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by 3xblah 7y ago
Is the situation any different across the Tasman
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Just out of curiousity I decided to check for a particular representation on the Zoom website. There must be some "magic" in these words because so many tech companies use them. " We take security seriously and we are proud
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"It worked quite well, but I can't really see the meaning on running two [RISC] OSes." Updates? For many years I do an update dance with NetBSD kernels. Two kernels with embedded filesystems on same bootable media, one updat
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Well, except Hamachi." As well as the one from the author of ntop. A few characteristics most projects consistently fail to meet are (a) keeping the source code available, small, relatively simple and easy to compile, (b) allowin
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by 3xblah 7y ago
From Kissler et al. (2020): "To implement an effective intermittant social distancing strategy, it will be necessary to carry out widepsread surveillance to monitor the prevalence threshholds that trigger the beginning or end of the di
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by 3xblah 7y ago
NextDNS is a commercial entity founded by a Netflix employee who is working on a Netflix CDN. Do the NextDNS terms of use address the potential for data sharing between the two entities. Running NextDNS has costs. Given the absence of fee
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The "basic" list seems to be properly sorted: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/countries-where-co...
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by 3xblah 7y ago
I see now China is at the very bottom, below Timor-Leste.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Did anyone else notice how worldometers.info, which maintains a table listing number of cases, recoveries, deaths, etc. for each country, ordered by number of cases, had China listed first even after USA surpassed it in number of cases. No
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How the government prints and distributes money [video](youtube.com)
92 points by 3xblah 7y ago|12 comments
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Surely it was browser users who demanded such "features", right? The browser I use the most does not do any of these things, but it does a nice job of dumping HTML tables to formatted text, which is something the modern graphical
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The gateway is a small form-factor computer with a rechargeable battery, e.g., a netbook or laptop. The AP is a SBC that the preferred kernel, e.g., NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, etc., supports. The AP draws power from the gateway's batter
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by 3xblah 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser) Note I do not recommend using a text-only browser interactively for any sort of commercial or important online activity. I use it for recreational activities like read
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by 3xblah 7y ago
I use two devices. The first runs a kernel+userland I can edit and acts as the gateway/AP and DNS server for the second, which runs some commercially-motivated, "locked-down" consumer OS.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Every other browser vendor is a for-profit entity, ..." Not the one that authored the text-only browser I am typing this from. Whether Mozilla turns a profit or not makes little difference in this instance. Mozilla does not surv
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by 3xblah 7y ago
When I started visiting HN around 2008-2009, if I am not mistaken, the website used no JavaScript. Anyway, in the browser I use, HN is "flat" threads, all posts visible and left justified, no indentation. It still looks just the
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Not sure why I always get this wrong. Maybe it is because when I draw these characters on a surface, I start from the top not the bottom. Hence the line goes forward for a "backslash" and backward for a "forward slash"
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"How do you deal with pages that use Javascript to fetch page content after the initial markup is loaded?" Provide an example page and I will demonstrate how I would solve the problem. Not every user visits the same websites and w
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"I wouldn't mind going back to a JavaScript-less experience." By not using a graphical, JavaScript-enabled browser, I have been experiencing the web this way for the last 15 years. It works just fine for the purposes I use i
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Can substitute a forward slash for the 0 and remove the quotes printf \\33c Another way is to use a program that converts hex to binary. A short script to use when there is no clear, tput, etc, e.g., xxd or nc-data exec echo 1
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Facebook considers "your data" things you uploaded to Facebook intentionally." Thought experiment: How is Facebook different from a file hosting service. Do file hosting services provide access to analytics? Do the hos
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Think of the WWW as a Monopoly board. Except unlike the board game the first move involves no roll of the dice. The class of players known as users always start the game on the same certain properties, owned by a small set of players know
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by 3xblah 7y ago
" Where Sci-Hub Is" Sci-Hub (/scimag/) has been located at the same IP address for at least three years, and neither domain names (DNS) nor onion addresses (TOR) are required to access it.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." "It is possible that information could be made available to the authorities." - Former Google CEO,
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by 3xblah 7y ago
s/will be guilty of/could be charged with/
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by 3xblah 7y ago
There could be several reasons why it is "not likely" that a researcher would leak. But is the existence of an NDA really one of them? Putting aside the likelihood of an intentional leak, how would enforcement of an NDA work in
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Google wanted leverage over the carriers to bring Google products to feature phones more easily." "Google products" is not how another knowledgeable HN commenter recently put it in another thread. He said Google created
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The HN title of this article, cf. the true title on the vice.com web page, fails to consider that this article is also about the companies that sell data derived from scraping the contents of email. Arguably the sellers are more interest
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by 3xblah 7y ago
On the theory that every heavily-commented, front page item critcial of Microsoft produces the same defensive comments along the lines of "but everyone else is doing it", I decided I would search this thread for the phrase "
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Is there a text version of this thing." Text-only browser is easiest way. links -dump https://www.nrk.no/chasing-climate-change-1.14859595 Netcat-like programs, or wget-like http clients, will also suffice

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