The guys in the photos, they're all gangsters, I tell ya an they all sound like Jimmy Cagney.
Readit NewsDoubl commented on Street View of 1940s New York 1940s.nyc/... · Posted by u/msaltz
Doubl commented on Electronic Whole Earth Catalog archive.org/details/the-e... · Posted by u/longdefeat
That exactly was the attraction of CD-ROMs in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was (to the era) practically infinite storage compared to what they were used to. Before the dawn of the Web in the mid/late 1990s, CD-ROMs were a major industry with the first electronic encyclopedias and many other reference works later made obsolete by the Web.
Encarta! Took me a while but that was what I was trying to recall!
> But today Ellsberg is celebrated as the patron saint of whistleblowers while Assange is locked in a cell in London’s Belmarsh maximum security prison for 23 and a half hours a day.
Ellsberg was charged with a bunch of crimes too, which would have resulted in 100+ years of jail time. He's considered a good person now because he defended himself and won. It should also be noted that he very much supports Wikileaks.
It should also be noted a big difference in the cases is that Ellsberg leaked documents he already had legal access to, and was therefore a whistleblower. Assange leaked documents that he had to illegally acquire first (either with help or without, but either way he was in possession of stolen goods). You can't get whistleblower protection for leaking information you didn't have legal access to.
I totally understand why Assange is fighting extradition -- it's highly unlikely he would be treated fairly or get a fair trial. But I doubt he'll ever be broadly considered a hero until he defends himself in court.
Broadly? I thinks that's a very American centric perspective. About the last system of justice I'd like to find myself at the mercy of outside those in totalitarian countries is the American one.
It has earned itself an awful reputation, in Europe, at least. It's such a shame that countries like the UK appear to be behaving like client states of America.
Doubl commented on Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering businessinsider.com/why-a... · Posted by u/Impossible
It mostly worked on me if that was the goal. Except now my storage is at over 93% and I'm trying to figure out if I can just download my mbox file and delete all the emails for the next decade...
I'm exactly on 93% too, I'm am going to clean out my Google drive which is full of stuff I could put elsewhere and will give me another few years. It's about time they increased their limit from 15GB though!
Doubl commented on Is a supermarket discount coupon worth giving away your privacy? latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/lnguyen
Tesco give you an effective 1% discount on some future purchases for using their clubcard at the checkout, that's provided you use the coupons they send you periodically before they expire. I prefer to do as little shopping as possible there and instead shop at the far cheaper German discounter Lidl down the road. They don't have any of that loyalty crap.
Doubl commented on Why tennis balls are yellow or green artsy.net/article/artsy-e... · Posted by u/Tomte
I always just assumed school buses were yellow because they're always referred to as yellow, but then my 3 year old child said "look at the orange bus" and as I looked, I realized that indeed the colour of a bus appears to be more orange than yellow. Now I can't un-see it.
Can't imagine confusing orange with yellow. Do you know what the general consensus is on the color?
Doubl commented on Why tennis balls are yellow or green artsy.net/article/artsy-e... · Posted by u/Tomte
Federer says yellow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1at7aQqjhC8
Yes I think I'm in a minority on the issue but I'm not alone!
Doubl commented on Why tennis balls are yellow or green artsy.net/article/artsy-e... · Posted by u/Tomte
Same reason high visibility jackets are I presume. I always think they're green but others tell me they're yellow.
I have normal color vision as do at least some of the people who see them differently
Doubl commented on We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance blog.torproject.org/we-ca... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen
I don't know much about them, but Sync https://www.sync.com seems to be in this space.
Has a 5GB free tier, higher tiers cheaper than dropbox. Based in Canada if that matters.
I'm using them for years as a form of backup. Very reasonable priced, works flawlessly for me though I mainly use as a form of backup for a synced folder. GDPR compliant.
Deleted Comment