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yoo1I

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    A tool I've the found to be the closest local network dropbox equivalent: https://syncthing.net/

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    Comment #13407108

    Hmm, not quite what I thought it would be. It's just a javascript widget that let's users report content to your own team. I know that Facebook (and I assume the other big players)…

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    Comment #13390608

    I am currently trying out tox with a small number of friends (ok, one friend). I am curious as to what your criticism of tox is. While it seems it's still a bit new, it seems it do…

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    Comment #13390599

    I don't have a lot of skin in the game, but I am genuinely curious as to what you mean. How else other than "lump[ing] them in together", would you comprehensively criticize it? I …

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    Comment #13369370

    This sounds like you might need to define your threat model in a little more detail. I don't think the threat such that you might catch ME sending out data while you're looking for…

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    Comment #13369121

    First off, as pointed out below, making copies of national IDs is illegal in some jurisdictions, but there are many other IDs which according to the issuers may not be copied. Thin…

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    Comment #13357235

    Pfft. Amateurs! > Once upon a time at evening I have decided to properly brake the famous browsers communication problem and as a result you have landed in here. I have created imp…

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    Comment #13318708

    Not really , but maybe somewhat . I am able to read it without cookies and without scripting from a location in Europe.

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    Comment #13200679

    ... not sure how well this system will fare, given that "Eskéndereyya" is 'literally' the arabic name of the city of Alexandria.

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    Comment #13058917

    This turns out to be an argument for ad-blocking. By blocking all ads, because I am not going to buy anything from an ad anyhow , I'm not being counted towards your bill, which mak…

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    Comment #13056034

    TL;DR Journalist tries to grow up; succeeds; Select quotes: > give up spending on all but the essentials > As a personal finance journalist people assumed I was good with money but…

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    Comment #13055323

    It's not quite that simple. The sample of 900000 customers includes some knowledgeable people, and the attack/outage has been going on for long enough to investigate a little bit. …

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    Comment #13035573

    > Can anyone explain to me how this could be used against someone? I'm asking completely seriously as I don't see any harm in this no matter how hard I try. This is called the "not…

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    Comment #13035491

    You're pretending there is an inconsistency in their argument when there is none. Let me give you a slightly (ever so slightly) exaggerated explanation of why you're incorrect in y…

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    Comment #12995806

    OT: "Nautilus uses cookies to manage your digital subscription and show you your reading progress. It's just not the same without them." I don't have a digital subscription, neithe…

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    Comment #12990382

    not to leave you hanging there; this is what I found in my .zshrc to enable the functionality. autoload edit-command-line zle -N edit-command-line bindkey -M vicmd v edit-command-l…

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    Comment #12928985

    This fails to mention the most vi-in-a-shell-yness: Press "v" and launch your currently typed command into a vim (or whatever $EDITOR is set to) editing buffer. Very useful for adh…

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    Comment #12838364

    I've recently discovered plantuml[0]. It does a pretty good job for tasks centered around software design, and the language is simple, yet not too limited for my purposes. [0] http…

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    Comment #12715479

    This is likely photoshopped. This is what I got when I ran it through[0] https://i2.uploadit.ga/img/1476562202.jpg That looks suspiciously like someone edited at least the text int…

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    Comment #12714980

    Sans the drone (at least as far as my knowledge on the matter goes ,which is not very far) they already do this and the maps are freely available: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/

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    Comment #12714712

    > I don't know ag and it's not a package in Debian. You're in for a treat then: the package name is "silversearcher-ag". Next time you want to grep a directory of files: instead of…

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    Comment #12714217

    This was highly illegal and frowned upon in polite society, but doctors needed the body parts to study anatomy and paid for them. By chance I've recently read Dicken's "A Tale of T…