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by apostacy 9y ago
You should always be weary of forced updates. People should really know never to trust software when it tries updating.
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by apostacy 9y ago
You are not taking into account that Nintendo is not a small startup, or an individual. I always go out of my way to help people who need it. I've always found people who've lost cell phones, and I have returned incorrectly shippe
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by apostacy 9y ago
I disagree. The company is now imposing on you for something that is absolutely not your responsibility. They have money set aside for losses like this. It sounds like Nintendo should ask the courier company to fix things, not you. In a way
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by apostacy 9y ago
Some will point out (and some have!) that I could have quite easily saved myself a lot of time, hassle, and lost earnings at this point by just quietly holding on to the extra Switch and saying nothing to Nintendo about it. It certainly wo
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by apostacy 9y ago
I would like to point out also, that many people who would be described as "skinny" would almost never become obese. Neither would they be able to put on much muscle mass. It is a huge misconception that our bodies are just blank
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by apostacy 9y ago
So? 99% of my use of ftp or telnet are for internal network use. And if I must telnet somewhere, I know to use a tunnel. Or my traffic doesn't need to be encrypted. Why not remove netcat, as well? It opens unencrypted sockets. Or perha
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by apostacy 9y ago
I still don't see how Warner Bros could not have used exactly the same justification to DMCA streamers to cover up their defective product. That's exactly what Samsung did to people making jokes about their exploding phones. [1]
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by apostacy 9y ago
I'm confused. It appears that the justification for this DMCA was that they felt that PewDiePie was making their product look bad. Are you really allowed to DMCA anything that makes your product look bad? Because that would surely incl
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by apostacy 9y ago
Apple are the ones who are arrogant and disingenuous. It would be easy enough to waterproof the headphone jack, and there is otherwise no serious technical impediment to having one. Apple is just trying to kill off the open standard headpho
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by apostacy 9y ago
Thank you for sharing this. These are exactly the types of pain points where Mozilla could distinguish itself.
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by apostacy 9y ago
Well I happen to agree with your sentiments. I've been meaning to make a fork of homebrew that doesn't have these problems. You should checkout out tigerbrew.
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by apostacy 9y ago
I noticed that when I tried ordering food off www.seamless.com, I could put together an order, but the checkout process would fail in the final step. It turns out, it was because I had blocked *.facebook.com. I do not like that major websit
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by apostacy 9y ago
My experience has been that ISPs are downright dishonest about it. AT&T and Verizon have both lied to me about how their locked down crummy routers are superior, which isn't true.
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by apostacy 9y ago
It looks like it uses Windows. I made something like this a long time ago in bash, for Linux. It used a vncserver to drive the phone auxiliary display. The wonderful thing about the Linux desktop is how flexible it is. Especially when you u
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by apostacy 9y ago
Um, Facebook can arbitrarily lock out your account and demand a scan of government issued ID. It happened to a friend of mine. I think there is only a small step to the government working with Facebook to do this in the name of keeping peop
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by apostacy 9y ago
I think that many of the changes that Mozilla has made to Firefox that people in this thread are complaining about may not have directly driven away a large number of users, but, they indicate a serious problem with decision making within M
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by apostacy 9y ago
Myspace was an XSS playground. You could embed javascript into anyone's profile, by leaving a flash applet (or for that matter a java applet) in a comment, and having it do an openurl to a javascript: url, which would execute in the co
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by apostacy 9y ago
Actually, I'm gonna try https://grr.la/ryo/
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by apostacy 9y ago
I wrote something in node.js that does exactly this. But I have only used it for personal use. I'm honestly surprised that nobody has done this already. Right now it just silently drops expired addresses. But it is so satisfying to thi
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by apostacy 9y ago
I hate to be insensitive to people, but, it is important to point these things out when the message will hit hardest. I remember, a long long time ago, someone I knew had just ripped his massive compact disc collection to his Windows comput
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by apostacy 9y ago
Chase.com is one of the worst. The desktop version of the site does all sorts of browser fingerprinting with javascript. It does things like tries opening up websockets to random local ports, and stuff like that. I had to just throw up my h
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by apostacy 9y ago
I think that the problem is just that the people making these decisions are not security experts, but web designers.
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by apostacy 9y ago
I totally agree with you. Unfortunately, it is becoming culturally acceptable to push destructive updates on users. Dropbox for Linux downloads and installs new binaries and unlinks the old ones. Of course Chrome does this. Firefox does it
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by apostacy 9y ago
I'm so delighted, I started on a similar browser project a few weeks ago. It actually started because I wanted to inject javascript into youtube.com to re-enable videos to be played in the background again, and it was just a simple wra
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by apostacy 9y ago
Still allows through recurring payments though
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by apostacy 9y ago
What I've found, is that every virtual credit card provider has to try to process recurring payments, even if that virtual credit card is depleted, kind of defeating a big use of virtual credit cards. I am sure that this is something t
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by apostacy 9y ago
I'd love to collapse all of my recurring payments into a monthly report, that I can review and authorize. This is exactly the thing banks are suited to handle. It would also be cool if a bank could abstract bill payments for me, where
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by apostacy 9y ago
I use entropay.com, which lets you create virtual credit cards, and pre-charge them. And if the account runs out of money, the transaction is declined, and the merchant has no way to get your money after that. As a warning, there are some p
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by apostacy 9y ago
> Where, how? I've never heard of someone needing a Facebook account for credit and any employer asking for your Facebook profile is a huge red flag. Here[1]. Saying "wasted" as a status update can affect a credit score. A
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by apostacy 9y ago
Unfortunately, it kind of is becoming that way. Facebook is becoming a de-facto public utility. The phone and telegraph companies started out as "optional" services. If you didn't like the telegraph company arbitrarily blocki

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