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pacamara619··on Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes
You cannot vote someone out of office, you can only vote for someone else. Who do you vote for when every somewhat popular candidate doesn't even know how to change their WLAN password?
pacamara619··on 100s of astronomers warn SpaceX Starlink satellites could block future science
You cannot "delete" something from a long exposure, how would you think that worked?
pacamara619··on Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition
I'm not sure I follow. Cookies are stored in the client.
pacamara619··on Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks
We shy away of those kinds of experiments ever since Dr. Mengele had his way.
pacamara619··on I’m A Teapot – HTTP status code 418
718 - I am not a teapot

https://github.com/joho/7XX-rfc/pull/180

pacamara619··on Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
With environmental pollution there doesn't need to be any actual damage to sue.
pacamara619··on Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931
That's 55° Celsius for all of you using intelligent units.
pacamara619··on Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations
Data, Data, Data and Data
pacamara619··on YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
> Once you have same language captions for a video, your community can submit translations to help you reach a global audience.

Oh so they realized it's free labour and whant the users to train their speech recognition AI.

pacamara619··on LifeLabs goes to court to block privacy watchdogs from probing 2019 data breach
"It was a software problem, highly complex, no one's fault."
pacamara619··on Hebrew U. scientist: Drug could eradicate Covid-19 from lungs in days
Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1217/

They haven't even done animal trials yet.

pacamara619··on Hospitals see significant drop in premature births during lockdown
In Switzerland we had a massive spike in untreated heart attacks precisely because your third point. It's good that people don't go to the ER for minor things but people should know that symptoms of a heart attack are not to be taken lightly.
pacamara619··on Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly removed from Facebook
Thr problem lies not with the leaders, at least not in the western world, people just need to stop voting for conspiracy theorists, it really is that simple.
pacamara619··on NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
There is absolutely nothing virtuous in watching ads. Nothing. If you want to support someone, buy their product or give them money.
pacamara619··on Apparent absence of covid transmission at hair salon with face covering policy
This, but unironically. I know people who were told by their bosses they'd get sacked if they tested positive on the virus. Obviously highly illegal but the only restrictions my country has on layoffs is that you have to give 3 months notice and if you lay off more than 20 people at once you need approval of the ministry of work.
pacamara619··on Turn your phone into a wireless webcam
If this is gratis software why is it not opensourced?
pacamara619··on Derailing illusions that kill: misperceptions at railway crossings (2003)
It would be great to have a tutorial you can run, a tutor of some kind perhaps.
pacamara619··on Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave'
Absolutely not, Leader and Follower implies at least somewhat of a choice on the side of the Follower. Master and Slave exactly describe the way IT systems work, the Slave has no choice but to follow the instructions of the Master. Having the Slave not execute the exact instructions it was given would be a massive problem.
pacamara619··on Heated seats as a service? BMW wants to sell car features on demand
No wonder BMW drivers are often seen as assholes. Being nickel and dimed for minor things after spending such huge amounts of money on a new car would certainly make me bitter and resentful.
pacamara619··on MS introduces new Edge with full-screen popup that can't be skipped
I remember the days they were slapped with a hefty lawsuit for bundling IE with Windows. What they are doing now is Beyond Good and Evil.
pacamara619··on New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
I don’t understand how people dare to run anything but free and open-source software. Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
pacamara619··on Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
Some sort of horizontal line between the articles would look nice and help with readability.
pacamara619··on Facebook takes down Trump ads 'for violating our policy against organized hate'
The German party AfD is known for this tactic. They say something outrageous, their post gets deleted or something similar happens, then they play into the victim role and call everyone else "Lügenpresse" (≈ Fake News). Internal documents from a few years ago have described this tactic.
pacamara619··on Ask HN: Secure Zoom Alternative
No, it is not.
pacamara619··on George Floyd died of asphyxia, private autopsy finds
> Hmmm no I can't imagine that

Holy motherflipping cow the amount of Selbstgefälligkeit is insane. How about you guys _actually use_ your second amendment for once if you're so upset with the police.

Get your shit together. Get it all together. And put it in a backpack. All your shit. So it’s together.

And if you gotta take it somewhere, take it somewhere, you know, take it to the shit store and sell it… Or put it in a shit museum, I don’t care what you do, you just gotta get it together. Get your shit together!

pacamara619··on Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data
Pretty sure he meant DNT and not Incognito Mode.
pacamara619··on Systematically Improving Espresso: Insights from Mathematical Modeling [pdf]
tl;dr for baristi and cafe owners:

You can get away with less coffee on a coarser grind if the shot you pull comes out rather rapidly since the amount of soluble material is similar to a "regular" shot.

This is an opportunity to save money, especially if you only use the shot for a milk based drink like a capuccino or a flat white.

When getting into specialty grade coffee it gets a little shakey, the taste is still rather good but the texture is a little off.

pacamara619··on Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
I know right, someone think of the children!
pacamara619··on Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor
It doesn't suck. It has nearly all features you could possibly need, and then some. People who expect GIMP to be identical to Photoshop suck.
pacamara619··on Is Facebook even safe anymore?
It never was safe.
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