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by Laforet 10y ago
If an organisation has a large number of networked computers on Windows XP they are going to have more issues than that - having no SNI support is one.
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by Laforet 10y ago
One major factor is security, everything that isn't being actively maintained is passively accumulating exploits. For example, debian switched from ffmpeg to libav and eventually back to ffmpeg again because the libav maintainers have
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by Laforet 10y ago
Ideally you'd want to have L7 filtering so an SSL terminating proxy is the best thing short of running a fully functional copy of uBlock on your mobile device, lest you run into issues where removing ads on youtube also interferes with
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by Laforet 10y ago
FreeNAS != ZFS. The former is a specialised storage system that has to meet a very different set of criteria than a lightweight server with 1GB ram.
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by Laforet 10y ago
Notwithstanding the irony of one google service hurting another, the free tier only has 1GB of free egress traffic right?
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by Laforet 10y ago
Dropbox is known to have intergration with PhotoDNA, a state program that matches file signature with a database of known illicit images. This would be impossible if the encryption used is irreversible and as far as I know dropbox never cla
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by Laforet 10y ago
There might be better ways to do this but each new instance on vultr takes a few minutes to set up (you can actually use their web VNC console to watch their install script run，a unique experience not offered by other VPS providers I have u
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by Laforet 10y ago
Historically some cultures practiced mock firing as a way to appease an angry customer. This was back in the day when most business transactions occured face to face so the owner should demand the employee to pack their belonging and leave
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by Laforet 10y ago
DDoS protection and general ease of use. There are several options for the extent of encryption between CF's edge and the origin server but the onus is on the site owner to configure it properly. Sure it defeats the ideals about TLS an
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by Laforet 10y ago
It's just unfortunate that the interests of public research institutes often overlaps with those of patent trolls. Previous attempts to reform patent law in the USA have all been defeated partially due to strong opposition and lobbying
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by Laforet 10y ago
>it is expected that everyone with some spare bitcoins would run lightning nodes to collect fees, so there should be plenty competition. Thanks for getting back to me in another comment and I find this assertion interesting. As I said ea
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by Laforet 10y ago
According to the video below SegWit creates 4x effective transaction space in the same 1MB block. I assume that is a theoretical ceiling unlikely to be achievable in reality? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzBAG2Jp4bg
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by Laforet 10y ago
The same way Uber was/is cheaper than Taxi, the cost is subsidised by someone else (Uber's investors, or in this case miners and speculators of Bitcoin)
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by Laforet 10y ago
I've also been keeping tabs on the debate and I agree with you except on one account: Not everyone want the Bitcoin to be the next Visa or Paypal, some are perfectly content with a 10 minute confirmation delay as long as the blockchain
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by Laforet 10y ago
>Imagine this: authorities confiscate anything that looks like storage media, storage capacity rough order of magnitude is calculated, figures reported to media, an assumption is made that it's all highly classified, spin some click
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by Laforet 10y ago
There exists a 4 year old bug in Ubuntu LTS releases (not sure whether mainline Debian is affected too but it is very likely) in which kernel upgrades fail to remove old headers. Because the way headers are structured it is possible to run
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by Laforet 10y ago
As someone stuck with Windows Vista (no sarcasm intended, although I shall be upgrading later this year when patches stop coming) I beg to differ. There is a continued degree of improvement since the Windows 9x days and in the meantime Wind
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by Laforet 10y ago
Growing up in another country where lychees are commonly eaten, most people were already informed about the fruit's ability to cause hypoglycemia. I remember being told off by parents and older relatives on having too many lychees betw
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by Laforet 10y ago
Years ago TomTom released an update for their GPS app that won't run on older iOS versions and they had to add a warning in the description so people don't buildly update and get locked out forever until they buy a new phone. I be
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by Laforet 10y ago
It's not just free software, but the ability to control which set of binaries you use. The final straw that pushed me away from iOS devices was when the ability to pack and backup apps from devices was removed in iOS 8 (IIRC). Case in
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by Laforet 10y ago
Earlier but not necessarily cheaper, as they will pick up other forms of repiratory and cardiovascular disease before they expire (not every smoker end up getting incurable lung cancer, and its not like they should be refused treatment kf t
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by Laforet 10y ago
The physiological effect of nicotine use is pretty well established as in the case of alcohol and IMO it makes no sense to ban ecigs while allowing other forms of tobacco to be sold.
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by Laforet 10y ago
Not that I agree with the EO, but the logic behind it was that 6 of those 7 countries have ongoing insurgencies involving the IS, and Iran was dragged in there due to either existing prejudice or more likely their involvement in Syria and I
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by Laforet 10y ago
They are obviously concerned about long term viability of their core cellphone business, enough that they are diversifying into a massive range of products from alkaline batteries[0] to reverse osmosis water purifiers[0]. Some of their offe
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by Laforet 10y ago
I don't get the poster above either, the success of MIUI is what propelled Xiaomi into their hardware business after all. There was (and probably still is) a decent following in the west maintaining many community ports of MIUI.
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by Laforet 10y ago
The new mobile site is slkw fails in basic functions such as as preventing double posting - which happens all the time because the UI is often irresponsive.
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by Laforet 10y ago
Have you tried looking at different page elements and see which ones took longer? I've always felt that the main reddit.com domain loads reasonably fast but the rest arn't
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by Laforet 10y ago
Agreed, reddit has mostly replaced Usenet for niche subject discussions.
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by Laforet 10y ago
If the attacker had zero knolwedge of this they would have to rely on random collisions. On the other hand, there are about 5000 commonly used Chinese characters (estimates will vary) so entropy is going to be fairly high if they knew. The
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by Laforet 10y ago
It is worth noting that the female first person pronoun 她 is a relatively recent invention inspired by republicanism and the rise of venacular writing. Some writers in the 1920s and 30s used a more distinctive word 伊 (pronounced yi1) but ov

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