Phone robot keeps annoying telemarketers talking for as long as possible
‘Anderson encourages his readers to forward telemarketers to the robot, and is happy to send them recordings of the ensuing conversations. His instructions are below if you’d like to give it a shot.’
(tags: telemarketers script robodialing spam funny)
Why is Safe Harbour II such a challenge? – EDRi
The only possible deal that is immediately available is where the European Commission agrees a politically expeditious but legally untenable deal, creating a time bomb rather than a durable deal, to the benefit of no one. In absence of reforms before an agreement, individuals’ fundamental rights would remain under threat.
(tags: edri law eu ec ecj surveillance snooping us-politics safe-harbor)
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interactive menu selection for the UNIX command line
(tags: cli linux unix grep menus selection ui interactive terminal)
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It seems git’s default behavior in many situations is — despite communicating objectID by content-addressable hashes which should be sufficient to assure some integrity — it may not actually bother to *check* them. Yes, even when receiving objects from other repos. So, enabling these configuration parameters may “slow down” your git operations. The return is actually noticing if someone ships you a bogus object. Everyone should enable these.
(tags: git security integrity error-checking dvcs version-control coding)