evross

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by evross 3y ago
Blinkist and skimming a book have their place for getting some of the key points, it's hard to find the time to read all useful books. But I agree that to really get the most out of a book, reading cover to cover is likely most immersi
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by evross 4y ago
Hypothesis is one that has been interesting to use for web article annotation. It lets you save quotes and comments on articles https://web.hypothes.is/
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by evross 5y ago
It's interesting to learn about. Other molecules are also found to inhibit replication of 3CL protease in SARS cov-2 [1]. The UK scientific advisory group SAGE published a few months ago that combination therapy might be useful to avoi
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by evross 6y ago
ANC headphones are great for low-frequency (bass) sounds. But with cheap headphones I find I can still hear speech. I think new housing uses mass loaded vinyl to prevent high frequency sounds from passing through walls - perhaps heavy, 1lb
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by evross 6y ago
I use gitAhead as daily git Gui on linux. It's fast to run. Has a lot of git features, maybe not all though. https://gitahead.github.io/gitahead.com/
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by evross 6y ago
I found it through search on Youtube, had been looking for which way to package applications on Linux. Packaging really takes a bit of time, reading documentation and figuring out how to do it. After packaging a flatpak you need to add it t
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by evross 6y ago
A great talk on Flatpak sandboxing was released in March. [1]. The original post is from 2018 (Flatpak 1.0). Not sure if these issues are completely fixed yet, there are a lot of release notes up to version 1.63 (stable). [2] It seems that
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by evross 6y ago
Just following the surveillance model pioneered by Google, Facebook etc. I'm glad tech surveillance is being covered and some awareness and opposition is visible here. Xiaomi aren't the only ones taking a mile of advantage from th
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by evross 6y ago
Russian roulette might be an unfair comparison, but it may only be one order of magnitude different to this virus IFR. With probability a number between 0 and 1, percentage is between 0 and 100. From the study in your source [1] the P(death
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by evross 6y ago
The graphs on this page shows the situation for NY. It is clear that the risk can't be compared with 2009's H1N1. It's sobering. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/c
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by evross 7y ago
Really promising and excellent video. I hope chloroquine (or hydroxychloroquine) proves to be effective in emergency clinical trials. And that it can be readily sourced for upcoming patients if so. All researchers, doctors should see this v
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by evross 7y ago
I'd recommend going to https://savedotorg.org and sharing it if possible. There will be a public call through this campaign for people interested in learning more about this sale on December 5th at 12pm pacific time.
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by evross 7y ago
It's worth noting that the former ICANN CEO, Fadi Chehadé is highly involved in this sale. This timeline also seems to suggest that current members of ICANN are also biased towards the sale of the .org domain, ICANN may not be interest
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by evross 7y ago
There is https://SaveDotOrg.org which people that don't support this selling out of .org should sign. It's supported by NTEN and a lot of other site owners and internet users.
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by evross 7y ago
From https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/isoc-pir-... : "March 2019: ICANN receives 3,300 comments uniformly opposed to the change and 6 in favor of removing price caps, and sides with the
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by evross 7y ago
Sounds like a cash-out or a kickback. Still not worth any more money than ISOC was already making. ISOC should listen and row back on this decision. There are more than ten thousand signatures on https://savedotorg.org/ .
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by evross 7y ago
Another post mentioned that this may be self-dealing. This comment they linked has information on complaints/actions that can be taken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21658324
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by evross 7y ago
I agree that the privacynotincluded site should have a broader set of standards but I really commend them for investing resources into tackling the truth of the huge amount of surveillance built in to a lot of these products these days. Hop
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by evross 7y ago
One simple answer is that marketing (a.k.a. thought manipulation) works. Propaganda works. What's the advertisement/marketing spending for all these surveillance companies' products in the past 10 years? And, in comparison, w
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by evross 7y ago
"Be my guest, regulate the sh1t out of it. I'll give you side-doors, back-doors, trackers, whatever you want. Just don't shut it down." Intense scene. Good decision by Germany/France on this one. This is the kind of
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by evross 7y ago
Always enjoy reading these updates. It's refreshing for a company to explain their progress in this kind of technical detail, another bonus of a free/open source product. Congrats to the Purism team for the progress, looking forwa
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by evross 8y ago
The privacy issue can happen in two ways that I can think of: 1. Unclear boundaries of data. How many points of data are being collected and sent 'home'? CPU performance? OK. Device name, pc username, usage duration, times the pro
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by evross 8y ago
"There’s only two things that will improve your situation: 1. Concentrate on your users, audience, customers, fans. Figure out what they want. Develop a deep connection with them. 2. Improve your skill, expertise, competence, product.
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by evross 8y ago
This is a brilliant idea I feel. Students of history have a fairly unique position in having in-depth understanding of events. They are like cultural scientists, they work to understand facts and causality. With applied history, they could
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by evross 8y ago
Here is how I think about surveillance. Suppose your boss decides they want to run a quiet experiment on you. They tell you to install an employee clock-in app on your personal phone and that you will be paid for your commute time if the ap
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by evross 8y ago
The good thing is that Purism has a track record. They have been designing, manufacturing & shipping privacy focused, FOSS laptops for years now. A full FOSS/FOSH phone is new territory. They're still allowing pre-orders on th