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by ______- 5y ago
Which is why I said: "for large financial arrangements" Large transactions need extra special care. You need a trusted device with a trusted OS and a trusted browser, preferably with `EASE` turned on in HTTPS Everywhere so plainte
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by ______- 5y ago
> A person thought he was getting a legitimate Bitcoin wallet app, but turns out it was a fake and he lost his life savings I guess I'm victim-shaming here, but using mobile apps for large financial arrangements, no matter how trust
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by ______- 5y ago
https://lite.qwant.com/?q=tank+man
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HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript(calendar.perfplanet.com)
571 points by ______- 5y ago|133 comments
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by ______- 5y ago
> How many times have you heard people insist that Instagram showed them ads based on a verbal conversation they had where their phone was nearby Yeah and most of the time this is recency bias . You know: when you learn a new word and s
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Zerodium acquiring zero-days in Pidgin, an IM client popular with cybercriminals(therecord.media)
8 points by ______- 5y ago|9 comments
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by ______- 5y ago
> “Senator, We Run Ads” was the iconic response from Facebook’s CEO > And that’s how Facebook still manages to stay free of cost today. I enjoy articles that explain to the layman how the sausage is made. I've always wondered: if
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by ______- 5y ago
JS disabled by default using uBlock Origin. Only temporarily whitelist when I trust the page. If I am doing e-commerce stuff I keep it turned on just so it doesn't break the purchase flow
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Using the Windows Device Portal(docs.microsoft.com)
1 points by ______- 5y ago|0 comments
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by ______- 5y ago
I always found it odd that SSDs die out within 5-10 years if they're not accessed frequently (i.e they're not suitable for long term archival storage) yet oldskool computers' storage of the 80's seem to last forever. It
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by ______- 5y ago
That becomes problematic, since often numbers are 'recycled' by the likes of Twilio, and the number has some history or previous use, probably used before to register social media accounts. The trick is to find a brand new fresh
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by ______- 5y ago
Twitter cracked down on bots recently[0]. Last time I checked you need to verify your account with a phone number. However this is a trivial hurdle to overcome since dedicated bot farmers would use Twilio or some similar service to register
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Debugging Elixir Code: The Definitive Guide(curiosum.dev)
3 points by ______- 5y ago|0 comments
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Seagate 'exploring' possible new line of crypto-specific hard drives(techradar.com)
1 points by ______- 5y ago|0 comments
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by ______- 5y ago
> would something like https://ameliorated.info/index.html I installed this to test it out (in a VM) and got a login prompt asking for a password. I went to their site and found no documentation about this at all, so I j
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EU Digital Covid Certificate(ec.europa.eu)
2 points by ______- 5y ago|0 comments
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by ______- 5y ago
Just posted this to HN. So interesting!
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Blinking Twelve Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
28 points by ______- 5y ago|2 comments
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by ______- 5y ago
> Bitcoin is the better gold Held up by a house of cards since it's so volatile (at least for now). Can't wait for it to become a stablecoin
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by ______- 5y ago
They train you to be an influencer[0] in China. I have empathy for them. They're embracing modernity, not being a boring archaic Luddite for a living. [0] https://www.dailydot.com/irl/china-influencer-school-video&
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RagtimeCloud – Synchronization, Backups and More for Joplin(ragtime.cloud)
2 points by ______- 5y ago|0 comments
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by ______- 5y ago
And now we have people losing access to their cryptocurrency wallets[0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwo...
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by ______- 5y ago
Slightly tangential thing I learned: Have you ever wondered why VCR clocks always showed 12:00 and were never set[0]? It's because people simply didn't bother set the time on the VCR. I learned this from Mikko Hyppönen when he was
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by ______- 5y ago
https://archive.is/4c3NW
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by ______- 5y ago
> Bookmarks clearly don't cut it any more I've developed a strategy for this. I collect bookmarks in various browsers, and every three months or so I export them as raw HTML files, into a folder, where I then manually review ea
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by ______- 5y ago
Why do people artificially inflate various metrics like followers instead of gaining them organically and by being authentic? I don't trust any metrics on social media now because of these types of sites.
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by ______- 5y ago
What if AMP is actually a good thing? Just because a load of Googlebashers claim it's a stupid idea, what if it's really clever?
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The startups reinventing the web browser(protocol.com)
10 points by ______- 5y ago|5 comments
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by ______- 5y ago
In uBlock Origin I've seen a few domains with the word `cookie` in them and after investigating them, they are serving Javascript that by virtue of being a third party, are scooping up personal data, not protecting it. Of course I bloc
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by ______- 5y ago
In uBlock Origin I've seen a few domains with the word `cookie` in them and after investigating them, they are serving Javascript that by virtue of being a third party, are scooping up personal data, not protecting it. Of course I bloc

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