FearlessNebula
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1 year ago
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on: Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit
Are these apps able to track location and accelerometer data from the background? Or does this only apply to people who open something like GasBuddy while driving the car?
FearlessNebula
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1 year ago
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on: Flybywire A380x – an open source study level A380 simulation
Flybywire, the creator of the renowned A32nx, released their A380x in alpha today.
FearlessNebula
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2 years ago
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on: Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise
Google uses a proprietary version control system called Piper
FearlessNebula
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2 years ago
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on: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster
Anton Yelchin was killed due to traumatic asphyxiation when he thought he parked his Jeep and got out of the car and it then rolled into him and crushed him against a gate. Arguably the blame falls on GM for building one of those stateless shifters that always pops back to the center.
FearlessNebula
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2 years ago
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on: The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers
FearlessNebula
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2 years ago
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on: Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
The market is really difficult right now, most people don’t have the option to just find a remote work company. A significant amount of people who were laid off can’t find any company right now
FearlessNebula
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2 years ago
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on: How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox
I haven't used OneDrive but the iCloud Drive and Google Drive clients are similarly terrible. I one time had 5 GB of complex nested file structure in iCloud Drive and it totally froze up. I tried 2 different Mac's, an iPhone, and an iPad and none of them were able to sync up with the server to get those 5 GB out of the cloud. I had to request a GDPR to get a .zip file of my data... this was the impetus for me to switch to Dropbox although after the way they handled their layoffs I am looking to switch to Syncthing as soon as I have the time to set it up and get familiar.
FearlessNebula
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2 years ago
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on: How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox
Hence why I use Cryptomator to encrypt my data. Apparently OneDrive marks this as ransomware and sends you scary emails but does not lock your account. So far Dropbox does not seem to care about Cryptomator at all.
Edit: Not to defend Dropbox, but just saying there is a mitigation if you need it.
FearlessNebula
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2 years ago
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on: Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option
Was it a self hosted github instance?
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: Gitlab’s Startup Acquisition Process
Why does everything need to be acquired these days? Why do we consolidate everything into a few big companies? Why can’t we just have technology spread out across multiple players.
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults?
This is just wrong. First of all, IBS != IBD. Second of all, IBD doctors will flat out recommend high fiber Mediterranean style diets for anybody who is not in an active flair.
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: Age of Empires 2 is now on Xbox
It’s not, but the controller get surprisingly close in my amateur opinion
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: Apple: $52,000 Mac Pro Is Now Worth $1k
> Have been thoroughly "osbourned" by the ARM macs.
Moot point, Apple won’t delay the release of their new chips to preserve resale value on customers devices, that’s nonsensical.
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: Data-Free Disneyland
What the heck is Disney doing with location data inside the park? And why facial recognition? To fight crime?
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: Data-Free Disneyland
Yeah and what are the odds Disney is correlating their license plate scanners with anything in the park? I’d assume the license plates only get looked at if a crime occurs
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: Age of Empires 2 is now on Xbox
Was curious what others think. I gave it a try on game pass and the controls are really well done.
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls
I think AWS has a service?
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: US general warns troops that war with China is possible in two years
I wonder if we could bring the people and their families over?
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: US general warns troops that war with China is possible in two years
Devil’s advocate:
Surely we wouldn’t go to war on Taiwan’s behalf solely to support their independence. It would be to guarantee our access to their microchips. So why not produce those ourselves, and end our dependence on both China and Taiwan.
FearlessNebula
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3 years ago
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on: Teardown of the 14″ MacBook Pro M2 with Apple’s Help
Which company and which critical material?
