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by RandomBacon 1y ago
> From a security standpoint: When my data lands in the hands of Chinese interests and USA entities, only the latter is leveraging it against me. In the stack of data risks to be mitigated, China is at the bottom and everyone tied to the
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
> have been setting off alarms because they perceive the fires of fascism to be burning here in America right now The problem is that people who unknowingly support it, view these warnings as just another attack, and are desensitized to
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
No
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
I missed that wave, do you know where they went? I'm getting tired of people letting politics seep into the discussions on this website.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
The downsides are enormous for older people. We are increasingly making everything digital, and it's leaving the older generations that cannot constantly adapt and relearn as their memory gets worse, in trouble.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
I hope that one day, Facebook will be used as an example of what not to do. I'm reminded of a meme, from around when Facebook had its IPO: "Why is Facebook going public? They couldn't figure out their privacy settings either!
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
You're comment doesn't seem to make much sense. It does appear that you have some deep-rooted anger. Our philosophies are obviously different, and commenting here doesn't seem like it's going to get us on common ground
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
> Does anybody feel sympathy for a terrorist? If your answer is yes, then you're unsympathetic towards numerous innocent others who have or may fall prey to them. Your sympathy becomes selective and meaningless. You can have sympath
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
I noticed it on Firefox for Android.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
I think for a lot of people, politics is more important than having humanity for other people.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
You can feel sympathy for a person without agreeing with them or having the same viewpoints. I hope there are people out there that feel bad for another living being. Edit: Yikes. Also, sympathy ≠ empathy.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
I'm reading the sci-fi ExForce series by Craig Alanson. There is jumping (wormholes) and speed of light restrictions where lightseconds, lightminutes, lighthours come in to play. What you see (position of enemy ships) might not be tr
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
It is a "Recommended" extension by Firefox which means: > The Firefox team, along with community input, handpicks each extension and conducts manual security reviews to ensure they comply with policies before being awarded the
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
OP was making the same comparison. Voiding a warranty by merely rooting something is illegal under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. The problem is getting the companies to change their act, and they probably won't without a class actio
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
Usually you can't place your finger in the just the rigbt spot when blindly frabbing the phone from your pocket. I loved the rear fingerprint reader on my old Nexus 5X.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
> Best in class security and privacy That is a phrase I would expect an ad to say. Can you quantify those things? Do they have physical switches for the camera, microphone, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth? Do they have tamper-evident features?
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
No problem. I also acknowledge that some people find the expectation that they should read rules offensive and worthy of downvotes as my previous comment was downvoted by someone else (and I'm okay with this comment also being downvot
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
I have a Dell XPS that I bought in 2020 and still use daily, the only issue I've had was the rubber feet/lines needing to be replaced. I still have my previous laptops (only two, because I don't need to buy many when they la
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
> I hope it's not against the rules to swear Perhaps then, you should go ahead and read the rules? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
That's because anything other than "one click unsubscribe" violates the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
It reads to me as if he was on the flight before the doomed flight.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
Parent is referring to an entertaining music video where the Italian singer made a song of nonsense words that sounds like English to non-English speakers: Starts at 1:40 https://youtube.com/watch?v=v5VpczwrSCc
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
> floppy discs disc - optical disk - not optical Eg.: floppy disks and DVD discs
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
Monero doesn't have a dev tax. Though Zcash proponents will say the tax is a good thing. The tax is so good, that instead of getting rid of the tax after half of the coins were mined like the developers originally promised, the devs k
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
No, but if anyone is interested: last time I visited the Ala Moana Center (an open-air mall) in Honolulu, I thought that would be a great place to do so: good temperatures, easy access to low-use back hallways, empty storage rooms off said
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
> If you aren't willing to put your identity behind what you're saying then maybe keep it to yourself. I see that you've never had a stalker, someone try to "SWAT" you, etc.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
Then you just get bots that support scams or overpriced garbage and can afford the posting fee.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
> Which is great Idk, that sounds horrible to me. I'd rather not waste time reading through a deluge of low-quality comments, instead of quickly reading a few high-quality comments.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
And make an option to "mute" that one friend in your feed.
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by RandomBacon 1y ago
Re. #1-3: meh Re. #4/5: I want a chronological feed of my friends' posts, no algorithm. If I feel my friend is posting too much garbage, then I want to be able to "unfollow" them but still be "friends". I wan

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