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by r3bl 7y ago
Yeah, pointing to the problem is quite easier than figuring out a solution. As far as I'm concerned, I actually read the popups and having to click okay about five or six times in a row would make me second-guess my decision. Would tha
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by r3bl 7y ago
> The idea that ROMs from questionable sources make your device safer sounds very strange to me. It's about owning your hardware, not safety. A person that's willing to go through the hassle knows the consequences of such actio
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by r3bl 7y ago
As with any Apple product ever, this is not a "completely new tech product". This is a long established market that Apple believes they can do better than everyone else. For an exorbant price of course, but that stage is some year
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by r3bl 7y ago
It's literally mentioned and linked to in the first paragraph.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Predictable audience? Absolutely not. It's easy for a story or two to go viral (as in, slightly easier than on other platforms). What's not easy is to retain that viewership. Similarly to YouTube, you could put weeks worth of effo
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by r3bl 7y ago
In any case, thanks for mentioning it. Thoroughly enjoyed Story of Your Life and Others and had no idea he released a second short story collection a few months ago. It's going straight to the top of my to-read list.
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by r3bl 7y ago
> and no, sending a reset command via apps is not feasible (what if you've lost the account password and you've accidentally paired it to your neighbours wifi?) Hubs save all the pain with smart lighting system. No need for an
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by r3bl 7y ago
I couldn't agree more. I can't help but feel like the Venn's diagram between people who suggest "move to a more rural area" and people who never lived in a rural area for a prolonged period of time is a full circle.
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by r3bl 7y ago
The answer is so simple it's brilliant: you need a permission from the local police in order to organize a protest on a specific location at a specific time. In most of the cases, that works fine. In a small number of cases when the au
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by r3bl 7y ago
Almost as if that was the point of me including the words "but its price is not publicly available" in my comment.
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by r3bl 7y ago
GitHub does offer self-hostable enterprise edition, but its price is not publicly available.
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by r3bl 7y ago
I have never touched their air purifier, but I did three other gadgets (TV box, some indoor camera, some light bulbs). If privacy is your concern, I wouldn't recommend them. If stability is your concern, I wouldn't recommend them.
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by r3bl 7y ago
I don't drink much, but a $5 wrench would probably work on me.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Did you add any friends lately? Do you know those "greetings" that Facebook pushes into Messenger whenever you add a new friend on Facebook? I've recently noticed on my SO's phone that Messenger counts them as "unre
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by r3bl 7y ago
Yeah, it's just the title. I was on top for like 16h or so because I had a catchy title and some way of supporting that title within the content. Comments were far different. Almost all of them were negative and highly unconstructive.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Where did I claim it's the only thing needed to stop a person like that? You gotta start somewhere. This is a nice and easy way to do that's completely within the reach of the tech community. There are no laws requiring that, ju
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by r3bl 7y ago
Maybe to you and me, but we're not its target audience. Its target audience is other 8chan users, some of which might be just a step away from committing such atrocities themselves.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Yeah, I agree with the other comment. > "For us, in order to be able to cover our server costs, we ask our users to contribute a tiny amount if they find the app useful. Donate to see the detox counter again." As far as this m
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by r3bl 7y ago
That's just shifting the problem one inconvenience further. How do you purchase cryptocurrencies without Visa/MasterCard/PayPal?
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by r3bl 7y ago
> A public blockchain is a mere write only database Precisely. It does nothing to address who can write to it. Ideally, it should be people who are eligible to vote (citizens of the country that are over 18 years old). That's a diff
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by r3bl 7y ago
The problem is that they'd require a payment method to rent the server somewhere else or to use a non-US company that doesn't offer a generous free plan. The most prominent payment providers (Visa, MasterCard, PayPal) are all US-b
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by r3bl 7y ago
You mean like this one? https://www2.meethue.com/en-us/support/dimmer-switch I know about it. I have it. I've used it as a trigger before. I've replaced it with NFCs because they are less of a hassle to
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by r3bl 7y ago
You'd think so, but NFCs are far easier to program and re-program. One of the NFC tags on my work desk triggers "focus mode". Lights change to bright white, a (non-local) radio station starts playing in the background, and th
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by r3bl 7y ago
Countries don't have direct representation, political blocs do. Each country picks its own members (at minimum, six of them in the European Parliament), those members congregate into political blocs, those blocs make proposals, build a
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by r3bl 7y ago
It's almost as if the EU has 28 members, none of which should have an authoritative say in any of the things the bloc does. Want something changed? Build a support within a bloc. Don't pretend your opinion is any more valuable tha
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by r3bl 7y ago
I use NFC tags as a trigger. I simply hover my phone over a tag and an action happens in the background. It feels much better than dealing with separate apps and always-on microphones. > If IoT wants to move away from the current status
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by r3bl 7y ago
The goal of this is to be hosted on a router. I'm assuming it wouldn't go around NAT as much as replace NAT by replacing router's firmware. You've guessed correctly that this is one of the most painful parts of the setup
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by r3bl 7y ago
Why would you agree to have work communications on your phone in the first place? Assuming you work at a desk job (like a programmer), keep work-related items off of your phone. If your superiors complain, tell them you don't want to b
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by r3bl 7y ago
He's far from being the first one to claim that. That's where doing nothing leads us, and so far, we (as in, the society) seem incapable of tackling this problem. It's already too late to stop it, and we seem incapable to con
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by r3bl 7y ago
It was an invite-only torrent tracker. What set it apart was its size. Any song you could think of, in any format you could think of. You could find lossless music that there's 0 chance that you could find anywhere else (legally or not

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