dontbenebby

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by dontbenebby 3y ago
i like vi sometimes i use macvim so i can move quickly to that program in particular and do other stuff in the terminal, since i use it for general distraction free writing technically macvim is not vi, but i guess both are considered outda
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by dontbenebby 3y ago
Are we gonna do the thing where anyone who says Putin can't do whatever he wants is "in the CIA" and thus suspect and force autistic teens to look up publicly available vessel navigation data with a glorified set of links ove
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by dontbenebby 3y ago
>I realize the rust evangelism strike force is a thing With rust there's no buffer overflows, how will folks buy supercars to crash in the desert after escaping "flyover country" (In all seriousness, people were obsessed w
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by dontbenebby 3y ago
python is probably a bad choice due to the white space absolutism. compiled languages may be not fun since you have more delays than the sighted. what did old school phreaks use when learning to program? (i was late the the game in the late
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Ask HN: I've never had a consistent handle. How did you maintain your nym?
2 points by dontbenebby 3y ago|1 comments
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by dontbenebby 3y ago
>Your post reads like someone who is interested in politics on the side, and has done a lot of reading on US issues, but hasn't really worked in the field. Is that accurate? I worked for a major K Street NGO. I was removed for refus
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by dontbenebby 3y ago
>Only the wealthy can participate in politics or public debate? Pretty much, I've seen how you're retaliated against. I spent down on a Bellingcat cert, but that's useless -- doesn't matter what I find in public view,
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Ask HN: How did you pivot to politics? (NOT policy)?
4 points by dontbenebby 3y ago|4 comments
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by dontbenebby 3y ago
nope. i opted myself out of the wayback machine and have obliterated my online precedence as much as possible. for those of us who began forming memories as the berlin wall fell, it's been quite a ride -- it seemed, for this brief mome
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Ask HN: Why no TOTP on the website? Account theft potential abounds
2 points by dontbenebby 3y ago|2 comments
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
You've got a few that are pro privacy in the "pro individualism to the extreme degree" lumped in there with some good ones, just so you know. I've been in this space a long time. And now, I must hand off this nym to the
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
They need to defund the FBI and split it in two, the counter intel people have run roughshod over the original mission. I once (after making my whole thing for over fifteen years that I won't speak to the FBI because they beat my towns
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
Thanks for this resource! I remember back before the "Summer of Snowden" enrolling in a PhD because if you were pro privacy (and thus anti invasive ad tracking ala GOOG, FB et al), there were very few roles. (Even today, many a &q
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
Because then you can justify not using alternate revenue streams like selling their contact details.
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
Travel
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
I could have sworn this meta level concept was discussed ages ago in one of those Klutz press science tween science books they’d sell at places like Natural Wonders in the 2000s. (It’s still cool research just jogged my memory- iirc they ha
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
I was being a bit sarcastic but I think longer, removable battery rather than thin + using a charging case could have an appeal. (Same for an sd slot.) Especially paired with a form factor like the 6s for those who don’t want a phablet.
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
I’ve met those people. They act like running cross someone who’s never held a clearance in their life on Tinder is the same as being an extortion victim. (If I wanted a sob story about how it’s hard to be a mom I’d install the Lifetime appl
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
Thanks! I haven’t watched in years - much like the Simpsons the early seasons were better (IMHO)
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
>We finally have the new technology making it possible! :-s Don’t they hire John Callas in like 1997? ;-) (Sorry, couldn’t resist a bit of good natured ribbing.)
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
>Apple is positioning itself to become a major player in the advertising space and - with a dwindling economy and an increased pressure to sustained growth from shareholders - that's going to continuously encroach on our privacy gua
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
Ok thanks, I understand better. Also I don’t have the data to support it but often if I get one vote it’s who I replied to so a flag and an upvote seemed odd. I’ll lurk more and try to stay positive.
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
Now? In 2022? Gee thanks I guess
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
Is this from South Park? Sounds familiar
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
Airbnb is kind of sketch I’d encourage ppl to get a single room in a hostel rather than a hotel if cost is still an issue into your late 20s/early 30s in a new country if they’re at the age being surrounded by twenty Australian women i
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
Also on average the Scottish ppl I met were all frankly more fun to get along with than the English. I’ve never actually been to Scotland just found it hilarious ppl would be kind of rude about them when on my end they always seemed prett
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
It’s because they want PII like a phone number or at least your geographic location whereas TOTP is an offline protocol so they nudge as hard as they can for you to use other mechanisms
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
>hey, what's bit of sloppy hyperbole if it drives your point across? The type of person who stopped their reading on totalitarianism with the fall of the Nazis rather than the fall of the Berlin Wall tend to be unreliable narrators.
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
That’s why casinos use chips btw :-)
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by dontbenebby 4y ago
>The show trial was a miscarriage of justice, because it wasn't done largely and publicly enough Emphasis added. (I agree.)

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