Must have been an amazing journey, thanks for the great writeup! I also have a DELL 2007FP, now I'm thinking about getting an AMIGA 1200 again (which I coded on in assembly), and a 1997 Pentium as well :)
I wouldn't touch Viber with a ten foot pole, even if their entire crypto implementation was open source (which it is not). The company was founded by an ex-military (some sources say ex-Mossad) dude. He is also connected to several spyware applications.
“Talmon served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces and held the position of CIO of the central command. He graduated Cum Laude from the Tel-Aviv University with a degree in Computer Science and Management.”
One would expect any ad blocker that actually blocks ads to reduce memory consumption significantly. Ad blockers that merely hide ads exist and have succeeded in earning reputations as ad blockers despite only doing half the job.
That second bug is lacking in technical details, but the first one is clearly about the memory consumption of the CSS rules used to hide elements. If you only use rules that match URIs instead and not element ids, ABP is extremely efficient.
It's worth remembering that ABP only implemented the element-hiding feature so that things like inline text ads could be blocked, but now the popular rule lists are using a large number of broad rules to hide all kinds of elements, many of which could probably have been effectively blocked with URI-matching rules.
Additionally, it's very unfair to the ABP devs to be criticizing the performance or memory usage of ABP when the problem is really the memory usage of EasyList. Using a more restrained and targeted rule list makes the problems go away.
True, but when I uninstalled Adblock Edge, I gained almost a gigabyte of memory in Firefox. (I'm now using Ghostery to block ads. It isn't as effective but I'd rather reduce the memory footprint.)
That is in fact incorrect. Consumer desktop Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and Haswell all support 32 GB of RAM via 2 DDR3 channels. Enthusiast desktop processors (Sandy-E, Ivy-E, Haswell-E) support 64 GB, because they feature 4 channel memory controllers.
AFAIK currently only Sony manufactures "mini" versions of their flagship phones that feature the same processor, memory and camera as their 5+ inch siblings.
You should check out the 4.3 inch Xperia Z1 Compact, or wait for the soon to be released 4.6 inch Xperia Z3 Compact.
Gabor Mate heals heroin addicts with two powerful psychedelic plants: Ayahuasca (DMT) and Iboga. I have been to a couple of Ayahuasca ceremonies in the past year, and I can report that - among its many awesome effects - it effectively resets your inner emotional "firmware", helping you cope with stressful situations and addictions much better (I had instantly quit smoking after the first ceremony.)
Vipassana meditation take a slower route, but some say more thorough - it transforms your self into being more reflective, more appreciative and less judging. I've yet to try it out on a 10-day retreat, but even people who practice half-hour daily buddhist meditation praise its beneficial effects on mental and physical well being.
Both Ayahuasca and Vipassana are great routes you can take to battle your addictions, not only to alcohol or tobacco but also many kinds of pain.
> even people who practice half-hour daily buddhist meditation praise its beneficial effects on mental and physical well being.
Wanted to lend some weight to this. I've practiced mindful meditation on and off for a year or so. I've never hit an hour or even half an hour at a time, but I will say it is fairly effective for recalibrating your mental state even with just a few minutes a day. I find myself much more patient, accepting, and clear-headed when meditating regularly, which was exactly what I was hoping to accomplish. I occasionally find myself re-centering and focusing on breathing while not meditating - just a reflex that develops with the practice, and even if its effects are strictly physical (eg more oxygen to the brain), it still feels good, mentally, to get that shot of clarity throughout the day.
I can't speak to its effects on addiction, or other forms of pain, but I would definitely recommend some form of meditation for everyone.
I've found 20, 45 or 90 minutes to be the ideal time where I feel super refreshed after. Maybe try pushing yourself sometime to get to longer times just to see how it goes.
I don't know about meditation, but when I write in the morning I feel like I can think more clearly and express myself more easily during the day. Might be a form of "re-arranging" your brain.
I think during the 70s LSD was being used to rehab alcoholics, it's a shame such practices and psychedelics in general are all illegal now.. but ignoring the law, from what I've read and personal experience, LSD works well too.
LOS ANGELES — For the first time in more than four decades, the drug lysergic acid diethylamide – better known as LSD – has been the experimental adjunct to psychotherapy in a controlled clinical trial approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.[1]
I've done both and I'd agree that Vipassana is more thorough and lasting, although more difficult. Doing it even just once and not following through with daily meditations is still a life-changing experience.
The middle figure in the picture is János Áder, president of Hungary. The image was created by a Hungarian blogger/artist named szarvas:
http://szarvas.tumblr.com/image/76316693473
Here is a thread where a commenter points out how photo manipulation is frowned upon by professional photographers on their forum, and they can't believe "how a political journalist can do this while a war correspondent can't draw smoke near an explosion.", linking to his republished image on index.hu.
I wonder how the article talks about clues detectable only by applying filters to the image, yet misses the most obvious sign of retouching: the middle figure's knees, the blur around them can be seen with the naked eye, not to mention the irregular shape.
Regarding the other conclusion of the article (the outline around Orban and Putin seen in the histogram image), to me it simply looks like sharpening. I may be wrong.
Many people seem to forget that there are still countries where US laws are not in effect.
Even more interesting is the fact that even Lavabit's founder seemed to have overlooked this fact, and instead of relocating his servers and all the user data to Iceland, Norway or New Zealand, he chose to shut it down for good.
Because if he got a NSL requesting a backdoor on his servers, then it doesn't matter where the servers are located. What matters where he personally and his company are located. And you can ask Snowden how fun it is to be persona non grata.
