figglestar

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by figglestar 9d ago
Why is this more far fetched than LG smart TVs recording audio while pretending to be off and caching the results waiting for an opportunity to exfiltrate the precious data? We're in a "if they can they will" world with this
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by figglestar 17d ago
Why would they directly use a proxy service? I'd just launder the data scraping through some third party company that I could slough off if it ever turned into a news story. Not that anything would happen to them if they directly used
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by figglestar 4mo ago
People who pay subscriptions are exactly the sort of people you want to advertise to the most since they've signaled they have money. It's like flashing a big wad of cash in a seedy bar.
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by figglestar 1y ago
It's bizarre to me there are people cheering on the potential death of x86. Sure it has warts, but it is an accidentally created mostly-open platform we'll likely never see created again. And ARM's vaulted power efficiency ad
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by figglestar 2y ago
In sounds like you have Firefox's fingerprint resist feature enabled. This confusion occurs every time this topic comes up because there are two different strategies used to attack the problem and people end up measuring them both the
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by figglestar 2y ago
After my wife stole (back) her high school alarm clock I wasn't satisfied with the replacements. But I picked up an old one for $0.25 at a market festival recently and am pretty happy with it.
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by figglestar 2y ago
This seems like the most difficult era as far as emulation of PC games goes. There was a ton of change and different 3D accelerators during this time and hardware advanced away from things like 16-bit color and dropped support. And it is ol
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by figglestar 2y ago
Isn't flood insurance already nationalized? My understanding was about 100 years ago these properties in flood zones were deemed un-insurable by the private industry and the government decided to fill in the gap, probably because a lot
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by figglestar 2y ago
Microsoft should just double down again on the doubling down. That would be twice as good and really start to make some headway I figure. Maybe as good squared, I'm not an C-level exec so I confess I don't fully understand the mat
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by figglestar 2y ago
I'm not sure this is appealing to wallstreet at all but this just describes the appeal of open source as a customer to me. VMware is a just perfect case example, they're literally firing paying customers and destroying a product l
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by figglestar 2y ago
My experience with Meta is it is just a PII fishing expedition masquerading as a security check. I abandoned my facebook account when they asked for my driver's license scan, a few weeks later suddenly they didn't need it after al
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by figglestar 2y ago
Use the tech to speak and hide your real voice.
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by figglestar 3y ago
If another poster's story is true, you could have done that before with 23andMe by just paying cash.
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by figglestar 3y ago
Even if no one charges you it still creates a mess for the accused. We already saw how google handled a verified false positive scan that the police determined was innocuous.
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by figglestar 3y ago
> We mandated legacy telecos to maintain switching offices with a weeks worth of battery power so landlines could work in a natural disaster. Not disagreeing with the topic at hand but this isn't even consistent anymore. When they s
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by figglestar 3y ago
Does that mean you can upload any old junk to prevent the account being deleted?
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by figglestar 3y ago
This is maybe indirectly a good thing. Cash has a lot of advantages from a privacy perspective and I feel like it has lost a lot of luster with younger people in general. This may keep it alive. Another poster mentioned that buying weed wit
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by figglestar 3y ago
Just tried this with VPN + firefox resist fingerprinting. I cleared cookies and session data and reloaded, it recorded 1 visit 1 ip for the first (obviously) and second tries. I did not change my VPN connection between attempts. Based on th
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by figglestar 4y ago
I asked the sales guy about this when I bought my 2019 Subaru and he was stumped, said no one had ever asked that before. But sure enough, the car could read flash drives similar to MP3 cds.
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by figglestar 4y ago
Young people in general are having less sex but young men are having a noteworthy amount less than young women. And the delta between the two groups is a new thing within the last 10 years or so.
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by figglestar 4y ago
> monitor all outbound network connections with a gui prompt that defaults to deny. whitelist trusted domains/ip for a better experience and a bit less security. > bonus points if the filtering happens upstream at a router or wir
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by figglestar 5y ago
This one never sounds fantastic to me, just "very good". It does have a very cool feature where you can input a phrase with one "feeling" to change the main text to have that "feeling" as well. It is a bit conf