mayniac

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by mayniac 3y ago
Supermarkets here usually require an employee to approve backpacks. You put your bag on the scales, hit a button saying it's a bag, then an employee comes round to confirm. In practice, it usually takes longer to get an employee's
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by mayniac 4y ago
The average weight of a mid-sized sedan is about 1,500kg, and the average weight of all American cars is closer to 1,900kg. A 4-seater close to 1,000kg is exceptionally light by modern standards. The Mazda MX-5 is a 2-seater which is famous
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by mayniac 5y ago
Another non-vegetarian here. I made a veggie hotdog last week which was close enough to the real thing that I would struggle in a blind taste test. Hot dogs are super easy to immitate, they're mostly not meat anyway. Also ancedotally,
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by mayniac 5y ago
>In the US people constantly quit to start small businesses, work for other businesses, or just not work at all. There is zero threat of violence if you choose not to work. SOME people. Median savings are ~$4k, realistically the average
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by mayniac 5y ago
>that comes from a line of people that had to make do with scraps. That line is long. It only takes one generation feeding their children a diet of pre-made meals and snacks to break it.
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by mayniac 6y ago
I believe all this as well. If they wanted to, Adobe could invest heavily in DRM that would take at least a few months to crack. But it's far cheaper to stick a login wall in front of download pages and support forums, monitor for corp
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by mayniac 6y ago
You can set up a phpBB instance on a shared hosting provider for <$10/month. Interact with anyone who wants to interact with you. Don't even really need any technical knowlege, just a credit card. People do it all the time, but
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by mayniac 6y ago
It's definitely better than holding a hospital ransom. It's very unlikely that anyone will die if you spread ransomware in a university.
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by mayniac 6y ago
They didn't target the hospital: "The cyberattack was not intended for the hospital, according to a report from the German news outlet RTL. The ransom note was addressed to a nearby university. The attackers stopped the attack aft
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by mayniac 6y ago
>I get where you're coming from, but by phrasing it this way you draw up the image of a secret cabal of influential marxists waging a "campaign" via gullible students. Probably because the "cultural marxism" cons
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by mayniac 6y ago
People aren't just scared of the idea of armed police, they're afraid of police departments who have a history of getting away with murder. John Brown Gun Club and Redneck Revolt don't have that history. There were also rumou
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by mayniac 6y ago
"Would the response have been the same if all the heavily armored folk were black?" There's precedent for this. In the 60s the black panthers open carried in California to protest, of course, police misconduct. Reagan signed
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by mayniac 6y ago
Maybe not all of them, but you only need a few people like the over-enthusiastic COD cosplayer cop [1] in management positions to kick things off. Considering the vast, vast amount of footage of excessive force from the police in the last f
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by mayniac 6y ago
How do you do this without uncomfortable levels of government surveillance?
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by mayniac 7y ago
>It's also illegal to do this, so it's not a valid edge-case. Road signs can get dirty or damaged. There definitely are edge-cases where a self-driving car might not comprehend an imperfect sign which a human would read just fi
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by mayniac 7y ago
On top of what everyone else has said: reliability. My record player + amp have never had any problems I couldn't fix on the spot. Only things I've had to repair/replace were needle cartridges and the belt, both of which take
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by mayniac 7y ago
I think Google uses phone sensors to tell motorbikes apart form cars. Pretty simple tech: cars don't lean. Which makes it all the more infuriating that Google Maps still has huge flaws when it comes to motorbike navigation.
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by mayniac 7y ago
Citymapper does this. It sometimes works in London: the app supports NYC but I don't know if either the feature is supported or if it's functional. When you've set your start and destination scroll down and there's a sec
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by mayniac 7y ago
>How do people magically get their hands on these various substances Some people sell psychedelics in person. In my country they're incredibly rare and I've never seen anyone sell anything except mushrooms or LSD. So the fallba
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by mayniac 7y ago
As other people have mentioned, HTTPS without HSTS still makes MitM a problem. And there are still other attacks possible on public wi-fi networks which don't involve MitM-ing HTTP(s) traffic. MitM DNS traffic and you can do nasty thin
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by mayniac 7y ago
"66% of the airports are exposed on the Dark Web" What exactly does this mean?
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by mayniac 7y ago
>And they all progress towards harder drugs Massive [citation needed] here. This is absolutely untrue from my personal experiences.
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by mayniac 7y ago
I'm probably slightly younger than you, and I barely notice the CCTV cameras anymore. Weirdly, the one time I genuinely felt uncomfortable was last week. I saw a traffic camera* swivel across a junction. Actually seeing a camera move i
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by mayniac 7y ago
I can't really get irritated with this. Privacy is just one thing out of many that people can care about. Maybe online privacy is just low on their list of ethical issues? People who complain about global warming still eat meat, people
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by mayniac 7y ago
Generally speaking, the type of person who uses ProtonMail is also the type of person who will trivially bypass this block.
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by mayniac 7y ago
All of these comments come down to one thing: if work was purely voluntary, would you still work?
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by mayniac 7y ago
I just wrote up and deleted a comment on why you were wrong about the gilet jaunes "[not caring] about the environment" before re-reading your comment and realising you meant Macron's government doesn't care about the en
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by mayniac 7y ago
>the places where population is increasing couldn't care less about personal responsibility for decreasing climate change. I wouldn't say this is necessarily true, it's more that they have other things to care about. We ca
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by mayniac 7y ago
I doubt the only products you buy are cucumbers, tomatoes and gas. You've chosen your phone, laptop, car, and various other branded items. Advertising very likely played a role in your decisions there. How can you actually be sure that
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by mayniac 7y ago
> Since I was fired, over 600 academics have signed a petition supporting me He initially got fired because (almost) 600 academics signed an open letter casting doubt on his work, on top of 800 students [0]. Also, I don't really thi

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