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by otachack 2y ago
I believe the pandemic moved most white collar work to work from home. This has allowed softer work requirements in terms of hours and needs to step away from the desk. Seeing posts of employers imposing spyware to monitor employee keystrok
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by otachack 2y ago
Hold strong! I replaced my 5's battery about a year ago after it started bloating. I usually draw the line though when security updates cease. Staying with the Pixel line is easier but I'm trying to divest from Google in general a
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by otachack 2y ago
Agreed! While I loath JavaScript it was immensely impressive that a masterpiece like Cross Code came from it.
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by otachack 2y ago
How else will the poor shareholders and top execs get their fair share??
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by otachack 2y ago
I have a feeling that is most people out there. I observed a friend of mine click on a malicious ad link recently in front of me when driving a presentation for a community meeting. It was shown as an overlay for a seemingly harmless site I
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by otachack 2y ago
Second on the "good swimmer drowning" part. I once swam in a pool with a few cousins of mine. I was around 18 and just finished a life guarding course at school. One cousin was around 11 years old. She was panicking next to me in
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by otachack 2y ago
As alternatives: I use Authenticator Pro on my phone and keep encrypted backups whenever I modify it. I know others have pointed out Aegis. The issue is starting the migration out of Authy. Assuming Authy has no easy export, I suggest you m
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by otachack 2y ago
Check out the YA book "Feed", it tackles that issue.
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by otachack 2y ago
Enticing, I'm always open to trying new management tooling.
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by otachack 2y ago
I have similar material. If it's reassuring, we all were just kids/teens and learning of the world. I feel a lot for the youth after us that made the Internet more accessible and, at times, more permanent.
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by otachack 2y ago
This is an amazing story! Thanks for sharing and hope you have less stress in life.
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by otachack 2y ago
One way is to support orgs like EFF that push for policy change to force Google and other powers-that-be to give you fine grain control.
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by otachack 2y ago
I remember this from HN or otherwise when looking for an alternative solution: https://cryptpad.org/ There's a public instance in France to try it out.
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by otachack 2y ago
Why not both? If you can afford it, of course.
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by otachack 3y ago
Decker is well and alive. It does have its own programming language but the effort put into it and the project is astounding. https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker
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by otachack 3y ago
DragonRuby is not defunct and actively receives updates. It also sponsored several game jams. The last update, according to their Discord, was on January 25th 2024. RubyMotion I can't really vouch for.
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by otachack 3y ago
If anyone is struggling to read a book, I suggest short stories! A lot easier to ease back into it.
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by otachack 3y ago
Hyundai did skimp out on standard anti-theft mechanisms which led to a significant number of car jackings upon discovery and viral share via TikTok. https://www.forbes.com/wheels/news/kia-hyundai-car-thefts-se...
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by otachack 3y ago
The weather?
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by otachack 3y ago
¿Por qué no los dos?
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by otachack 3y ago
Pico-8! There are also zines people have made with straight up "type this in and it'll make a game" like many HN-friends here have gone through with BASIC and other languages. Seeing how young your kid is they may fall off it
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by otachack 3y ago
"silly exercise in time wasting beyond its academic and comedic/entertainment value" I love this as it expresses how I feel about JavaScript :P
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by otachack 3y ago
I don't use Amazon at all anymore. In fact I uninstalled the app yesterday!
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by otachack 3y ago
Seriously, at that point candidates should ask for a 1099 along with a settled rate.
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by otachack 3y ago
I laughed, thanks :D If there's anything to learn about humanity it's that we apply this technique in many ways.
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by otachack 3y ago
To me it's just applicable from my end on the Android app. It explicitly says the other members don't see the group name.
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by otachack 3y ago
Agreed. If the library of data, ebooks in this case, is owned by the user via files then it seems P2P is the way to go.
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by otachack 3y ago
Because of tampering. If an attacker can produce a pair where the public key's last 40 chars match the victim's public key last 40 chars they effectively have a public key to dish out via MITM. How feasible it is to produce said p
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by otachack 3y ago
What about Netflix's practice of using an employee until they aren't of any use then disposing them? A practice that applied to an employee that helped draft it? https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/insi
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by otachack 3y ago
There's a very strong, anti-union sentiment in HN IMO as it's contrary to the "bootstrapping" image venture capitalist that drives so much here. But if fellow readers put aside any resentment and look at it objectively:

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