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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Which highlights the need for a neutral product-discovery tool. Advertising makes most popular the products with a higher marketing budget, not necessarily the better ones. For example, search for "youtube downloader": at least th
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
It's not being used as a fallacy, since it's not part of an argument that proves a point.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Is Facebook monopoly any worse than having multiple actors in the data collection field? If anything, having more competitors would push each to be more cunning in their collection and retention of data, to appear more valuable to stakehold
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Honeypots and honeynets: issues of privacy(jis-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com)
1 points by CapacitorSet 8y ago|0 comments
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Indeed, with "fightback" I assumed either the citizens were destroying surveillance equipment or the city prevented surveillance equipment from being installed. Turns out it's just the government getting its piece of the cake
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
>Do you think the Japanese government just want an excuse to spy on their people? I'm not OP, but I would be very surprised if the attack was the root cause for strengthening their spy agencies. In the United States we have seen t
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
I agree it doesn't seem super useful, but it can be used to pull some semantic tricks. I used it in [Rebridge]( https://github.com/CapacitorSet/rebridge/ ) to implement syntactic sugar for database access, so t
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
You could build and drive a car you built yourself with no regards for your personal safety - it's your car after all, and it's your business if you get injured. But could you sell such a car? You could build and use a service w
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
A Mozilla extension that covers utm_ and more: https://github.com/idlewan/link_cleaner
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Realistically, how much traffic is saved by cutting headers? A simple article like [this]( https://tp69.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/completely-silent-comp... ) (currently on the HN frontpage) weighs 178 KB, and th
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The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003(freedom-to-tinker.com)
2 points by CapacitorSet 8y ago|0 comments
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Which isn't super helpful, because there is [a GCC `__builtin_popcount`]( https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html ), a POPCNT intrinsic if you're developing for SSE4, and [existing implement
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Care to explain how to do that?
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Linux on Pixel C is now “an usable system”(twitter.com)
5 points by CapacitorSet 8y ago|1 comments
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
That's correct, but it does not invalidate my point. Socialism involves the workers' ownership of the means of production.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
Technically speaking, idempotency as defined by RFC7231 only requires f(x) = f(f(x)).
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
How is university and government funding socialistic? Neither involves the workers' ownership of the means of production (and indeed, they exist in a state that is anything but socialist).
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JA3 – A method for profiling SSL/TLS clients(github.com)
1 points by CapacitorSet 8y ago|0 comments
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The NSA is not made of magic (2014)(schneier.com)
127 points by CapacitorSet 8y ago|43 comments
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
>Watch instead Different tastes for different people. I found this website to be more useful, since I can browse, reread and skim through the text much more easily/faster than on video.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
That's a very low-quality article, in my opinion. It takes an entire article to show how to use a simple tool and how to fetch a list of proxies, uses Makefile when a shell script would do just fine, and exaggerates the title.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
I think there may be license issues, if the archives are not in the public domains. Other than that, yes, they might as well sell them and "recover" some money.
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by CapacitorSet 8y ago
If you want to go super-minimal at the cost of being more dependent on Amazon, you can deploy the static website on S3 and use Route53 as an HTTP frontend.
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by CapacitorSet 9y ago
>I can imagine that it becomes very difficult to keep track of. The GDPR prompted them to make the data resurface, so it's not impossible to track this data given a few months of warning. It's just that Facebook as a company do
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by CapacitorSet 9y ago
Such is the nature of free-market economies: companies will go to great lengths, even wasting billions of dollars and thousands of man-days, for the sake of "competition".
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by CapacitorSet 9y ago
If all it takes is "one occasion" for investigators to believe you're Russian, it's also definitely easy to throw investigations off course.
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by CapacitorSet 9y ago
Dropbox is not a devs-only product, given that eg. the CEO might want a personal Dropbox folder, or one might need a shared folder between the marketing team and the developer team (and even then, at the enterprise level it is not unheard o
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by CapacitorSet 9y ago
Indeed, at £1k (€1136, $1403) one might as well run an internal application. At a very basic level, it can be achieved with three lines of bash: while echo -en "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n..." | nc -l $IP $PORT; do cat
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New traces of Hacking Team in the wild(welivesecurity.com)
2 points by CapacitorSet 9y ago|0 comments
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by CapacitorSet 9y ago
That can always happen, it's just that now one would also get a compensation.

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