Grollicus

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by Grollicus 10y ago
I always click ads of companies I don't like. Am I invalid traffic? Also, would it be possible to hurt a website - eg breitbart - by simply spam clicking their ads? Thats incredibly dangerous :o
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by Grollicus 10y ago
"500.000 new Members last month!!1" (I just totally made that up) I suspect its the same as facebooks "2 Billion Users" - its just good for PR to have huge numbers. If you look too closely you might even lose Members in
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by Grollicus 10y ago
Microsoft Germany is located in Munich. Or, well, it will be moved there soon.
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by Grollicus 10y ago
Remember how we laughed about visual basic which supports just 65536 different variable names?
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by Grollicus 10y ago
The joke is if this specific "Backdoor" would be used widespread it would generate a lot of noise (eg. random key changes, keys that don't match) and would cause massively bad PR for WhatsApp. No way are they doing that.
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by Grollicus 10y ago
To expand on this argument a bit, if you think the Government/Whatsapp are specifically out to get you (eg. willing to mount an active attack against you specifically), then WhatsApp is propably the wrong messenger for you. If on the o
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by Grollicus 10y ago
Man I will be so sad if they finally manage to kill TreeStyleTabs
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by Grollicus 10y ago
Why is this on HN? Who cares how Americans abuse their poor? Whats that to do with technology?
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by Grollicus 10y ago
5€ / Month for 50MB/s? No way thats fair to the other customers..
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by Grollicus 10y ago
~15 Years ago I went to to Poland on a student exchange. They held a presentation about their school and stuff and in the middle of the presentation theres a popup from emule saying it has finished downloading something. Mind you this was a
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by Grollicus 10y ago
It is reCAPTCHA's fault. (kind of, I mean its just the way its built) Still, if you browse the web via Tor you will see reCAPTCHAs everywhere because of Cloudflare. And that IS Cloudflare's fault, and its really annoying which is
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by Grollicus 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12097063 ?
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by Grollicus 10y ago
Substitution Ciphers, still not dead since Caesar. But the website looks cool at least.
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by Grollicus 10y ago
The industry established response to the security risk of possible openssh 0days blown into the wild is moving the sshd port LOL aka i don't care thats not a useful argument. Should that ever happen a lot of us would propably get rich
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by Grollicus 10y ago
Why is moving the SSH port Security by Obscurity? Its log cleaning by avoiding annoying portscans, nothing else.. There is NO Security gained by moving the port. If you think random portscans are a security risk to your SSH server you shoul
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by Grollicus 10y ago
In Germany you get recompensation for that. Also one might argue if they don't like the laws they shouldn't access the market.
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by Grollicus 10y ago
You might do this and then you get convicted in absentia, Saudi Arabia will send a request for extradiction, your country will say no, done. Except: better not travel to Saudi Arabia or any other country that will extradict. Also Saudi Arab
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by Grollicus 11y ago
IF you're sitting in bed reading HN, then yes, you should get up.