aendruk

86 ms·

931.
by aendruk 6y ago
We had a similar interaction with the Chrome Web Store out of the blue. After a few maddening rounds of requests for clarification and nonsensical canned responses, I finally just gave up and accused them of gaslighting me. Our extension wa
932.
by aendruk 6y ago
> weather and traffic cameras Several are clearly disguised; the view is framed by "high voltage" etc. decals in reverse, similar to: https://www.qpcs.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015-06-1
933.
by aendruk 6y ago
No experience with Messenger but I recall Facebook blocking posts that link to F.B. Purity.
934.
by aendruk 7y ago
No, e.g.: a::after { content: "↗"; }
935.
by aendruk 7y ago
A typical implementation would use a generated pseudo-element that doesn't get copied.
936.
by aendruk 7y ago
Critically evaluating your choices is a step forward.
937.
by aendruk 7y ago
> The suspicious events included strings commonly used by hackers (e.g. 414141…4141). I had to look this up. "AAA…" (0x414141… in ASCII/UTF-8) is traditionally used as arbitrary user input that's easy to spot in place
938.
The Unicode Standard Now Includes CC License Symbols(creativecommons.org)
3 points by aendruk 7y ago|0 comments
939.
by aendruk 7y ago
We can't. GP counters "National security is a sham […]" by positing that an acceptable use case exists, not that we have been empowered to identify it.
940.
by aendruk 7y ago
The argument comes as a thought experiment: If you handed me an arbitrary object and asked me to number its parts, I'd probably default to one the above conventions. This outcome is incidental, but a predictable consequence of my cultu
941.
by aendruk 7y ago
Yes, you understand correctly. In this case, assume the life and cultural context of the author.
942.
by aendruk 7y ago
Reasonable candidates, per the article: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_to_right - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwise
943.
by aendruk 7y ago
What's unintuitive is that it doesn't follow other conventions that could reasonably be applied.
944.
by aendruk 7y ago
Someone ripped the images from the game [1] and uploaded them to a fan wiki [2], implicitly misrepresenting the content as CC BY-SA, and then this site hotlinked them. [1]: https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:
945.
by aendruk 7y ago
Yep. Events industry; entire company basically shut down.
946.
by aendruk 7y ago
For a well-defined project like this, I recommend getting in touch with people in the OSM US Slack workspace [0] for advice on possible data sources, mapping techniques, prior/duplicate efforts, etc. [0]: https://osmus-slack
947.
by aendruk 7y ago
What we need is a map that's organized like Wikipedia—anyone can immediately contribute to it.
948.
by aendruk 7y ago
Google used to provide a way to do this, but removed it (see killedbygoogle #674) around the same time they dropped "don't be evil".
949.
by aendruk 7y ago
Reference for the curious: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/issues/674
950.
Surveillance Capitalism, Transit Information, and OneBusAway(seattletransitblog.com)
3 points by aendruk 7y ago|0 comments
951.
by aendruk 7y ago
Google itself used to provide a browser extension called "Personal Blocklist" that did this.
952.
by aendruk 7y ago
It never shows content to me. I don't understand why it continues to be returned in search results. Every link is broken.
953.
by aendruk 7y ago
Even better, Iosevka just gained an experimental proportional-width variant that still has all the programming ligatures. I've been opting into that on a per–language or project basis.
954.
Notification of Amazon S3 buckets configured for public access(forums.aws.amazon.com)
7 points by aendruk 7y ago|1 comments
955.
by aendruk 7y ago
You can tell them it's a valuable category of service that they should want an analog of.
956.
by aendruk 7y ago
Thank you, that's well-put. I also share that value. Another value that I hold is that the cost of bad actors shouldn't be externalized to innocent people, i.e. that it's unfair for me to pay the cost of completing a captcha
957.
by aendruk 7y ago
For the use case of blocking general web form spam, we've had good results with relying solely on IP reputation crowdsourced via AbuseIPDB: https://www.abuseipdb.com/about Occasionally we're an early target of a f
958.
by aendruk 8y ago
This is good. Several of the messages from Microsoft that I've received in my Office 365 mailbox are spam.
959.
How not to handle customers' sensitive data(gist.github.com)
3 points by aendruk 8y ago|0 comments
960.
by aendruk 8y ago
University students as a demographic have traditionally been capable of rising to enact social change motivated by principle or altruism. I think the answer here is to remember that individual privacy as a social norm is healthy for your co

More ›