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by creeble 8y ago
Indeed. Our app once required location permissions because - get this - a webkit view used for settings used jQuery, which did some kind of screen orientation thing that somehow required location be turned on from the app. I think a jQuery
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by creeble 8y ago
Because it often doesn't work right, and there's no way to tell. One of the most common complaints we get is that things "are slow to start" or that "I click and it's slow to respond". After long and expen
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by creeble 8y ago
This is easy to say until you've found yourself supporting 10s of thousands of devices across the world and are the guy support calls when people complain about (what turns out to be) broken DNS servers at hundreds of ISPs. People who
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by creeble 8y ago
Well... Paul Mockepetris may not agree with that. But he's also the kind of guy who wouldn't mind.
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by creeble 8y ago
Been there too, sad to say. We haven't gone so far as to hard-code DNS servers yet, but it's shocking how bad some ISPs' DNS support can be. There should be a better way to fight it, but I fear Google may win here because I h
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by creeble 8y ago
How is compromising SWIFT credentials different than compromising a private key?
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by creeble 8y ago
Exactly true. The point of a blockchain is trust. If it is controlled by a single party, its sole value collapses. Except marketing value.
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by creeble 8y ago
But there is no reason for it to cost more than a private blockchain solution.
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by creeble 8y ago
Unless the miners or mining groups collectively decide to fork. I found it interesting that one of the first things that happened as bitcoin grew was the creation of mining collectives - literally the opposite of decentralization.
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by creeble 8y ago
I do think he contradicts that sentence in the following one: > ...and criminals who want a black-market way to exchange money. So not "useless" but of questionable value. But I believe bitcoin will probably never go away for t
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by creeble 8y ago
I don't read it as making a case for human systems over bitcoin. He is simply pointing out that bitcoin (and all cryptocurrencies) are more of a human system than the true believers believe.
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by creeble 8y ago
Wow -- I wonder what data they're going to collect once they're Amazon. Need a canary for https://eero.com/legal/privacy . Look for the string "URI" or "URL" to see when they start collec
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by creeble 8y ago
$8/trip is less than the average Lyft or Uber ride. The problem with transportation and measuring 'trips' (in the US anyway) is the huge geographical diversity. My take on Ben-Evans post is that you are fooling yourself to be
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by creeble 8y ago
It doesn't enable operators to install a large number of micro-cells, it requires it. And this is where I think 5G may end up being disappointing. I think telcos will encounter increased resistance to putting up millions of microce
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by creeble 8y ago
+1 these, I wish they were default for git. Much better both for beginners and experienced users.
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by creeble 8y ago
I still credit the Rickenbacker "frying pan" as it predated Fender's black log by over 10 years. But the Esquire was the first mass-produced electric solid-body guitar designed to be played like a regular acoustic, standing u
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by creeble 8y ago
How about your computer? Here’s a parallel construct: It would be trivial for Microsoft to have a key logger in Windows that sent every keystroke to Redmond. Why does anyone trust that they are not doing it? Indeed, they could scan your c
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by creeble 8y ago
I call it Misplaced Distrust. Every cellphone in the world has a microphone that could be listening all the time and sending data anywhere. So does most every computer. It's a better threat vector by 1000x, more stealthy, easier to con
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by creeble 8y ago
Nice friend! Do you search porn on their 'stray' computer while you're at it?
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by creeble 8y ago
Sad day. Time to start working on restoring my 2600, which I've owned aincw 1979. Many shorted tantalum caps. I miss it!
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by creeble 8y ago
I respect your position that "going full-crypto-Monty" may cause a crypto currency to be rejected by a society that values some rules, like anti-money-laundering. But crypto currencies were borne out of a distrust for banks and go
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by creeble 8y ago
You may reject the idea, but I don't see how it can be anything _other_ than what you describe as "financial anarchy". You either trust national governments and their KYC and AML laws, or you trust the crypto network and _its
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by creeble 8y ago
Give criminals time to adapt. Then they'll have to come up with a new genre. Would death metal actually _increase_ crime rates I wonder?
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by creeble 8y ago
I have frequently pondered the relationship between programming and laziness. Programmers do not like doing the same thing twice; it is axiomatic that whatever it is should be, e.g., a function call. Once this notion becomes deep-seated, pr
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by creeble 8y ago
How does a decentralized naming system work when names must both be unique and user-chosen?
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by creeble 8y ago
I don't get Musk's math on this one. Even if the tunnels were significantly cheaper than building new freeway lanes, a tunnel is a single lane, with single entry and exits. Ingress and egress overwhelm any gains from potential spe
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by creeble 8y ago
Still easy to do, even between a couple of hosts: https://imgur.com/DwbRfDs Embarassing, yes. Especially since it was ongoing for, um, months. nullmailer really likes to send mail. But some MTA's don't like to a
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by creeble 8y ago
Indeed. Plato's definition of politics is "the relationship between three or more people". That definition has served me well to remember over the years.
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by creeble 8y ago
I need to keep an old IBM Thinkpad alive with WinXP for its internal modem for the express purpose of... maintaining the DoorKing entry gate in our neighborhood. The gate installer charges $350 to make remote changes to the gate programming
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by creeble 8y ago
I don't really care why hard drives die either, but I like that, more often than not, I get some warning. SMART logs, or weird kernel complaints, in my experience, are frequent precursors. I'm a little scared about my new SSDs th

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