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drewmol··on DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
Having used OBS before (not the OP) it is much more feature rich and widely used.
drewmol··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Some generations of labradoodles are hypoallergenic from my understanding.
drewmol··on 48% of NYC riders do not pay the bus fare
I’m now wondering what the ratio for the subway is, do half the people skip paying the subway fare?
drewmol··on Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns
IMO, Leaked is probably the better word here. Equifax did not steal the data in the first place either, they recorded/copied it from other sources which leaked or sold it to them.
drewmol··on Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
Not sure why the downvotes but this is cool I wasn’t aware of this technology, thanks!
drewmol··on Modern iOS Navigation Patterns
Have you tried old.reddit.com?
drewmol··on Homes need to be built for better internet
If you not familiar check out powerline network adapters and access points. Not as good as cat6+ but better than WiFi as backhaul, I've been pleasantly surprised with the performance and throughput of the newer standards. You can get up to 2400 Mbps with the recent models.
drewmol··on How does Shazam work? (2022)
I'd sure like a Shazam for ads with mute capability, something I've been thinking about building for some time now just don't see any road to profitability and not getting adblock blocked.
drewmol··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
Is anybody working on a way to mute ads? Like listen to everything and detect ads, remote control volume on the device playing them?
drewmol··on Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue, analysis indicates
I think it was claims to the frequency.
drewmol··on It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian
And Experian pays your company for the data through programs like The Work Number
drewmol··on Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)
Ahh I didn't grok that, Thx it makes sense now.
drewmol··on Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)
>Reset someone's password using my email address

How does that work?

drewmol··on US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks
I wonder if it's ADHD or just the side effects of continual stimulant usage that causes worst COVID outcomes. Stimulants can be hell on a lot of bodily system functions.
drewmol··on The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines
<rubber tired vehicle back-up systems

tired vehicles

drewmol··on uBlock-Origin – 1.52.0
Great that's what I was looking for, I'll try combining the two.
drewmol··on uBlock-Origin – 1.52.0
Sorry, I could have been more clear. Brave is a browser with a feature called Shield, an anti-tracking feature, a click of the icon disables it/reloads page. So my workflow is up to 3 clicks if I just want to disable everything, which I do when I'm in a hurry sometimes.

I was wondering how often you had to interact with uBO mostly, which was answered in sibling comment.

I'm switching back to an android phone, mostly for a better browsing experience, so I'll try Firefox/NoScript+uBO combo. I'm using uMatrix everywhere else(except on iOS) but no uBO, I thought uMatrix covered everything uBO does but I guess not so I'll try both.

Also, I believe some versions of nightly Firefox (on mobile) can support uMatrix, IIRC.

Thanks for the breakdown!

drewmol··on uBlock-Origin – 1.52.0
You use both(UbO and uMatrix)? I didn’t realize uMatrix dev had been discontinued until just now, but between Brave shields and uMatrix I do a lot of clicking just to get stuff to work properly when browsing. Do you have to toggle/config uBlock often?
drewmol··on Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you
I think you are (missing the point). Often speed traps are about enforcing typically unenforceable regulations in bulk to reduce the effort. Among other problems. Also this advice doesn’t help if you do want to drive past the limit.
drewmol··on Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering
>Yes. Terroristic threat, for example.

This is such an important point. The PATRIOT Act threw protections for citizens out the window in cases of terrorism (no evidence required). DOD requires no trials, no warrants, only notifying judges with an accompanying gag-order and no input or oversight from them (making it illegal for them to divulge suspected abuses) to wiretap or kill anyone. President Obama used a drone strike to explode a 16 y/o boy (a US citizen) in Yemen[0]. This is only one of the cases we know about, and it’s impossible to know the extent it’s been used. I know that’s not the case here, but it is such a huge problem that needs to be fixed legislatively - I felt it necessary to comment.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Aw...

drewmol··on Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering
It was clear and not subtle, but my pedantry provoked a more substantial response. This is a topic that will likely be in our discussions going forward considering the former US president has so many outstanding charges against him. But that’s a much stickier situation than just a defendants rights to free speech, considering he’s also the leading Republican candidate for 2024 and the situation is largely unprecedented.
drewmol··on Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering
They do. But courts can set bail conditions and actions that explicitly ‘shall not be infringed’ can seemingly be infringed upon by those conditions. Judge ruled his actions violated those conditions and changed the terms of his pre-trial detention to be in a public correctional facility instead of at home.

