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The LEDs should be in 2 or more groups that each pulse at AC speed but offset by a fraction of the wavelength, that way there is little to no flicker. Or convert to DC and power it that way.

No privacy/security/adblocking user should use Chrome; it's a browser made the company you block ads from and tracks you whether or not the ads are there. Use Firefox, Safari, open source chromium, MS Edge, or anything else, just not Chrome. Also a Safari extension would be very nice.

I've never had a stuck pixel on any of the macs I've had but my iPhone 7 has 2 pixels stuck on. If like to see if Apple will fix/replace even though it is nearly unnoticeable unless looking at pure black with the brightness high.

https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill Checks for changes with USB drives and shuts down the computer and optionally deletes files and wipes ram. USB stick on a wristband > unplugs when they take the computer > shuts down

What year and ssd/hd?

I've had no problems except a couple programs that had broken features for a few weeks.

The most important part of this article was a mention of connecting national grids. If we had a global grid, the section of earth with enough sunlight could power the rest of the world. And hence no need for non-renewable energy.

Lol That's funny At least whitelisting S3 is probably fine

I was QAing for a company. They had a link in an email go through a tracker as opposed to loading the tracker on another site. Obviously uBlock blocked it and confused me for a few minutes until I realized what it was blocking.

They didn't like my suggestion to have the tracker be loaded externally so if it was blocked, no big deal.

This was on HN a few days ago: http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/12/06/readers-popular-web...

Basically ads that exploit you without you clicking on them. I don't know if it was on the acceptable ads list and you had a old copy of adobe acrobat, then you would be hacked. They didn't mention what sites but users in Central Europe got it on popular websites. Sites you'd probably trust.

Other than static ads between the hosting site and the site that wants to advertise without a middleman ad network, I don't trust any ads. In the case listed previously, a human is more likely to review the ad, making it safer.

Since I care about not getting hacked, the obvious conclusion for me is to block all ads.

I had social anxiety. Got counseling around 3-4 years ago. Even though I was never formally diagnosed, my mother always thought I was somewhere on the Autism spectrum. Not enough to really hinder me at everything, but enough to make me socially incapable.

I've never taken an IQ test but I think I would score fairly high.

I've had a similar experience with the dumbing down in classrooms. (Probably many times before this but I have a memory that is totally shit at some things but great at others) So I'm taking a beginner programming class at college in python. About half way though the semester I finished the class barely working hard. I could have done in 2-4 weeks had I went through it as fast as possible. There was another session that was a bit faster but I was the first to finish by far. Some of the things other people struggled with kinda amazed me. Things I would do in 30 minutes to an hour they might take 3 plus days including the professor really helping them. Any time I tried to help, I quickly got frustrated since I wasn't going to tell them how exactly to do it. Also I taught myself nearly all the course material.

This was at an engineering/art/business private college (which only had a comp sci minor) which I'm transferring away from to do computer programming.

Used to work for a company bug testing their app. We used a service called installr which worked on both devices. On iOS you installed a certificate/profile and on android, it downloaded an apk which then got installed manually. 100% of the time it was easier and quicker on iOS. And this was downloaded from the internet, not a mac.

So someone* should make a clone of archive.org but built on Tor. Maybe call it Torchive. And with no hiding because of robots.txt and possibly prevent users from looking at/editing the data on their server so a person who wants to clear themselves can't flood the net with nodes wanting data on this person and then wipe them all.

*someone who has the skills to make it, because I don't, at least right now

FileVault plus running 'pmset destroyfvkeyonstandby' in Terminal should prevent this. Destroying the FileVault key should encrypt the disk, likely stopping things from running while asleep. I haven't tested this though.