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by csnover 5y ago
As just one example, if you live in an area where it is difficult to get dietary Vitamin A, you might enjoy the benefits of not going blind due to Vitamin A deficiency by eating Golden Rice[0]. Have you ever eaten a SweeTango apple? It is o
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by csnover 5y ago
Outlook definitely engage in aggressive blocking of netranges, but I’m pretty sure they don’t use UCEPROTECT to do this since I’ve seen servers caught in Outlook netrange blocks despite all the public RBLs (including UCEPROTECTL3) showing n
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Fortunately for the author, I haven’t noticed any email servers that use the UCEPROTECTL3 RBLs to reject mail—which is to say, I’ve noticed some servers I administer end up on UCEPROTECTL3 incidentally and it has never caused a delivery pro
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Defending America’s status quo by saying “choice = good” is one of the crazier things that comes up in these discussions. A person on Original Medicare today has much more choice because there is no “in network”. All physicians[0] and h
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by csnover 5y ago
When Mozilla started making big changes to tracking protection, somewhere around versions 86-90, I started noticing all sorts of broken credential management stuff, and I wonder if this is just another manifestation of that. With strict ETP
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Drawn Apart: Device Identification Technique Based on Remote GPU Fingerprinting(orenlab.sise.bgu.ac.il)
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On mobile, there is a “Share Feedback” in the hamburger menu; on desktop, there is an almost invisible “Share Feedback” button in the bottom-right corner which disappears if your screen isn’t wide enough. (It seems to me like they don’t qui
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by csnover 5y ago
The punycode representation of the domain name is the “true” representation, HN just doesn’t detect that and convert it from punycode to Unicode. This may be unintentional, or it may be to avoid homoglyph attacks.
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by csnover 5y ago
Previous discussion, with more background on this change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29479114
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Quite a few examples of this aesthetic can be found on Brutalist Websites[0]. (Be forewarned, the Brutalist Websites site itself is brutal in a different way: it tries to load hundreds of high-res screenshots all at once.) [0] https:/
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Brutalist Websites(brutalistwebsites.com)
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I would personally argue that as the amount of money and time required for distribution has gone down, the duration of copyright should also go down. 14+14 years was the first federal rule in the United States, and that was in an era where
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It was interesting for me to learn how this process happened in Copenhagen and Groningen in the 1960s and 1970s—people were angry, they protested, made death threats.[0] So it seems like re-pedestrianising areas has always made some people
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by csnover 5y ago
In the United States, the 2021 DMCA anti-circumvention exemptions do include this case[0]: > (17)(i) Video games in the form of computer programs embodied in physical or downloaded formats that have been lawfully acquired as complete gam
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by csnover 5y ago
This is a great guide. The “data is king” message is hard to overstate. Some other bits and pieces not mentioned that could be helpful for beginners, from my own personal experience, that I hope show up in later parts: • Know the calling co
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Hi, Minneapolitan here. I try not to wade into these sorts of discussions because it is usually unproductive or even counterproductive, but since you have expressed a sincere interest in talking about the facts of the situation, here’s what
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by csnover 5y ago
Most of the arguments against the use of a CLA in this essay feel like legitimate but generic laments of the complexity surrounding software licensing and employment contracts, not actually relevant to whether or not most projects should ad
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by csnover 5y ago
These are all great points. Something else I would add to the list is that older software would often run using a busy loop[0]. This was ‘fine’ on contemporaneous CPUs that didn’t have any low-power modes, but on a modern CPU it means that
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by csnover 5y ago
I don’t know how many people know this, but the balances on Oyster cards are refundable[0], so it is possible that they would indeed need to pay it out. [0] https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/refunds-and-replacements/oyster-
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by csnover 5y ago
A news article I read today about electricity being cut off from New Orleans due to storm damage from Hurricane Ida mentioned that about half of the pumps for the city were powered using “an archaic standard”[0]. I was curious what that sta
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New Orleans Has Been Using Same Tech to Drain the City Since the 1910s (2017)(atlasobscura.com)
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> You create the private key on the client side so that you can encrypt it with a custom password before sending it to Backblaze. Their client is not designed this way. Their installer generates and sends the private key before the user
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I’m just telling you what their client actually does based on a previous analysis I conducted, not the claims of their documentation. The private key is auto-generated by the Backblaze Client installer and gets sent to their server at ins
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> you can encrypt your private key before sending it to them You can’t even do that ! Setting a PEK passphrase sends it to Backblaze. It has to[0]: your private key exists only on their servers. As you say, the entire feature is basical
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There are screenshots in an issue on their bug tracker[0]. This is an interesting project—Windows’s font rendering is definitely one of the things I dislike about it the most—and they are doing themselves a disservice by not actually explai
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Related: Designing a Better strcpy, from last month[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27537900
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I think you’re probably right about the performance (though I did typo ‘2021’ instead of ‘2020’, so the specific model you mention wasn’t available at the time). I do remember feeling very surprised that contemporary mid-range phones seemed
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by csnover 5y ago
The OP said old devices , not old OS versions . In other words, the lack of software support is the problem, not the hardware. I used a smartphone that was released in 2014 until the end of 2020. It worked perfectly fine, and would have c
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by csnover 5y ago
Many clinics offer free mental health screenings (also called needs assessments) so you don’t have to get hung up on deciding what ‘type’ of therapy to try—they will interview you and offer a recommendation based on what you’re having troub
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A (preprint) study published today by researchers at nference and the Mayo Clinic looked at the genetic variation of breakthrough infections versus infections in unvaccinated patients and found that the viruses in breakthrough cases had sig

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