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811.
by gmac 10y ago
tough times are coming and these accounts will become a liability, even if you have 'nothing to hide' That looks like a major chilling effect[1], and it makes life that much easier for those instigating the toughness. It's
812.
by gmac 10y ago
Yep.
813.
by gmac 10y ago
Right. On the other hand, a Bash script has a low barrier to entry, it's handy not to have to install certificates on the client, and the highest possible security is not always top priority (if, for example, you're just trying to
814.
by gmac 10y ago
unless we lower the bar Or unless we improve education at earlier stages, which hardly seems impossible.
815.
by gmac 10y ago
If you let the placebo effect count — and why wouldn't you? — it pretty surely will have some effect. Even better, when combined with a consultation from a homoeopath, you're getting some informal counselling as well as a placebo.
816.
by gmac 10y ago
I have a simple bash script that does something similar, including the Apple profile, and also gets you a Let's Encrypt server cert that auto-renews. https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup
817.
by gmac 10y ago
To be usable, SSH to a more powerful machine requires a good and stable connection. That's almost never available, in my experience. If I'm on my phone, I'm likely to be on trains/planes/in tunnels/in the count
818.
by gmac 10y ago
You may be right — but it seems to me you are blithely equating absence of evidence with evidence of absence.
819.
by gmac 10y ago
Not an answer, but: I'm fine with the cookies, but the banners piss me off no end. I won't ask the question on any site I run, lawyers be damned.
820.
by gmac 10y ago
No, because I suspect most of their students are non-UK, and you're not going to suddenly magic up a several-hundred percent increase in UK citizens wanting to do a ridiculously expensive MBA.
821.
/TypeScript extended RegExps/x(github.com)
2 points by gmac 10y ago|0 comments
822.
by gmac 10y ago
it is worse abroad "Abroad"? I'm pretty sure you'll find countries that are not the US that do it much better. I'm willing to countenance that there are countries that are not the US that do it worse.
823.
by gmac 10y ago
You may be an outlier. I may be an outlier too. It's anecdote v anecdote. But the only Apple hardware I or my family ever had an issue with (out of 8 iPhones, 4 MacBooks, 2 iMacs, a PowerMac, an Apple TV, and various accessories) was a
824.
by gmac 10y ago
I am currently running all my browsing through a self-hosted VPN on OVH's cheapest SSD (GBP £1.50/mo on Black Friday), and I'm happy so far. Bandwidth is limited to 100Mbps, but my home connection is 55Mbps, so no problem. In
825.
Ask HN: Seeking print fulfilment API for spiral bound calendars
2 points by gmac 10y ago|0 comments
826.
by gmac 10y ago
I've been implementing this on secure sites for about ten years.
827.
by gmac 10y ago
Yes. The better medicine gets, the feebler we all become. This is a pity, but the alternative is worse[1]. [1] https://www.quora.com/Are-we-eliminating-natural-selection-b...
828.
by gmac 10y ago
Isn't it up to the viewer not the publisher to decide what is trustworthy? That's difficult if the publisher (Facebook) only shows them untrustworthy material, and the viewer is not aware that this is the case.
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Senate Responds to Anti-Semitism by Targeting Students Who Criticize Israel(theintercept.com)
2 points by gmac 10y ago|0 comments
830.
by gmac 10y ago
It does. And we even voted against reforms to introduce a more proportional system in the recent past[1]. But trying to coordinate your constituency to vote for someone from a minor party makes arguably a little more sense than demanding
831.
by gmac 10y ago
A large part of the problem is some of the existing parties, sure. But in Brighton, for example, we have Caroline Lucas, who is a wonderful MP.
832.
by gmac 10y ago
Please, enough of this nonsense. What we need is for people to vote for better politicians . To my mind, the main obstacle to that is the awful UK press, and the increasing extent to which the BBC is a government broadcaster rather than a
833.
by gmac 10y ago
Should we tax that as well? Yes. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environme...
834.
by gmac 10y ago
I have taken to sending all traffic through my own IKEv2 VPN hosted in Germany. I have a script to automate setup [1], which I will be updating shortly to use Let's Encrypt and to generate an on-demand Mac/iOS configuration profil
835.
by gmac 10y ago
See also: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2015/responding-to-noth...
836.
by gmac 10y ago
Carbon neutral is essentially shorthand for doesn't contribute to climate change . Methane (a) contains carbon and (b) is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
837.
History tells us what may happen next with Brexit and Trump(medium.com)
2 points by gmac 10y ago|0 comments
838.
by gmac 10y ago
I thought I was leaving programming when I went back to school to do a Masters and then a PhD in environmental economics. I'm now a lecturer (assistant professor) ... but programming is so useful in academia, and such a rare skill, tha
839.
by gmac 10y ago
This argument is so commonly made, and such awful bilge. Farmers have not spent thousands of years crossing e.g. potatoes with frogs[1]. [1] http://www.scidev.net/global/gm/news/gm-potato-uses-frog-gen...
840.
by gmac 10y ago
Not really. We know MS is closed, we know Linux is open. I have yet to see a GMO product that specifies the licencing of the relevant genome.

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