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by 3xblah 8y ago
If the user submits a GET request to DDG from the commandline with Javascript disabled, then all results links are prefixed with the address of a DDG server, e.g., https://example.com becomes https://duckduckgo.com&#
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Although at some point you might find yourself behind a captive portal where port 53 is being redirected. In that case, you could ping a recursive nameserver on the open internet that listens on a non-standard port.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
It is true. The only way you will see where you are is to observe DNS. What the browser authors like Google are doing is further hiding DNS from the user. Many years ago Firefox was already hiding and highlighting parts of urls in the add
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Pardon the digression but I like the text-only "captcha". Don't see that too often.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I just ping a .com nameserver. For me, these are the most important servers for the www. More important than Google's. Never thought to use a "random website". Is that your idea?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Proponents of the UNIX arts-and-crafts movement just run unbound(8) on localhost. Which works reasonably well until you are behind a captive portal and you have to use the dhcp-provided nameservers until you accept the terms and condi
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Cassette and vinyl sales are both up from 2017. What strikes me about a report like this is that the report is comfortable comparing sales to "consumption". Are these really the same? Third parties do not necessarily know how many
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I read that Facebook was using the PII disclosed for the purpose of so-called "2FA" for targeted advertising purposes. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to... The paper from website of CS P
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by 3xblah 8y ago
If it doesn't work, there is always CurveCP.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
It would seem useful to retain a copy of the original code in the "simpleton" format. This is because it is easier to "refactor" simple into complex than to refactor complex into simple. In the simple format the work is
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Presenting and promoting your team's work..." Is that what is being promoted in a presentation to a promotion committee arguing that you individually should be promoted within the organization? "... too busy to prepare
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by 3xblah 8y ago
In truth, you are a producer and you are working for free. The "work" is using the Facebook website or app. FB tries to make your work easy. It is like particpating in a market study except you do not get paid for your time and p
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Who would know the employee's work better, her manager or the promotion committee? This reminds me of an interview process that does not include checking references. A system like you describe would seem to favour the employee who is
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by 3xblah 8y ago
How would you suggest they fix the process? The practice of hiring someone "because it is harder for them to switch jobs" so the company "can lock these employees for longer" and "can pay them less " sounds li
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"People consistently tell us that if they're going to see ads, they want them to be relevant." "If". This is a conditional sentence. What if the condition is not met? What if they want to avoid ads? What do they
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Of course it takes less time and effort to write an APL interpreter than it does to actually learn APL. I wish there were more languages like that.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I have found I can block cloudfront domains by default with almost no inconvenience. Occasionally something like a download link, where the webmaster has chosen to use cloudfront for that specific resource, might require that I whitelist a
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I once read that 85% of Google searches are repeat searches, queries that Google has "seen" before. If this is false, please ignore the rest of this comment. If 85% of searches are repeated queries, does this mean Google will tre
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by 3xblah 8y ago
The problem I see is not in the fact the develpers choose to rely on third party software reuse and thus create dependencies, but in how developers choose which third party software to use. If their judgment fails, the consequences for t
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Regarding the 11-yr-old laptop I would be interested to know not only the compile time but also the storage required, e.g. size of src tree plus any tmp space required, etc. I like to compile kernels using memory-backed filesystem without
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I once read that Chrome was created by former Firefox developers. Google is infamous for its code reuse. Many web commentators continually sound the alarm on Google's increasing leverage and control over a variety of "components&
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by 3xblah 8y ago
It is much easier to use a HOSTS file as a whitelist rather than some sort of blacklist. HOSTS is useful but limited. For example, it does not allow for wildcards like DNS. Unbound is included in many distributions nowadays and it has plen
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I always found it strange that the most popular ad blocking method is one that is internal to and relies on the browser itself. Companies can change their browsers anytime and for whatever reasons they want. As far as I can tell, users hav
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Is "content" "data"? (Assume "content" is something the user generates and intentionally shares with one or more other users via a computer network. It could be a text message, a web page, a PDF, a photo, a v
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by 3xblah 8y ago
The title of the NYT review is "How Tech Companies Manipulate Our Private Data" but the title of this thread omits the word "How", reducing the title to "Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data".
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"I'm kind of confused by everyone being called an engineer now. In my day, an engineer was somebody who had an engineering degree, like a civil or mechanical engineer. But programmers or systems analysts weren't that. Do soft
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Disabling Play Services will prevent many "store" marketed apps from installing/working, i.e., execution will stop and the user will get those ridiculous coercive or cryptic messages. F-Droid apps will of course work fine.