AnonHP

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by AnonHP 6y ago
I looked at it with excitement and realized that it’s Windows only. It doesn’t seem to have support for macOS or Linux, and the website doesn’t even have a standard “system requirements” section (or one I could easily find in the documentat
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> Well, Wordpress can know auto-update the plugins...(sic) And your site (Or some parts of your site) could break at any point in time without your knowledge and remain broken for a long time until you find that it’s broken. There is no
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by AnonHP 6y ago
My background: I’m a technical person who can get around Unix/Linux, work with file permissions, shell, databases, etc., comfortably. Yet, I have to agree with the author and her observations, especially after my trials on macOS. >
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> The more I learn about X and Y, the more it looks like a complete clusterfuck, and it boggles my mind that somehow all this works almost perfectly while hiding all the complexities from the end user. I modified your first sentence to
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by AnonHP 6y ago
This sounds almost like the previous lawsuit (mentioned in the article) that was settled by Facebook for $650 million, which was concerning Facebook’s use of facial recognition, wasn’t noticed by the lawyers of this case. The best they can
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> “All cafeterias and restaurants have a design that ‘nudges’ people towards something. So it is sensible to use designs that make the healthiest and most sustainable food options the easiest to pick without thinking about it,” she said.
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Your strategy is definitely profitable for StackOverflow (and StackExchange). But all these approaches end up helping others, regardless of who gets to make some money out of it.
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> While I am using HDD, instead of SSD, I consider such a performance problem an issue at windows side. Am I the only who suffers from it? If it makes you feel any better, I have a laptop with an SSD and still see slowness and sluggishne
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by AnonHP 6y ago
I’m getting a non-functional page for that link. The page says that the content has moved to tlt21.com, but provides no links (I checked after disabling blockers on my browser too). If I go to tlt21.com, there doesn’t seem to be an easy way
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by AnonHP 6y ago
I get emails from some banks with instructions to spot phishing. One of those is to look at the full URL in emails or on websites to know if it’s authentic or not. For better or worse, the URL scheme is what we have to identify websites and
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by AnonHP 6y ago
And here I am dreaming of a world where companies do real deletions of data when a user requests (and also deleting older transactional data that has outlived its utility, including regulatory requirements) and storage prices being lower wi
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> If there were actual competitors, their rates would be much lower... around 2-5% probably. You can only get nothing for 2-5% because that barely meets the payment processing fees (of course, a large company can negotiate a lower rate).
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Soapnut(en.wikipedia.org)
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Nice breakdown, thank you. This had me in splits: >> “ Yup, had to get it out quick so I went simple!“ > “What the actual fuck?!”
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Donations to Mozilla go to Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organization. These layoffs are in Mozilla Corporation, which doesn’t get the donated money and is mainly funded by the partnership with Google for the search engine setting in F
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> Who can get Dropbox Passwords? > Passwords is currently available to Dropbox Plus and Dropbox Professional users. Dropbox could’ve done better by offering this to the users on the free tier too. Segment the features but let everyone
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by AnonHP 6y ago
I’m not a touch typist because I never had the chance to learn it formally. But I did learn to type quite fast on my own, reaching at least 60+WPM on physical keyboards. I’ve been doing this for quite sometime and I have my own pattern for
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by AnonHP 6y ago
GP here. You can also try NextDNS.io, which allows you to choose blocking lists. There are apps for iOS as well as other platforms to allow it to be used on all networks (or even configure it not to be used on specific WiFi networks).
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by AnonHP 6y ago
I love the concept and how things flow between the two screens, but it looks really weird when held to the ear for a call. I don’t like large screens and this one just seems too large to be called a “phone”...”phablet” seems a more appropri
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by AnonHP 6y ago
The internal message to employees says: > Investing in New Products We are organizing a new product organization outside of Firefox that will both ship new products faster and develop new revenue streams. Our initial investments will be
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Depends on what you want. If you want Signal-like security and everything it offers on avoiding collecting data that it can view/analyze, then I'm guessing nothing. Maybe Matrix (matrix.org) with E2E is close enough. Wire (wire.co
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Seems like I missed this a month ago. I'm now catching up from Matthew Green's blog post. [1] [1]: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-th...
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> Privacy Badger + UBlock Origin The days of uBlock Origin on Google Chrome are numbered. It may not work for Google Chrome when Manifest V3 is implemented (and no recourse provided for uBlock Origin). [1] P.S: I haven't kept up wit
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by AnonHP 6y ago
What I don't like about Authy is that it requires a phone number (and verification of the number) to use it. That's one more point of failure, depending on the situation. I prefer not to link a phone number with services unless it
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Maybe I didn't understand the question, but a file containing zero lines can be stored on all operating systems. It would be a file of size zero bytes and would show up in directories as such. A "> filename" command (or ev
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One of the annoying things I’ve seen with the Back-UPS range from APC is that they all seem to have an audible alarm when it’s running on battery that cannot be turned off. The UPS will beep periodically until you either turn the UPS off or
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by AnonHP 6y ago
I read long ago that the American convention comes from an old printing press limitation and flowed into writing too. This answer [1] on English StackExchange has some details. I’m sure many other sites have written about this in detail. [1
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Thanks for this. I’ll check out bracketed pasting mode in terminal next time (not near one right now), though I have to admit that even after reading that post, I didn’t understand what exactly happens when it’s used. I understood that the
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> It's shocking to me how far ahead MacOS is in terms of keyboard shortcuts compared to all other operating systems. I agree with your other points (including easier customizability), but have to completely disagree with this quoted
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Please edit the title of this submission with a "Show HN: " prefix.

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