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by ancarda 9y ago
>[anti-virus vendors] just wanted their old solutions to keep working even if that meant reducing the security of our mutual customer — the very thing they were supposed to be improving. Wow. Is there a backstory here in regards to the d
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by ancarda 9y ago
>Plenty of harmful things are done with C and C++ but no one is saying we should deactivate native apps written in unsafe languages Isn't that exactly what a lot of people have been saying ever since Rust started taking off? Every t
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by ancarda 9y ago
Oh thank you, this might be perfect! Edit: It seems they don't sell to the UK :(
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by ancarda 9y ago
Oh, I agree with you; the state of computer security is really depressing :(
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by ancarda 9y ago
I understand what you’re trying to say, but what's the alternative? Stop using computers? Once Meltdown and Spectre are out of the picture, there will be another crisis. That’ll happen forever, I think. Honestly, the older I get, the m
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by ancarda 9y ago
>Finally, the new Files app in iOS 10 overlaps a lot of file-management functionality Transmit provides I disagree completely. Every time I need to save a file to my phone, I can’t use the files app because you can’t just save files the
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by ancarda 9y ago
It's an ineffective entry barrier given the App Store has so many junk apps like Flappy Bird clones or fart sounds.
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I really wish Uncle Bob would provide code examples with his blog posts and videos. I struggle to imagine what my tests would look like if I followed this. Possibly as my tests are so tightly coupled right now that refactoring is actually n
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by ancarda 9y ago
>the software as well as the custom RTC chip were designed to not handle dates beyond 1995, less than 15 years after it was released Why did they do that? Did they have an explanation that doesn’t just boil down to “we wanted customers t
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by ancarda 9y ago
I was using Apple Maps a few weeks ago, and wanted to get something to eat. I saw a place called “Shake Shack” and decided to go there. Not only did it not exist, I checked online, there has never been a Shake Shack in my town, there’s only
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by ancarda 9y ago
>Scaling down that much is as labour intensive as scaling up. Could you elaborate on this? I'm very interested to understand the challenges of downsizing a cloud service as I've never heard of that happening, and am surprised t
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by ancarda 9y ago
Perhaps something like https://securethe.news/sites/ but for every website, not just news sites?
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But that does not excuse knee-jerk reactions. >China or Russia would be my first guesses Why? If this is just based on it being a massive attack, then there's no basis to automatically blame China/Russia. Have you not noticed t
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by ancarda 9y ago
>- Individuals can block and report other users As far as I know, Slack won’t implement that because it’s a team chat app and if team members need to block people, there’s larger problems: https://mobile.twitter.com/stewa
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by ancarda 9y ago
Does that hold if it’s company policy to do all communication over an ephemeral chat system? I’m struggling to understand this. It seems to suggest a company cannot discuss anything potentially problematic unless there’s a log. From the art
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by ancarda 9y ago
Really? Wow. I recently moved in with my partner and we keep having issues with deliveries, I’d never have imagined it could be due to bad or missing OSM data. I’ll check when I’m near a computer. Thank you for the heads up!
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by ancarda 9y ago
Extensions you have for Chrome can work on Firefox with little to no modification. The extensions you rely on probably just need to be repacked into a WebExtension.
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Could it be a difference in why the risk is there? If you choose to start a business, you choose to take on those risks and I’d imagine people feel like they’re relatively safe (business will succeed, I can always get a job if it fails, I h
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by ancarda 9y ago
What did you switch to? Was it due to extensions?
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by ancarda 9y ago
Are men not allowed to teach? Adam Ruins Everything is an educational show - they’re all actors
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by ancarda 9y ago
What about IRCv3? http://ircv3.net
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by ancarda 9y ago
Do you have an old computer? I ask because this works absolutely fine on my phone - so I'd expect any recent computer to be able to handle WebGL
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by ancarda 9y ago
Why is there no way on iOS to disable all animations? It isn’t just the calculator, usually when an animation is playing, there’s no input. My phone feels so slow all the time, I hate it. Reduce Motion helps a bit, but honestly I’d disable
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by ancarda 9y ago
No because while religion is used to try to justify that, the real cause is just shitty people
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Do you have a source with more information? Because that will drive me so mad I won't update iOS if it's true.
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by ancarda 9y ago
Any suggestions for alternatives to 8.8.8.8? Is OpenDNS any good?
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>In Swift 5, [ABI stability] is a requirement of the release. Once Swift 5 comes out, does that mean it's "safe" for people to write things in Swift? My company still has apps stuck on Swift 2.x because we simply can'
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by ancarda 9y ago
Are Mozilla paying for people to do these experiments or is it people sending patches? I don't know but I'd imagine a lot of it is the latter. Have you tried a recent Nightly? Firefox is getting faster: http://www.techr
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by ancarda 9y ago
NAT is not a firewall or security solution. For one thing, it can be opened with UPnP.

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