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alexpoulsen

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    Comment #13332094

    The LEDs should be in 2 or more groups that each pulse at AC speed but offset by a fraction of the wavelength, that way there is little to no flicker. Or convert to DC and power it…

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    Comment #13327654

    No privacy/security/adblocking user should use Chrome; it's a browser made the company you block ads from and tracks you whether or not the ads are there. Use Firefox, Safari, open…

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    Comment #13220169

    I've never had a stuck pixel on any of the macs I've had but my iPhone 7 has 2 pixels stuck on. If like to see if Apple will fix/replace even though it is nearly unnoticeable unles…

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    Comment #13195998

    https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill Checks for changes with USB drives and shuts down the computer and optionally deletes files and wipes ram. USB stick on a wristband > unplugs …

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    Comment #13159542

    What year and ssd/hd? I've had no problems except a couple programs that had broken features for a few weeks.

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    Comment #13155502

    The most important part of this article was a mention of connecting national grids. If we had a global grid, the section of earth with enough sunlight could power the rest of the w…

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    Comment #13153411

    Lol That's funny At least whitelisting S3 is probably fine I was QAing for a company. They had a link in an email go through a tracker as opposed to loading the tracker on another …

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    Comment #13153366

    This was on HN a few days ago: http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/12/06/readers-popular-web... Basically ads that exploit you without you clicking on them. I don't know if it was o…

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    Comment #13149304

    I had social anxiety. Got counseling around 3-4 years ago. Even though I was never formally diagnosed, my mother always thought I was somewhere on the Autism spectrum. Not enough t…

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    Comment #13117052

    Used to work for a company bug testing their app. We used a service called installr which worked on both devices. On iOS you installed a certificate/profile and on android, it down…

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    Comment #13078160

    So someone* should make a clone of archive.org but built on Tor. Maybe call it Torchive. And with no hiding because of robots.txt and possibly prevent users from looking at/editing…

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    Comment #12974858

    FileVault plus running 'pmset destroyfvkeyonstandby' in Terminal should prevent this. Destroying the FileVault key should encrypt the disk, likely stopping things from running whil…