billpg

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721.
by billpg 9y ago
Why does WHOIS need someone's phone number anyway? I didn't have a phone number between 1993 and 1998 and I would have liked to have had a domain back then. (I almost did buy one, except they were too expensive back then.)
722.
by billpg 9y ago
I went with Windows Phone. http://blog.hackensplat.com/2017/10/windowsphone.html
723.
by billpg 9y ago
I switched away from Android phones in the "Stagefright" aftermath. My device was only three years old but the only response to my requests for an update was "Get a new device". So I did.
724.
by billpg 9y ago
How are the groups-of-100 at each level organized? Is this plan vulnerable to gerrymandering? My (possibly naive) fix is to allow people at each level to join any group-of-100, as long as the size remains at 100. (For one to join, one has t
725.
by billpg 9y ago
A "penny" might have meant an old penny, or 1/240 GBP.
726.
by billpg 9y ago
Suppose I develop a website that uses basic authentication. Because this is 2018, I store my user's passwords using bcrypt/scrypt/PBKDF2/et al. Every single request supplies the claimed password in the clear (wrapped in
727.
by billpg 9y ago
I use this to test flags. A flag may look fine when flat and still, but it has to work and be recognizable under windy conditions too.
728.
Online flag waver(krikienoid.github.io)
98 points by billpg 9y ago|38 comments
729.
Is your API broken?(blog.hackensplat.com)
2 points by billpg 9y ago|0 comments
730.
by billpg 9y ago
So I can stop paying those bills the web-hosting company keeps bugging me about?
731.
by billpg 9y ago
Just wait until you hear about Javascript and C#.
732.
by billpg 9y ago
The first rule of Brexit Club is that bad things are never the fault of Brexit - but always someone else's fault. Those damn remoaners talking Britain down, they caused Maplin to fail!
733.
by billpg 9y ago
The benefits of Brexit... They just keep never starting!
734.
by billpg 9y ago
"At this time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before around eight o’clock"
735.
by billpg 9y ago
I once "won" SC2K when all my launch arcologies took off. However, I was busy fixing the city's plumbing (the buildings are hidden so you can deal with the pipework) and I missed it. I tried switching mode but it wouldn'
736.
by billpg 9y ago
Shouldn't this behavior be explicitly enabled, defaulting to disallowing it? Or do I need to tag all my links with a long series of "Don't allow this crazy thing", "Or that other thing", etc.
737.
by billpg 9y ago
Can I do HTTP over DNS over HTTP over DNS over HTTP over DNS over HTTP over DNS over HTTP over DNS?
738.
ASCIIFlow Infinity(asciiflow.com)
368 points by billpg 9y ago|56 comments
739.
by billpg 9y ago
My unsolicited comments. I really want to see a good JSON-done-right out there and your spec is maybe 90% there. I'd rather only /* */ comments were allowed. By allowing //, you've now got two varieties of whit
740.
Why I willingly bought a Windows Phone(blog.hackensplat.com)
1 points by billpg 9y ago|0 comments
741.
by billpg 9y ago
Ah yes, the company that make Axe/Lynx, they're all about empowering women.
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Why I willingly bought a Windows Phone(blog.hackensplat.com)
3 points by billpg 9y ago|0 comments
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Windows 10 Mobile to be supported through December 2019 at least(onmsft.com)
1 points by billpg 9y ago|0 comments
744.
by billpg 9y ago
I'd mock, but my own country's people are doggedly refusing to give up our own traditional units too.
745.
by billpg 9y ago
Decades ago, I wrote a very simple operating system. It was an MSDOS EXE that when run, took over all available memory and rewrote all the interrupt vectors. You couldn't "exit" back to DOS because by then it had gone - you c
746.
by billpg 9y ago
No. You can't even use MAC white-listing to prevent unauthorized devices from connecting to your access point.
747.
by billpg 9y ago
I'm going to interpret your comment as high praise. If you object to that interpretation, I'll dismiss your objection as just an argument over semantics. :)
748.
by billpg 9y ago
That's bad advice. http://blog.hackensplat.com/2013/09/never-sanitize-your-inpu...
749.
by billpg 9y ago
Is this when I get to complain about operating systems that allow spaces in filenames which also have a shell language that makes it difficult to use those files?
750.
by billpg 9y ago
Badly.

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