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It's literally the perfect way to do this. The large number of people account for each other. And since police murders in the US are so common, people would glaze right over the headline. An assassination with no witnesses would stir up more questions.
This sounds like it was an assassination attempt. I'd move out of the country.
I use SMBSync2 (android) to back up my photos daily to a network drive. Then I created a nightly job that mounts an encrypted drive, syncs the photos, then unmounts the drive. Finally, I just created a job that uploads the encrypted drive to the cloud. This way I have an offsite backup of my stuff. It's a good feeling knowing I have an encrypted backup and don't have to trust a 3rd party service.
I've been slow upgrading my Windows over the years. I stuck with XP Pro SP2 for a very long time. I wish I could still use it. Now I'm on Win7 and probably will be for awhile. It seems every other Windows version sucks. I'll let Microsoft try out their idiot moves while I stick with more mature releases.
The foreclosure was inevitable. I bought too high about 8 years ago and my house is really old. It needs more money in work than I'd ever make back. Such is life I suppose. A string of hard-earned lessons.
I was laid off new years. I've been doing development for 10 years and specializing in salesforce for 7 years. I haven't found the right position yet, but I know I've been burned out for a little bit now. I've been considering low-paying metal-working jobs, but the sad reality is unemployment pays more. Unemployment runs out in June. I'm kinda indifferent whether I find work. I've started the foreclosure process on my house. This may be the perfect time to just take some time and explore the US. So while I haven't found work yet, the work I have done has put me in the mentality that that's ok. Thanks for reading.
Probably peanuts to any 3 letter government agency.
I've written C# for the last 10 or so years now. I was a lot heavier in C# the first 5 years until my career changed paths. So I've gotten to watch C# "from a distance" for the last 5 years now and I'm optimistic about C#'s future. C# has an image problem. Of the programmers I've talked to, the polyglots usually see the strengths in C#.
Metal Fabrication. I've actually been taking metal classes for the last 6 months and just finished my first pair of motorcycle foot pegs on the CNC machine last night.
Sadly, there will always be tech workers willing to do this for the right price. As I get older, I'm starting to wonder if not following my "tech morals" would've brought more success.
I thought it was already well-known and assumed Skype has backdoor(s) in their software.
I was always able to completely ignore the naysayers because it's a lot easier to judge than create. Still, it wasn't enough for success. I discovered it's the process of creation I really love, not creating technological things specifically like websites and apps. I recently started metalworking. I get the same satisfaction of creating, and at the end of the day, there's no button that will "delete" what I've created. But it's just something I do in my spare time. I'm also starting to believe that once you go from "hobby" to "job," you end up hating it because it's something you HAVE to do. Not something you WANT to do.
None of my projects went anywhere, and eventually, I gave up. I used to have the rosy view that with enough work you'll get there. That's largely untrue. You also need to know the right people (connections) and be very lucky. I hate to be a downer, but you don't often hear this side of the opinion.
Recent to me is the last few years, technology-wise. Your timeline may look different.
Why's that? I understand the message would increase in size because of the encryption, but I think it would be technically feasible now. Didn't even apple just introduce encryption into their messenger? My issue with apple's encryption is it's closed source and apple only.
I've been thinking a lot about PGP and other encrypted messengers lately. It's incredibly hard to get a lot of people to agree on one messaging app besides default SMS. I wish there was an open source suite of tools for mobile/desktop that easily layered PGP on top of SMS/email experience and would fall back in the absence of keys. Perhaps bluetooth for swapping keys with friends. It's something that needs to be seamless enough that the end user can't tell the difference. I don't think messaging encryption will achieve mass adoption until something like that is built or built into mobile OS's.
I built something like this many moons ago for browser history. A service would run on your machine to aggregate your browser history. Typing "http://" anywhere on your machine would pop up a dialog with your history of most recently visited sites. I wonder if browsers have gotten better with APIs for web history and if it's any easier in windows. System-wide keystrokes had to be checked with win32 calls which could set off antivirus alarms. Keep up the good work. Maybe this will inspire me to see if things have gotten better.
I use the Amazon S3 and Route 53 route and pay $.50 to $1.50 a month. It's dirt cheap for solid, reliable static hosting.
I dunno if it will help, besides maybe for some ideas, but when I created my blog a year or so ago, I wanted something like a site generator without running anything on the backend.[1] I ended up doing everything in CSS/HTML/JS/JSON. JSON is used to store posts. I write a post normally using HTML, then use a tool to format it for JSON. Doing it this way allows my static site to run amazon for dirt cheap. Updating the site is just uploading a new JSON file.
I wish I would've developed it further to allow for markup to be used, but other projects always come up.
I run uBlock and got a message saying the site is down. Disabled it and got it to work.
I think one way to differentiate yourself in this kinda area is making it run without any backend tech like jekyll, python, etc. Make it run client-side only. Just my 2 cents.
The first time this was announced, I was excited to pick one up. From the article comments, I read about RetroPie. Since I had a raspberry pi lying around, I loaded it with BerryBoot and put RetroPie on it. A 20 year old Playstation to USB controller adapter just worked on RetroPie. We used an old xbox controller for the second controller and have had a ton of fun playing old SNES 2 player games. For the people not willing to put in that much work, this system will work perfectly.
Hopefully this works out. I've been doing some metal fabrication lately and have thought about doing commission work in the future. I see other makers on IG selling stuff, but the experience leaves a lot to be desired.
I dig mine: http://milge.com
It's all client side. Runs on JSON, JS, HTML and CSS. Super cheap to host. I'm mainly documenting my journey into metal fabrication as a programmer.
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." One of my favorite quotes from Willy Wonka.
Because it's a tax writeoff and the more time workers are at the office, the more work is getting done. Or so the managerial thought process goes.
3 LLCs, a trademark, a patent application, and 10 years later and I've learned so much more of solo founder success has to do with pure dumb luck. I've since given up. For every success story like in the article, there are 10 failures.
In the same way police corruption would be fixed if the good eggs didn't protect the bad ones.
Ugh. If you guys keep posting about nefarious uses with the ESP8266, they're gonna take our toys away!
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This is the one you want. I'm on my second now from losing the first. It comes with a handlebar mount but mine were too thin. I layered up some electrical tape and the holder works even at high speeds.
I've tried OK Google recently under my motorcycle helmet just to change music. It wasn't up to the task. Somehow The Google Music unchecked the downloaded music only, and OK google played radio racking up a few hundred MB of data before I could change it. It didn't work when all I was saying was next song. I went back to using the bluetooth button I was using before.