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I shall have to try KDE. I've been an xfce user for years but have been hearing good things about KDE.
I use freelance now.
Don't know anything about the mayor but what he said seems reasonable to me. As a cyclist myself I have no problem merging into traffic if my lane is blocked, my experience though is most cyclists don't like to stop so end up cutting into the live lane putting themselves at risk.

Disclosure: not American don't know the rules there.

Re:Why do entrepreneurs engage in self-sabotage? on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @07:36PM (#16589347)
This is true, I mean I should be in bed right now, I'll be up in 5 hours. But what am I doing? Watching Jessica Jones and writing this message, I'm definitely going to regret it in the morning!
Re:Intel Fights for Its Future on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:17AM (#16566924)
>Give it 10 years and people will be keeping their phones until they break.

That's basically me right now, still have my trusty sgs2 running lineageOS and will continue to have it till it breaks

I don't have anything against Facebook I just have no use for it. I have no use for any social media platform. They are a waste of my time.
Having no talent and no achievements I have no plans for this. My only wish is my browsing history dies with me.
Yes.

Have a point and shoot for decent pictures, my current phone's camera is pants.

Handy as maps are I wonder what privacy I'm giving up using them.

I don't use sensors.

I've actually considered recently getting a dumb phone.

Weren't these civil actions taken by private citizens/rights group?

The courts are just agreeing with these citizens/rights group. It's not like an EU agency is targeting Facebook unfairly.

Personally I can only see this as a good thing. As a non-user I don't want Facebook tracking me. Same as I don't want tracked by any other company.

Thanks for this. I've been looking for something like this for ages. I used to use VM's for this but it was a right pain.

As an aside I used this guide having discovered it a couple of years ago. I can't remember how but I ended up on a site that had been hacked, might have been following a link from a forum, and the page I was looking for wasn't there. Instead there was a link on the page saying it had been moved. I stupidly clicked the link and off I went to a random site that I can only assume was meant to drop some form of malware or take control on my browser. Anyway all I was left with was a message congratulating me on how secure my browser was, I didn't stay around.

The police by the very definition of their job don't go around "tracking" regular folk. Only those that are doing or have done wrong. Seriously the police have better things to do than watch people on CCTV who aren't doing anything wrong. Not to mention the various laws and regulations that prevent the police doing just that.

Councils on the other hand are a different thing.

Glad I live in a country with a free health service.
Only as far as it goes. Tracking isn't as fine grained. Service providers main concern is the service. Can you be tracked this way? Yes, but not as easily as this is talking about
Current quality for the majority of CCTV is probably not good enough for facial. May be gait recognition is more feasible.
>It's even worse, it means the police know it doesn't track criminals and so just want to track regular people.

The police knowing is really beside the point, local government (councils) own and operate the public space CCTV, the police will and do make use of it. The problem is quality and with quality is identification. If no one knows the person on CCTV there's not much to be done.

Having read just the abstract is seems that current implementations of Mac address randomisation is essentially useless rather the Mac address randomisation itself.

Hopefully in the future the implementation will improve. Until then WiFi is off.

Re:Ask HN: Why use Linux for coding? on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:25PM (#16389851)
Giving the OP the benefit of a doubt I'm really just learning to program and have many of the questions the OP has asked. Reading the comments to these questions does actually help me make more informed decisions based on the knowledge and experience of you guys. Gaming or not they are of benefit to some.
Re:Tldp.org does not respond anymore 8-o on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:30AM (#16385276)
Working for me
Not an expert but I have different email addresses for different thing, currently about 20 email addresses with different providers. I manage them with a password manager which I obviously recommend for your passwords.

This means the if say my social media account got compromised (not that I have a social media presence) then they can't use that email to compromise my banking or other types of accounts. I also have a number of "spam" email addresses for sign ups.

Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:16PM (#16360581)
Unfortunately that is rarely the case especially in the US.
Me too, was about to start pontificating about text files, and markdown.
Re:Ask HN: When is online anonymity undesirable? on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:13PM (#16353865)
>Is there a place for anonymity in our digital future?

I hope so.

Re:Ask HN: Which Linux distribution do you use, and why? on Sunday February 11, 2018 @12:40PM (#16353665)
I'm not adverse to messing with config files but this seems a little above my knowledge base.

I've no experience with functional programming so have no idea really how it's doing the things it's doing. Plus I can imagine writing out your config file would take a long time.

What does declarative mean? What does atomic mean?

Re:The House That Spied on Me on Sunday February 11, 2018 @02:01AM (#16351570)
Fairly modern. Galaxy S2 lineageOS, fdroid.

I know where you're going with this, some things are unfortunately unavoidable. Still I do what I can.

Re:The House That Spied on Me on Saturday February 10, 2018 @06:10PM (#16350176)
This simple horrifies me. Why would you do this to yourself and your family?

I don't see myself ever getting anything smart, and if I can't avoid it there is no way it touches my internet connection!

Personally I wouldnt bother with this since I delete cookies as soon as I exit the browser.

I've a password manager for logins.

Me too, I tend to decide whether to read an article based on the comments. I find I hardly ever read an article.
Re:Ask HN: Which Linux distribution do you use, and why? on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:51AM (#16331191)
Never heard of this one, popped over to the website. Literally the only thing I understand is that the name is NixOS which uses the Nix package manager.

They'd need to dumb down whatever it is they're talking about significantly before I would use it, can't make heads nor tails of it.

>He could help in any way a normal citizen could help someone in trouble until another officer arrives with a working body cam.

"Sorry madam I know the theif is getting away but I can only help as a normal citizen"

Or

"Sorry madam I cannot do anything just now I need my camera, if I tried to save her and it went wrong someone could claim I did someone wrong and a mob could then demand I lose my job based on only half facts"

>What’s wrong with allowing the public to petition for a police officer to be fired?

Because as you say everyone hates to police, that would mean you're local high level gangster could drum up enough support to fill the ranks of the police with cops who wouldn't touch them.

>Everyone hates the police. That’s the point. It’s a lot harder to curb stomp a kid’s head...

Also a lot harder to arrest those dangerous and violent criminals who will then take revenge on you, your family or property. But then I forget if you're a cop your family is fair game, because fuck cops right?

I wouldn't say sensible, unrealistic or implausible is closer.

"Sorry madam the last person I dealt with broke my camera, I'm not a cop at the moment"

Political policing departments... Hhmm you think the police equivalent of trump are going to be any less corrupt?

I'm also sure housing the police where they work would definitely no in anyway make them, their family and property, any sort of target being as everyone loves the police.

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