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by gnosis 13y ago
Youtube's use of Flash and HTML 5 is 100%, completely worthless! There are a million youtube downloading apps out there that don't require me to even use a web browser to download videos from youtube. And, after they're down
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by gnosis 13y ago
I think you're missing my point. I said: "I'd gladly sacrifice that feature for a standalone mapping app on my own machine, so I don't have to worry about Google spying on me whenever I decide to go somewhere!" W
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fwknop: Single Packet Authorization and Port Knocking(cipherdyne.com)
1 points by gnosis 13y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 13y ago
I really haven't used it much, except as my default external HTML->Text converter (via wget + HTML::FormatText::Elinks), of which it does a good job. Unfortunately, its main weakness is that (as far as I know) it's not integrat
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by gnosis 13y ago
Javascript, Flash, HTML 5, and virtually all the rest of the HTML "enhancements" are a cancer on the web. Honestly, the only website that I can think of where using Javascript actually does something useful that I'd have a ha
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by gnosis 13y ago
A few months ago, I switched to using w3m inside emacs as my primary browser. w3m is not capable of handling Javascript at all. And you know what, for 90% of the websites I visit, it doesn't matter. They function fine and look fine w
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OTPW -- A one-time password login package(cl.cam.ac.uk)
2 points by gnosis 13y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 13y ago
"Like so much else that has been corrupted, we need to scratch the current architecture as too insecure, and build something truly secure for the future." This is really the core technological issue that has enabled much of the
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Creating bootable USB drives for capturing the contents of memory(mcgrewsecurity.com)
4 points by gnosis 13y ago|0 comments
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Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests(search.cpan.org)
1 points by gnosis 13y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 13y ago
That doesn't seem to work for me. First, typing that in the shell gives me an error: zsh: no matches found: /(.*)/ So, I tried typing: cpan upgrade '/(.*)/' Which at least kept my shell from
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by gnosis 13y ago
"i find the centralized packaging system flawed ... because on the long term its unsustainable" Could you elaborate on why you think this?
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Perl::Critic - Automatically review your code(perltraining.com.au)
45 points by gnosis 13y ago|32 comments
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by gnosis 13y ago
Sooner or later, the vast treasure-trove of data that has been collected will be exploited for the purposes of blackmailing, intimidating, harrassing, stalking, or stealing the identities of powerful individuals. And sooner or later, news t
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by gnosis 13y ago
I never claimed that developers or the vast majority of users are going to suddenly abandon Javascript once they heard my oh-so-compelling argument against it. In fact, I don't expect them to. Most users are ignorant, technologically i
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How Silicon Valley's Tech Reign Will End(developers.slashdot.org)
2 points by gnosis 13y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 13y ago
"JS probably has support for better graphics assets than a regular text game interpreter." This game was billed as a "minimalist text-based game", for which any of the standard Interactive Fiction interpreters would ha
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by gnosis 13y ago
All I'm saying is that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It's possible that your security has been compromised and you are simply unaware of it. It's great that you monitor your network and take other security
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by gnosis 13y ago
"he is instead annoyed by your post to announce your minor decision to the world" Well, I'm annoyed by these other people's announcements of their minor decisions to play this game despite it being a threat to their se
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by gnosis 13y ago
"Standalone engines are subject to fewer attacks from untrusted code, so they're probably easier to exploit than a browser." Probably? This is purely speculative. I'd be interested to see any actual exploits of Inte
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by gnosis 13y ago
In case you haven't noticed, many US govt employees are the blackhats. Torture, disappearances, indefinite secret imprisonment without trial or access to lawyers or medical care, inflitration and mass arrests of people participating
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by gnosis 13y ago
"Gnosis is being ridiculous here in complaining that something interactive needs code" You know, not everything that needs code needs to be run in a web browser. Is it really so ridiculous of me to oppose opening my browser up t
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by gnosis 13y ago
If no one cares, why are there dozens of replies to this thread? More to the point, if at least you didn't care, then why did you comment? Why didn't you "just move on"?
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by gnosis 13y ago
"I've yet to have a js-based security problem." You mean you have yet to become aware that your browser has been owned through some Javascript exploit. Somehow that isn't very comforting to me.
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by gnosis 13y ago
No. I prefer open source games. You are aware that they exist outside of web browsers, aren't you?
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by gnosis 13y ago
"It is a web based game and uses Javascript, there isn't anything specifically wrong with that. Why is it objectively superior to have distributable binaries that have to be compiled or ported for each architecture and OS? What i
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by gnosis 13y ago
"there's also the effect of the newer policing techniques" Or the non-effect of them. Crime rates have dropped drastically across the board, across the country, in many places that didn't make their policing policies m
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by gnosis 13y ago
There was a very interesting article[1] recently about the epidemiological link between leaded gasoline and crime. [1] - http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
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by gnosis 13y ago
Have you ever heard of games that don't run within web browsers? That's what I thought this particular game might be. In fact, there is a slew of standalone, non-browser-based Interactive Fiction game engines like Frotz[1], Zoom[2
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by gnosis 13y ago
It's not about being "Amish" or Luddite. It's about trying to keep my system secure and not being tracked. No thank you to opening my browser up to Javascript exploits and GoogleAPI tracking!

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