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by jgroszko 7y ago
One of my favorite single-purpose websites: http://isthereacubsgametoday.com/
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by jgroszko 7y ago
A lot of my smart phone usage lately seems to be around managing how much attention my phone can grab from me. I let very few apps send me notifications on my phone. I check it enough without it making noises at me. And if an app doesn&#x27
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by jgroszko 7y ago
I think they're reinventing ActivityPub
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by jgroszko 7y ago
I suppose it hasn't had mass real world consequences for folks yet, but the Equifax breach pretty much proves this?
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by jgroszko 7y ago
Yes, that was the S3 outage last year... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756111
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by jgroszko 7y ago
There's an option on https://myaccount.google.com/security to turn off 2-step login.
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by jgroszko 8y ago
Michigan has had a similar 10c bottle return program for decades... Was a popular fundraiser for High School clubs
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by jgroszko 8y ago
Depends on what analytics and ad tracking are also running on that site
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Anonymous Amazon worker says they listen to unrecognized Alexa recordings(twitter.com)
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by jgroszko 8y ago
So under-represented or disadvantaged communities that don't have the resources to meet the education standards don't get to vote? Education requirements can very easily become a proxy for race/class.
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by jgroszko 8y ago
You could spend a lot of money lobbying for those laws to go away before you hit $1bn...
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by jgroszko 8y ago
Seems to me law enforcement having access to our internet activity (presumably moderated by the courts) is better than private companies just selling that data to the highest bidder
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by jgroszko 8y ago
Liberals I think are a little bit more critical, knowing they exist in a society that is systemically racist in a lot of ways, are willing to look at their thoughts and behaviors in an effort to try and figure out ways that they might be un
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by jgroszko 8y ago
Also the Chicago Deep Tunnel system is pretty massive "Phase 1, the creation of 109.4 miles (176.1 km) of drainage tunnels ranging from 9 to 33 feet (2.7 to 10.1 m) in diameter, up to 350 feet (110 m) underground, was adopted in 1972,
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by jgroszko 8y ago
Your username has nothing to do with your email address. Usernames take the form of @myusername@instance.domain. You lose followers when you change instances but you can set a flag on your old account that points to the new one.
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by jgroszko 8y ago
Well Deserved is a (parody) marketplace for privilege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoK4_dQbfuU
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by jgroszko 8y ago
Between Equifax and today Exactis both leaking 300M+ records it's not really a question of if, but rather how many times have I been pwned...
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by jgroszko 8y ago
Alistair Reynold's Revelation Space universe explores this, often times with sub-light travelers arriving at what they thought would be one of the largest cities in known space only to find it devastated by a plague. More relevantly, t
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by jgroszko 8y ago
Or fast food restaurants embedding tracking devices in their food... That'll be fun having to review privacy policies at every restaurant you eat at.
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by jgroszko 8y ago
These open protocols seem pretty cool, but I'm curious what sort of improvements for privacy people expect them to offer? Federating with other servers just means you're trusting each server operator with your (semi?)-public data.
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by jgroszko 8y ago
I was always a fan of these nihilist security questions: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nihilistic-password-secu...
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by jgroszko 8y ago
It raises a few 'who' questions, besides 'who is sending these messages?' but also 'who receives that alert and makes the decision to block these things?' and 'who's in charge of the heuristics the sy
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by jgroszko 9y ago
You can also drag the file over the taskbar and whatever program you hover over will come to the foreground
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by jgroszko 9y ago
Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge explores this a bit. Classroom distractions become students throwing up graphics in their shared AR and the one guy in the room that doesn't know how to access it is left out of the joke. It's be
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by jgroszko 9y ago
If I can't turn off notifications then I just uninstall the app. I uninstalled Facebook and Messenger because of this. I had been using the Facebook mobile site just fine for years, but this fall decided to stop checking that too...
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by jgroszko 9y ago
Twidere on Android allows you to access Twitter and Mastodon accounts in a UI similar to TweetDeck
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by jgroszko 10y ago
Are there any public code bases out there that use this? Would be cool to see what sort of pipelines like this people are building and how they get used.
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by jgroszko 10y ago
If the back yard is accessible to delivery drones wouldn't it just as easily be accessible to a thief's drone?
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by jgroszko 10y ago
I had this issue as well until I cleared the data/cache for my Google Play services app.
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by jgroszko 10y ago
Any first past the post system like we have will trend towards a two party system as people vote strategically for the most tolerable mainstream candidate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo It's interesting t

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