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daten

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About daten

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/daten; my proof: https://keybase.io/daten/sigs/jzFyVWNrj39c9uJJF62Ismw5gbE7DCDLsSGff-Wccu8 ]

Linux, Software Engineering, Rotary Engine Mechanic and experience with petabyte-scale packet capture and analysis

Recent public activity

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    Comment #26688906

    It was in 2019 in Canada. https://issuesinsights.com/2019/08/30/media-ignores-climate-...

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    Comment #18096854

    Something similar happened 8 years ago. https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/05/video-major-facebook-secur...

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    Comment #17543790

    Good point with broadcast TV. For shows I enjoy on Netflix, I'll usually miss the latest season on live broadcast if I forget to set the DVR to catch the series. If I wait until ep…

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    Comment #17246403

    They're also contributing to traffic congestion and pollution. Does that also make them sadists?

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    Comment #17246265

    That's a very vague anecdote. If someone affected by mental illness is prepared to harm themselves or others in the process, including "mass shooters", then police being prepared t…

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    Comment #5439242

    As the OP explains, the knives in question are not illegal and not in violation of Google's policies. Additionally, other vendors selling the same items are not being banned. I thi…

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    Comment #5369209

    I worry that most of the opposition to this bill is based on FUD that EFF is spreading. Having experience actually working in the security industry and knowing the limitations that…

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    Comment #4455939

    Many places encourage the kids to pledge allegiance to the country carrying out those strikes. It seams like that talk should happen before they're taught the pledge.

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    Comment #4455919

    There's also the "phone story" app that was intended to raise awareness of human rights abuses that go into manufacturing devices such as the iPhone itself. http://phonestory.org/b…

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    Comment #4241970

    I personally liked how the examples seamed to start with worst-cast and progress toward their new possibly "best case" method. What do you think is gained by starting with the new …

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    Comment #3812684

    The admin should be logging in as a standard user with sudo access and using sudo for any administrative tasks anyway. This minimizes how much code is running priviledged, it also …

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    Comment #2809575

    This reminds me of anicechat.net but it looks like it uses sound?

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    Comment #2778040

    If your path requires a participating station for the proxy-connection to succeed, just measure successful and unsuccessful proxy-connections against different network paths and lo…

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    Comment #2777226

    My concerns: * "proxy-less" is a bad term, it sounds like they're still using a proxy, it's just using https encapsulation along the way to hide this from the first few hops. * The…

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    Comment #2659065

    Will this app show the user how the congressmen plans to vote on current bills? Could the user upvote/downvote bills as an efficient way of sharing their opinion. Isn't this what l…

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    Comment #2541581

    While I agree that it is a problem that the US has a large and growing prison population, I don't think it's a fair comparison to the conditions being described in these camps in N…

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    Comment #2396324

    Silver Spring, MD - Linux System Administrator We're looking to hire a Linux SA to help build and deploy clusters and custom software. Includes some travel. Must be eligible for a …

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    Comment #2331937

    And what is that obscure method?

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    Comment #2285121

    What data are basing the opinions of "most people" and "average consumers" on?

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    Comment #2279808

    This worries me more than the malware. I don't own an e-book reader because books that I purchased could be deleted without my consent.

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    Comment #2189003

    Still waiting for all of the Samsung Galaxy S variants to get 2.2 officially.

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    Comment #2176185

    Right, I paniced when I thought the headline refered to Verizon Fios. My next thought was, what if the heavy fios users are the ones paying for higher bandwidth plans? Maybe the po…

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    Comment #2143450

    The "Motofone" is simpler and would cost less if they sold it in the US. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2143197