morgan814

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by morgan814 1mo ago
Take playbooks from large criminal organizations. Protesting may not be criminal, but it is increasingly being treated as such. Organized crime deals with this stuff constantly. Meet in person. Vet everyone. Being willing to keep lips tight
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by morgan814 1mo ago
> Linux is better still. Linux as an operating system is easily better than macOS. Third party software is lacking though. There’s really nothing that compares to Bear, Things, DEVONthink, Transmit, etc. What I also missed in Linux was t
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by morgan814 2mo ago
It was good but I feel like he missed the point somewhat. These tools are inaccurate, sure. But even if they weren’t we should still oppose this type of surveillance. Even if these cameras stopped all crime. He touched on more ideological g
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by morgan814 2mo ago
Wow! Crazy to see you here. I found out about Silo a few weeks back. That damn rock I live under. Couldn’t get into the TV series but tried your books. I have not been able to put it down. My partner may be a bit jealous. Last night I made
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by morgan814 2mo ago
Feels like America has been on this road for quite a while. It’s frustrating to think how upset I was at some actions of previous administrations and believing we needed to do less fascist things, not more. Then Trump shows up and just abso
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by morgan814 2mo ago
Which leaves me wondering - should domestic travel be treated the same as international when it comes to securing your devices?
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by morgan814 2mo ago
I would be very interested in how you did this / where you ended up. Feels like an impossible task every time I consider it.
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by morgan814 3mo ago
> Native software is incredibly difficult to build well. Sure. But if Zetetic, the SQLCipher[0] guys, can maintain native independent releases of Codebook [1] on all platforms there’s no excuse. Big tech serves the shareholders. Building
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by morgan814 4mo ago
> leaders Don’t play their game and call them leaders. They are management, bosses, executives. > They are making decisions about things that they just don't understand. And are completely unworried about it. Clowns, even. > J
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by morgan814 8mo ago
Oh I agree and I vote. More people need to vote. But I understand why people feel little motivation to.
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by morgan814 8mo ago
> Bizarrely, voter turnout among younger people remains low I understand why my age group has low turnout. It's a disgusting chore that I force myself to do. In part, it might be a chicken and egg situation. My age cohort doesn&#x27
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by morgan814 8mo ago
> I still have my sense of smugness Crappy SMS 2FA or not. Losing your number is a huge pain. Because phone numbers are treated as identity, it also allows the person who took your number to impersonate you by calling into $X service. At
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by morgan814 8mo ago
Not all too long ago I had someone port out my VOIP number. They had it for a few hours. This was after I had spent extensive effort attempting to secure my digital life. VOIP was SIM-swap resistant sure, but I totally missed that port out
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by morgan814 8mo ago
For a differing opinion, I was homeschooled for six years during and it was damaging. There is plenty I missed out on and I wish my childhood was just a bit more normal. I'm sure a lot has to do with home life though. --- There are leg
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by morgan814 8mo ago
JMAP[0], which has in-progress specs for calendar and contacts, is supposed to save us. It can't happen soon enough - if it happens at all. [0] https://jmap.io/spec.html
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by morgan814 9mo ago
The “killer app” would be to open up the system. Apple won’t do it. But I’m not strapping a MacBook to my face for a few grand just to have a locked down iPhone experience.
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by morgan814 9mo ago
You can always use AnonAddy, SimpleLogin, or similar to receive emails at your domain then forward them to Posteo.
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by morgan814 9mo ago
I somewhat begrudgingly switched to ControlD after years with NextDNS. The NextDNS web UI is flippin fast and very simple. Feels more akin to HN. ControlD’s is slow and feels so heavy. Maybe more like new Reddit. ControlD offers Hagezi’s TI
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by morgan814 9mo ago
> war oriented society Christianity loves going to war to “spread the word”. See the Crusades. See what’s going on in Israel. See Manifest Destiny. Or, I presume, those “don’t count” because they weren’t “real Christians”. > and likel
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by morgan814 9mo ago
These judges are downright anti-American. I’m not particularly patriotic but this country wasn’t fought for and bled over so tyrants could abuse their power with loopholes.
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by morgan814 9mo ago
> We all fall into this trap, thinking we can do better than others. It took me a while to learn this lesson about complex systems. First week at a new job? It’s easy to identify all the ways things are done wrong. Six months later you b
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by morgan814 9mo ago
While I certainly drink coffee for the caffeine, black coffee is 100% my preference. Sugar in coffee tastes absolutely horrid to me. Milk is fine but it doesn’t do much for me. People taste things differently and it’s at least partly geneti
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by morgan814 9mo ago
> The point of drinking is to get a buzz Once a week I hit the local pub for exactly one pint. Usually preferring lower ABV. Why do I stop there? Anymore than that gives a buzz that I usually am not in the mood for. I’m sure one drink ha
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by morgan814 9mo ago
> never pay for something with DRM you cannot remove I take this to mean to sail the seas but I have apprehension over running modified binaries from random people. Is there anything that can be done to alleviate this worry?
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by morgan814 9mo ago
Used to be someone had to crack the whip. Now the workers do it to themselves.
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by morgan814 9mo ago
If you have the money definitely get yourself a passport card. Stores can’t scan them and they only contain a pointer to personal info in some government database.
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by morgan814 9mo ago
Time to turn your house into a giant Faraday cage
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by morgan814 9mo ago
> Here is an unpopular opinion, how about Craig Federighi replaced with Scott Forstall. I'm with you there. Forstall's skeuomorphism gets a lot of hate. It certainly got pretty weird visually. Especially on OS X where a leather
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by morgan814 10mo ago
This is why neither party will truly save us. Candidates from both parties seem to mostly focus on social issues (Democrats are 110% preferable here imo). There are very few politicians who speak to the level of corruption and economic ineq
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by morgan814 10mo ago
> no one I recently took a union software job after I was laid off due to the CEO having a tummy ache one morning. Many of my new co-workers were explicitly interested in the company _because_ there was a union. It's very imperfect

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