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by danjoc 8y ago
Ultimately, this is going to end badly for advertisers. All ISPs block port 25. In < 5 years, all ISPs will provide PiHole functionality on their networks. "Net Neutrality" is gone. This is going to be glorious. Thank goodness
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by danjoc 8y ago
>The important thing about congestion pricing is that it makes mass transit competitive. The other important thing about congestion pricing (as described in the article) is that it completely destroys privacy.
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by danjoc 8y ago
>That's impossible. Everyone keeps telling me that Apple is dying. It's the reverse of a pump and dump scam. It has happened every quarter for the last 21 years. I honestly think it was something SJ cooked up. It started happen
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by danjoc 8y ago
Suddenly everyone cares about their dear Facebook cafeteria workers? https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Facebook-cafeteria-worke... People cheating on their income taxes to the tune of thousands of dollars a year
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by danjoc 8y ago
Buyers may not know or care, but retailers do. Anyone can report that Amazon link shared earlier and Amazon will remove it as it is not spec compliant. Those type adapters are also non-existent at basically every electronics brick-and-morta
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by danjoc 8y ago
>Chrome has banned WebUSB from claiming Security Keys Since when? Is this extension now broken? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smart-card-connect...
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by danjoc 8y ago
>Wrong! No, sorry, you are wrong. https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/UFCHbSDRa2o
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by danjoc 8y ago
>But we're implementing the W3C Web Authentication (webauthn) spec and you can already use it in Chrome in place of U2F. How are users going to differentiate between a webauthn permission request and a webusb permission request? The
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by danjoc 8y ago
USB-C is not backward compatible to USB-A. There's no way to plug a USB-C key into a computer with only USB-A ports. If you need to work with both ports, USB-A is the only game in town. The C to A adapters are not compliant with USB-C
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The worst truism in information security(alexgaynor.net)
15 points by danjoc 8y ago|2 comments
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by danjoc 8y ago
>The situation is likely worse on mobile. You might think so, but not really. Any app you install on Android can watch what you do online in any other app, with no permissions at all. https://hackernoon.com/android-gives-
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by danjoc 8y ago
That's from the maintainer of pypi. Pypi shipped SSH Decorator with malware that stole SSH keys. Another case that would have been entirely preventable with package signing. I've concluded they don't know what they're do
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by danjoc 8y ago
org.simplify4u.plugins:pgpverify-maven-plugin works well for me. But here we are. There's multiple ways to verify package authenticity with maven. There isn't even signatures in NPM. NPM is belligerently against end user security.
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Golang jumps into Top 10(hntrends.com)
3 points by danjoc 8y ago|0 comments
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by danjoc 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12924051
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by danjoc 9y ago
Well regulated means regulation size rounds. Obvious bias is obvious.
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by danjoc 9y ago
>Having written services professionally in Java I have seen performance scale linearly with connections, until one day it suddenly spikes massively - why? I'm going to guess: lack of load testing. Something I imagine you still need
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by danjoc 9y ago
>are we no violating their copyright just by implementing their API? OpenJDK is GPL. If you comply with GPL, no. This is the problem, Google copied and did not comply with the GPL. Their other option was to pay Oracle/Sun a licensin
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by danjoc 9y ago
Good. Initially, I thought the API decision was a bad one, but now I think the courts got it right. If you've ever wrestled long with getting a program to compile, you realize it's non-trivial to wrap your brain around complex typ
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by danjoc 9y ago
>the issue would be if it were provided by a foreign entity without compensation so that it is essentially a campaign donation Have you ever tried to write off open source work as a donation? I don't think this works the way you wan
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by danjoc 9y ago
"There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America's elections" --Barrack Obama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7F7eRM1oiU
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by danjoc 9y ago
I can always tell who doesn't understand software total cost of ownership. They always think the great cost is in creation. Long term maintainers are much harder to come by than short term job hoppers. As Linus said, BSD is great for c
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by danjoc 9y ago
Vacuuming up your data is intentional. Google Android. Don't like it? Use/build AOSP derivatives.
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by danjoc 9y ago
Snapchat should be on notice. They're in the same business. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-yaverbaum/is-snapchat-pe...
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by danjoc 9y ago
>This law is not good for the internet. It's not bad or good. It's new rules, and people will figure out how to play by them. If hosts become more liable for what people say, maybe we all go back to self hosting. In my opinion,
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by danjoc 9y ago
Manufactured outrage. Nobody is leaving Facebook. They're too vain. Even Brian Acton was saying #DeleteFacebook from his Facebook. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633630
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by danjoc 9y ago
>You must log in to continue. #createFacebook before you can read #deleteFacebook
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by danjoc 9y ago
You grow older. You marry late if at all. You have pets, because biology didn't wait for you. I can't tell you much beyond that. I haven't gotten there yet.
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by danjoc 9y ago
Republican presidential candidate wins for the first time since 1988 in critical swing state. Time to redraw the districts! Gerrymandering indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Pennsylvania
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by danjoc 9y ago
Coursera required face verification recently. Once I found out, I had my course fee refunded and have not signed up for another course.

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