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Wikipedia opens new edge site in Singapore(blog.wikimedia.org)
2 points by freneticfox 8y ago|0 comments
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by freneticfox 8y ago
For a long time now, I've been kinda self-experimenting on inducing these kinds of states in myself, without resorting to hardware or hard/scary drugs. It all started with my realization that sleep brought me answers in general; i
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by freneticfox 9y ago
FWIW, not every major site on the Internet is out to spy on you. The Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia, et al) bends over backwards to explicitly avoid harvesting and hoarding long-term analytic information that can clearly identify users an
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by freneticfox 9y ago
Just to meta-meta this conversation and the article in new and confusing ways, Wikimedia also hosts a map server, using OSM's data, @ https://maps.wikimedia.org/ :)
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by freneticfox 9y ago
The injection is currently for non-HTTPS only, but I can easily see this situation evolving for the worse as HTTPS becomes increasingly the default. What will happen is someone at Comcast will notice that their injections aren't happen
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by freneticfox 9y ago
Wikimedia Foundation | Traffic Security Engineer | SFO or REMOTE | Full-Time | https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports and operates Wikipedia and t
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by freneticfox 9y ago
There's really no way to design a maintenance-free house. A typical house has a lot of parts slowly failing all the time, meaning you will eventually need expensive repairs on various timelines (sometimes many years, so it can be &quo
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by freneticfox 9y ago
While the average quality of life in the western world is still currently higher than the global average, there have been recent data points in the US that globalization has drug certain subsets of the US down to 3rd-world levels of life qu
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by freneticfox 9y ago
To go a little further, I suspect with CP cases like banks the real underlying problem is more fundamental. You can't realistically, under the laws of physics, have a hard notion of transactional ordering (did the account's money
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by freneticfox 9y ago
SE/QA/Prod/Mobile - No piece of software can see such broad use by millions without constantly evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of users, the ever-changing blend of user agent / browser software, and the ever-cha