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6 votes
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Banner blindness revisited: Users dodge ads on mobile and desktop
7 votes -
Matrix 2018, a year in review
22 votes -
How the artificial intelligence program AlphaZero mastered its games
8 votes -
"The" Social Credit System - 35C3 Talk
4 votes -
Roger Dingledine - Next Generation Tor Onion Services
5 votes -
How much of the internet is fake?
36 votes -
Inside Facebook’s secret rulebook for global political speech
10 votes -
Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms'
Straight from the horse's mouth - China's own Global Times: Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms' A different view - the Australian...
Straight from the horse's mouth - China's own Global Times: Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms'
A different view - the Australian Broadcasting Commission: Chinese schools enforce 'smart uniforms' with GPS tracking system to monitor students
11 votes -
The Welfare State Is Committing Suicide by Artificial Intelligence: Denmark is using algorithms to deliver benefits to citizens—and undermining its own democracy in the process.
6 votes -
Is there a proxy/vpn setup that can compress data in situ?
I've been wondering about this for a while whenever I'm on a metered connection or a capped one. It'd be cool if I could use my vps to help save data in exchange for latency. Having it download...
I've been wondering about this for a while whenever I'm on a metered connection or a capped one.
It'd be cool if I could use my vps to help save data in exchange for latency. Having it download and compress any compressible materials before serving them would be a godsend, but it sounds very edge case-y given how places like youtube deliver videos in bite size peices
Does something like this sound at all possible, or should I just assume it's too niché and look for other data saving ways?
7 votes -
Seeking help on a Tasker set up
I have a Fitbit blaze. It doesn't have a proper api, you can only get the data it generates. However it does have push notifications and a music controller. My idea was to set up a playlist of...
I have a Fitbit blaze. It doesn't have a proper api, you can only get the data it generates. However it does have push notifications and a music controller.
My idea was to set up a playlist of empty music files to act as menu options. E.g. track one would be named "turn phone off" and so on. This works as fine as a single menu option but when using multiple option, VLC just plays through the entire playlist.
Is there a music player that selects one track on a playlist and then stops? Or can I set this in VLC?
11 votes -
A tester walks into a bar: Reviewing test techniques
4 votes -
Doomba
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Seeking help on how partitions will work when dual-booting
I plan on dual-booting Linux soon, and I am wondering on how to handle partitions. I have 3 drives in my computer: an SSD that Windows 10 boots from, a second SSD with one partition and some...
I plan on dual-booting Linux soon, and I am wondering on how to handle partitions. I have 3 drives in my computer: an SSD that Windows 10 boots from, a second SSD with one partition and some unallocated space intended for Linux, and an HDD.
When I install Linux on that SSD, how can I prevent Windows from messing with the Linux partition and vice-versa? Can Linux and Windows both read and write to the HDD partitions without complaining about the other modifying them?
4 votes -
How Google tracks your personal information
7 votes -
Gaming chat startup Discord raises another $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
14 votes -
Best bluetooth usb for audio?
At the risk of sounding like an audiophile I noticed that on some bluetooth devices audio quality comes out absolutely terrible (Like radio recorded with a phone microphone). I was using a pair of...
At the risk of sounding like an audiophile I noticed that on some bluetooth devices audio quality comes out absolutely terrible (Like radio recorded with a phone microphone). I was using a pair of Bose QC 35 headphones and on my phone they sound just fine but on my desktop which has a cheap $2 bluetooth usb the sound quality is terrible. Ok for $2 what can you expect but now I have a distrust for all bluetooth devices. How can I know if my bluetooth usb is killing the quality of audio when thats not even a listed spec on these devices. I looked in to this a little bit ago and there seem to be a few proprietary extensions to bluetooth that allow lossless streaming but they aren't well supported because they are proprietary. I understand that high quality lossy compression is pretty much the same quality as lossless but how do I find a product that uses high quality lossy compression when it seems some of them use absolutely horrible compression?
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The year social networks were no longer social - In praise of private communities
18 votes -
The internet of unprofitable things
17 votes -
Yes, your refrigerator is trying to kill you [2014, OSCON Talk]
5 votes -
Yes, Big Platforms Could Change Their Business Models
12 votes -
The State of Open Source Security Survey is open
6 votes -
Google takes down Artstation android app for explicit content
11 votes -
Tom Scott warns viewers that Brave donations do not reach him
@tomscott: This warning is prompted by a company called Brave, who've been taking cryptocurrency donations "for me", using my name and photo, without my consent. I asked them not to, and to refund anyone who's donated; they said "we'll see what we can do" and that "refunds are impossible".
33 votes -
At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from Silicon Valley employees
13 votes -
Sam Harris drops Patreon, rips 'political bias' of 'Trust and Safety' team's bans
17 votes -
Should I be using a VPN constantly?
Do you? What do you recommend?
16 votes -
Slack: An apology and an update
14 votes -
Global smartphone shipments will rebound in 2019: IDC
3 votes -
We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Eventually.
7 votes -
Advocating for privacy in Australia
9 votes -
What model of mouse would you recommend for huge hands?
I am replacing my mouse, and I have giant hands. Pretty much every mouse I've ever used has been too small for me, so I would like to finally buy something that fits. I don't need anything fancy...
I am replacing my mouse, and I have giant hands. Pretty much every mouse I've ever used has been too small for me, so I would like to finally buy something that fits.
I don't need anything fancy beyond two buttons and a scroll-wheel. It doesn't have to have extra buttons or switchable DPI or anything like that (though I'm not opposed to those either). It'll be used on Linux, and will be my everyday driver. Wired and ergonomic are preferred but not mandatory.
Anyone have any good recommendations?
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Slack is banning users who have visited US-sanctioned countries (including Iran and Cuba) while using its app
20 votes -
Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to
22 votes -
The FBI has seized the domains of fifteen DDoS-for-hire services, and filed criminal charges against three people associated with them
10 votes -
Amazon sends 1,700 Alexa voice recordings to a random person
17 votes -
Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
18 votes -
My colleague designed/engineered a hydraulic "Drop Down Truck" for wheelchair users
10 votes -
.com crash of 2000
6 votes -
Potential impact of two IoT security and privacy laws on tech industry
6 votes -
Internal documents show that Facebook gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed
25 votes -
Prime and punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace
10 votes -
German cybersecurity chief: Anyone have any evidence of Huawei naughtiness? We won't be having a word with local firms until then
11 votes -
Crowdsourced Twitter study reveals shocking scale of online abuse against women
20 votes -
On ghost users and messaging backdoors
8 votes -
Do you use an alternative browser? Which one? Why?
The big players today are Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Then there are a load of alternative browsers from Vivaldi and Brave to EWW and elinks and w3m, and then things like Dillo and Netsurf....
The big players today are Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Then there are a load of alternative browsers from Vivaldi and Brave to EWW and elinks and w3m, and then things like Dillo and Netsurf. Do you use any of these alternative browsers? If yes, why, and why did you pick that particular one? I'd be interested to read why not, too.
28 votes -
The Rise and Demise of RSS
35 votes -
Keyboardio was deceived and defrauded for over a year by the account manager handling their manufacturing in China
18 votes -
Google’s secret China project “effectively ended” after internal confrontation
12 votes