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AndrewCHM··on Despite privacy outrage, AccuWeather still shares location data with ad firms
You can buy a phone like that, they are usually advertised for rural use

edit: or you can make one http://zerophone.org/ which also has plans to crowdfund some pre-built phones

AndrewCHM··on Python Wrapper API to load cryptocurrencies prices from main exchanges
https://github.com/stefs304/cryCompare/blob/master/crycompar... better link

It doesn't seem remarkable in any way? I think I'd prefer to run my own wrapper than use this (due to lack of proper url building, lack of proper errors, not possible to use async without changing the codebase, etc)

AndrewCHM··on Samsung TV buyers furious after software update leaves sets unusable
mind linking to the panel you use?
AndrewCHM··on Why Your Favorite Sites Are Suddenly Asking for Money
> Crucial internet resource Snopes.com is raising money on GoFundMe to keep going.

Isn't that a bad example of this? that is more of a case of their income being not given to them by the company running their ads hosting et al?

https://www.savesnopes.com/faq/ says they are profitable (when not fighting themselves), contrary to this article

AndrewCHM··on Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
straightening a plane e.g. a whole video frame, is a bit different from removing a random warp on a watermark (where the warp is more complex than tilting/angling the watermark), while its overlaid with partial visibility on a non-warped image
AndrewCHM··on Essential Phone, available now
periods like that make phones feel more like a hardware subscription service:

(with protection plan) $5 per week for 3 years for security updates

$7.60 per week for 2 years for OS updates

AndrewCHM··on Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way
If I set up a server to run a script each time a file gets updated in a folder, then the costs arn't going to increase.

Its not a "problem" with server/serverless of course, but no-scaling-by-default vs unlimited-scaling-by-default (which is imo the better way to split the server/serverless topic), one is going to cost more when things get thrown for a loop

AndrewCHM··on How to confirm a Google user’s specific email address

    ||accounts.google.com^$image,third-party
    ||google.com/accounts/*$image,third-party
For those that want to prevent the attack with ublocko, without filtering all 3rd party requests
AndrewCHM··on uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
Tracking Protection isn't Do Not Track. Tracking Protection in Firefox blocks web trackers

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-pbm

AndrewCHM··on Man spraypaints Twitter office sidewalk with abusive tweets it refuses to delete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzMTBINlLFU might as well link to the primary source

Doing this with temporary "paint" too.

Seems pretty neat way of conveying a viewpoint to a company (bringing the stuff to the humans, instead of letting the response go through the corporate filter)

AndrewCHM··on The Uber of X: A translation of 47 startup one-liners
The translation of lean-startup means absolutely nothing, link tells me to buy a book. No.

being told what I am thinking about things is really needlessly confusing, because its often wrong, then I need to remind myself that those statements arn't meant to teach me anything, but instead make me laugh? I don't know.

It'd be better to have like, 1 line of joke per 5-10 dotpoints, not 2-3+ lines of joke per dotpoint, that is my opinion though

AndrewCHM··on Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation
they have that page for all stack exchange sites regardless of content I believe

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask also has it even though it encorages a significant number of answers per question (so, open ended)

AndrewCHM··on Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation
They do have overflow for general open ended discussion

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com would probably do best for your sql/nosql thing, e.g. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/54373

https://stackexchange.com/sites worth a browse

AndrewCHM··on Microsoft didn’t sandbox Windows Defender, so I did
Do you know of any good starting points for documentation/information for AppContainers? I'm finding it hard sifting through irrelevant news articles and somewhat-relevant-but-still-irrelevant microsoft/docker marketing statements
AndrewCHM··on AD – A Javascript implementation of common Active Directory tasks
https://gist.github.com/Summertime/95cc7bec49d3948ce2f76ded0... An attempt to transcribe the examples to powershell cmdlets, in case anyone was wondering how much it differs to the tools pre-existing for the task

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I have to say, other than setup and lack of permission handling the js lib has, I would find myself preferring it

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