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by bjacobel 10y ago
Anything you do like this to "customize" the default Tor Browser install can reduce your privacy instead, as it provides a factor by which you can be fingerprinted and differentiated from the larger base of users using the Tor Bro
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by bjacobel 10y ago
This is a Wikipedia article and as such not "news," in my opinion. Reddit is a better place to post this type of content.
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Perhaps consider that coming on here and being condescending about the impact your own browsing habits have on the web experience of your (very small, but very vocal) JavaScript-disabling demographic makes the rest of us web developers real
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Whoa, that's awesome. I'm familiar with that forum thread (haha) but I didn't realize there'd been a response on it from an AWS employee just in the last couple of weeks.
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Besides the performance benefits (roughly 40% according to some test cases[1]), the HTTP/2 feature I'm the most excited about is server push, which should save many many TCP roundtrips. It solves the use case of the sort-of-gross
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Looks like isthewebhttp2yet.com, isn't HTTP/2 yet. $> curl --head http://isthewebhttp2yet.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-amz-id-2: GXE1k2FX9Wmpzdjer4hI7lmA7LK/Znlo6dN6/qUdOVSjb95g+VaDGL6EB6QODo+cv3QNkvTZ
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by bjacobel 11y ago
Airmail for OSX has a PGP extension available.
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by bjacobel 11y ago
This is amazing.
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by bjacobel 11y ago
Wow, they couldn't even wait until the San Bernandino test case was resolved. Baffling to me why the FBI wouldn't wait on this second case, it clearly undermines the legitimacy of their "it's just this one terrorist&#x27
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by bjacobel 11y ago
What part of the original tweet suggested an outright ban on white male applicants?
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by bjacobel 11y ago
Those darn feminists, always getting so offended by innocent comments from the fine, upstanding folk on 4chan.
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by bjacobel 11y ago
> maybe it's time to hand this over before law enforcement wants even more which will doubtless pave the way for mass surveillance of devices. The FBI is already paving that way with this case. They don't overly care about acce
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by bjacobel 11y ago
There's really not much reason to use StartSSL now that Let's Encrypt, AWS Certificate Manager and others offer free certs with vastly better support, tooling and interfaces.
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by bjacobel 11y ago
Multiple high-level execs left Twitter about two weeks ago - four at once. http://recode.net/2016/01/24/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-confirm...
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by bjacobel 11y ago
Location: Boston/Cambridge, MA, US Remote: Yes Relocate: No Technologies: ES6/React, Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, Go Resume: https://bjacobel.com/resume Email: brian at bjacobel.com Looking for work as a f
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by bjacobel 11y ago
Not much detail here. A more thorough postmortem would give me more confidence they can recover from another similar issue. Hoping to see one soon.
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by bjacobel 11y ago
"Yet"? We should be moving away from Flash, not towards it.
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by bjacobel 11y ago
CHF 30 (approx $30 USD) is quite steep for the base offering, compared to US-based providers (DO, Linode, AWS). What specific guarantees do I have regarding data privacy that I wouldn't get of I hosted in the US? That's something
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by bjacobel 11y ago
Correct, HSTS is a header that is passed by nginx/Apache/whatever combined with a hard coded list shipped with your browser. You need SSL for HSTS to work, but the SSL vendor you choose doesn't have any bearing on being able
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by bjacobel 11y ago
This is Uber's vision and the reason they're aggressively poaching roboticists from academia. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/uber-would-lik...
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by bjacobel 11y ago
Yeah, simply.
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by bjacobel 11y ago
> simply Browse the FEC website for contributions from oil & coal companies to 2016 candidates. That's why it won't be simple.
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by bjacobel 11y ago
> Overall, we have had little traction on the platform and that is because the idea will result in a huge cultural change so it will take a lot of effort to mobilize customers to try it out. Or it's a bad idea and nobody wants the p
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by bjacobel 11y ago
I believe this story is on-topic because it contains an interesting sidebar about how Facebook's feature for letting friends/family know you're safe was activated for Paris, but not for Beirut. That's an issue of privile
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by bjacobel 11y ago
Business customers of LastPass Enterprise and TeamPassword probably disagree.
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by bjacobel 11y ago
The ability to explore and analyze campaign finance data on a website that actually works (I don't know if anyone else has ever tried to use the old FEC site...) is a huge step in being able to name and shame abuses of money in politic
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by bjacobel 11y ago
There are many reasons a business might choose to develop a web-wrapped iOS application besides not having the "bankroll to pay for native devs."
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by bjacobel 11y ago
"However, exhibits displayed during the defense’s opening arguments show supposed emails from Brandon Mercer, Keys’ ex-boss, saying, “If you bill a thousand dollars an hour, that will help us get it prosecuted,” suggested the governmen
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by bjacobel 11y ago
> the attackers used it to modify stories _A_ story. For 40 minutes. The prosecution couldn't even prove anyone saw the story in that time.
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by bjacobel 11y ago
I hope DraftKings and FanDuel followed the advice of a post on HN a few days ago [1] and made (i.e., didn't re-invest) some money along the way. Something tells me they're going the way of online poker in the US very soon. [1]: h

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