buildzr

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by buildzr 7y ago
This effect is - in some ways I fear, almost inherent to tech. The same reason you call someone an idiot if they click an ad that looks like an error message, login to their bank on mybank.com.sketchysite.info, respond to a Nigerian scam or
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by buildzr 7y ago
Consumers are the top plastic polluters on the planet. These products aren't without demand.
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by buildzr 7y ago
Yes, cannabis kills REM sleep pretty significantly.
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by buildzr 7y ago
True, just disabling it via PackageInstaller by default would do the trick, the root community could re-enable it easily and those who only needed to sideload the occasional app could do so via USB debugging. It seems like every time I hope
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by buildzr 7y ago
All they'd have to do in order to survive a factory reset is to write to the /system partition, which contains the main OS. A factory reset only wipes /data and a few caches. Writing to /system requires it to be mounted
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by buildzr 7y ago
Wow, interesting to see Hikvision on this list, I own several of their cameras (and keep them isolated on a separate VLAN), but once you know them, you see them everywhere, they have a huge hold in the video surveillance market. Wonder if t
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by buildzr 7y ago
I think the philosophy here has sort of changed with newer versions of Windows, this is why the taskbar now has quicklaunch icons and regular app icons the same size and place. I keep all my "stuff that just stays open" like thund
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by buildzr 7y ago
> when you loose your data you have only 30 days to get it back before Backblaze deletes it as well! Uhhh... this one could be a significant issue for me right now. I've got a laptop that's been offline for about 2 months now d
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by buildzr 7y ago
> Many of the bulging / exploding batteries were not in the end apple. This is incorrect. Apple issued a recall due to known issues with their own batteries ! These are not 3rd party replacements. https://support.apple.c
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by buildzr 7y ago
You're right, keeping keys in SRAM and other trivial anti-tamper measures are way too expensive. Cutoffs are performed by the same IC. Should be trivial. This was a business decision for sure. Apple doesn't want anyone but Apple t
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by buildzr 7y ago
Great, so why wouldn't they accept another battery IC with a valid Apple signature? Even swapping a brand new battery is enough to raise complaints.
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by buildzr 7y ago
Google still ships Chrome and updated WebView for devices older than that even. If Windows desktops have shown us anything, it's that (given NAT) few vulnerabilities are easier and more profitable to attack than a browser.
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by buildzr 7y ago
I'm not even in their country, pretty sure I'm not going to get extradited for breaking the privacy laws of a jurisdiction in which I have no physical presence.
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by buildzr 7y ago
Wrong link?
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by buildzr 7y ago
I'm just going to ignore them all until my actual operating jurisdiction implements one, I'm not beholden to the laws of another country, let alone a specific state in it.
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by buildzr 7y ago
You can't give someone paid leave if they don't work regular hours. I know everyone likes to mock them for calling them "contractors", but in some ways it makes sense - they're employees doing work on a per-contract
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by buildzr 7y ago
> but IMO (criminal?) negligence to not protect other passengers from this person So, what's your suggested fix? We should let any unproven accusation be enough to deny someone their income? As far as I can see, the only reasonable
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by buildzr 7y ago
Yes, for less technical people that's great, but for people who are willing to deal with it for improved security, it's worth it. I'm not suggesting it to mom and pop here.
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by buildzr 7y ago
I'm avoiding the browser extensions, they seem to be a security nightmare. KeePass and similar are a better way to go, if slightly more labor intensive.
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by buildzr 7y ago
> that recommendation in the first place was an act of bad faith. This seems a bit of a stretch to me. The doctors prescribed it, even given readily available research, the FDA approved it, knowing full well this was a risk. Those are th
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by buildzr 7y ago
Yeah, very confusing statement - would they use this same logic to ban Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies as against their soverignty? Do they treat gold similarly?
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by buildzr 7y ago
You can always pack it with emojis and unicode characters... that's what all the spammers seem to do at least.
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by buildzr 7y ago
And that attitude is the reason we have so much overhead and useless garbage being produced instead of valuable labor. Just because I don't want to learn the intricacies of labor and tax law doesn't mean I won't pay my employ
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by buildzr 7y ago
It's significantly better actually - gets around DNS blocking put in place by malicious ISPs and governments.
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by buildzr 7y ago
Aren't there a bunch of European ISPs applying government enforced DNS blocking? Seems like this is a very good move for them.
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by buildzr 7y ago
It takes 1 person a few percent of their time to manage something like that for internal use only. And you still get the gains of keeping secrets internal and cost savings on licensing costs which might actually pay for a good chunk of the
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by buildzr 7y ago
Sure but like, run Mattermost or Lync or an XMPP server with apps pre-built for it... don't build your own system. Just a waste of effort.
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by buildzr 7y ago
Seems to be targeted at allow multiple vhosts and SSL certs on the same IP.
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by buildzr 7y ago
Trunked radio systems, as used by police, firefighters and EMS worldwide are not peer-to-peer. You transmit to the trunk, it relays to people in your selected group. All radios rely on a control signal from the trunk for determining where
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by buildzr 7y ago
My municipality is using encrypted trunked P25 for police comms now. Seems better than LTE for reliability at least. Just a simple digital voice codec and optional encryption system ontop of the traditional trunked radio systems. Compressio

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