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Comment · 3 years ago
My concern with child proofing other than I don't think it works is that it starts impacting me directly. No more sign up with email, now I i have to produce credit card or government ID or similar. Which I don't trust sites to protect anyway. Google has been bugging me for two years asking for my birthday on a 20 year old account to comply with laws like this. It can vote, its over 13.
Comment · 3 years ago
Still hard to trust. Many companies save info for training/qa purposes and hide details in obscure language. Voice assistants for example. Didn't Roomba get in trouble recently regarding photos uploaded and then shared with contractors for qa that ultimately shared the embarrasing photos more publicly.
Comment · 3 years ago
Its way older than 5 years old. Wonderfalls (2004) had a character refered to the mouth breather in derogatory way. I know my brother used that in similar way growing up but im sure there are better/older references but those are mine.
Comment · 3 years ago
You are not alone. I think it goes all the way back to high school or middle school for me. Its when you realize the gold star stickers were behavior manipulation or something and then see it everywhere.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think you miss their point which is that has led to a large number of security bugs. Because it is then path to exploits and sloppiness which then cannot be corrected because of backward compatibility or such.
Comment · 4 years ago
Felix Salmon on Slate Money podcast this past weekend suggest that its still net positive given alternative is those people don't even try to make world better. More nuanced than that but my take on the position.
Comment · 4 years ago
That was one of purposes though. If every one caught COVID at the same time then hospitals would be overrun and some people would die as a result of lack of access. Masking and isolation flattened the curve to spread it out over longer time. Also allowed time for less deadly versions to overtake so when you did get it then it was less bad in general.
Comment · 4 years ago
I've been using for about 6 months and I think its a good product. I suddenly needed a new firewall as Comodo Firewall doesn't work well with VPN I have to use (it cannot block anything). This stepped up like a champ in preventing unwanted networking behavior from Microsoft and others. The Notify Task has some times been weird but 1.0 seems to work well for me. The fact that i can point at my local DNScrypt instance is nice. I need to explore SPN more and see if it would work better than VPN for me or not.
Comment · 4 years ago
I prepay w/ tmobile for 30/mo. No wifi directly but can use google voice for that.
Comment · 4 years ago
1-5 V is also common. You can convert between the 2 with a resistor.
Comment · 4 years ago
Its very micro but also some macro. Very factorio-esk. When they add combat and hopefully other ways to use energy I will return and waste vast amounts of time again trying to avoid spaghetti (unsuccessfully).
Comment · 4 years ago
Facebook used to do that for you though maybe that has been curtailed? The tech is there in any case.
Comment · 4 years ago
You add the intermediate key to config for trust. You do not need authorized_keys files for each user. Good for team and central management and faster key rotation but then needs trusted intermediate authority which is secure. No password or key rotation on machine itself which is good if you have a lot of machines.
Comment · 4 years ago
Cannot give specific site of hand but for me its SPA sites and the page is just blank.
Comment · 4 years ago
I can only speak from personal experience but that is what happened to my family. My brother is a sociopath who caused our family a lifetime of difficulty. The biological mother was drug addict and abusive before adoption and he became an addict. My sister also adopted from different family was less of a problem but also had some issues. My dad was very kind and not abusive and spent way too much trying to help. Who knows maybe it was environment and early abuse or something but nature stacked the deck I think in my family. The other issue with adoption is limited access to family medical history.

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