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fulldecent2··on Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?
The solution is you open a lawsuit against Google for defamation.

Then you use Hacker News and other resources to develop your arguments and collect money from people that care to help.

fulldecent2··on French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold
Stop requesting refunds and just take your money back.
fulldecent2··on ACM signed letter opposing open access
As soon as I saw American Heart Association on the list I knew it was going to be a scam idea. This "non-profit" pays their CEO $1.5M, just fired all their product distributors to bring profit home, and just squeezed all their independent training centers by tripling the price of supplies to them. Lastly, they plant "volunteers" into its customers. For example, the purchasing manager for Veterans Affairs in charge of buying all CPR training for the world's largest health system is also in a leadership position with AHA. Guess who has the exclusive, non-competitive contract?

When anti net neutrality was up for debate, same thing. I just needed to tell grandmom: it's a political thing Comcast is fighting for. Grandmom replies "if Comcast wants it it must be bad". Bam! Done explaining.

fulldecent2··on The modern web is becoming unusable
What we have today is: email addresses are valuable and people give them out.

The problem is that Gmail has failed to introduce one-time-use or per-recipient email addresses. That would immediately solve the problem of coerced email collection.

fulldecent2··on If this project is dead, just tell us
These are not great metrics. There are no great metrics.

The official JSON implementation is a good example. It is a mature project. It's used everywhere. If you leave an issue or submit a PR that fixes a typo, the maintainer will flat out delete your comment and tell you to buy his book to educate yourself.

Maybe this behavior is good or maybe it's bad. But maintainers are human and metrics are not going to cleanly pick up how well a project is maintained.

fulldecent2··on If this project is dead, just tell us
Here's how you solve this problem. I do this on my own projects and with Chart.js which we resurrected from the brink of a "2.0 is coming... please wait" cliff.

1. Add a project scope to the README -- this gives you and volunteers grounds to close issues that are not relevant. 2. Send a personal email to your 3 top contributors -- ask if you can give them push access (even if they aren't recent contributors) at a minimum as an insurance policy. 3. Automate or at least specify your release process. You should be able to do this reliably, while drunk and high, and when you have 17 other projects needing your attention. Example: https://github.com/fulldecent/FDWaveformView/blob/master/CON...

I have been involved in a few "takeovers" to implement the above and keep great projects running. A little structure and human goes a long way. You don't need to fork and be the new dictator to keep something great moving.

fulldecent2··on Gnu: Net
Regarding the blog, yes it has nothing to do with the specification of IPv6. It has to do with the way that everybody (nearly everybody?) uses IPv6.

This distinction is already complicated enough that we should just tell everybody that "IPv6 is bad" because it is true enough.

fulldecent2··on Gnu: Net
I like the paper. It it is interesting to see other people that are interested in this.

When I try to explain why IPv6 is a privacy failure and consumers should turn it off I get modded to oblivion. https://privacylog.blogspot.com/2019/09/ipv6-hurts-your-priv...

But when other people are aware of passive attacks and see the economic incentives I think there might still be hope.

fulldecent2··on Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything
Here is the actual Samsung screen that you can't opt out of:

https://twitter.com/fulldecent/status/1067258123545661441

fulldecent2··on Intel's CIP wants to collect the “categories of websites you visit”
I support Intel's program here.

But clearly they should reword it to be more explicit.

s/categories of websites you visit/

- Each month, whether you have or have not visited some streaming video website on this list (click to see list) (i.e. a single "yes" or "no" for the whole list) - Each month, whether you have or have not visited some shopping website from on this list (click to see list) - ... /

fulldecent2··on Wesaturate – 6000 Free Raw Photos
Okay photo selection. I test with: lemons, boudoir, African

RAW download button did not work for me. But you can download using this script by putting in the photo ID:

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.3fr

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.ari

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.arw

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.bay

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.crw

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.cr2

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.cap

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.data

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.dcs

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.dcr

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.dng

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.drf

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.eip

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.erf

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.fff

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.gpr

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.iiq

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.k25

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.kdc

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.mdc

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.mef

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.mos

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.mrw

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.nef

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.nrw

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.obm

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.orf

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.pef

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.ptx

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.pxn

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.r3d

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.raf

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.raw

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.rwl

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.rw2

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.rwz

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.sr2

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.srf

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.srw

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.tif

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.tiff

wget https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.x3f

fulldecent2··on IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program
The solution is that you can create a transparency website and file FIOAs to get all the FIOAs and you can post them.

