Whitestrake

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by Whitestrake 8y ago
> They will happily redirect the request Doesn't HSTS thwart this? Unless paypal.com were omitted from the preload list, AND you had never browsed to paypal.com before with that browser, it should refuse to connect over HTTP and the
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by Whitestrake 8y ago
> The current generation of Americans Which generation would you be referring to? Boomers, X, Y, or Z - or some other defined generation?
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by Whitestrake 8y ago
> Many people (me included) would argue that the scale of these companies definitely makes a difference Many people would then be arguing sideways past the GP comment, which made no claim to the extent of the difference, rather that it w
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by Whitestrake 8y ago
Aye, and you'd be well within your rights to do so, but I am doubtful that this approach will preempt the majority of people assuming rudeness on your part.
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by Whitestrake 8y ago
Kinda like they don't work on multiple chat apps simultaneously - that would be too silly of them to be believable, right?
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by Whitestrake 8y ago
Hey, that seems pretty cool. What'd you build it with? Any chance there's a repo I could check out? I'd love to try replicate something similar. Edit: Nevermind, found it - seems like I wasn't looking very hard! https:&
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by Whitestrake 8y ago
I'm very glad Firefox for Android supports the same extensions as the desktop version.
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by Whitestrake 8y ago
Then you get a reputation as a rude developer, whether or not that's fair or warranted.
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by Whitestrake 8y ago
Are you asking how useful fingerprinting is, or are you asking how effective it is? For the former, any amount of fingerprinting lets ad companies make the case that their ads are better or worth more money. For the latter, the EFF Panoptic
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by Whitestrake 8y ago
I've been told by a few people that it's my own fault, that I should have used something else like .test, etc. I wasn't even aware of the fact that .dev was going into the preload list and was quite surprised when my browser
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by Whitestrake 8y ago
IANAL, but I could set my own completely custom user agent - I don't even need much technical expertise, a simple browser add-on would suffice - and by logging that string, I could be (depending on how unique I made my own user agent)
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Burnie Burns of Rooster Teeth phrased it as, "the internet demands progress, but hates change." I like that because it succinctly draws attention to the juxtaposition of ideals and emotional reaction.
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Likewise. I'd go so far even as to say that IRE's MUDs made me who I am today. A commitment to integrity of role-playing my characters helped shape my identity while I was growing up, particularly as a social exercise. And my firs
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
A person who attempts to shoot an active shooter therefore satisfies the definition of an active shooter.
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Ahh, I wasn't aware of that. What about heavy machinery, like construction plant? Or power tools? Or common kitchen utensils? Would they satisfy the analogy?
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
An equally fair comparison. I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, and I'm really just spit-balling for discussion's sake and because I consider it interesting; please do poke holes in my reasoning. Presumably the develo
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
I'd argue that prosecuting a developer because his employer used his code to kill someone would be comparable to prosecuting a gun manufacturer because a customer used their weapon to kill someone.
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Using "in-band" here doesn't really follow from a technical understanding of the term; the TCP connection is the channel, and anything sent over it (such as an entire HTTP request/response, including headers) is "in
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Your comment calls into question the anecdotal evidence used to dismiss a claim made with no evidence whatsoever. I have a similar anecdote, but mine does not match the mitigating circumstance you ventured. Regardless, even a less-than-cred
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Try `-site:pinterest.com` to remove any results from the website, rather than any results that contain the text "pinterest.com". A minor distinction, but one that could change your results slightly.
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Hoping against hope that we get a similar result when NBN rolls around to my neighbourhood. It would be absolutely awful for them to "upgrade" our system, after waiting so long for this, to the exact same or worse speeds as the AD
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
> our internet speeds are 0.8 mbs up and 8 mbs down. So 800 KILObytes up. Your conversions might be mistaken. For example, at my place of work, on ADSL2: Down Stream : 6696Kbps / Up Stream : 736Kbps So slightly worse than you. Conve
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
I doubt he got them mixed up; myki is a pre-loaded NFC smart card payment system for public transport in Victoria, Australia. go cards are another similar system. NBN is a completely different beast, being an internet carrier and service wh
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Especially distinguishable words, and especially names. Domains are a great example of this, too. I recently reached out, out of curiosity, and learned that the owner of the .net domain for my own four-letter name wants a quarter of a mil
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
I use Fastmail in exactly the same manner (catch-all, I use "yourdomain.example@mydomain.example" as the email address for signups). Also, anyone could put a cheap domain name on Migadu with a catch-all for this purpose. Services
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
At the risk of venturing off the topic of the main thread... Could that behaviour possibly be explained by timing rather than location? My Android gives me commute data around 7:30AM, regardless of where I am or whether I'm moving. Per
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Looks like it's not quite official yet - at the time of writing this comment, their changelog page and main website / download links still indicate 12.05 as the latest stable.
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Does Wix optimize its images between upload and delivery? I'd be inclined to believe that this is a side effect of Wix's target market not being aware of how to optimally compress their images for web delivery.
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
> I never claimed a bad lane change is probable cause for a search. Perhaps not in so many words... tptacek states that a bad lane change can be given as an excuse for a stop, but not a search, because it is not probable cause. In the fo
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by Whitestrake 9y ago
Most news sites, yes. They want Google's crawler to crawl their full text, and Google responds poorly to sites that treat their crawler differently than real search users, so if your Referer (sic) header is Google, news sites will ofte

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