He will appeal and the courts can decide if his rights are being infringed. If he was already locked up and had someone release this info, I doubt the judge would have charged him with witness tampering or intimidation over this, maybe would have warned him. Judge here just revoked his pre-trial bond/changed those conditions, which is within the judges power to do.

drewmol··on B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want
If sellers are shipping to random people, are then registering a sale through Amazon? Seems like Amazon wouldn’t want to be warehousing products for that don’t sell for free, an I missing something?
drewmol··on Mac Commands – Master your Mac with ease with this command reference
thanks, updated:
drewmol··on macOS command-line tools you might not know about
Yes it is, but the forum is current and the creator replies very actively. I’ll ask if he plans update.
drewmol··on Mac Commands – Master your Mac with ease with this command reference
Cool site. Do you planning to keep adding more commands to the database? Thanks for making it!

I’m just posting to make sure everyone is familiar with [0]ss64.com or to introduce you if not.

It had more macOS command that this, and each command links to a verbose usage page with details and arguments, man pages and examples.

Plus it has CMD,PowerShell,Linux,Multiple Databases,ASCII Table/Generator, VBScript,Base/Hex/Decimal/Binary/ASCII Calc,Bytes-MB-GB…/Bits-MiB-GiB…Calc,an up-to-date Forum and a great single html file Password Generator/Hash-er(Use one Master to derive a list of many Unique passwords) that can be used locally[1]. And global search.

It’s really great!

ss64.com

It’s so good that if you haven’t been before, you really should go there right now!

[0]https://:ss64.com

[1]https://ss64.com/pass/passwords.zip

drewmol··on Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
Interesting for me: reddit.com made 136 requests, 2.3MB Transferred, 3.0MB resources loaded by page ireddit.com 254 requests, 19.2 MB!! transferred 22.3 MB resources

old.reddit.com was 10 requests, 5kB transferred, 9kB resources I tried mbasic.facebook.com and interestingly it was (not logged in) only 1 request 1.1kB transferred, 1.1kB resources

I turned off any browser level blocking, but I do have some network level ad-blocking. I wonder why you get 111 more requests for (www.)reddit.com than I do.

Those(mbasic.facebook, old.reddit) are the old/basic interfaces I use regularly and both are requirements for me, I won't use their normal websites or apps so if they get shutdown I would leave for good.

drewmol··on The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city
Drinking tend to make a lot of people more sociable, and enjoy talking to others. By going to a bar where others are also drinking you have a place where there will be similarly extra-sociable-from-drinking people to interact with. If you’ve ever had a friend or family member who likes to call and talk whenever they are drinking and you are sober and find the conversation trying - you can understand the draw a social atmosphere where (most) everyone will be drinking.
drewmol··on Security analysis of the Dominion ImageCast X
I did read the article, albeit poorly as I must have: skipped past that section by mistake -or- read it while distracted but either way MITRE seemed brand new to me when I read it in the comment.
drewmol··on Security analysis of the Dominion ImageCast X
>Can you explain why the private vote only works when all votes are anonymous?

As you alluded to further down, if it is not illegal for people to publish a photograph of their ballot or a recording of their vote submission - then they can be coerced into doing just that. The idea of a secret ballot providing systemic protection against coercive influence only really works by requiring all ballots to be cast in secret, in my opinion.

>This won’t surprise you…

You are certainly not alone in the opinion that allowing ballot photographs to be made public is a big mistake, and maybe it will prove to be.

The citizens making a show of force toward voters is concerning, and I wish things were more civil and less partisan… but indeed, tensions have been escalating for several years.

Even if it is an unfounded belief and evidenced of outcome changing election fraud doesn’t exist, a growing minority of citizens losing confidence and loudly calling into question the integrity of elections is a very dangerous development.

In recent elections, election administrators on both sides of the aisle from several states have displayed incompetent failures to follow electoral processes that are designed to ensure transparency and fulfill audit requirements. This, of course, only makes matters worse. I hope it’s mostly online sensationalism and this sentiment will be quelled… bc when significant minorities of a population start to dispute the authority of leadership, stricter authoritarianism tends to be the government response, which tends to lead toward civil unrest and violent events. I share the concerns you warn about.

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