procombo

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by procombo 4y ago
If I wanted to provide a similar experience, targeting a different narrative, and then worked to create my own safe platform, would you disagree with that? "Ignoring" is just choice. And that concept can either promote or extingui
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by procombo 4y ago
Shouldn't I get to decide what I ignore?
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by procombo 4y ago
Works the same way with government. The "I am not aware of ..." is a great trick for when your organization is intentionally silod. The folks who get subpoenaed are left out of detailed info. It's a complete non-statement. I
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by procombo 4y ago
This. Makes everything so smooth. Serverless cloud providers love it too. (Cloudflare Pages, etc.)
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by procombo 4y ago
That was my experience too. There is/was no formal standard for creating themes, just an empty dir (which they consider a feature). Even if they had one or two "official themes" that would have helped tremendously. Instead we
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by procombo 4y ago
In the U.S. we used to collect palm/foot prints on every child within a few days of birth. Newborn fingerprints are difficult to collect, as skin is very delicate. Now we require DNA collection at birth. https://www.aclu.o
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by procombo 4y ago
This is the worst thing about Signal, IMO. I want to use old phones as backup communication devices (wifi) but can't natively use the software that way.
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by procombo 4y ago
Authenticator apps, and SMS help them derive you have identity -- which is more secure for them and you. Hardware token via WebAuthn (etc) is only more secure for you. When they say "for the sake of security" they mean for them t
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by procombo 4y ago
Just technically it makes no sense. WebAuthn is a great technology that addresses many privacy concerns, but once they had an excuse collecting phone numbers they don't want to stop. Even though it's not the most secure method.
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by procombo 4y ago
Sorry you're so glum. Buy a Tesla. It'll put a smile on your face. -Space access is leading the world. Satellites bring freedom, access, and peace. -Cars are the safest, fastest, and smartest you can drive. -Tunnels solve waaaay
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by procombo 4y ago
The next step is a social media company that is (1) private (2) membership based (3) no reliance on huge ad contracts, just promoted content (4) can tell the difference between political opinion and hate speech (5) gets out of the way of le
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by procombo 4y ago
> let's you see most (all?) of it. Who really knows any more. A couple years ago Apple prohibited kernel level firewalls (for security) and rolled out their ContentFilterExclusionList which whitelisted many Apple services, but also
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by procombo 4y ago
It's a game, one I don't play, but if you ruin kid fun of course you'll get eyerolls... regardless of your background. My recovery is just to own it, and say that I may not believe anymore, but "I'm proud of you swe
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by procombo 4y ago
Similar here. When they were two we explained that Santa was as real as Mickey Mouse. They got it immediately. They know the mouse stands for something, and so does Santa. We have fun with it all. Christmas season is so much easier when
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by procombo 4y ago
Colocation provider will bring the circuits to provide best-path connectivity based on packet destination. There shouldn't be an additional charge for this. They are incentivized to manage their bandwidth so data transfers fast, as th
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by procombo 4y ago
> -30,000 feet per minute Isn't that 548km/h (340mph) and faster than terminal velocity? Nose would be pointed down.
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by procombo 4y ago
Will "stop you from wearing a mask"? Doubt it. That's assault. Or "stop you if you try to enter while wearing a mask"? Or are you talking about wearing a ski mask inside Idaho Regional Credit Union in July? Jerks
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by procombo 4y ago
> I typically get a "it just is" response. I doubt that. I couldn't STOP hearing the arguments last year. Not trying to be 'smart', but just believe a minimal effort to understand an opposing view gets you ther
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by procombo 5y ago
The article confirmed my knowledge. Around here if the eggs are washed and sanitized then you refrigerate them out of caution. Last year we got a flock of chickens. They are happy, free-range, and "expensive". But we have loads of
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by procombo 5y ago
Bad idea for patents. The public is vastly benefitted by patent expiration. It's also why we can have generic drugs, etc. Now, exponential cost curve for _copyrights_ is interesting. And arguably already a thing... considering that Mic
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by procombo 5y ago
The U.S. had a president not too long ago who tried to shake things up. Ended up giving the patent office truckloads of cash, considered it "job creation". Goal was to improve efficiency, but all it did was unthrottle submissions,
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by procombo 5y ago
and innovative entrepreneurs don't let their competitors see them as competition
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by procombo 5y ago
Don't U.S. states all already do this immediately after birth? https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18945-do-you-care-wha... https://www.healthnutnews.com/cbs-dna-from-newborn-blood-sam... http
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by procombo 5y ago
There are a lot of very busy bees out there right now looking to change that. YouTube provides easy, great advertising revenue. But as individual channels develop their subscriber base, YouTube's role diminishes. Viewers/subscribe
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by procombo 5y ago
Certainly. The Constitution is a guide to what the visionary founders had in their mind for the new nation. It shouldn't be law directly, but a light to help citizens realize what a balance of power looks like. In the meantime we want
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by procombo 5y ago
A great justification my dear goverment uses is that because they don't perform the search directly, (they use third-party private businesses), they aren't violating the law. Of course reasonable people will disagree. There are a
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by procombo 5y ago
Well, they were intentional with their use of the word "equity", not "equality". Looking it up in my favorite search engine I think they are implying they will be giving shorter servers a higher percentage of the collect
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by procombo 5y ago
The U.S. is now flooded with "fast and convenient" point-of-sale systems (Square, Clover) that ask customers for a tip amount following the transaction. To the retailer it's an obvious move. But as a customer I'm not goi
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by procombo 5y ago
There are many solutions here. I can come up with several. All would limit Apple's power, and that's the issue for them. Maybe Apple should have thought about the implications of "valiently" eliminating choice for (quite
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by procombo 5y ago
We too have a lot of "general" services still on CentOS 7 and with maintenance support through middle of 2024, there's plenty of time for Alma and Rocky to set themselves apart. I'm a fan of both. Too soon to bandwagon.

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