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by davb 9y ago
To piggyback on my own comment - another possibility is that every site or application with user generated content will eventually be subject to age verification. Meaning that all semblance of anonymous/pseudonymous participation onlin
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by davb 9y ago
Seems like the thin edge of a thick wedge. First porn, then what next? Video games? Movies? Netflix? It seems like another data grab. I’ve not seen the technical specification but presumably porn sites will hold on to a verification token o
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by davb 9y ago
> and elsewhere? UK-wide, with regional variations.
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by davb 9y ago
> I think many heavily used pieces of software can benefit from a BDFL-like decision maker instead, especially if the alternative is software specifically designed to use me as a guinea pig surreptitiously. I feel like, in the race for
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by davb 9y ago
My folks used the payphones at most venues to call our landline and speak to the babysitter.
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by davb 9y ago
This has always been quite successful at cinemas (in Scotland, at least).
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by davb 9y ago
I didn’t say that I must check my phone every time I go to the toilet. Only that being able to check my phone (for example, to check if I have any messages from people I care for at home) is a useful thing. And I never said that I was w
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by davb 9y ago
When it’s a venue you don’t know too well and there are 8 bars on each floor, that completely breaks down. Sticking together doesn’t always work, especially when queues are split between men and women for pat downs (as is usually the case i
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by davb 9y ago
I experienced the Yondr phone prison last night for the first time (at a Chris Rock show). While I detest people being disruptive with their phones, I don’t think this is the right solution. From a practical standpoint, it took a lot longer
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by davb 9y ago
I’m not convinced it’s the volume alone. I’m using ad blockers on all of my devices, and I’ve seen mainstream media sites with more than that. It could be an errant script that’s not being caught by an ad blocker and has wound up in an infi
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by davb 9y ago
I've no idea what's going on on this page, but my iPhone got really hot and Firefox (on my desktop) warned me that the page was running slow. The profiler on Chrome hung when trying to profile the page and I had to kill the tab in
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by davb 9y ago
I’d rather full fat Python but heavily sandboxed with some form of firewall. “Do you want to allow 2018_Stock_Report_Q1.xlsp to connect to api.erp.corp.mycompany.com?”. Codesigning with my something under my corp CA, manage permissions via
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by davb 9y ago
I've never used it in production (my last shop was heavily AWS based and relied on IAM), but I always like the look of Hashicorp's Vault [0] https://www.vaultproject.io/
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by davb 9y ago
Are many (any?) AAA studios using private Github repos for development?
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by davb 9y ago
Although more and more applications support SAML for SSO, much of the SaaS world is disparate and siloed. There's definitely something to be said for centralised user management on a homogeneous system. User leaves your organisation? J
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by davb 9y ago
> Honestly, I'm surprised this is such a controversial point of view HN users tend toward a very pro-SaaS stance.
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by davb 9y ago
I've been surprised how many commercial, closed-source projects have opted for Github in recent years. While I would probably prefer to self-host (Gitlab, or similar) in order to reduce dependencies, I do see the benefits. Having recen
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by davb 9y ago
I know that mentioning downvotes usually invites more downvotes, but... I'm surprised you're being so heavily downvoted for your question. Engineering teams (and software companies) come in all shapes and sizes. It is absolutely r
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by davb 9y ago
Not only setting up, but monitoring.
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by davb 9y ago
I fail to see the use case for street by street emergency or weather broadcasts. The weather forecast is unreliable enough at city level, let alone street level. And what emergencies would be so serious as to warrant turning on TVs on just
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by davb 9y ago
But Netflix doesn’t use their demographic data to shove ads down my throat. And, while they have the account holder address, they don’t have precise location data on all the devices I use to watch - TVs are pretty static so will generally o
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by davb 9y ago
I don’t think end users would be the ones doing the code review. Making source auditable by “a tiny minority of geeks” would be a net positive, increasing the chance that someone (bug bounty hunter, appsec blogger, etc) would find and repor
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by davb 9y ago
Battery drain on Mac OS (High Sierra, early-2015 MBP Retina) is definitely more significant than Chrome, especially with video, as measured with the "Energy impact" index in Activity Monitor. Twitter timeline measured with "L
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by davb 9y ago
Or anything involving legal system/jurisdiction or company registration (both of which are differ between countries within the UK). The UK and the Netherlands are both (according to ISO 3166-2 [0]) countries which contain other countri
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by davb 9y ago
> I've had someone tell me they visited a shopping site once and without giving the company any information, they got an e-mail from that company a day later. I had this once from a Cisco reseller in Glasgow. It looked like they don
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by davb 9y ago
It seems to be about standardising communication between desktop applications using an RPC broker server (Plexus Interop). It’s aimed at traders, who often use multiple desktop applications (for trading, news, comms) in various runtimes (Ja
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by davb 9y ago
In general, iOS isn’t very friendly to users who favour 3G/4G over WiFi. I’ve got unlimited data on my LTE plan but very shaky WiFi at home. I can’t start an iCloud backup without WiFi and can’t download apps or updates over a certain
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by davb 9y ago
> It is in an attempt to resolve the real loss of money experienced by everyday users who turn off WiFi when it’s flakey and then forget to turn it back on, costing them cash on their cellular data plan. Is the solution here not simply t
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Longer jail terms for viewing terror content online(bbc.co.uk)
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by davb 9y ago
That's like saying we've all written code susceptible to a buffer overflow, so when a medical device (or air traffic control or whatever) vendor does the same then it's ok. There's a reasonable expectation that those sor

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