified upsidedown. They argued why someone would use it as a peace symbol when it
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by LionRoar 10y ago
I made your statement a little more accurate. "THOU SHALT MAKE SURE CHILDREN UNDERSTAND [our version of] RIGHT AND WRONG!." You're welcome :)
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by LionRoar 10y ago
Thanks for the link, I reread it. Nice story but I think I can guess his current password now: "Plus, if you’re interested in more of this, I’m writing a book!" :)
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by LionRoar 13y ago
Yes, this! Exactly to the point. This is in my view THE argument against all-out snooping. It is about control, not about criminality.
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by LionRoar 13y ago
"In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but at non-americans. Surveillance operations from the
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by LionRoar 13y ago
This is funny AND insightful. Reminds me of folding proteins. So, I guess it is a good moment to point to http://folding.stanford.edu/
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by LionRoar 13y ago
The problem now is not the tv anymore. I grew up and have now to deal with the distractions of this age and time.
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by LionRoar 13y ago
I have done this and I agree. "News" gives a single side view on the world and it is hardly an uplifting one. Personally I strongly belief that the general public opinion is negativer then needed caused by negative news-feeding.
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by LionRoar 13y ago
I grew also up without a television. That was no deliberate choice, my parents are orthodox christians. I was very creative in that period and I kinda miss that now :)
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by LionRoar 13y ago
I went to the code.org site, looked around and tried the objective-C version. I was (positively) surprised that it did work because I am not in the USA at the moment, meaning it's not blocked for non-USA access. The simulator didn&#x27
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by LionRoar 13y ago
I can totally understand your frustration that shines through. Basically I agree with you. 8 years ago I saw the start of an explosion of new languages/frameworks/etc. All solving 1 of more things of a bigger problem. To my mind i
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by LionRoar 13y ago
Tor browser (package tor-browser-2.3.25-15_en-US, latest bundle) does have Javascript disabled by default. Please check options-content->enable Javascript. If I am mistaken I am delighted to hear otherwise.
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by LionRoar 13y ago
If someone starts about Dark Web, VPN and privacy and then states: "so if a request for your data is legitimate, F Secure will not stop a proper investigation from the authorities" it renders it immediately completely useless in m
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by LionRoar 13y ago
I like these kinds of perspectives :)
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by LionRoar 13y ago
Not jealous, just surprisingly misinformed and perhaps narrow minded :) Hope that India is going to work on the communications side of things, exciting times indeed!
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by LionRoar 13y ago
I think it is a little bit odd to create a page that shows every fuck-word it can find in the world, call it "fbomb", having an About page whereby one only talks about the "F word" and "F-Bombs" while trying ve
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by LionRoar 13y ago
I am not put off by the DIY surgery or the size of the computer. But I was astonished by this line: 'the chip can record Cannon's body temperature and transfer it in real time via Bluetooth.' If I would attempt such a thing l
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by LionRoar 13y ago
Reaction of Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond on the news. Sounds a lot more sincere then their previous denials (which proved to be lies forced by the law anyway). "We have long been concerned about the possibility of this
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by LionRoar 13y ago
I always realy like these kind of data. Not in a morbid sense but just to see the real data instead of marketing driven FUD. Another thought that I always have seeing data like this is that it gives a clear view where the government should
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by LionRoar 13y ago
Indeed! I was going to remark the same. Also a side effect of digital zoom is that it is not perfectly sharp. You see this already in the example pictures. After all, digital zoom is more of an effect then real zooming. For this reason I ne
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by LionRoar 13y ago
I work at a small company as the only software engineer (indeed sofware is not the core business here). My annual salary is around 40K euro. 3 years ago we started a huge project and hired extra manpower (4 persons x 3 month). 1 person of t
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by LionRoar 13y ago
A program listing as screensaver (KolibriOS). Now, that is cool.
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by LionRoar 13y ago
Although sounding a little bit cynical, there is unfortunately some truth in it: if thinking was important then the smartest people could be found on the highest positions. Clearly that is not the case (with a few exceptions). So we can onl
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by LionRoar 13y ago
Despite having a curious mind I still find things I didn't know about. Being 42 I experience this while feeling a combination of frustration and delight. I am working on the silly frustration bit :) BTW I read the book last summer for
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by LionRoar 13y ago
You are correct. In fact, Commodore Basic had more of these shortcuts which allowed you to type in Basic commands really quickly. If you LISTed the code all shortcuts were changed to their correct command names. Kind of stenographic coding.