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2018-07-17 at 7:45 PM UTC in Post your desktop.
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2018-07-12 at 7:01 AM UTC in Bash Script to Toggle TrackpadI put this together last night when I realised lunix acpi didn't recognise my laptop's 'disable trackpad' shortcut (fn+F9) - it uses xinput to detect the device ID and status to enable/disable it. I have it attached to an openbox keybind. Nothing complicated, thought it might be useful to someone else though.
#!/bin/bash
# aldra 2018
# using xinput, find the integrated trackpad and toggle it on/off
deviceRaw=$(xinput --list|grep -i touchpad|grep -P -o "id=.*\t") # force perl regex as posix apparently doesn't escape tab to \t
deviceClean=${deviceRaw//[!0-9]/} # retrieve numbers only
deviceState=$(xinput list-props "$deviceClean" | grep -i enabled | grep -o "[01]$")
if [ $deviceState == '1' ];then
xinput --disable "$deviceClean"
echo "Touchpad on $deviceClean disabled."
else
xinput --enable "$deviceClean"
echo "Touchpad on $deviceClean enabled."
fi
I'm aware that there are cleaner ways to do the string manipulation. You can replace 'touchpad' in the deviceRaw line with whatever device you want (xinput --list for a list of them) -
2018-07-10 at 2:42 PM UTC in Drunkcoding with Comrade Lanny
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2018-07-09 at 6:18 PM UTC in Is this website GDPR compliant?
Originally posted by HTS Don't act like you have some kind of entitlement to totally anonymous, untraceable speech. You don't. Don't expect a society that doesn't approve of your speech to facilitate ways in which you can circumvent their scorn. "Chilling effects on speech" are a spook.~
Why should I not expect this? That's exactly the same sort of thing as the first first amendment protections. And no one has said anything about total anonymity, the topic is either GDPR consent requirements or DNS registration requirements where such records are kept and available to law enforcement with a warrant but not made public.
Originally posted by Cootehill Is that exactly what that says? I don't agree, but I guess you win a nice gotcha there. Congratulations. Great debate. Really cut down to the core of the matter.
I don't get why you're getting all salty when I point out that you're contradicting yourself. Pick one or the other position and move on instead of playing dumb.Registering something you own in your name is important to assert ownership.
No it's not. I own a coffee maker, I never registered that coffee maker but it belongs to me. Isn't that crazy? Property can exist without public registries? Who would have thought such an complex idea as property could exist without state controlled documentation? What's gonna happen next, we'll start saying people live together without informing the state or you can go for a walk without being in the National Walkers Directory?GDPR will wind up being used against people who do things like publish lists of tax cheats and the like - as with the panama papers. That is the whole point of GDPR, it's not about cookies or email or any of that internet shit, it's about real world money and banking.
https://privacyengine.io/blog/article/138/the-panama-papers-the-right-to-freedom-of-information-vs-the-right-to-information-privacy
Hmm, that's an interesting point. It certainly is important for whistleblowers to be able to operate for a well informed citizenry. Can you think of any examples in recent history of important whistleblowers? If you can, can you recall what and how they were able to publish their documents? Did it perhaps depend on anonymous channels of publication?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-07-09 at 5:23 PM UTC in Is this website GDPR compliant?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-09 at 1:57 PM UTC in I fucked a 23 year old woman last nightTop 10 anime betrayals.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-08 at 4:49 PM UTC in Murdering people who stare at their phones in publicYou don't have to kill them, just try to hack off their hand with a cleaver. Whenever they look at the screen, they'll see a horrible gash just a few inches down from there, or maybe a stump, if you were successful, and your point will have landed.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-08 at 9:50 AM UTC in Drunkcoding with Comrade Lanny
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2018-07-06 at 11:30 PM UTC in Edward Snowden
Originally posted by Cootehill IP addresses are a form of PI under GDPR.
https://eugdprcompliant.com/personal-data/
Why are you monitoring us like criminals?
IP addresses are not categorically personal information as I don't have the necessary information to resolve them. See this decision:
https://www.alstonprivacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ECJ_Breyer_Judgment.pdf
and shorter summary:
https://www.alstonprivacy.com/ecj-declares-ip-addresses-personal-data/
Basically since I'm neither an ISP nor an authority that can request data from ISPs, my holding of IP addresses does not qualify as personal information.
This doesn't really matter though since we're not talking about the GDPR, the GDPR does not prohibit the collection of personal information, the EU does not have jurisdiction over me, and the GDPR is a piece of legislation that I think does something good but is far from the definitive authority on human rights to privacy.
It also doesn't matter because wether or not this site is GDPR compliant, or even if I respect user privacy or not, it doesn't change the fact of the matter as to wether we have a right to privacy or not.I think that it is possible to monitor everyone in a manner that doesn't compromise day to day activities, and only look up information on where people were and where they are when a crime happens. All such activity should be made public. I think this sort of openness would make everyone better off, safer, richer, and happier.
How do you both make information public and only allow it to be looked up when a crime happens? If you only disclose information after a crime happens, then the vast majority of surveillance information will never be disclosed which is the opposite of "public".
But perhaps most importantly, the empirical evidence for this (constant surveillance, review/disclosure only in the case reasonable need for it) being possible is next to zero, at least in the US, since we have overwhelming evidence of American intelligence agencies breaking our own laws to conduct surveillance without a warrant, without probable cause, and which led to the acquisition of no pertinent info. One of the more popular uses of the surveillance infrastructure in this country is the well documented sabotage of political opposition.You haven't produced an argument why that shouldn't be done, apart from "muh privacy".
