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by e1ven 10y ago
I know that Netflix is relying more heavily on it's 1st-party content lately, but I can't see how Disney could buy Netflix without making negotiations much harder with every other studio.. Why would Sony/etc allow movies to b
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Unity at 10: For better–or worse–game development has never been easier(arstechnica.com)
6 points by e1ven 10y ago|0 comments
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by e1ven 10y ago
I don't want to speculate on who's account this is, and perhaps I'm missing something, but tokenizing the to/from addresses sounds like exactly the sort of thing you'd want to do before publicly releasing a lot of e
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Facebook login adds real-name policy, auto-updated friends list to Oculus(arstechnica.com)
5 points by e1ven 10y ago|0 comments
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by e1ven 10y ago
This article seems to be written with the faux-goal of collecting a life insurance policy payout. This could be a substantial amount of money, depending on your circumstances.
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by e1ven 10y ago
Yes. I cover both the cameras on my phone with tape, and only remove it when I want to take a picture. That said, I have a lot more faith in the security of a whitelist-based model like the App store, versus the blacklist model of a PC with
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by e1ven 10y ago
Part of what the article suggests is new is moving some items to more expensive editions. For example, Deferring upgrades has moved from Home to Pro, and several Group Policy Options have moved from Pro to Enterprise only.
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Companies Can’t Legally Void the Warranty for Jailbreaking or Rooting Your Phone(motherboard.vice.com)
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by e1ven 10y ago
If I recall correctly, Snapchat refuses to run unless you give it Camera permissions, even if you just want to view other's snaps.
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by e1ven 10y ago
Part of what I find particularly egregious is that Microsoft made it difficult to decline updates on Windows 10. Users will have no easy way to avoid this, even if they're privacy inclined.
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by e1ven 10y ago
In Firefox, you can go to about:config, and set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false. This will deny the page access to clipboard events, so it shouldn't block the paste.
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Hardware Mod: 980m to Desktop 980 core upgrade(techinferno.com)
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by e1ven 10y ago
I usually use Bonnie++ when testing disk performance. http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
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by e1ven 10y ago
I'm somewhat technical, and I find it difficult at times. For example, there's a new licensed/authorized streaming television service that was recently launched by Southern Fibernet. Compare their webpage- https://
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by e1ven 10y ago
You might also find value in the comments from when this was published via Adam Leventhal's blog - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11934457
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by e1ven 10y ago
There's a more in-depth article about this (rather than just the changelog) at http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/oculus-reverses-course... The Article quotes Oculus - "We will not use hardware c
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by e1ven 10y ago
Fail2ban can be used to block IPs based on any log file, not just SSH - I believe the author uses an Apache log in the example.
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iOS 10 will let you uninstall the Apple apps you never use(theverge.com)
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Remove built-in apps from the Home screen on your iOS device with iOS 10 beta(support.apple.com)
35 points by e1ven 10y ago|16 comments
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by e1ven 10y ago
Honestly, I really wish my terminal/bash had mouse integration.. Every so often I'll be deeply embedded in a command, and want to go back and edit an earlier part of it. With KB shortcuts I can go to the beginning/end, or fo
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by e1ven 10y ago
One reason I enjoy sites with human-meaningful URLs is that it makes it easier to do this without leaving the keyboard. I can use the Keyboard shortcut for the URL bar, then edit the url quickly. I use this commonly to view content from var
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by e1ven 11y ago
I didn't see anything about ToroDB dealing with sharding/replication on their site - It looked like it was only client protocol. If it can handle the replication elements, can you help me find a doc for that part?
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by e1ven 11y ago
There are companies who will put the panels on your roof for free, and then sell you the energy ( http://www.solarcity.com/residential/how-much-do-solar-panel... ) There are also power companies who pay their users a dis
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by e1ven 11y ago
Servo is a research project by Mozilla as a part of their Rust programming language. It gives them a "real world" app to build in Rust, so they don't end up doing ivory-tower designs that don't work well in real apps. De
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by e1ven 11y ago
I suspect that Google's view is that the local Operating System is decreasing in importance over time. They might argue that we're spending more time in web applications, rather than purely in native desktop apps - This is reflect
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OS X blacklist accidentally disables Ethernet in El Capitan(arstechnica.com)
1 points by e1ven 11y ago|0 comments
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To be fair, if the company doesn't have the masters any more, but they want to give people legal access, they need to start somewhere... After they have a scanned copy, they at least have the ABILITY to re-type the text, fix the format
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by e1ven 11y ago
Apple's choice to drop ZFS may have been influenced by the lawsuit Sun was dealing with at the time. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2539287/data-center/app... I'd wager they wouldn't want
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by e1ven 11y ago
They probably would have had a more informative error message.
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I'd love to learn more about what's explicitly whitelisted, and can't be blocked by DWS or other on-system resources. I've tried Googling, but it's hard to find pages which discuss it without knowing the right terms

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