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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Hope springs eternal!
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
The point people are making is that if it's the only thing on the shelf it's not easy to opt out.
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Vote Trump, get a despot - have Americans live with the consequencies of locked down technology, surveillance.
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Five year anniversary of the burning platform memo just passed, the world is a different place now. http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/02/09/full-text-nokia-...
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Just like someone reading playboy for the articles, I typically read news aggregator sites for the comments. Major news organisation provide a couple of paragraphs about the latest development and the interesting part is not the journalists
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Addictions can be multiplied, cross addiction is common. Substance abuse and internet addiction can go hand in hand.
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
I have a hard time distinguishing someone's behaviour from their innate personality. Perhaps forgiveness is the key.
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
In no uncertain terms I absolutely detest the x230 keyboard. I am none too happy about the location of Insert on the x220. It is like using a cheap acer/toshiba laptop from Argos. A common question I have using them is 'where have
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
The new lenovo thinkpads are nearly as bad. I'm an x series user, the last model with a good keyboard for programming was the x220. From the x230 onwards they have stupid chicklet keys, no visual representation of caps lock or numlock,
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Soundcloud & co require the content provider to upload the content too. If you want to share the content, provide the seed. If you don't want to share the content, don't upload to soundcloud, don't provide the seed.
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
bandcamp and mixcloud
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Disagree, torrents are a great solution for the most obscure stuff and very cheap. You just have to be the seed.
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Theorizing is fine, to say: 'Maybe because of barriers to entry, only the stronger programmers survive, from that follows the higher acceptance rate'. It's just information but you are right in saying that they should not be
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
> eZing is a messaging app that closes follows concepts of well-known messengers to achieve the same comfortable reading and writing of messages. closely
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
I'm not buying one unless it sends all my interactions to amazon http://www.pcworld.com/article/2840401/ubuntus-unity-8-deskt...
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
I guess this can be a problem for cross platform code, yes?
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8623643&cid=5131565... It's really pretty damn easy. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8623643&cid=5131356... Win 7, 8 and 10 are done. OSX has s
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Wow! Want to do a full disclosure? Your papers were very valuable while doing my undergraduate study. Is Hoard neck and neck with jemalloc and lockless' allocator nowadays? http://locklessinc.com/benchmarks_allocator.sh
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Safer on laptop vs. forgetting the password for facebook. By making a technically inept strawman, it's reduced to an argument of which is more idiot proof. The problem with idiot proof is that there's always a better idiot out the
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Both statements are correct. Remember that it was a personal computing 'revolution'. It would be a great step backwards to accede power to cloud service providers. Computing at the whim of others aka timesharing. Smile and nod but
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Am I wrong in thinking there's a fat chance that the US govt. is funneling money to tech startups? I doubt there are grants for this stuff in Silicon Valley. Maybe some sort of trickle down effect from the money that goes into Amazon,
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
I'd love to do my computing outdoors. My optician offered an explanation that the elastic material in my eye's lens has probably hardened from prolonged engagement in 'near work'. Hence myopia. However, I don't see
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
I'm with everyone else here that says you need to forget about the trendy junk and get the job done. Think brutally effective rather than elegant or modern. The simplest most old fashioned method that will work is often good enough. &g
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
No true stereotype, not relevant. Only stereotypes believed true and relevant are unbearably accurate. A quick internet search reveals many think the stereotype is true to boot.
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
The most innocuous stereotype I can think of, is the 'typical' French stereotype of a man in beret and a black and white striped jumper cycling around with a baguette, an onion garland necklace, smoking gauloisies. Some stereotype
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I guess you misinterpret how successful I think the approach I laid out is. I was already aware of most of the points that you make, agreeing with all except 3 and 4. Forgot to mention disabling referer where possib
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Yeah I thought the exact same. 1. have a browser that doesn't store cookies, use that for casual browsing. 2. use an adblocker at all times. user agent faker too. 3. use pgp email with no subject lines with offline mail clients. 4. avo
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Not so sure that the KB text description in control panel will give enough info. It's only after months of reading about it do I know enough to discern that diagtrack.dll == "telemetry". The statement 'Which you can decl
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
Although you are trying to be helpful, you did not answer the question that I asked. Retroactively uninstall is not my definition of decline to install. Also, it's not clear which KB snuck it onto my Win8.1.
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by throwawayaway 11y ago
I think an article from the eff is more notable than a reddit anecdote and should be treated as such. This is now gone off the main page, which is a shame.

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