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by blfr 8y ago
This is true and always alarming to see on someone's monitor but TST makes browsing better even if you don't have hundreds of tabs. Whenever I'm researching or buying something, having tabs ordered in the parent/child tr
902.
by blfr 8y ago
This is, sadly, an accurate comment. Although to be fair to Google, they ported snoozing to regular Gmail and polished the UI a little.
903.
by blfr 8y ago
I managed to get invoices paid simply by calling and emailing a duplicate. Sometimes these are complexities of large organizations, sometimes laziness that needs a jolt to action, and even among crooks there are levels of crookdom.
904.
by blfr 8y ago
Yes but saving a few pennies is not how industrial civilization got rich. Mass manufactured goods are orders of magnitude cheaper than their hand-crafted equivalents.
905.
by blfr 8y ago
Calmly and shortly stating what happened and how you want it remedied is an all around great and underrated strategy for dealing with any organization and even individual relationships. Many people don't get what they want simply becau
906.
by blfr 8y ago
It's not stupidity. It's distrust. They don't believe there isn't some backchannel for the regular government (the executive mostly) to influence a court ruling when it really needs to.
907.
by blfr 8y ago
China’s economy is at a tenuous juncture in its development and that shocks potentially threaten the achievement of key goals Say what you want about Trump but he knows when he has leverage. It can hardly be lost on the Chinese that Cana
908.
by blfr 8y ago
Peasants were obligated to provide some services to the nobility, and sometimes taxed in nature, but real taxes were either from monopolies or the landowners. It's like saying that really consumers are being taxed here because they are
909.
by blfr 8y ago
Taxes were always paid by those who could bear them. Nobility and landowners in the past, AmaGooBookSoft today. It could well be motivated by envy. But it can't be any other way because you can only effectively tax people who have the
910.
by blfr 8y ago
I didn't disagree with your original comment by I do disagree with the follow-up. It's neither a distraction, nor a fallacy. First, our computing devices do not protect our privacy and security sufficiently. It's a general pr
911.
by blfr 8y ago
I don't. The only one I know is using Tor Browser without any customization, without even changing the windows size, because it makes you look like every other Tor Browser user. However, it comes with a fairly long list of downsides: l
912.
by blfr 8y ago
Maybe. OTOH, how many people who share your IP addresses use the same browser, OS, and block JS? Unless you're using a vanilla Tor Browser, you will probably stand out. And if you are, 'tptacek will tell you how it's a bad
913.
by blfr 8y ago
While you make good points about mobile apps, don't be too spoiled by the privacy offered by destop browsers. Because of their configuration and various APIs, they're almost as easy to fingerprint as mobile devices with advertisin
914.
by blfr 8y ago
Where are the torrent links? Anyway, There are more paid tracking SDKs in the wild and probably more invasive than Facebook's. For example, in Poland there is a service called Cluify which supposedly tracks millions of phones to then t
915.
by blfr 8y ago
Back in the day you would use grsecurity. It was very impressive. It pre-empted virtually every bug you'd hear about. It has gone private/premium since. Nowadays perhaps you can achieve the same with SELinux or AppArmor?
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by blfr 8y ago
Since people are recommending other projects of this kind, allow me to throw in https://hashbang.sh/ which is IMHO the slickest one. freeshell.de, however, has this great oldschool feel without being too crowded. Very hipst
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by blfr 8y ago
They both thoroughly deserve the bashing they're receiving. In fact, they're getting off easy.
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by blfr 8y ago
Maybe but nowadays you can use mosh[1] and it's not an issue any more. [1] https://mosh.org/
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by blfr 8y ago
This seems great. How did I not know this. Trying it out right away. EDIT: I adjusted it a little to have fewer repetitions per second but lowering the delay is amazing. What a great thing to find in your HN stocking. Merry Christmas!
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Small stupid things that make up my dev environment(rachelbythebay.com)
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921.
by blfr 8y ago
Sure but that is also true of a domain name.
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by blfr 8y ago
There are others which aren't listed there, like OVH (the largest European hosting company). The dearth of banks is real though. And sad. I have only seen client-side certificates used twice. Once at now infamous StartSSL and second at
923.
by blfr 8y ago
Yeah, we barely allow people to make money on anything else than hacking brains.
924.
by blfr 8y ago
Interesting thing is that antidepressant use rised despite antidepressant being mostly ineffective Except for antibiotics and simple surgeries, which are basically miracles on demand, most medical treatments don't offer great odds. A
925.
by blfr 8y ago
I'm all for burning Facebook to the ground but the rise in the use of antidepressants started well before modern social media. It does look associated with alienation, so does travelling alone, but social media use is probably a result
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by blfr 8y ago
No, the right way is U2F. You touch a dongle and you're in. And there's no way to steal your key without physically getting the dongle.
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by blfr 8y ago
She was convicted of defamation with actual malice. "Too trusting" doesn't even begin to describe the hoax she pulled off.
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by blfr 8y ago
Sabrina Erdely wrote for perhaps the biggest market in the world, with near complete freedom to choose where and what to report. It's unfair to malign smaller market journalists. Some, and I bet not few, journalists go into this profes
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by blfr 8y ago
Obviously, the environment matters. It's not just culture but geography, history, genetics. It's much easier to run a free country when you're surrounded by oceans (like the US) or mountains (like Switzerland) than when you&#
930.
by blfr 8y ago
Theoretical arguments are incredibly overrated for complex systems. Usually, they're just ways for academics to signal their ability to make these arguments, to show off how smart they are, and of little utility otherwise. You need to

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