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by alanh 15y ago
FYI: Using your RSS feeds from Readability and/or Instapaper, you can use IFTTT.com to copy these over to your Pocket account. (Note this won’t copy your current queues, just those added in the future. To migrate the current items from Inst
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by alanh 15y ago
This looks great. I just signed up. However, I immediately noticed it seems anyone can add any content to anyone’s queue if they know or guess their username — since everyone sends mail to the same address (add@getpocket.com), you only have
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by alanh 15y ago
I wasn’t. Apologies if it seemed mean-spirited — I only wanted to understand your point. I’m probably being thick, but I still don’t quite follow. It seems like you’re saying that if you leave semicolons out (relying on ASI), this makes “mi
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by alanh 15y ago
I’m sorry, but I don’t know what “FIY” means, what your point is, or how your comment is a reply to mine. Consider re-phrasing?
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by alanh 15y ago
Simple. Look at the other comments, and it becomes apparent there are downsides to relying on / abusing ASI, and no advantages. (The only claimed advantage is that the lack of semicolons is visually appealing, but this is nullified by the f
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by alanh 15y ago
> What we actually need is better USDA truth in labeling laws. Such that natural should actually mean something and such that Kobe beef actually means something. Agreed. Personal pet peeve (this one is FDA, not USDA): Drinks can be la
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by alanh 15y ago
Not a lot to see here — basically everyone is exhorted to treat IPv6 and v4 compatibility as mandatory. Interestingly, however, they basically said it sucks to see consumer devices being sold without IPv6, and that there is little market
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by alanh 15y ago
Cry me a freakin’ river. People are right to be grossed out and offended that this was being fed to their kids across the nation. And we’re supposed to ignore any potential concerns over quality just because some poor, rich “innovator” is s
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by alanh 15y ago
One of the best novels I have read in the last 5 years. It’s great sci-fi, with a lot of ideas I never dreamt of beforehand.
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by alanh 15y ago
Seriously? This headline is last week’s news. Today’s news is a third subsequent update to Java/OS X.
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by alanh 15y ago
The other big problem with email is it’s still never encrypted. If anyone wants to experiment with such things, please contact me (alanhogan.com/contact), and we can trade public keys. Our experiences will inform a related blog post I am w
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by alanh 15y ago
I don’t know why, but note that they had to at least issue a JVM upgrade to get the feature/protection noted in the linked article: > "This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applet
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by alanh 15y ago
Citation needed. Apple has admitted that the malware exists. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5244 Not to mention that this JVM update’s description, immediately visible if you show updates before installing them, directly mentions the Fla
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by alanh 15y ago
Chrome has a click-to-play implementation for Flash? That is not a plugin? Do I have to go to chrome://flags or something?
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by alanh 15y ago
Surely you realize that PHP is alone in having vast swaths of its common functionalitity disabled by hosts because of massive security problems arising in actual use? This means PHP being crippled on many servers is PHP’s own fault.
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by alanh 15y ago
> I’ve never seen anyone point it out. Really? The easy of deploying a single-purpose script / hello world is always trotted out as the reason PHP ever became popular. Yes, even in yesterday’s big item “PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design.
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by alanh 15y ago
The actual article quotes the government official as saying the Internet incites “atheism” and other supposed moral evils. :)
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by alanh 15y ago
If I wanted to hear about inside politics, I’d subscribe to pandodaily.
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by alanh 15y ago
Cynical answer: Because we keep inventing new carcinogens.
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by alanh 15y ago
Often I don’t even see an option to comment on these stories! — Especially when they appear as little lists of articles people have been reading.
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by alanh 15y ago
Like Rumgr? It’s great, but extremely low volume. At higher volume, some metadata is going to be needed.
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by alanh 15y ago
Pet peeve: conjecture stated with the adverb "actually." It’s a guess, man. And I am not convinced. Consider that the traffic for that page is still higher now – a data point in favor of "frictionless sharing" if, say the company is testing
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by alanh 15y ago
I wrote on it, too: http://alanhogan.com/facebook-pseudo-links And aggregated a few (more noteworthy) bloggers’ reactions: http://alanhogan.com/facebook-frictionless-sharing-pushback
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by alanh 15y ago
I understand philosophers like Sarte and Kant would agree that the moral thing to do here is not use a plug-in that lets us nerds cheerily use links generated by an evil feature without harming ourselves (by auto-sharing what we read), bu
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by alanh 15y ago
There are events, parties, groups, and meet-ups which are exclusively organized on Facebook. But we can fight back. Quoting Dave Winer: > BTW, I get invited to events that say check out the Facebook page for details about where to be a
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by alanh 15y ago
It’s really not. Only in the last half-decade or so have we started to fight the datavores.
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by alanh 15y ago
Here’s a PDF version I created: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/105727/fb-subpoena-db/fb-subpoena.pd... Or view as a web page with JPEGs: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/105727/fb-subpoena-db/index.html (What is more absurd than releasing information l
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by alanh 15y ago
Pendantic, but if it were an “open letter,” shouldn’t it be written in the second person? The body content contains two instances of the word “you,” both directed to the reader; references to RZ are in the third person.
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by alanh 15y ago
I don’t know — those aren’t apps normal people install. (And: The same people who install Eclipse, Minecraft, LibreOffice, or Photoshop are also more likely to have one of the apps that Flashback avoids co-habitating with: Little Snitch, Xc
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by alanh 15y ago
Of note — if Java is the attack vector, new Macs were not vulnerable by default as they don’t ship with Java installed anymore a/o 10.7 Lion. AFAIK, the biggest reason anyone would have Java is if you’re running Adobe products.

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