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jkepler
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Comment #39394851
I still don't understand though why people do delivery pizza when decent-quality frozen pizza is often far cheaper than delivery, and it comes out of one's oven piping hot. Unless …
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Comment #39258929
The language of addiction is psychological language that may leave people feeling hopeless, particularly if they view themselves as biologically-chemically determinative beings. Pe…
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Comment #39258719
And this in spite of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US strongly recommending against using SMS as a 2nd factor authentication since 2016!
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Comment #39258702
This is why I run Open Street Maps on my smartphone: OsmAnd~ gets free maps updates anytime, for life. I'm pretty sure there was a simple OSM app for GerdaOS -- the rooted privacy …
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Comment #39258555
I'm pretty sure you can deal with 2fa on Kai OS feature phones. They also include Gmail, Google maps, and WhatsApp access... on a tiny screen where you won't get sucked in for hour…
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Comment #39108903
So is this basiclly a fully peer-to-peer application, like bittorrent clients? Or something like bisq ( https://bisq.network ) when the program runs locally peer to peer and hosts …
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Comment #38741239
Sure, but if they reach that level or have some business acumen, they may just pay other people to deal with the video production and files.
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Comment #38186130
Back in 2010, these two stop-motion shorts were each shot on the Nokia N8: Dot [1] Gulp [2] Then in 2011, a short film and a feature-length were shot on the Nokia N8: Splitscreen: …
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Comment #38170452
Are you ruling our hardcover books that still get written and published? I'm on email mailing lists of two small/Independent publishers, and they still make books. And where I live…
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Comment #38073104
Maybe revolut.com.
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Comment #38062252
And my memory of Florida law (when I was signing an apartment rental contract 4 years ago) was that any electronic signature agreed to by the contracting parties was valid. So I si…
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Comment #37864339
Such as the politicization of everything, or the abandoning of teaching basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills in favor of woke political agendas, or perhaps due to the holl…
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Comment #37821906
Sources for you data claims, please?
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Comment #37101822
Probem is, at least in terms of the climate debate, climate alarmism and mainstream media says that there's scientific consensus, but at least when I read the Intergovernmental Pan…
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Comment #36880079
> * Software needs maintenance. You can't just build an app an call it a day, you need to employ a team to maintain it continuously. You can build a massive, gargantuan bridge and …
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Comment #36334502
Cash is king for privacy. Pay with cash as often as possible. Walk or bicycle. Write paper letters, mail them with cash-purchased stamps. Looks tuff up at the library. Use an analo…
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Comment #36200574
In the US 2020 elections, there are plenty of convincing explanations of the mishaps[1], yet Trump's base couldn't be bothered to take time to read the explanations. I say that bas…
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Comment #36200436
Much of it is public record. And if you don't have time to wade through the data, the court cases Trump's campaign litigated provide a wealth of one the record, sworn testimony and…
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Comment #36200340
I agree things have become far more contentious since 2020. Trump's campaign used that controversy to fund-raise for "legal defense" but the small print in his campaign emails I re…
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Comment #36200252
Forgot to link the Michigan Senate report: https://misenategopcdn.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/99/doccume...
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Comment #36199470
This isn't the first time spreadsheet errors have messed with election results. It was a column error in tabulated election results that cause all the conflict in 2020 in Antrim co…
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Comment #36174678
The QR scan/generate app I use always presents me the scanned data in text form and asks me to verify if I want to visit the URL or not. I don't know why anyone would chois an app …
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Comment #36174646
Use a better QR scanner app. I use Privacy Friendly Apps' "Privacy Friendly QR Scanner", which always presents you with the scanned URL or text in the app before doing anything, an…
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Comment #36150127
Why don't they use IRC with public logs? Or a stack exchange style support wiki, so that it becomes documentation over time.
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Comment #36126888
BlockTris