fl3tch

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by fl3tch 15y ago
torproject.org isn't blocked, is it?
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> Full Screen APIs allow you to build a web application that runs full screen Finally YouTube HTML5 videos can play full screen and not just full browser window.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Encryption is not so foolproof. A judge in Colorado has ordered a women to decrypt her laptop. The authorities will find ways to plug the loopholes that technology creates. If they can't break mathematics, they can break your will.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
I also manually deleted every piece of content that I could find before I deleted my account. The hardest part was finding comments that I had made on other people's posts, because often I would delete the mention of it on my own profile. H
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Google search, Gmail, Facebook and Twitter are built on HTTP, HTML, JavaScript and PHP, which are all free and open source. The Internet would be a bunch of walled gardens if it were built on proprietary technology, and every one of those g
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by fl3tch 15y ago
We need more people making this point. How did we manage to socialise up until a mere four years ago? It's still possible today without Facebook. People who say they can't quit Facebook are like people who say it's too hard to quit smokin
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by fl3tch 15y ago
That's a big can of worms. iBooks are assembled out mined materials and in factories that also have an impact on the environment. And think about the conditions for the workers. The conditions in a paper mill in the American northwest are m
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Supposedly, if your hard drive is encrypted, customs agents can hold your computer indefinitely if you refuse to provide the password. The irony is that gigabytes of encrypted data cross national borders every second -- over the internet. S
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Especially concerning privacy, these cartoons remind me of the Qatar censorship page: http://i.imgur.com/MfKOJ.jpg They are trying to make something nefarious look fun. I mean, it's great that the barista down the street knows that like c
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by fl3tch 15y ago
When Amazon sold Lady Gaga's latest album for 99 cents, the volume of purchases crashed their servers. Even I bought the album, and I'm not a Lady Gaga fan. Why? Because it was 99 cents. It stands to reason, if lowering the price of a good
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by fl3tch 15y ago
GeoIP data is 99% accurate at the country level, so it's trivially easy to enforce regional restrictions on the internet, and some web sites have been doing it for a while. Sure, there are ways around that too, but most people are not techn
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Get on Twitter and search "wtf wikipedia". Enjoy the show.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> after a certain point in increasing your budget for paying software developers, you are limited by your ability to find good people, not by your ability to pay them Put another way, if 100 people can build a bridge in 3 months, that d
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> One party can't exploit another without the threat or use of force. Exploitation can happen through more than just force. Of course, at what point you call something duress, coercion, or force is somewhat subjective, but none of these
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Worst idea ever. Worst privacy violation ever. This would would be a boon to stalkers, perverts, creeps, serial killers, and I imagine 99% of people would never opt into it.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Yeah, Bachmann stood out to me, too. Really shows that even a broken clock is right sometimes.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Interesting. I couldn't access the site about 20 minutes go. Running "host news.ycombinator.com" returned nothing.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
I like how there's a link to an article pointing out that Chrome no longer ranks on the first page for searches of "browser". I confirmed the same for "web browser" and "new browser", however in every case, an ad for Chrome was at the top,
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by fl3tch 15y ago
It wouldn't just be easier to spot, it would be immediately known, and thus no one would use it, which is why no government will (almost certainly) ever try. Plus, the code could just be hosted in another country (there are already tons of
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by fl3tch 15y ago
If you're worried about a state-level adversary, then yes, you should always turn off your computer when not using it. They could still be spying on you and wait until you turn it on to kick down the door. There are people who have thought
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Not sure exactly how this would be implemented, but it sounds like a bad idea, since they would just wait for your automated updater to decrypt the decoy. Even if it was in some limited fashion, the encryption key would be in RAM, so it wou
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Palant said explicitly in a blog post that he turned the whitelist on by default because the vast majority of people don't change the default. The forum has also been inundated by complaints (I've been following this) from people who instal
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by fl3tch 15y ago
I do searches for a lot of obscure stuff that only Google seems capable of finding right now (well, I haven't used Bing much, but I've been comparing the Google results to DDG, because people keep talking about it). Here's an example. I rem
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> Look, the two most decentralized first-world countries that I can think of are Canada and Switzerland. These are not draconian racist hellholes But the South was . You're ignoring the evidence of history. Canada and Switzerland are s
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> He's not even a libertarian: he's perfectly fine with States grossly abridging freedom, just not the federal government. Exactly this. He's not a libertarian, he's a states rights guy because he wants the power to do things like ban a
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Thank you for doing something valuable for the world. I see too many people building trivial things and calling themselves innovators.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
This would be great if we had already achieved the 1950s dream of the three-day work week.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Edit: Well wouldn't you know, this just happened: http://i.imgur.com/ESojw.png Typical of what I see. This is a fresh Firefox profile, no cache, no extensions. It's also not a network problem, since I don't see this on other sites, even o
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by fl3tch 15y ago
I'm curious, what are all the ways in which you find it superior? I agree that circles are better than Facebook friend lists, but G+ seems to lack some features that others find essential on Facebook, like event creation. I've heard a lot o
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Or maybe they just aren't posting to you? A few months back I read the claim that there's twice as much private sharing as public.

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