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by agileAlligator 4y ago
I will be working under the guidance of a professor in my university; I forgot to mention this. He asked me to come up with a list of topics I am interested in, hence the post.
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Ask HN: Cybersecurity Research Topics
2 points by agileAlligator 4y ago|4 comments
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
I'm fine with HN personally because there is no infinite scrolling, plus a significant number of the posts/comments here teach me something new every day.
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> My MP3 collection is a bit of a mess. I've cleaned up the worst instances of "Band, The" "The Band" "Band" "Band - The" MusicBrainz Picard cleans and labels your music automatically using so
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> Pointlessness of Organization: my Calibre and Zotero libraries are a mess. But is that bad? Is there any point to organizing them? I can always find what I need, either by searching or browsing, because I have a spatial sense of where
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
Nah, it's the perfect size actually (I am using a laptop, I don't know how it is on mobile screens)
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> I don’t think you really get donations on YouTube Youtube recently introduced a membership function, I don't know how exactly it works but should be something along those lines
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
1. You browse the web without an adblocker in $currentYear? 2. I turned off my adblocker and checked, it's not fair to call it a "pop-up", it's more like it slides up from the bottom of the screen whenever you load a new
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> To clarify, these CSS hacks often use checkbox inputs for isomorphic state management and that is simply incompatible with the semantics those elements are designed and expected to represent. The one mentioned in the article, does not
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
I think most people know what processed food is when they see it. Asking what the definition of processed food is, is talking past the point.
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> I'd say many of these terms are way too vaguely defined and used. What exactly counts as "packaged" food? What's "processed" food? Do you think this is some sort of a smart or incisive observation? I am so
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
I'll say this to anyone who will listen, we need to stop treating browsers as OS'. Whatever happened to good old desktop applications?
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> adding client web application firewalls, different, customisable jailing schemes, detailed easy to understand monitoring, file monitors, inviolable fine-grained per-io-device permissions, better Tor and IPFS integration. How many peopl
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> specially because our divide has been the main cause of Britishers colonizing us This is just plainly false. Ask any serious student of history, and he will tell you that most of India has very little in common with each other. There a
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
Interesting! Now I wonder if this system can be digitized.... (I am way too lazy to take pen and paper notes lol)
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
Hey, you asked for dinosaurs and it gave you dinosaurs. A simple keyword search possibly, with pages that have more 'dinosaur's in them ranking higher
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> Ever since India became a nation it has staunchly stood against free-market policies and its popular vote overwhelmingly supports policies of regulation, subsidies and handouts as against privatization. Much to India's detriment,
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
I would argue that India's present success is in spite of the government, not because of it. The sectors that have seen the most success in India, namely the telecom, IT and services industries, were also those that were the least regu
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
Maybe not NIMBYism, but loads and loads of red tape for land acquisition. Especially since all of the land that is not explicitly for non agricultural use is agricultural, and converting it to non agricultural is a whole process usually inv
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> Isn't Twitter a counterexample to the conjecture "Most people are kind"? Not really, no. Coz the type of people on Twitter, and the type of people to actually tweet (and not just lurk) aren't exactly the sanest of h
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> How about corporal punishment? For crimes not involving bodily harm/loss of life, sure, I am totally for corporal punishment. Public lashings/canings, with tarring and feathering for more serious offences to top it off
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> AggSeg is the VERY BEST place you can be in jail or prison. I spent almost a year in AggSeg and it is lovely. You do realize that most people would go insane from lack of social interaction?
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
This isn't a search engine that is optimized for quality or authenticity of information contained on the sites. It's simply a tool for exploring an index of websites that follow the guidelines set by the author.
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
It doesn't matter whether it is customary. I live about 200km away from where the author is, I have never paid a bribe in my life, and I never will. They make you sweat it out for 4-5 months and then eventually it gets done.
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
They are both immoral
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
I remember accessing SEBI, PWD records through google dorking. They are probably still live, haven't checked. I reported it to all the correct authorities, tried to get in touch with various organizations. To no avail.
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
> It seems like the problem is that the author has a moral objection to paying bribes Duh?
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
As soon as I read the title, I knew the article would be pure pain.
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
I appreciate that news stories on HN aren't, for lack of a better term, popularity-driven. There would be no point to HN existing if we had the same news on frontpage as any other website (apart from the userbase, which I agree is far,
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by agileAlligator 4y ago
Irony/insincerity is a malaise of modern times. Being sincere about something leaves us vulnerable, open to attack. So we hide under successive layers of irony, until we ourselves aren't sure where our true beliefs lie.

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