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by dwild 7y ago
> There are far easier ways to get what you need from a modern office with typical security hygiene. Far easier than looking through a window? I'm curious to know! I've seen banks where it would be possible! I expect most of th
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by dwild 7y ago
> They don't know what TLS is and they don't know what the prefix is, but they do know the difference between "google.com" and "avs.net". Sure but hiding www won't make google.com or avs.net more obviou
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by dwild 7y ago
I'm always amaze at how many computer screens/keyboards are visible from windows. It would be so easy to plant a webcam with some good optics on an opposite building and just get the passwords of the victim quite easily. you could
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by dwild 7y ago
> It's not always 1-3 characters. google-payments.sbc.net for example. It will consider google-payments as being trivial and hide it? I may have misunderstood something, the article mentions clearly only "www" and "m&
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by dwild 7y ago
> If you say that you are researching more than once Then maybe it's just that you aren't specific enough? You aren't just researching, so tell them what you did, what you are doing and what you plan to do instead. I had t
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by dwild 7y ago
Can you tell me what's more secure and why? Before the change: www.google.com After the change: google.com Before the change: google-secure-payments.google.via.net After the change: google-secure-payments.google.via.
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by dwild 7y ago
> seeing the domain and nothing else likely improves security By hiding between 1 to 3 letters? It seems much more secure to do it like Firefox using grey for the unimportant part and black for the important part. If anything, if "m
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by dwild 7y ago
I can't reproduce what you say, it doesn't prepends http:// in my case. Are you on Windows?
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by dwild 7y ago
> If I were Backblaze, I'd design the system to work equally well with 40 drives as with 45, and consider just leaving bad drives in until a handful of them need replacing in a chassis. And the replacement be basically automatic. Th
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by dwild 7y ago
Theses prices are arbitrary. When I was able to get a credit card, the first thing I tried was to buy my username domain name, obviously, the .com was my priority. At the time it was 8k CAD, the .net was a bit better at 1.6k CAD. Both were
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by dwild 7y ago
Are you intolerant if you won't let me enter your house? You let your friend enter, thus you exclude me. Something even what seems simple, isn't so simple.
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by dwild 7y ago
Did I just get downvoted for asking for source? Really? I know political subjects are always controversial on HN but I expected better from here.
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by dwild 7y ago
> What if it turns out that white supremacists primary wish is to have their arguments heard by society, but society has instead cast them out and refuses to let them post elsewhere so they can only post on 8chan, and that some of them,
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by dwild 7y ago
> When war mongering governments like US, Russia use Cloudflare for war propaganda websites that enable their wars and killings of lots and lots of people Do you have a source for that?
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by dwild 7y ago
I believe it's alright as long as the product isn't necessary and just value-added. In the case of Cloudflare, that's pretty clear that it's just value-added. In the case of water supply, electricity, phone, internet ser
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by dwild 7y ago
> It's only when there are "free" alternatives that people flock in droves to the "free" options. People were happy to pay 10$ for something until there was the same thing for 5$ and theses peoples thus flock to
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by dwild 7y ago
> there wouldn't be non-ad-supported "free" content I'm not arguing that at all. I was pretty specific saying that the one that provided my learning experience couldn't have done it full time. There wouldn't
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by dwild 7y ago
> I don't have a dog in this hunt, but perhaps one problem is assuming that people know what an escape room is? Oh yeah definitely, that's something that we will need to do in our city because the concept is too new. We just do
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by dwild 7y ago
> Yeah it offers entertainment value but were it to disappear humanity would not suffer for it. You underestimate quite a bit the value of entertainment, but that's your right. In my case, it was a single example for which I have in
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by dwild 7y ago
> Assuming your device allows you to get the binary. Apple is already in a position to disallow this if they choose to in the future. Theses kinds of thing never stopped anyone. Being the first to share a hash of a system file in a conso
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by dwild 7y ago
> Just because most people don't understand the implications of what they agree to, That's what needs to be fixed for real and not only for the technological world but for everything. We sign SO MANY contracts without any knowl
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by dwild 7y ago
> Sadly it boils down to "trust us" If this is done client side, it doesn't boils down to that. You can easily decompile and see for yourself what it does. You will gain quite a bit of notoriety if you are the first one to
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by dwild 7y ago
> The business owner would pay a small fee to be listed. I don't understand how you could do that without being an advertisement. How can you make a few businesses pay a fee without being advantaged against a business that doesn&#x2
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by dwild 7y ago
It's like saying maybe with the light off you could have done better navigating through theses rooms. Free learning experiences was available pretty early in my life because of ad suported content. Maybe I could have done better in som
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by dwild 7y ago
> In the old days, if her product -in this case escape room- would be good, she'd get enough customers by word of mouth alone. We get clients from 5 m away to 300 km away. The product is great, on a few thousand client, only an hand
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by dwild 7y ago
> If they weren't actively thinking about visiting one or actively looking for things to do and your advertising convinced them to do it ... which is exactly what our ads are doing. None of the targetting that we do is related to an
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by dwild 7y ago
> If you have to tell people they need something then they don't need it. None of the ads we got say to anyone that they need it. No one thinks that they need it when they see it. What the ads say is that we exist. When they look fo
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by dwild 7y ago
> I would be extremely surprised if search simply disappeared rather than move to a paid model. Sure, but that would be available to the ones that can profit from it directly, not the mass population that would have an hard time seeing v
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by dwild 7y ago
> maybe you'd be something of greater value to society rather than the "developer you are today" I'm a pretty great value for my works actually. Could do more? I don't actually believe it. I learned what I'm
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by dwild 7y ago
> I would pay for the search and to watch videos We are sadly a tiny minority. I keep seeing people talking against Youtube Premium. > There should at least be an option to pay for ad-free, tracking-free, service. Agree completely, bu

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