I just gave you a good one: our country a nice history of abusing surveillance powers and exactly zero reason to expect that's going to change. I gave you another more ideological reason earlier: surveillance inherently discourages and punishes deviance, it is a mechanism of socialization. Just as some socialization is justified, I've argued so is some surveillance, but either in excess is psychologically damaging to human beings and insults our dignity as people. Some amount of human freedom is justifiable despite it's potential for abuse, both for human wellbeing and for social wellbeing as societies do require some degree of social deviance to ward off cultural stagnation. -
2018-07-06 at 9:51 PM UTC in Edward Snowden
Originally posted by Cootehill Something to do with "watched over by machines of loving grace" would be more relevant, but still - the fact is that I don't want my car window broken when I'm hiking or my laptop stolen while I'm taking a piss has nothing to do with my politics..
It's everything to do with politics when you take up the position that "privacy is an outdated concept". The ideas of surveillance and socialization are intimately related: surveillance is the mechanism by which we detect and punish deviance. I don't think anyone here as presented a position that can be characterized as "absolutist" except you. Some surveillance measures are justified, I have no problem with a beat cop monitoring a public area or search of private property being conducted with a warrant in a system where probable cause actually means something.
It's you who has proposed constant monitoring without cause. You realize even Bentham only proposed the panopticon as something for criminals right?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-07-06 at 9:32 PM UTC in Edward Snowden
Originally posted by Cootehill Privacy is an outdated concept. I would like if everyone was monitored at all times. Think about how much better things would be if you could leave your car or your front door unlocked, or leave your wallet lying on a table in a restaurant while you go to the bathroom, where no one could drunk drive or speed, and where almost all crimes could be solved in an hour or two.
The NSA achieves very little considering its large budget, and that is the sole basis I can imagine criticising it on.
OVERSOCIALIZATION
24. Psychologists use the term “socialization” to designate the process by which children are trained to think and act as society demands. A person is said to be well socialized if he believes in and obeys the moral code of his society and fits in well as a functioning part of that society. It may seem senseless to say that many leftists are oversocialized, since the leftist is perceived as a rebel. Nevertheless, the position can be defended. Many leftists are not such rebels as they seem.
25. The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and act in a completely moral way. For example, we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not. Some people are so highly socialized that the attempt to think, feel and act morally imposes a severe burden on them. In order to avoid feelings of guilt, they continually have to deceive themselves about their own motives and find moral explanations for feelings and actions that in reality have a non-moral origin. We use the term “oversocialized” to describe such people. [2]
26. Oversocialization can lead to low self-esteem, a sense of powerlessness, defeatism, guilt, etc. One of the most important means by which our society socializes children is by making them feel ashamed of behavior or speech that is contrary to society’s expectations. If this is overdone, or if a particular child is especially susceptible to such feelings, he ends by feeling ashamed of HIMSELF. Moreover the thought and the behavior of the oversocialized person are more restricted by society’s expectations than are those of the lightly socialized person. The majority of people engage in a significant amount of naughty behavior. They lie, they commit petty thefts, they break traffic laws, they goof off at work, they hate someone, they say spiteful things or they use some underhanded trick to get ahead of the other guy. The oversocialized person cannot do these things, or if he does do them he generates in himself a sense of shame and self-hatred. The oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thoughts or feelings that are contrary to the accepted morality; he cannot think “unclean” thoughts. And socialization is not just a matter of morality; we are socialized to conform to many norms of behavior that do not fall under the heading of morality. Thus the oversocialized person is kept on a psychological leash and spends his life running on rails that society has laid down for him. In many oversocialized people this results in a sense of constraint and powerlessness that can be a severe hardship. We suggest that oversocialization is among the more serious cruelties that human beings inflict on one another.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-07-06 at 7:32 PM UTC in HOW LONG SCRAWNY THE 👻 CAN GO
Originally posted by joerell Anything you say lesbiana.
Shutup before I have to kill you and spit on your grave. I’d rather be a lesbian and eat a bitch’s dirty asshole everyday for the rest of my life instead of reading your goddamn blathering drivel.
I’ve often considered stabbing myself in the eyeballs repeatedly until my skull is numb if it means I never have to see you type the words troll, globalists, or DH ever again. I sincerely wish you’d catch some rare, foreign disease and die a slow, painful, agonizing death.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!- apt,
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2018-07-06 at 11:29 AM UTC in Is this website GDPR compliant?dfg is somehow the biggest degenerate on this site, outstripping even sploo, Bill Krozby and scront
he uses affiliate marketing schemes to facilitate his sex tourismThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-07-06 at 9:37 AM UTC in Teenage nigger bucks kill boomer cat lady, ride around in her car, their family endorses death penaltyThe strangest thing about this though is that the family isn't doing the predictable "he a gud boi didn do nuffin" thing. They're like "light the nigger up".
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2018-07-06 at 8:16 AM UTC in Hottest Girl ON NISgood looking enough to get raped not hot enough to get murderedThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-06 at 7:57 AM UTC in Helpful shit that might help you niggas. List it here.
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2018-07-06 at 3:06 AM UTC in My favorite porn scene.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-06 at 1:34 AM UTC in I might be marrying a suicide girlWhomever you marry will eventually be a suicide girlThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-05 at 7:35 PM UTC in Is this website GDPR compliant?it's not so much that google makes bad products, that's just not true - they simply have far too much power over the internet in general, have extremely shady business practices and have been known to work hand-in-hand with governments to eliminate user privacyThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-05 at 7:15 PM UTC in Cheese Pizza sharing thread!!!
Originally posted by Ajax The FBI subscribes to threads like these just so they can “keep an eye on things” too.
I have a friend who worked for an ISP, and for a few weeks he was liason for the AFP - meaning automated systems trapped 'suspicious' content and it was his job to look at and decide whether it was worth forwarding on to the police.
That is where I got this picture (it was cleared):
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