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by foxylad 8y ago
No extensions - I thought of that. I'm reasonably security-aware, use Ubuntu and Duck Duck Go for search.
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by foxylad 8y ago
No, boo.hoo on it's own returns a 404, and there is no other instance of boo.hoo in the app's routes. I hate to sound so paranoid, but I'm guessing this is evidence of Russia's inflitration of the internet.
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How Did Yandex Discover a Private URL?
7 points by foxylad 8y ago|7 comments
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by foxylad 8y ago
Now we have the capacity to capture enormous amounts of data about our everyday lives, I'm amazed that as a society we haven't started doing wide-ranging pattern recognition to attempt to find environmental triggers for common ail
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by foxylad 8y ago
> without excessive verbosity If no-one (including you, unless you dream in bash) is ever going to modify or extend the script, OK. Otherwise python's readability/maintainability trumps excessive verbosity every time.
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by foxylad 8y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google all gave Signal certificates as part of their anti-censorship support?
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by foxylad 8y ago
But legal trolls have an array of legislation to attack you with. GDPR is just the latest one.
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by foxylad 9y ago
I don't use Facebook, but could one build a service that automatically sets Facebook's privacy settings to sensible options? A large part of the problem is that changing these through the web site is painful in the extreme. I supp
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by foxylad 9y ago
Another part of the puzzle is to return to blogging, for those totally public posts.
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by foxylad 9y ago
I'd love to get off both Twitter and Facebook, but that network effect... I went and had a look at Vero, but it doesn't allow posting text, only associated with an image, movie, link or book. I checked how Diaspora was going, but
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by foxylad 9y ago
Interesting - given Cloudflare's real value proposition and domination of their sector, I've been half expecting Google to buy them for a year now. Google are very good at internet plumbing, and I expect this to be a pretty compel
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by foxylad 9y ago
My last child got a good job today, and as well as a certain pride I feel a sense of relief similar to when we paid off our mortgage.
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by foxylad 9y ago
Do yourself a big favour, and make your credit numbers locale-aware. Many (most? not sure) people are going to assume (like I did) that $9.99 would get me 10 credits, because "." is a decimal point in my locale. I almost closed th
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by foxylad 9y ago
I recently bought/built a really cheap 3D printer to see what it could do, and I'm finding it more useful and easier to use than I anticipated. I'd say it is the 3D equivalent of the dot-matrix printer, and this HP beast is t
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by foxylad 9y ago
To me, he didn't seem to be supporting China - he seemed to be shopping in Shenzhen. He didn't make a single positive comment about the regime, and in fact spent a lot of the article complaining about the hassles caused by the Gre
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by foxylad 9y ago
I haven't noticed any anticoagulant effect. I consume chocolate in the evening and do sometimes clear walking tracks before breakfast, which often involves scratches. So I would expect to have noticed wounds bleeding for longer than us
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by foxylad 9y ago
Yes, and books don't tell you everyone hates you and show that awful photo where you look fat and stupid every second minute and how much better everyone else is at everything and how a person even stupider and more obnoxious than you
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by foxylad 9y ago
Totally anecdotal, but too much chocolate is what makes me erupt. And I prefer dark chocolate, so it might be the chocolate rather than the dairy. Eating a large bar of dark chocolate should differentiate, purely in the interests of science
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by foxylad 9y ago
I agree. Tacking requires "levering" against a fulcrum (the the centerboard on a water yacht and the skates on an ice yacht. Imaging trying to tack on a frictionless surface - you'd simply get swept away from the wind.
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by foxylad 9y ago
Sorry, I have a weakness for reductio ad absurdum, so fair enough to call me out on that. But in this case I'm glad I gave in to temptation, because your response was really valuable.
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by foxylad 9y ago
Except they just said this attack is virtually impossible (certainly hasn't been demonstrated) on AMD. So I interpret this as general advice.
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by foxylad 9y ago
My limited understanding is that the vulnerability is due to kernel memory protections not being applied during speculative execution, when the CPU is trying to second guess what the next instructions might be. Unless you are in PR, any rea
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by foxylad 9y ago
Interesting concept - we should discount all criticism except from equally or more successful companies than Intel? if geofft.karma >= foxylad.karma: print('No comment.') else: print('This was a r
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by foxylad 9y ago
You are being down-voted because the whole point of almost all GAE apps is to return data from the datastore, albeit usually in nicely formatted HTML for browsers. You simply need to provide a handler that returns your data in whatever chun
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by foxylad 9y ago
For a platform to provide scaling, it pretty much has to provide proprietary services if those services are to scale as well. AWS proves this point, with their proprietary elastic block store, elasticache, SQS, SMS, etc). I don't kno
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by foxylad 9y ago
It's actually not that hard to get out of, unless you rely on their scaling - in which case any system is hard to get out of. We did some contingency planning a while back, which included moving a low volume service to a LAPP (Linux&#x
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by foxylad 9y ago
One small nitpick - because of the rise in real estate costs and nimbyism, new airports are not as easy a solution as they once were. But I take your point that the 3A80 doesn't really give much better slot efficiency.
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by foxylad 9y ago
I've always been aware I have these subconscious biases. At a fundamental level, I think we are all racist and sexist. But the special thing about being human is that we have higher level thought. When I see a black person at a party,
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by foxylad 9y ago
Depends on resources. When resources are plentiful, we happily work together to maximise them. But when you're starving, you'll kill your siblings and eat them. With inequality rising, expect more anti-social behaviour.
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by foxylad 9y ago
If you define "the next Windows" as the operating system that supersedes Windows, then Android (based on the Linux kernel) arguably fits the bill. But Linux being the next windows or not, the point here is that one guy's hobb

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