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by ilikepi 5y ago
"asl", or alternatively "A/S/L", was short for "Age/Sex/Location". This was a pretty common way of kicking off a 1-on-1 conversation on IRC back in the day.
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by ilikepi 5y ago
Well, they heavily promote their browser extension[1] (at least for me, when I hit their homepage). The addon gets access to your browser tabs and website data. Their privacy policy grants them access to serve you targeted ads based on in
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Sony Wins Pirate Site Blocking Order Against DNS-Resolver Quad9(torrentfreak.com)
7 points by ilikepi 5y ago|0 comments
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by ilikepi 5y ago
The title suggested by the URL slug seems especially odd in this case, since the article seems generally positive and says nothing about "brainwashing".
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by ilikepi 5y ago
Why wait? Teddit has been a great substitute for reading in a mobile browser, and making an iOS shortcut for transforming Reddit links was pretty straightforward.
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by ilikepi 5y ago
If there are any (as opposed to "just" the added customer support burden), I wonder if they're the same issues that prevent Slack from allowing calls in Firefox...
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by ilikepi 5y ago
The native JSON data type was introduced with PG 9.2 in 2012.
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by ilikepi 5y ago
They also said in that episode, although the CEO at the time has since passed away, another former CEO, Al Carey, has publicly credited him with inventing the flavor. EDIT: Apparently that is also disputed, however.
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by ilikepi 5y ago
This is totally plausible and I imagine some manufacturers will try it. Alternatively they can simply make the TV not work unless it has been connected to WiFi...I believe there may already be some sets that do this.
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by ilikepi 5y ago
Exactly. There are probably two groups of people in this thread who are interested in the pitch: * people who want a completely dumb display with a bunch of inputs, as you say * people who want a display with some smarts but that is "
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by ilikepi 5y ago
Absolutely, direct or trusted retailers only now. I don't trust Amazon for any purchase anymore. I got tired of putting in so much effort to researching products and still feeling like I was rolling the dice. The video streaming serv
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by ilikepi 5y ago
The author of this post was a recent guest on an episode[1] of the Rails with Jason podcast. She discussed the book she's working on, which I believe is based on the series of blog posts of which this one is a member. The episode was a
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by ilikepi 5y ago
Assuming reasonable levels of competence on the part of the service, which scenario seems more likely for the average user: 1.) Some unexpected glitch occurs (could be the user's fault or could be the company's), and the user&#x27
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by ilikepi 5y ago
>> Encryption is super important because it secures your data in case your machine is stolen. > If your machine is stolen and off* It's possible to configure macOS to wipe FileVault keys from memory when transitioning to a hib
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Whoops Thoughts on Rails, forking and leadership(solnic.codes)
1 points by ilikepi 5y ago|0 comments
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by ilikepi 5y ago
Mozilla has an easy-to-read guide for this stuff as well: https://infosec.mozilla.org/guidelines/web_security As well as a system you can use to evaluate your site: https://observatory.mozilla.org/
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by ilikepi 5y ago
Security Update bundles were released for Catalina and Mojave as well. The list of security fixes for the Big Sur update 11.3 has three entries mentioning Gatekeeper: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212325 ...whereas
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by ilikepi 5y ago
> - make the "tabs window" (the downward arrow after +) a tab, so the tabs can be sorted, searched in, or copied from, as html, to a file (I now get a rather useless list of 100 tabs) If you go to about:performance, you can dou
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Ian's Awesome Counter(david-smith.org)
1 points by ilikepi 6y ago|0 comments
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by ilikepi 6y ago
Exactly. The TTL is lowered in advance of the maintenance window, sufficiently far out to allow any entries with the old TTL to expire from most resolvers. Once the maintenance has been completed and validated, and sufficient time has ela
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by ilikepi 6y ago
> I kept tilting my head because it was hard to see the clue and interpret it at the same time. Agreed, I definitely found myself doing that. > The final clue I had to complete was that tricky . (.)(.)(.)(.)\4\3\2\1. Interesting...I
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by ilikepi 6y ago
There are actually four spaces that can be filled by accounting for only a single pattern. Two of those are at the end instead of the beginning. I agree it definitely feels imposing when you first look at it, but stick with it. Look for s
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by ilikepi 6y ago
Yeah...I'd really like to extricate myself from Amazon Photos/Drive, but I haven't even begun to investigate how much of a project that will be.
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by ilikepi 6y ago
I'd say it's highly likely that is an intentional pun. Several of the show's writing staff hold advanced STEM degrees. One of them wrote a mathematical proof specifically to include as a plot device in one episode[1]. [1]: h
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by ilikepi 6y ago
Yep, very similar experience here. I find listening to music from that time period just makes me melancholy (err...no pun intended), so I mostly avoid it now. I'm not sure if this is because it brings me back to that time, or if it&#
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by ilikepi 6y ago
The latest episode of Radiolab also discusses the origins of the panel. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/faceb...
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by ilikepi 6y ago
> Postgresql is following a blacklist access model which is really hard to get right, a whitelist approach like mysql would be much easier. I don't think this is quite right. When a new user is created in Postgres, I don't beli
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by ilikepi 6y ago
For some time now, in the default configuration, `brew upgrade` is run automatically any time you run `brew install`. You have to set HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE to disable this behavior. EDIT: whoops, that was incorrect. It's actually `br
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Hey for Work(hey.com)
1 points by ilikepi 6y ago|0 comments
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by ilikepi 6y ago
I think part of the challenge (from my perspective, as someone who only rarely needs to mess with python) is not that the workflow you describe is particularly complicated in isolation, it's the shear number of different tools that ost

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