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Tech companies giving away free face masks to combat coronavirus(combatnerd.com)
65 points by __b__ 7y ago|4 comments
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by __b__ 10y ago
There's another solution: Avoid closed source applications and closed source OS. There's other OS besides the ones you mentioned. And there's other small form factor computers besides mobile "phones" sold by teleco
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by __b__ 10y ago
"What android is doing is making MITMing yourself harder." That's not good for users. I do not rely on Android, Windows or Linux. Not really much an app user either. But if I were a user of these systems I would avoid apps w
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by __b__ 10y ago
"... it won't change a thing." So if the user does not want to trust a certificate installed by someone else on the device, she can "revoke" it? And by the same token if she wants to explicitly trust a certificate,
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by __b__ 10y ago
Any device that prevents a user from installing their own CA root cert is not one I would use. I'm not sure if they have started to do this or not. In terms of protecting users, there's no valid reason the owner of the hardware s
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by __b__ 10y ago
Imagine if they had tried this with their corporate customers. My advice to home users would be to disconnect their Windows computers from the internet and use some other OS for tasks that require internet. Use Windows offline for the grap
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by __b__ 10y ago
The parent stated "Data generated on my phone belongs to me." I interpreted this as "Data generated by me on my phone belongs to me." The user could agree to license her rights to the data, e.g. via terms and condition
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by __b__ 10y ago
"I should be able to see what data an app is sending..." And you can. There are many ways. Something as simple as 2 socat instances and netsed works great as a quick and dirty but very robust solution. See also sslsplit which w
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by __b__ 10y ago
OK, then how do we separate the data that is his versus data that belongs to somene else? Maybe we would have to look at what is being sent from the app?
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by __b__ 10y ago
I have always liked the download.gmane.org option. I rarely use the web interface. I hope download.gmane.org does not disappear. Gmane is a truly great service. IMO, it does not need to be part of "the web". It's better th
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by __b__ 10y ago
Like AOL. Yes, I agree!
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by __b__ 10y ago
Any similar projects aimed at compiling Linux binaries on non-Linux Unix? (Excluding qemu, etc.) Some non-Linux Unix have Linux emulation and can translate a subset of Linux syscalls. Perhaps it could be in a chroot with all the needed Li
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by __b__ 10y ago
What if Zuckerberg had received a cease and desist letter when he was accessing computers without authorization at Harvard? Before any student willingly sent him personal information, he had to exfiltrate such information i.e. photos of oth
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by __b__ 10y ago
Good.
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by __b__ 10y ago
"For instance it doesn't have everything you need to validate certificates..." Yet it has all the CA crap thrown in, via the overloaded openssl binary. As "examples". And according to the documentation, not even &
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by __b__ 10y ago
I guess the way to test your theory would be to look at users who had IRC to use and nothing else -- no choice. The truth I believe is that users adapt to whatever software they must use. Before the "UI/UX" hype began, befo
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by __b__ 10y ago
Agree. Legacy code.
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by __b__ 10y ago
You missed the point. The comment suggests the opposite of what you think it suggests. I guess I need to work on my communication skills.
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by __b__ 10y ago
The following comment could apply to hundreds of similar submissions to HN in recent years. Many people -- many of them young people I suspect -- have invested a lot of time learning Javascript. It has become a very popular language. But i
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by __b__ 10y ago
Was Kildall a better programmer than Gates?^U Who wrote more elegant software? Who undercut the price of the other's software? And why? Microsoft's early success was not due to originality. Gates has no aesthetic. He has no resp
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by __b__ 10y ago
Users should have the option of choosing or not choosing to use a locked bootloader. For some users, the benefits of an unlocked bootloader exceed the costs of not letting Microsoft handle "security" for them. If a company is sel
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by __b__ 10y ago
http://kparc.com
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by __b__ 10y ago
"a project that doesn't care about your concerns..." Unless the concerns are always "more features"... forever. Any new features will do, so long as the project keeps growing. The more changes and updates the bett
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by __b__ 10y ago
Question: To whom do you want to send mail with your "bonded email server"? Is it commercial email? Or are you just interested in sending email to friends and family? In the case it's both, which one is more important to you?
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by __b__ 10y ago
Before UNIX was ported to the PC, I used a DOS program called Crosstalk Communicator. Today it's so easy to run a small UNIX kernel on a PC. Why would "industrial control areas" still be using Windows, if what they need is te
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by __b__ 10y ago
Or allow Googlebot in robots.txt and then crawl Google.
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by __b__ 10y ago
An ISP will block ports -- the goal is top stop spam -- but nothing requires you to use the traditional SMTP ports that are used for spam. Because you're not sending spam. You are sending email to people you know, on a port you have a
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by __b__ 10y ago
And to serve that private gTLD to others, you'll need a reachable IP address. :)
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by __b__ 10y ago
But if and how frequently such changes occur depends on the third party. And as you say, the terms should require adequate notice. Businesses of all sizes rent stable IP addresses. Some ISPs in some countries also provide them to non-busin
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by __b__ 10y ago
"Email" as it is run today by third parties. Email dates back to timesharing, when people shared computers, each user having an "email account" on a single computer. For people today, each with their own computer, it&#x2

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