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10 points·by Merman_Mike·5 yıl önce·4 comments

The Fireplace Delusion

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Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
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[just gonna stop commenting on this site]
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
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Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Many of these seem to support GP's comment.
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
I'd want to verify the existing data and maybe add some data once a year or less.
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
I'm planning a few encrypted long-term backups (ie. stick it in a temperature controlled safe for a few years).

What's the best medium for this? SSD or HDD?
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Instead of downvotes, I'm curious what evidence there is on either side of this claim.
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
90%+ of Alphabet employee donations go to one party [1]. So, that affiliation.

[1] https://www.govpredict.com/blog/alphabets-political-contribu...
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
> including its bandwidth limiting schedule

Can you share more about this please?

The biggest (related) issue I run into running rclone from home is hitting the request speed limit on Digital Ocean Spaces. I frequently get the "Slow down!" error when backing up a bunch of small (<1mb) files.
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
So the laser beam of outrage has reached Signal. We knew this day was coming.

There are people out there who fundamentally believe that no one should be able to think or speak free from their scrutiny.
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Oh, I think we're referring to different things. I thought you were referring to this:

https://twitter.com/_HeatherWalker/status/132408570469203149...

Wherein people posted views from the other side of the glass claiming they were trying to count the votes in secret or something. Which was ironic, given all the news crews and observers on the other side of the glass documenting the same thing.

I agree that its BS to keep observers so far back that they cannot meaningfully observe the counting.
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
The lawsuit filing (PDF) is very specific: https://hamiltonps.app.box.com/s/fnrmhzypvs5g6pdsj1dp1y8v1ga...

You can just sort of skim that. He made dozens of fact-specific allegations over the course of months (ie. not carefully phrased).
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Are you referencing the barriers that were filmed... from inside the room... by the dozens of national media crews and party observers? Those barriers?
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
I'm almost certain that you're concern trolling in this thread.

However, if anyone else is actually interested in an explanation of this incident from the people in charge of the election, check out this 60 Minutes clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjKXvqSNIkk
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Oops, sorry. I didn't even notice that it can be read that way too.
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
> [...] due to their mistakes in protecting sources.

This is plainly false.

Neither of them worked directly on the Reality Winner story, especially including handling the leaked material.
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
I'm interested in the Apple Watch but I'm very wary of the distracting properties.

Are there good features to help lower the distraction level? Do you find it useful (and worth the price) for the passive health tracking stuff?
Merman_Mike
·5 yıl önce·discuss
And #3 is about 95% of it, like most of cooking.
Merman_Mike
·6 yıl önce·discuss
+1

A Facebook employee making claims about privacy or ethics makes me immediately suspicious of those claims.
Merman_Mike
·6 yıl önce·discuss
Really weird tone in their blog post [1].

It's mostly "sorry that you don't understand how things work". I've seen this before with these privacy-invading megacorps. They're tone deaf and defensive. Maybe they're worried that people are catching on and the tides are shifting.

[1] https://blog.whatsapp.com/giving-more-time-for-our-recent-up...
Merman_Mike
·6 yıl önce·discuss
This reminds me of someone saying that eventually Amazon will just start sending you things and charging you for them with no intervention on your end.

It'll just happen to be what you needed at the right time.