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by aorth 9y ago
Tarsnap for documents (rotated with tarsnapper), S3 reduced redundancy for Pictures (JPG + RAW).
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by aorth 9y ago
Cool! Clearly it is inspired by Muzei for Android—you should at least give a shout out to them on your homepage.
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by aorth 9y ago
Nice! I see it's already available on Linode.
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by aorth 9y ago
I'm a long-time Linode customer as well, and over the years I've been scaling my services up but the pricing model is quite restrictive! I also need more disk space, but not necessarily RAM and CPU... For what it's worth Lino
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by aorth 9y ago
Same reason I won't buy a Kindle! Oh, what Android is this? Can I root it? I wonder if I could upgrade it. Etc etc. So I'm all for low-tech paper books.
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by aorth 9y ago
> Uber sent emails to driver training them on avoiding detection (e.g. When at airport take down phone; have drivers sit up front; etc...). This is literally my interaction with Uber drivers in Jordan. Originally just a convenience (av
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by aorth 9y ago
It's only "fake" in that the real Handbrake doesn't need to install extra codecs—it's a real authentication dialog. They are just hoping to catch the user off guard and unaware so they can install the persistent mal
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by aorth 9y ago
I've been using Kolab for personal mail for a few years. No complaints, but no raving reviews either. There is downtime for a few hours once or twice a year, but I haven't missed any emails or anything that I know about. It's
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by aorth 10y ago
Small, non-technical pet peeve: they repeatedly spell GitHub as Github.
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by aorth 10y ago
That PPA looks pretty outdated—I recommend using the one provided by nginx itself. Note, though, that none of these builds will (even the official ones) will have TLSv1.3 support as this needs the yet-to-be-released OpenSSL 1.1.1, which no
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by aorth 10y ago
> Before rolling it out, Google asked Warner [CelebrityNetWorth.com] if they could scrape his data and credit him. Warner declined, but Google did it anyway. Money quote. Google's rich snippets are friendly to users, but hostile t
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by aorth 10y ago
There are ads that serve malware, for example. It has happened on reputable websites, like Forbes and New York Times. https://www.extremetech.com/internet/220696-forbes-forces-re...
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by aorth 10y ago
Yes, the Samsung Internet application is recently (early 2017) available on Nexus devices as well. It's actually a great browser—Chromium under the hood, but supports content blockers, and is much smoother than Chrome itself. I've
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by aorth 10y ago
> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by aorth 10y ago
Fantastic article (though not sure it belongs on Hacker News)! Makes me want to subscribe to The New Yorker. And wow, just look at the amazing descender on "Sayyid Qutb".
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by aorth 10y ago
> On the other hand, you can go to Russia or Bulgaria and quickly find your way around. One can even argue that this opens up your views, so when you see Greek for the first time, it doesn't look like a bunch of weird characters Y
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by aorth 10y ago
None of those links work...
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by aorth 10y ago
No.
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by aorth 10y ago
The trailer for his movie Gray State (beware: graphic violence, flashes) is here: https://youtu.be/Gy7FVXERKFE
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by aorth 10y ago
Title is misleading. Should be "Is Congress browsing GovTrack.us?" From their FAQ: > This page is a public record of any time someone visits GovTrack.us from within the United States Senate, House of Representatives, or the Wh
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by aorth 10y ago
Yeah, super annoying. Quick trick is to copy the URL and search for it on Google—sites like FT allow traffic that comes referred from search engines like Google.
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by aorth 10y ago
I've heard El Al is especially paranoid, but I had a pretty horrible experience flying out of Tel Aviv with Wizz Air in 2017-02 where Israeli security asked me tens of questions on several different points during my navigation through
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by aorth 10y ago
Yes! I imagine being like, "Damn, I always wanted to see Venice when it was snowing, but alas it was sunny during my short visit."
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by aorth 10y ago
According to a link about performance from a comment above, Wise Banyan has done pretty well over the last three years. https://senzu.io/investing/robo-advisors
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by aorth 10y ago
The alternative is to stop checking the facts constantly. See this article about disabiling "infinity apps" on your phone. https://medium.com/time-dorks/the-distraction-free-iphone-or...
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by aorth 10y ago
What is a sticker pack and why do you need to buy them?
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by aorth 10y ago
I also use this and prefer it to DNS66 because I can use a hosts file rather than just changing the DNS server. Both work well though. Oh, and both are open source!
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VMware Becomes Linux Foundation Gold Member(linuxfoundation.org)
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by aorth 10y ago
> Mine starts at birth, in San Diego. [...]. I realized that California didn’t belong to me soon after moving out East. I was also born and raised in San Diego, but left ten years ago, and it feels weirder and weirder every time I go b
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by aorth 10y ago
Scroll Tracking, Engagement Tracking (riveted.js), Outbound Link Tracking and lots of other things that are not in the default GA setup. I understand why a site owner would want those things, but as a user it is terrifying! This is

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