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by gzer0 5y ago
This is awesome, glad that Mullvad is heading in this direction. For reference, ExpressVPN (which has been audited by PwC) introduced this in 2019 [1]. Unfortunately, ever since ExpressVPN was purchased by Kape Technologies (they also own P
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by gzer0 5y ago
> Show me the data that justifies why I need to be afraid of public FSD.
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by gzer0 5y ago
https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility You can sign up as an accessibility user and set a daily hCaptcha cookie that lets you instantly avoid the captcha (obviously, strict limits to not be abused) but good enough for mysel
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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo saw record growth in 2021(therecord.media)
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Threat actors can simulate iPhone reboots and keep iOS malware on a device(www-therecord.recfut.com)
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by gzer0 5y ago
https://www.ssa.gov/employer/stateweb.htm I'm guessing this is not a good thing if I am under the [NOT ISSUED] category but am definitely in the issued category?
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DAO raises $10.4M in 48 hrs selling NFTs; plans to buy a golf course(cnbc.com)
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> Rather than investing a proportion of Meta’s substantial profits to help ensure the accuracy of medical information shared through social media, you have apparently delegated responsibility to people incompetent in carrying out this c
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by gzer0 5y ago
This is a known predatory junk journal. https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/ Please stop spreading these scam journals.
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> Where do these high APYs come from? Well a lot of it is coming from incentives of these protocols and speculation in those native assets. But the author doesn't even know that, so I won't bother steelmanning his argument Is
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by gzer0 5y ago
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8833/dark-fail-fake-court-... It is rare, but it can happen. Another threat vector.
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by gzer0 5y ago
I was banned from Coinbase 4 years ago, and I am still unable, to this day, to create an account without it being banned within 5 minutes of creation and no one is able to give a reason as to why.
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DeFi protocol BadgerDAO exploited for $120M in front-end attack(theblockcrypto.com)
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Unfortunately if you do not fully own your own ICANN registrar, for example, like Facebook [1], then your domain remains in the hands of the registrar; it doesn't matter what your WHOIS states. I've looked into this exact problem
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by gzer0 5y ago
I mean, it IS absolutely a valid concern anyone should have if they are buying something dependent on the hosting of a URL. It would be silly to say otherwise.
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by gzer0 5y ago
https://github.com/jonschlinkert Interesting, 845 repositories by the user, and the vast majority of them are simple NPM modules such as this one. Has there been any recent instances of someone abusing simple NPM repos like
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by gzer0 5y ago
If the ratio was this high, I would assume it has been artificially inflated.
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And what happens when there are multiple different possibilities for the solution? As is the case here, the solution can be achieved in multiple ways. It would be bizarre for one to have copyright claim over all of them.
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by gzer0 5y ago
You would stand out more if you disabled webRTC. Since webRTC is disabled by only a subset of certain users, this makes them more prone to fingerprinting. Going with the setup that the average joe has would be better for blending in.
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Terms and conditions do not supersede the law of the courts.
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You can mitigate this, at least partially, if you go into your account settings and deselect “show me personalized content and ads”; this paired with ublock origin can do wonders.
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Ethereum Classic fell victim to multiple 51% attacks in 2020. The hacker was able to gain control of 51% of the hash power and reorg some blocks and it allowed double spending and all the catastrophes that come with a 51% attack [1][2]. It
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Apple CSAM Feature Debuts in iOS 15.2(pcmag.com)
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Dartmouth medical school accused 17 students of cheating; they found over half of the accused students was due to erroneously generated data. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/technology/dartmouth-ge
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I would like to learn more about this, could you provide a source?
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That is intriguing. Within the source code of its HTML, the White House included an easter bunny encouraging people to apply for jobs if they are reading this message! Would I be slandered and jailed for applying to this job offering by the
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Cyclosporine has some very serious long-term toxicity (especially renal dysfunction and hypertension) and the availability of newer biologic agents has restricted the use of cyclosporine to patients who have not responded to conventional tr
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It is very difficult to engineer animals with symptoms mimicking human dementia so they can effectively be trialed with drugs before testing on people. This is the exact reason dementia / Alzheimer’s research is littered with dozens of
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Agnotology(en.wikipedia.org)
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This is specifically referring to non-algorithmic stablecoins. "Stablecoins that are purportedly convertible for an underlying fiat currency are distinct from a smaller subset of stablecoin arrangements that use other means to attempt

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