GraemeL

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Going Keyless Everywhere(blog.cloudflare.com)
4 points by GraemeL 7y ago|0 comments
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Five months after returning rental car, man still has remote control(arstechnica.com)
5 points by GraemeL 7y ago|0 comments
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Prominent German Neuroscientist Committed Misconduct in “Brain-Reading” Research(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by GraemeL 7y ago|0 comments
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by GraemeL 7y ago
DNA isn't mentioned anywhere in the linked story. It only says blue dye and there is nothing new or technological about that.
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by GraemeL 7y ago
It's a political story and is thus likely to be flagged as off-topic by a large number of people. Unless a political story has a strong tech slant, expect it to disappear off the front page quickly no mater how many upvotes it gets.
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Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure(arstechnica.com)
15 points by GraemeL 7y ago|0 comments
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by GraemeL 7y ago
You're holding it wrong. (Sorry)
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Protecting Chrome Users in Kazakhstan(security.googleblog.com)
10 points by GraemeL 7y ago|0 comments
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by GraemeL 7y ago
My thoughts exactly. A bot doesn't care if it takes 2 seconds to fade the images out and in for another challenge round, but a human viewing it perceives it as a frustrating delay. I've become accustomed to just closing any page t
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by GraemeL 7y ago
I elected them when I turned on EasyList in my ad blocker. I certainly never elected Mr. Kratky-Katz to balance publisher monetization for me.
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by GraemeL 7y ago
You can turn off loading images by default on the web-based Gmail client under the general tab in settings. It's not possible to disable loading of images on the iOS Gmail client.
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by GraemeL 7y ago
I use a user script called Google Hit Hider by Domain that adds this functionality to pretty much every major search engine. Can't imagine searching without it these days.
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by GraemeL 7y ago
I followed the link logged in to Google, in a private window and through a VPN in another browser. The results were the same and in the same order in each case: Firefox addon, uBlock.org, Gorhill's Github, Wikipedia, MS store, Reddit,
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by GraemeL 7y ago
I use a Firefox addon called Session Boss. It might be what you're looking for.
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by GraemeL 7y ago
Vega is pointed out because in relation to the galaxy in the picture it allows the author to locate where Polaris should be (above the frame). Polaris being above the frame is a problem because it is never above the horizon where the photog
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by GraemeL 8y ago
Is there something special that needs to be done to configure it? Every time I go over 50,000 I get a red warning at the bottom of the AdGuard filters setting screen telling me that I'm over the limit.
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by GraemeL 8y ago
The problem is with the limit on the number of filters. On desktop Firefox I have ~120,000 network filters active on uBlock. Safari on iOS limits the number of filters an adblocker can have active to 50,000 and Google are proposing limiting
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by GraemeL 8y ago
You're probably correct, but I also have know idea how much of a difference it would make. One other advantage would also be the lack of atmospheric scattering, but they have made huge strides with adaptive optics so it might not be wo
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by GraemeL 8y ago
The far side of the moon isn't dark. It has the same day/night cycle that causes the phases of the moon visible from Earth. On the other hand, it is shielded from radio emissions from Earth and might be a good place for a radio-te
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by GraemeL 8y ago
AdGuard Pro with facebook.com and facebook.net added to its DNS blacklist. When the app attempts to connect to graph.facebook.com it gets NXDOMAIN.
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by GraemeL 8y ago
The Kindle app on iOS gets blocked attempting to connect to Facebook every time I open it.
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by GraemeL 8y ago
Forcing people that are struggling to live day-to-day to use bank accounts just makes life worse for them. The first thing that happens when they're in debt is that their bank account gets frozen to pay the debts leaving them with noth
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by GraemeL 8y ago
More detail on the practices being complained about here: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/google-manipulates-users-...
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by GraemeL 8y ago
>Multiple weapon systems used commercial or open source software, but did not change the default password when the software was installed, which allowed test teams to look up the password on the Internet and gain administrator privileges
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Another Victim of the Magecart Assault Emerges: Newegg(riskiq.com)
79 points by GraemeL 8y ago|46 comments
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Inside the Magecart Breach of British Airways(riskiq.com)
8 points by GraemeL 8y ago|0 comments
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by GraemeL 8y ago
Nothing on the Laserlike website indicates how they plan to make money from their service, but I wouldn't bet on it not being overridden with advertising, corporate messaging, politics and other moneyed interests.
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by GraemeL 8y ago
It's currently an experimental feature not enabled by default and with no UI to change settings outwith about:config. In the current release version of Firefox (61.0.1) the provider parameter (network.trr.uri) is blank and not set to C
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Hyperthreading under scrutiny with new TLBleed crypto key leak(arstechnica.com)
1 points by GraemeL 8y ago|0 comments
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by GraemeL 8y ago
"It is now safe to turn off your computer" The days before ACPI.

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