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by Rjevski 8y ago
Related: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/47293/how-can-s...
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Vetting by the publisher at least sets a minimum bar that isn’t there with web. I don’t see obvious scams, phishing or malware being advertised on TV or print, but I saw a lot of them back when I was on Facebook, and even reporting them did
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Maybe not stealing but extortion. “Give us all your data or you can’t use the service all your friends use to keep in touch”. It’s even worse when the service we’re talking about goes beyond social networking and becomes a must-have like a
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Print & TV ads don’t stalk me everywhere I go nor steal my personal information so I don’t mind. They are also vetted by the publisher to weed out bad actors so there’s a low risk of scamming. Web ads, on the other hand...
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Billions a year is their entire advertising budget, and a lot of it is print & TV advertising which is orders of magnitude more expensive than web. Not saying I agree with that either (I wish all advertising would just die in a fire), b
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Is your product that bad that you have to spend millions on ads just to get people interested in it? If I had to pay millions to shove my product in people’a faces because that’s the only way to get them to use it, I would reconsider whethe
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Just wondering, why is that? It seems like a lot of effort instead of just sending a BYE when the phone is hanged up. I don’t see any legitimate reason for this “feature” to exist - if anything it makes scams & eavesdropping by a malici
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by Rjevski 8y ago
My argument was that even if you did have an “actual” copper line it would eventually be terminated at a device that speaks analog phone line on one end and spits out SIP on the other end. This specific hanging-up behaviour was an artifact
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by Rjevski 8y ago
The real reason behind the non-chronological feed is to keep you longer on the app. With a chronological feed, you remember where you left off, so when you scroll down to that point you know you’re all caught up and there isn’t more to see.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Honestly though, building its functionality in a weekend is perfectly doable, the hard part is the ad tracking/stalking infrastructure that goes in the background.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Everything of value can be paid for. The worth of an ad impression or click is measured in fractions of cents and the adds up to peanuts per month. Publishers can just charge those peanuts directly and I’ll be happy to pay up (plus they’ll
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by Rjevski 8y ago
As much as I’d love to agree with you there are a lot of idiots out there that click on ads because they legitimately believe it’s a good product/service (hint: if they have to pay someone to shove their product in your face, it’s not
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I guess they could’ve made more effort to cater to professional photographers (and steal marketshare from Flickr and 500px and similar) and offered paid plans.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
However, this only works if GDPR ends up being enforced, which doesn’t look too great so far considering how many sites violate the regulation with non-compliant forced consent screens.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
This used to be true but I really doubt it’s the case anymore. Most of the “PSTN” nowadays has a bunch of SIP or other digital stuff in the middle, so this breaks down. Not to mention, this was never possible for mobiles to begin with.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
What can you offer in exchange? Tutoring for another language? Money? Ferrero Rocher chocolates? Also do you have already a project in mind you’d like to build in Python? I find it much easier to learn if you’re building a real thing rather
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> saying that Red Shell wasn't spyware, but advertising analytics software What’s the difference? They both look and behave the same to me.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I don't have any issues with Netflix on either Linode or Digital Ocean personally.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Make your own with a box in AWS or any other cloud provider running something like Strongswan on Linux or iked on OpenBSD. All the out of the box VPNs I've found have some shortcomings, either being horribly insecure (PPTP, seriously?)
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Not to mention, this still leaves a hole open as a scraping company can outsource the “scraping” to low-wage data-entry slaves in third-world countries.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
And there are plenty of other proxies to choose from. My point is, you can’t just put content online and expect to put restrictions on how I send the HTTP requests for it on my side. And if you think you can well I’ll do my best to prove yo
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Tor and proxies solve that problem pretty nicely from experience. Not saying this is right, but if the service provider wants to play cat and mouse then I’m happy to take part.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
If the data is made available to me as a human, then I am free to delegate the job of retrieving it to a machine if I choose, and I will be doing it whether you like it or not.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Mac + IntelliJ for large projects, Sublime for one-off files.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
But if we arrive to the point of violence, wouldn't digital devices be pretty irrelevant anyway? Like if things are starting to get out of control why is the victim even staying in proximity to the abuser and not getting help from the
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> Those at help lines said more people were calling in the last 12 months about losing control of Wi-Fi-enabled doors, speakers, thermostats, lights and cameras What happened to the good old thing called "physical access"? Pres
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Cyberduck? https://cyberduck.io/ Seems like a good alternative with a modern UI.
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I’m not sure how is this different from an employee copy/pasting confidential data in an email and sending it off to a third-party. Will you also blame email clients for making it “too easy” to leak data to third parties?
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I was a Thinkpad user my entire life. I bought my first Apple laptop a year ago. I no longer use a Thinkpad as my main laptop. Your story works both ways so what's the point you're trying to make?
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Honestly, it's still better than nothing. Apple is obviously in the wrong here and they had to get sued before admitting the mistake, but it's no worse than other manufacturers. At the very least, once Apple admitted it, the rep

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