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Comment Re:Ya think, Zuck? (Score 1) 140

due to FB's policies, legitimate users feel compelled to put in fake names, birthdates, locations, schools, employers, etc.

Or in fact not put most of those in at all. Facebook is still trying to guess which continent I live on (it occasionally asks if I live in cities related to my friends list). I haven't given any info about education, work or interests (although I'm sure there's a big profile on what interests me based on what I click on).

Comment Re:Bagless Vacuum (Score 1) 321

And when you empty the vacuum, you get to breath a giant cloud dust

What are you doing? Maybe it it different for some models, but for mine, you place the end of the canister into a trash bag and pull the trigger on the handle. You can even close the base again by pushing it while it's still in the trash bag.

Comment Re:findimagedupes in Debian (Score 1) 243

I've used findimagedups. IIRC, it rescales each image to a standard size (64x64 or something) then filters and normalizes it down to a 1-bit-depth image.

It then builds a database of these 'hashes'/'signatures' and can output a list of files that have a threshold of bits in common.

That's how it can ignore small changes, it loses most detail and then can ignore a threshold of differences.

It would fail if an image was cropped or rotated, for instance. It could handle picture orientation it it was modified to store 4 versions of the signature, I guess.

It won't actually remove images itself (I wrote a script to read it's output and delete listed images matching a specific path).

I needed it because Dropbox was 'fixing' orientation when it uploaded images and I wanted to clear out ones I'd backed up directly from the camera. (I usually delete duplicate images based on hash.)

Comment Re:A paranoid setup (Score 1) 321

You may need to use -c to force rsync to compare checksums.

I use something like this as part of my backup DATE=$(date +%C%y%m%d%H%M)
rsync --del --backup --backup-dir=../changedfiles_$DATE

The whole backup also goes to S3 glacier.

As an added step - I don't delete pictures from my camera unless they match the checksum of files in the _backup_ - not the original copy (via a script).

That way, once they're first copied from the camera, a single failure in the original, PC copy or backup copy will all result in the camera version remaining and I can check what has gone wrong.

Comment Re:How does one prevent this ? (Score 1) 120

Google Chrome allows easy creation and switching of user profiles.

I've wondered whether I should have a separate profile for each social site as a way to isolate them.

I turn off 3rd party cookies, but I heard that there was an exclusion for sites that you had logged into and received cookies from.

Meaning, 3rd-party ad site could not send you cookies, but Facebook still could if you'd signed in to it earlier.

More drastic isolation of browser instances is another option (I've wondered about sandboxie but not tried it).

Comment Re:This app never seemed necessary (Score 4, Insightful) 187

I just hold down the lock switch for a second to turn on the LED, it's a built-in feature on my Nokia.

But why doesn't Android sandbox apps in a way that the app is unaware of? Just present all apps with an empty contact list, a fake GPS location, an empty drive, etc and the user grants permissions to substitute the real ones as needed. That way, all apps could be installed and you'd get a popup such as "this app wants your location" in a similar way to IOS, only this way the app would keep working if you said no.

Comment Re:That room on the 6th floor of the Book Deposito (Score 3, Informative) 381

Don't the trees block a lot more of the road than they did then?

There's a webcam mounted inside the box near the window if anyone want's to check out the view (the pile of boxes placed there to represent the one's he's said to have placed there to rest the rifle on).

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