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Comment #16671483
I shall have to try KDE. I've been an xfce user for years but have been hearing good things about KDE.
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Comment #16665700
I use freelance now.
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Comment #16606073
Don't know anything about the mayor but what he said seems reasonable to me. As a cyclist myself I have no problem merging into traffic if my lane is blocked, my experience though …
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Comment #16589347
This is true, I mean I should be in bed right now, I'll be up in 5 hours. But what am I doing? Watching Jessica Jones and writing this message, I'm definitely going to regret it in…
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Comment #16566924
>Give it 10 years and people will be keeping their phones until they break. That's basically me right now, still have my trusty sgs2 running lineageOS and will continue to have it …
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Comment #16543445
I don't have anything against Facebook I just have no use for it. I have no use for any social media platform. They are a waste of my time.
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Comment #16532735
Having no talent and no achievements I have no plans for this. My only wish is my browsing history dies with me.
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Comment #16523219
Yes. Have a point and shoot for decent pictures, my current phone's camera is pants. Handy as maps are I wonder what privacy I'm giving up using them. I don't use sensors. I've act…
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Comment #16519392
Weren't these civil actions taken by private citizens/rights group? The courts are just agreeing with these citizens/rights group. It's not like an EU agency is targeting Facebook …
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Comment #16499977
Thanks for this. I've been looking for something like this for ages. I used to use VM's for this but it was a right pain. As an aside I used this guide having discovered it a coupl…
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Comment #16408366
The police by the very definition of their job don't go around "tracking" regular folk. Only those that are doing or have done wrong. Seriously the police have better things to do …
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Comment #16407081
Glad I live in a country with a free health service.
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Comment #16406940
Only as far as it goes. Tracking isn't as fine grained. Service providers main concern is the service. Can you be tracked this way? Yes, but not as easily as this is talking about
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Comment #16406926
Current quality for the majority of CCTV is probably not good enough for facial. May be gait recognition is more feasible.
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Comment #16406771
>It's even worse, it means the police know it doesn't track criminals and so just want to track regular people. The police knowing is really beside the point, local government (cou…
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Comment #16405399
Having read just the abstract is seems that current implementations of Mac address randomisation is essentially useless rather the Mac address randomisation itself. Hopefully in th…
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Comment #16389851
Giving the OP the benefit of a doubt I'm really just learning to program and have many of the questions the OP has asked. Reading the comments to these questions does actually help…
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Comment #16385276
Working for me
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Comment #16372988
Not an expert but I have different email addresses for different thing, currently about 20 email addresses with different providers. I manage them with a password manager which I o…
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Comment #16360581
Unfortunately that is rarely the case especially in the US.
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Comment #16355064
Me too, was about to start pontificating about text files, and markdown.
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Comment #16353865
>Is there a place for anonymity in our digital future? I hope so.
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Comment #16353665
I'm not adverse to messing with config files but this seems a little above my knowledge base. I've no experience with functional programming so have no idea really how it's doing t…
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Comment #16351570
Fairly modern. Galaxy S2 lineageOS, fdroid. I know where you're going with this, some things are unfortunately unavoidable. Still I do what I can.
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Comment #16350176
This simple horrifies me. Why would you do this to yourself and your family? I don't see myself ever getting anything smart, and if I can't avoid it there is no way it touches my i…