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by haakon 13y ago
This might not be a problem, see discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845014
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by haakon 13y ago
But unless you already know who they are, how do you get malware onto their machines? The Tor Browser Bundle has been carefully tuned to minimise attack vectors, so it could be quite hard for people who use Tor "correctly".
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by haakon 13y ago
The Tor Project sprung out of a research project at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and to this day a large part of its funding comes from U.S. government sources. This is entirely fine as far as I can tell - the U.S. interest can be ex
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by haakon 13y ago
Exit nodes aren't really a problem either, if you realize that Tor's purpose is to protect your anonymity. An exit node may see your traffic, but can't see where it comes from, thus protecting your anonymity. If you need confidentiality in
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by haakon 13y ago
For most popular TLDs, that is a breach of terms and may get your domain name terminated at any point. It seems like it would be better to just use the registrar's privacy service for this.
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by haakon 13y ago
Not sure if intentional, but Stonebreaker is an awesome misspelling of Stonebraker.
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by haakon 14y ago
True or not, the word is that Litecoin was created so that people who were bitter about not having been amongst the earliest of the early Bitcoin adopters can have a new chance at a steep value increase. It's not even clear to me that Litec
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by haakon 14y ago
The Pirate Bay's hidden service is primarily for evading censorship, and it's useful in that sense, since no government can block hidden services.
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by haakon 14y ago
This is The Pirate Bay's official hidden service: http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/ Source for official-ness: https://www.facebook.com/ThePirateBayWarMachine/posts/415744...
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by haakon 14y ago
You don't need a beefy network connection to run a useful Tor non-exit relay, either. As long as you have a machine that's on 24/7, and can spare at least 20KB/sec in both directions, running a Tor relay is just a nice and charitable thing
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by haakon 14y ago
Anyone who tells you that 95% of internet content is confined to Tor hidden services is either hilariously mistaken or lying.
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by haakon 14y ago
Note, however, that the "scathing Forbes blog post" was written by the Bitcoin Foundation's press secretary.
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by haakon 14y ago
When depositing to Instawallet, your money would be stored in a common pool, so upon withdrawal you'd get different coins back. So it functioned as a "mixing service", which helps improve anonymity for those who need that. And it was super
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by haakon 14y ago
In Norway, if you qualify for simplified tax return (which I think most people do), you don't have to do anything anymore. You get a default pre-filled tax return that you can access electronically (or on paper if you prefer), and you onl
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by haakon 14y ago
I'm sure Google quite loves your data.
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by haakon 14y ago
Boilerplate is not an inherent feature of static typing - just look at Haskell or Scala.
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by haakon 14y ago
And it will sync with Akregator, sweet!
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by haakon 14y ago
You forgot that JavaPolis first renamed themselves to Javoxx, thinking that would save them. But no. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2008/09...
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by haakon 14y ago
How cruel, then, that the "Free digital download" links point to a server that's "502 Bad Gateway".
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by haakon 14y ago
JetBrains has a bazillion different versions of their products for specific uses. There is no reason to believe they wouldn't continue maintaining ST as a separate editor. And assuming they did, it would be pretty great.
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by haakon 14y ago
> Turns out that what I wrote was wrong. You know, just like I’m wrong in general and just like my dumbass parents were wrong not to get that abortion. Whoa, this man does not know how to take criticism.
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by haakon 14y ago
Talk has been posted here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5OQz0Ko8c
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by haakon 14y ago
KDE has the same thing, but it's not smart at all. It will pick the wrong resolution for the wrong screen, if I disconnect a screen the windows that were on it become inaccessible, it never remembers my setup when I re-dock the laptop, and
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by haakon 14y ago
It's just an impression from my own life. 3-5 years ago, lots of people around me used Linux. Many of these same people now use Macs. Not exactly scientific, I know.
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by haakon 14y ago
I use Linux on the desktop and I haven't touched an X11 configuration file in many years. I would have to Google for its location if I wanted to even look at it. Stuff just works now - except we don't have intelligent multimonitor support (
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by haakon 14y ago
This is mostly blogspam for this: http://www.afiestas.org/screen-management-got-magic/ It's easy to be cynical about this, but I for one am very pleased about this development. So sorely needed. Perhaps in a small way it can help slow dow
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by haakon 14y ago
I guess it's over by now; is a recording available yet?
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by haakon 14y ago
I'm not sure I agree that "cutie" is any better than "cute". :-)
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by haakon 14y ago
People will never learn to spell Qt correctly. Never . Same with pronunciation.
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by haakon 14y ago
> They always blast me with some "what's hot and popular" post by someone who I don't follow, and as often as not that post is just some fanboy bitching about how much iPhones suck and every time he is forced to use one for even a few s

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