damhsa

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by damhsa 1y ago
i recently used this to download a PDF of an industry standard i legally had access to in a DRM-PDF format which i could not open on my computer. completely legal according to local legislation, just as long as the publisher doesn't fi
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Assange: Google is not what it seems (2014)(newsweek.com)
11 points by damhsa 1y ago|0 comments
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by damhsa 1y ago
Mandiant is also Google and responsible for a lot of these "disclosures" about the Russkies & Chinks under the bed. https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-27...
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by damhsa 1y ago
Mhmm. "First disclosed by Google." Sources include the State Department which commands the military arm of the CIA. Don't you know Google works for them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(company)#Goo
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by damhsa 1y ago
never used a huawei phone, but the huawei stuff i have used has been as bad as google & apple vis a vis taking linux, locking it down, & then pretending its somehow opensource
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by damhsa 1y ago
according to the CIA lol. & i suppose theres weapons of mass distruction in iraq too? sure buddy
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by damhsa 1y ago
it is a dash. you could use an em dash - or a 2em dash - but this dash is probably shorter than 1em - unless like me you have a monospace font. if it can be a hyphen-minus, it can be a hyphen/minus/dash. and that is what it is, be
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by damhsa 1y ago
a short dash - with spaces around it - is clearly a punction mark, not a word-joiner. what nonsense! anyway, you can not expect everyone to use 4 or more different key combinations depending what style they want. the only solution is to mak
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by damhsa 1y ago
if microsoft ever makes something that doesnt suck it will be a vacuum/hoover
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by damhsa 1y ago
the author condones public protest for the public sector; why not private protest for the private sector? had trump been master of ceremonies i suspect the author would support some protest. as a unix hacker whose peace is often ruined by m
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by damhsa 1y ago
the amount lost is insignificant compared to that lost to wage theft, inflation, rent, interest -- forms of capital expansion https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Pa...
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by damhsa 1y ago
the data downloads i have done (that could be done by anyone with my unlocked phone and logins, such as US border forces) clearly do not even try to adhere to most of the clauses there (e.g. recipients of the data). tech companies dont try
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by damhsa 1y ago
extraction by whom? i dont buy that. i have "downloaded my data" before and it never includes any kind of analytic marketing inferences they have made about me, only what i have done on the site, and they know i dont live in the E
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by damhsa 1y ago
the amount lost is insignificant compared to that lost to wage theft, inflation, rent, interest -- forms of capital expansion https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Pa...
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by damhsa 1y ago
sadly this does not demonstate national sovereignty when it is done in obedience to america
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by damhsa 1y ago
after enabling JS in uBlockOrigin on Firefox, i had to press ctrl+f5 to flush the cache to get it to load after i got a CSP error in the JS console
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by damhsa 1y ago
is this why you can "download your data" from social media app sites? to make it easier for a fed to grep for wrongthink after they make you give them your login and phone password?
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by damhsa 1y ago
typo su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz' should be su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz /usr/src'
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by damhsa 1y ago
i didnt understand it until i stumbled on the bsd supp docs that openbsd couldnt be ****** to include. i dont have the sources, but v7 vol2 is close enough: https://s3.amazonaws.com/plan9-bell-labs/7thEdMan/bswv7.h
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by damhsa 2y ago
for some reason firefox wasnt saving my changes when i saving as html-only, but saving as complete web page it did.
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by damhsa 2y ago
the tex file is huge because its got rasterized images in it, still nice to have though
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by damhsa 2y ago
openbsd literally had the morris worm vulnerability up til very recently. not sure this is a great idea. the way it is (still) programmed is just asking for it. https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/20
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by damhsa 2y ago
Philosophy itself goes to Ancient Greek. Following the rules in the Wikipedia article, I found Ancient Greek led to Philosophy again. Actually the first link in the Ancient Greek article is [hellɛːnikɛ́ː], but this is parenthesized, so the
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by damhsa 2y ago
the supposed 15 hand holds is a little misleading as it doesn't account for holds where a hand is placed on the body, which is important to many dancing traditions, such as the mirror image polka hold, with the man's left arm stre