maxheadroom

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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> Not sure what the angle is? Maybe a new version of the directory harvest attack[0]? For example, if someone has an email address (or list of email addresses) from somewhere else, one can easily tell if you (or they) have a Facebook ac
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> ...but strictly just means "not a manager right now". There's also the verisimilitude that it can also mean an inferred ceiling. For example, Principal <whatever area> Engineer role[s] at Microsoft is [are] typica
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category... If you're into privacy-conscious search engines and want one that's not susceptible to blanket FISA warrants[0], check out either Qwant[1] or Swi
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
In an ever-connected world, it's entirely plausible for you to die alone and for no one to have seemingly cared.[0] [0] - https://www.oddee.com/item_98735.aspx
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Does this sound like Downing Street is gearing-up for mass surveillance, post-Brexit, or is it just me?
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Giving the benefit of doubt, I'm assuming that they meant the UK being a protector of the US interest[s]; however, I could be wrong.
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
This comment doesn't even make sense, as with a little digging you could've found this[0] information yourself: " Windows port work is underway, but is not yet working. The difficulties are in figuring out the set of system
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> On top of that they monitor for profanity. WHY? It doesn't harm anyone and lets people express themselves how they want. The war against profanity is strictly a Puritan, I mean American, thing. In most sensible countries in Europ
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Surprised that this is the first comment about this on here but we really need a better turn-of-phrase than "toxins" because kind of language validates the fads going around that are harming people - like the "get skinny in
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> ...one thing that gets overlooked is declining religiosity... I think, maybe, you're mistaking the community that forms around religion (e.g.: churches, friendships, church groups, etc.) for religion, itself. If the argument were
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> A perfect storm of prescription opioids, government prohibition, and cheap/plentiful Chinese and Mexican fentanyl. I think it's actually the fact that the war on opioids has translated into a war on prescription pain drugs,
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> I think the reason why most devs still prefer plain-text resources over anything else is... I think you missed a vital reason and that is portability and sharability. No one needs to install anything special to read or edit a text fil
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> Punishment is a deterrent and has been proven so for millennia. A proven deterrent? Do you have any facts to back-up your posit? The crime and recidivism rates would seem to indicate the contrary; especially, in the states. Essentiall
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
This will probably seem very pedantic but aren't " Unauthorized Access/Disclosure " and " Hacking/IT Incident " pretty much the same things?
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Most complicated game of Six of Degrees of Kevin Bacon[0] that I've heard of. :) [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> Modern IRC servers tend to support TLS on port 6697 and SASL for authentication. The OC's point was by default , meaning/inferring clear-text is still the modus operandi for generally getting onto IRC services. > Many ap
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
You seem to have meant to put citations in (e.g.: [1], [2]) but forgot to include them. :(
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> ...it's very convenient when you're in the system and impractical when you are not. This exists everywhere, though, so Sweden's personnummer isn't exactly unique in this case. For a small subset of examples, take N
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> I take notes every week on every employee I manage to track specific instances of positive and negative things they’re doing. This is really helpful for tracking behaviors in one-on-one reviews. This seems to be on the micromanaging l
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
The worst is the reality that people could (and would) use it for libelous purposes; such as vindictive exes (no matter the sex), or people with stability problems, or the like.
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Should the title have a (2017) at the end, since Quantum initially came out then[0,1]? (I understand it points to a current-version but it seems like, from the comments, it's being mistaken for having recently been released.) [0] - ht
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> ...implementing great, thoughtfully designed features on a regular basis, for free. Haven't we already learned the underlying issue with the moniker of "free" from the likes of Facebook and Google?
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> Could victim organizations reduce the damage through dilution and disinformation: create a lot of fake data and intentionally leak it? Given HIPAA and GDPR, leaking medical data is the antithesis of what you'd want to be doing. A
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
To save you the read, the summation is in the second-to-last paragraph: > As you have probably noticed, I didn’t say anything about information. That’s because really the reference to information in “black hole information loss” is entir
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> Instagram influencers who are thoughtful and authentic are great. If your main focus is slinging products, I don't see how that equates to being thoughtful or authentic; especially, when your end-goal is just chasing the next few
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
To be fair, the article leaves out the size of the areas affected by the wildfires; however, it does proffer a guesstimation in the potential damage as a byproduct of the fires: > The fires have been releasing a large amount of carbon di
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Some links on your site are directed to the vanity 'charte.ge' but are still branded with 'giveinternet.org'. An example would be the 'Meet our team' link on this page: https://giveinternet.org/
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
^So much of this. HN != Reddit_2.0
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> In the states we have to rely on stuff like the Innocence Project, unfortunately. The American justice system is built upon the premise of retributive punishment and not rehabilitative punishment; so, they believe that whoever is in j
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> She told him that if he wouldn't meet it, he needed to let her go seek its fulfillment elsewhere. This seems like a vague sense of displaced blame, however; so I can understand how people will view it as a red flag: There's

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