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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> but it seems people who understand the issues thing this is a non-thing. Good thing I can get my legal advice from a random stranger on the internet with a brand new account. /s It most definitely is a thing if one needs qualif
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Does OS X have an iptables equivalent? Does seem rather unfriendly though..
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> For many people "doing their own things" is gonna be playing more Counter-Strike. Also is "more Counter-Strike" at all correlated with a quality of life increase? 45 free minutes you wouldn't have had to get ri
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
I don't see any supporting evidence in this article which suggests that people working 15 hours are happier than those working say 35 hours. It's also hard for me to imagine that 15 hours is enough to sustain a level of producti
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> Also, GitHub having a proeminent "fork" button can be seen as an invitation to violate copyrights, making the service somewhat responsible. What about simply not having a visible 'fork' button for Repository's
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Why should skilled developers with extensive track-records in their field be forced to use their free time to cram for college-style exams? Other professions dealing with exact-sciences / engineering don't seem to have this proble
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
I think this article is glossing over an important part of the discussion. Biometric Information is good for user identification it is not good for passwords and AFAIK this is a widely shared-opinion across security professionals. Don&
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
This has appeared on HN a few times.. I'd really like to use tarsnap but it's simply too expensive to be viable (to which I guess the response is: don't use tarsnap for full-backups -- but this makes it practically useless
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
I think this is a bad interface. Showing a menu that clears the terminal rather than letting one use a specific command e.g. `git quick-stats commits` or `git quick-stats authors` is very annoying. If anything the menu should be a special o
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> The security of passwords at rest depends on how they are stored. Insecure passwords are insecure at rest no matter how they are stored..
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> But while the changes may subject more Americans to warrantless surveillance, the last-minute timing of the announcement actually might have been designed to cut future privacy losses. Obama has been immensely pro-mass-surveillance thr
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> If your account is locked out after 3 failed login attempts, if they limit to one attempt per second, The point of effective passwords isn't that someone is going to guess it on login - it's that if the database gets dumped a
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
I'm not sure why OP was down-voted, you may disagree but his post was credible and merits a response.
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Shakespeare's work has had a broad and enormous impact on art and culture through out the centuries (English and Foreign) - that you are aware of the impact of the civil war (you were taught) but not the former (Wikipedia is a reasonab
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Because being a great coder ~== solving hacker-rank problems . /s
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Are you really not trolling? Likewise you haven't provided any motivation as to why the Civil War should be taught in history class instead of last year's American Idol winners (If you tell me prominence in popular or cultural m
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Why does the history of a culture or a nation endure? Why do children know about the civil war or slavery in the south? Why not the list of American Idol winners? I don't think your response is merely incredible, it's actually a m
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Without further debating the merits of the verses in question (I thought it was self-evident)... I think it would be an accurate characterization that the author of this editorial will not be read or remembered half-a-century from now. Ther
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> I’m just down with a sniffly case/of sudden-self-loathing-syndrome … an unexpected extra serving/ of just-for-now-self-hate. How do these terrible poets even make it on to the curriculum / standardized-tests? The author
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Oswald Spengler's 'The Decline of the West'. The primary thesis of the author is of a cyclical development and decline of civilization (and his estimate that western civilization in particular is in the declining phase, hence
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> dodgy networking Had recurring wifi issues on a Macbook Pro as well (as did many of my co-workers)... Not saying it's great on Linux but I would hardly call the alternatives much better...
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
relevant: https://moxie.org/blog/lavabit-critique/
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
That's why I'm still using netctl.. It's 2016: some one needs to rewrite that pile of crap..
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
It may be interesting to note that the ancient greek 'X' is suposed to be aspirated so the English pronunciation of 'chi' is almost certainly incorrect anyways.
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Does the much broader scope and amount of code required here (compared to the underhanded-c contest) make it a much weaker contest? For example they suggest that one should create a web-server (rather than say, requiring one to implement a
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
I've been using uMatrix and uBlock (for firefox on mobile) for years, I think not just for me but the prevailing sentiment among uBlock users is a great appreciation for your work. Thanks!
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> Citing that the state of the art in browser technology exists does not change that point. > Do you agree it's possible the claim is true? HSTS preload lists are not new (the Mozilla blog I referenced above is dated 2012). >
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Relevant: Lack of a Cipher Status Indicator on Android has been an open issue since 2009 ( https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5353 ) There is also an open-source android app to detect fake base-
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
If they've connected to Gmail before they would have received HSTS headers. So I'm not sure what you are suggesting? Could you elaborate on how you think GSM cipher downgrades lead to stolen Gmail credentials? edit: Furthermore Ch
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Traveling and the ISP here hi-jacks DNS requests for http sites to it's currently broken proxy..

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