Area12

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by Area12 3y ago
YouTube keeps showing me ads for online casinos even though I have marked Gambling as a "don't show me this" category in my profile. There doesn't not appear to be any straight-forward way to report this to YouTube. Pe
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by Area12 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember that commercial. A true classic, that one.
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by Area12 4y ago
I find Boing Boing ( https://boingboing.net/ ) is a good newsletter of weird stuff.
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by Area12 4y ago
It would be very interesting to see that map for the rest of the world.
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by Area12 5y ago
Psycho-Pass. Finish season one, which tells a complete story. There was a drop in quality in season two. Psycho-Pass is about two layers of futuristic police, "inspectors" with full citizen rights, and "enforcers" who
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by Area12 6y ago
I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!
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by Area12 7y ago
Convenient for me? No, I either stand there forever or leave with semi-wet hands. Paper towels work much faster and more effective, but the decision is made by facilities.
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by Area12 8y ago
Seriously, check out Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned? https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites
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by Area12 8y ago
Does being clever with your money include a retirement fund that is considered absolutely vanilla in the country you are living in? Because the USA assumes that all financial services in the world provide exactly the same format of financi
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by Area12 8y ago
I've had a quick look at the paper you reference, but my immediate question is ... this was written around 2009. If the costs and likelihood of getting hacked or phished have increased significantly, some of the conclusions of the pap
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by Area12 8y ago
So much of The Psychology of Computer Programming is still relevant, and still worth reading. The title might put you off ... but this is really a great book that covers some practical topics regarding the human side of programming.
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by Area12 8y ago
Free books are never 100% free ... because bookcases cost money and even if you pile books up on the floor, that is expensive real estate you now can't easily use for another purpose. Hoarders forget that the opportunity cost of stora
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by Area12 8y ago
Given that there will be people insisting that the main objective of the program was nuclear power, not weapons, a show like that would be risky. Does Netflix want their shows accused of glorifying murder? I'm aware that there is the
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by Area12 8y ago
True story. Years ago, I was driving with my wife, and I was wearing an oilskin rain hat. I felt a tickle, took the hat off and looked. Dropped the hat on the floor. My wife asked what startled me. I said "let me stop first".
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by Area12 8y ago
Does anybody remember when a default install of Oracle RDBMS also installed ask.com? It was at that point that I realised that a significant part of Oracle Corporation no longer cared about how disreputable they appeared. I can't eve
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by Area12 8y ago
Is this now the most costly software error in history, measured in human lives lost? Imagine if the UK Parliament or the EU decides that the best response is enact laws mandating a particular software testing approach, or mandates extensive
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by Area12 8y ago
I am not a crypto expert, but I thought that the idea was to produce a new more or less random salt for EACH password, store the salt with the hashed password, hashing using an expensive algorithm. Yes the hacker steals the salt with the ha
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by Area12 8y ago
Don't miss the point here. Tesla doesn't require that you be a licensed air pilot before you buy the car. It doesn't matter what pilots know about autopilots, it's about what the general public believes when they hear
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by Area12 8y ago
The default setting, because 95% of the world will never change it. If Safari and Chrome and Android followed suit, the ripple effect would change a lot of things on the web. I'm not sure what the final result would be ... greedy peo
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by Area12 8y ago
So does morality/ethics boil down to numbers/metrics? I'm not being sarcastic; I don't know the answer myself ... and I'm not entirely sure that I would want to "know". Humans have gained great powers of
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Ask HN: Network traffic from Coinhive
1 points by Area12 9y ago|0 comments
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by Area12 9y ago
So ... why do they continue with tls_rsa? Is it required because of middleboxes lagging behind?
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by Area12 9y ago
Oh boy did that list come out poorly, let me try again: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0xc02f) ECDH x25519 (eq. 3072 bits RSA) TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (0xc030) ECDH x25519 (eq. 3072 bits RSA) TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES
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by Area12 9y ago
I notice that ssllabs.com/ssltest lists the cipher suites uses at github engineering as: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0xc02f) ECDH x25519 (eq. 3072 bits RSA) TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (0xc030) ECDH x25519 (
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by Area12 9y ago
Investigation into calorie restriction isn't at all new. Roy Walford wrote five books about it, dating back to 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Walford
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by Area12 9y ago
This is fantastic, this new page works, thanks and have my upvote.
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Microsoft wannacry patch page for older OSes no longer works
6 points by Area12 9y ago|5 comments
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by Area12 10y ago
Good point, forgot that one even though I use it.
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by Area12 10y ago
From an old IT guy, none of this is new ... Scott Adams (of Dilbert) noted it in 1998: http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-04-06 That was 18 years ago. Particularly raw for Dilbert: "Squeal like a pig" is from the
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by Area12 10y ago
Big pieces of meat, roasted. Yorkshire Pudding. British food has its moments.

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