This isn't a "why didn't they" problem. It is a "how can I" problem.

fulldecent2··on Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
After reading the book, the interview seems mostly like a narration of the book. I surely could have covered a lot more new ground in 2 hours.
fulldecent2··on Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth
I can't upgrade because I depends on VS Code + Panic Transmit (downgraded to old version). This allows me to edit files on a remote server.
fulldecent2··on macOS 10.15 Vista
Are you using VSCode to access files on remote servers (e.g. using Transmit)?

This breaks in 10.15. Do you have a work around?

fulldecent2··on macOS 10.15 Vista
Safari is also vulnerable to phishing popups that are indistinguishable from Apple popups.

https://privacylog.blogspot.com/2019/06/safari-zero-day-any-...

fulldecent2··on macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address
Here is a legitimate practical use of editing your MAC:

https://fulldecent.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-connect-your-...

fulldecent2··on Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end?
Everyone uses Desmos now.
fulldecent2··on Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end?
I have previously been on site for an SAT II reading session (this is the part following the proctoring). It was hard enough to get the logistics right for getting all the scantron sheets and papers to where they needed to go. And overnight shipping printers and other equipment on failure.

Adding any more logistics into this process would increase costs and provide no headline-worthy benefit.

* The teachers, not the students, use scantrons

fulldecent2··on Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data from Scores of Companies
I am surprised that more NSLs have not been leaked or "hacked".

Just store the NSLs next to your user data so that when it gets stolen and published then your NSL is published as well.

fulldecent2··on California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees
So... reincorporate subsidiary in Micronesia and ignore the laws from there?
fulldecent2··on 9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf]
LinkedIn is a public website? Every time I click from DDG it shows a login page and zero content.
fulldecent2··on GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
You're doing it wrong.

My top repo has ~5,000 stars and some contributors. It was fun, it lets you broadcast AM on a stock MacBook or iPhone. That's how I found Hacker News, it found me. Zero dollars. Virtual tip jar, zero tips. I got everything I wanted out of that project and more.

Next, I open sourced my research on vowel pronunciation / language learning. The same exact program sells on the App Store. For $10. Yes really. And the app links to the free repo, in case they want to check it out. This pays rent.

Next, I'm an expert on some blockchain topics. And specifically related to enterprise. If you're in that scene you might recognize me, I'm all over that (=all over GitHub). I put my phone number in a few choice places and qualified people call. This lands large contracts, no interview. This pays rent.

Google and Facebook regularly interview/hire directly from GitHub. No resume, direct interview request from GitHub. I don't work for Google any more, but these are opportunities to pay rent.

fulldecent2··on Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted
Also just want to say this plainly. If you ever will take a polygraph in the future, you should read about it online even if you "have nothing to hide."
fulldecent2··on Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted
Polygraphs can be "inconclusive" many times. Especially if you the kind of person that is uncomfortable sitting still and breathing in the same rhythm for an extended period.
fulldecent2··on Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted
Me too. I'm interested to know when this was because I am reading between the lines and believe little has changed on the questions between when you did it and I.

At my time I was told that all interviews at a certain exit off I-95 in Maryland were done by FBI.

I expect several people reading your note might also have gone through this process and failed. Interested to hear if anyone has successfully retrieved transcripts using a FOIA request.

fulldecent2··on Insured price $2,758, cash price $521
If you have a similar story: stop reading, open a court case in small claims court and come back to post about it. You will get all the support you need here from extremely qualified people, including specific filings you should make and also answers to every question you will have.
fulldecent2··on Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi
Understood. Also, I bet every sibling comment to this one will be terribly low quality and fail to convince anyone of anything.
fulldecent2··on Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database
At our company, we use an ETL script to suck all our Google sheets into MySQL then we run queries for reporting. It's pretty nice, we'll probably open source it.

The worst part is that as a database, Sheets is not one-tenth as good as MS Access was. You can't enforce constraints or even disable certain people from editing the format of a cell. There's lots of things you can try but you are just one inadvertent copy-paste away from losing formatting/validation rules you had set.

fulldecent2··on FCC Chairman Proposes Robocall Blocking by Default
There is only one actual solution to this problem.

1. Get the list of phone numbers of everybody working at AT&T (Sony style) 2. Set up robocalls randomly from each of these numbers to each of the other numbers 3. Share this list and your specific howto instructions with three other people

Every other solution fails.

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