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lewiseason

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About lewiseason

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    Comment #21273598

    Probably, but that doesn't sell $650 phones

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    Comment #17457475

    > voicemail could be an opt out thing You usually can turn it off I think. One of my colleagues' greeting states that you should _not_ leave a message, followed by 2 minutes of sil…

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    Comment #17100733

    What GDPR says about this is: > [A]n identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, a…

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    Comment #17074771

    Reasonable. Come back in a year I guess, see if it's better. Firefox on Linux is night and day from the last time I used it

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    Comment #17019858

    The overriding principle is normally about driving to the conditions, not achieving a "target" speed.

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    Comment #14438233

    Ah see, that's the opposite of what I'd want, personally at least. The whole point imo of blocking cookies for privacy reasons is so that things like that can't track me around the…

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    Comment #14423326

    Does that mean same-domain? That basically meets the EU requirement for most tracking systems I think (where they're third party that is). "Accept the session cookie but not the Go…

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    Comment #14422693

    What we should've done is made browser vendors add EU cookie consent instead of every. single. website. Then I can configure my browser for Always/Never/Ask or whatever. That would…

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    Comment #13794735

    Plus, you still have to support plaintext between the EMV chip and the reader. This opens an entirely new class of places to steal card details (like PINs)

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    Comment #13794733

    One reason for this is that it's at the discretion of the issuing bank whether or not to accept an expired card (in fact, you can get into trouble for handling this locally with so…

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    Comment #13794707

    > I'm not really sure how measurements are done in big buildings (maybe someone could explain?). Similar to klodolph - it's very common in the UK for each dwelling in a shared buil…

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    Comment #13794699

    > Some of them do. It's true, but they often manage to make a huge mess of it (note: entirely baseless remark based on my personal experience). More importantly, most of them don't…

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    Comment #13743954

    Etihad are still advertising it on their flights. The entire airport is a bit of a disaster to be honest.

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    Comment #13642716

    It 100% is, you're probably not going mad.

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    Comment #13436439

    It seems like that'll come, but that it'll cause some issues with some WSGI implementations. https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/5otufg/django_20_no...

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    Comment #13036879

    Yeah, good point. I couldn't recall if it was third-party cookies, or if it were tracking cookies that the requirement stated.

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    Comment #13036544

    > global spying network Or maybe they want to persist session information? Maybe browsers should prompt, instead of each website, but it's too late for that now.

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    Comment #13036527

    The Debian installer gets this right: it prompts you during the install whether it can collect information about installed packages for popcon[1] [1] http://popcon.debian.org/

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    Comment #12943109

    Another commenter suggested it should be something your browser prompts you for, similar to location or camera access. This seems to solve the poster's issue, whilst keeping within…

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    Comment #12411822

    That's not easier at all. Not for the moderately-technical small-business owner that the parent comment discusses, or indeed many other (mostly shared hosting) scenarios?

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    Comment #12084986

    Aren't relays usually lightly spring-loaded/tend towards the NC position irrespective of which way you mount them? Maybe railway signalling relays are different, but none of the re…

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    Comment #12055948

    > What if he's scored as a threat and reported to the FBI? Then he'll be referred to a human, who may or may not understand sarcasm, jokes, or hyperbole?

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    Comment #11938841

    The only real downsites are if you use screen/minicom/etc inside tmux you tend to mash Ctrl-a quite a lot, but if anything that's easier than keeping track of which key goes with w…

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    Comment #11715075

    Nothing shocking or groundbreaking, but an interesting read. Thanks!