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github (and everything microsoft) have two incentives for forcing SMS always: Advertising* and US law. * github has no ads, yet. But microsoft is the 3rd largest.

consider the following example: You are going to visit example.com, a site which you have an account. You think your clipboard have the string "example.com". But while the browser …

The funny thing about places where @ mean a unit of weight, is that the word is kept for reading emails out loud. You spell emails as "me arroba domain dot com", which sounds to th…

Java didn't change one yota during the convention. Guess there are not many enterprisey hackers out there.

the term "pizzagate" was part of the disinformation to throw the actual investigation under the bus. The press focused on a leaked report that it all happened in a small pizza plac…

He was clearly wrong, as the truly rich/big corporations do not pay taxes and take most from the state.

Not talking about a hacker. I am stating that the described hash dance offers no exclusion from GDPR as saying "we promise we won't look" would do. My point about brute forcing bei…

> All they have to do is ask, and you better not lie. because asking everyone how much they have in offshore tax havens is working so well. heck, not even when the information is g…

"Hey company in shenzen that i suspect is a shady front to illegal data mining business, do you have any data on me? i'm john doe, living at 123 naive st #42, phone number 555-555-…

here's one more relevant today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray

i.e. "exiting"

If a search query on your data would contain all the components of the original hash, i don't have to walk backwards and break the hash. i just have to hash my query terms in the s…

This is still logging everything the GDPR says you can't without asking for consent, but you made your search convoluted (but not less efficient if you have all the pieces) to (sug…

You think in terms of theoretical society that is either On or Off. No place is like that. You missed the point that the people fleeing is already stealing tax and are likely the b…

Why not?

why things on the RPi take so long? is the SoC still undocumented because of the NDA as before?

smartphone batteries will go out much, much sooner than a RPi SD card write-life. And nowadays they are much harder to replace.

> This isn’t super easy to see because it’s hidden in a bunch of cultural stuff we just take for granted. This is why sociologist mostly clump all the ism (capitalism, socialism, e…

The actual answer nobody is giving: Q: How can phone companies detect tethering? A: by working with Google and Apple to inject code in android and IOS to serve that purpose.

that's a very bad analogy. Apps waste way more bandwidth. It's better if you turn it around: "unlimited gas for you 4mpg hummer. But we will nickel and dime you if you try to ever …

At this point you might as well be adding noise around the face then.

> and I have no idea why there hasn’t been a movie made about him. because hollywood would never tell a tale that shows the founding fathers as being pro-slavery. Reparations is st…