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   by aorth 10y ago

   Adding another vote of confidence for running your own local DNS resolver with a block list. I use this script to generate a compatible hosts list for unbound: https://github.com/jodrell/unbound-block-hosts It's n
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   Bootstrap 4 Alpha 3(blog.getbootstrap.com)

   3 points by aorth 10y ago|0 comments
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   by aorth 10y ago

   Damning. Another report from April, 2016 about fraud in the Democratic primaries favoring Hillary Clinton. https://medium.com/@spencergundert/hillary-clinton-and-elect...
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   by aorth 10y ago

   I identify with "liberal" politics and parts of Thiel's RNC speech resonated with me, but I'm wondering if those parts were lost on the RNC's target demographic. For example: he says we should have gone to Mars inst
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   by aorth 10y ago

   I'm American and I lived and worked in Kenya (as a Linux sysadmin) for over eight years until recently. There were rumors of this sort of "Kenyanization" happening for years. I think this move is a mistake, and only serves as
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   by aorth 10y ago

   I dunno, I find they do it a bit differently. I usually tag in Picard first, then beets. shrug
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   by aorth 10y ago

   Beets is awesome. For tagging I also use MusicBrainz Picard. Which music app do you stream beets to? I didn't like Tomahawk. https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
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   by aorth 10y ago

   It's a shame that the browser support for Opus isn't great yet. Hopefully that changes soon. I still recommend VP9 video + Vorbis audio for now. http://caniuse.com/#feat=webm
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   by aorth 10y ago

   The article highlights Dollar Shave Club's 2012 introduction video[0], which is funny and fantastically frames the reality of the razor market. I don't know why I missed this a few years ago... [0] https://www.youtube.c
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Yeah, and the Rwandan government was likely a customer of Hacking Team. Many documents in the Hacking Team email leak mention Rwanda: https://search.wikileaks.org/?query=Rwanda&exact_phrase=&any...
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    by aorth 10y ago

    DNS!
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    by aorth 10y ago

    I had commented below that I am using the unofficial Mac OS X builds[0] of the 2.9.x branch for a year or so now. Works great for my occasional amateur editing needs. [0] http://www.partha.com/
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Great to see a new release on the 2.9.x branch. I've been using the unofficial McGimp builds[0] for a year or so and I can highly recommend them (if only because there are no official Mac OS X builds from the GIMP team). [0] http:&#x2
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    Shrinking PNG Images with Quantization(ariya.io)

    2 points by aorth 10y ago|0 comments
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    by aorth 10y ago

    It would be cool to have a Bulgarian version of the US Government's 18F: https://18f.gsa.gov/ They have public standards for government websites, server HTTPS configs, website user interfaces, etc. On GitHub! https:&#
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Jane Goodall's book "Harvest for Hope" had some great statistics about the amount of water alone required to raise a kilogram of beef compared to chicken, rice, etc. I read it over ten years ago but I remember the numbers bei
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    by aorth 10y ago

    It would even be nice to have a more modern kernel on regular AOSP Nexuses, not just alternative ROMs! But I'm not entirely sure this is for phones. Brillo itself places more emphasis "embedded" and "internet of things
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Perhaps, but Nigeria is a disaster waiting to happen. Their economy is dangerously dependent on crude petroleum exports[0] (second only to Saudi Arabia, I guess). This, along with them having destroyed 95% of their forests[1] in the last fe
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Just in case anyone else doesn't know what a "quant" is: quantitative analyst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analyst
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Link is obfuscated and shortened. Should be changed to target URL: https://blog.containership.io/containers-vs-config-managemen...
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Hah! I noticed the same thing. I woke up and immediately went to XE currency app on Android to check the rate of GBP, but the app is having issues and even crashed once.
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    by aorth 10y ago

    There's a clean and simple HackerNews reader for Android, iOS, and Web using React Native. Works pretty well. The developer even blogged about his experience making the app for all platforms. It is called HackerWeb: https://
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    HowTo: Privacy and Security Conscious Browsing(gist.github.com)

    1 points by aorth 10y ago|0 comments
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Also, Christo was born in Bulgaria and "Христо" is a pretty popular name there (and is a reference to Jesus, of course). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude
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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

    From the announcement (because I was confused): You have been able to request Pages sites over HTTPS for some time, but we refrained from officially supporting it because the traffic from our CDN to our servers wasn't encrypted until n
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Indeed! Though one example of a big company who has (notoriously) zero presence on any social networks would be Apple.
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Super annoying and sleezy of Facebook, but basically they are doing what Google already does with Analytics. Completely unsurprising. Anyways, as a technically competent, privacy aware user, the first thing I do on a new installation of Chr
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    by aorth 10y ago

    What could possibly go wrong? :)
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    OpenRefine is a powerful tool for working with messy data(openrefine.org)

    4 points by aorth 10y ago|0 comments