Veen

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   by Veen 10y ago

   Because certificates are about identity verification as well as encryption. If a site doesn't have a certificate , there's no identity verification at all and whether or not to trust the site is left up to the user. If it does hav
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   by Veen 10y ago

   After years of remote working, albeit as a technical writer rather than a developer, I've learned a couple of techniques for dealing with vague and ill-defined tasks. i) Write down exactly what you think the task might entail and email
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   by Veen 10y ago

   > This will happen in any community where you're getting voluntary support. And that's another reason I won't go back to Linux from a Mac. I don't want voluntary support and to have to spend hours trawling forums to f
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   by Veen 10y ago

   I used Linux on the desktop for years, until I switched to a Mac. It's not really the OS itself that would stop me going back, it's the quality of the applications and the user experience. There's nothing I can do on a Mac th
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   by Veen 10y ago

   Alright, I'm dumb. It was my JavaScript blocker. It works once I disabled it. Nice service. Only advice I can give is to tweak the typography a bit for the PDF output: I'd restrict the measure (line lengths) to around sixty charac
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   by Veen 10y ago

   I tried it with http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/ and got the message: "You are now a certified Document Cyborg hacker, but you don't get any files:)"
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   by Veen 10y ago

   I like Transmission, but this is the second serious security problem they've had this year. Once you can forgive, but twice and it's time to look for a new BitTorrent client.
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   by Veen 10y ago

   Thanks! I found somewhere decent and reasonably priced in District VI after a lot of hunting. The best place to look seems to be Facebook groups. People quickly call out scammers and the real estate folks post new listings regularly.
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   by Veen 10y ago

   It's a problem because people use vanity metrics like follower counts as a proxy for the popularity of a company and its product. That incentivizes businesses to inflate their follow counts. In the real world, 10,000 useless bot or &qu
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    by Veen 10y ago

    So does proofreading.
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    by Veen 10y ago

    I had similar problems finding a place in Budapest. Craigslist proved particularly unreliable: the usual process was to find a great looking apartment, do a reverse Google search on the image, and find the same place advertised in Paris, Be
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    by Veen 10y ago

    Seems fairly unlikely they'll get him.
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    by Veen 10y ago

    Paperback offers a reasonably good reading experience for Pinboard links. https://readpaperback.com
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    by Veen 10y ago

    > Am I supposed to detect mobile devices (which is a massive pain) and serve them this separate HTML/JS/CSS? No. It's the responsibility of search engines and apps to choose whether to send visitors to AMP pages. If Google