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Nice to see the love as this goes through the phases first as an incubator project and now the real enchilada. Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389727 (Oct2017:1096poi
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src: A Guide to Not Getting Hacked | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15733698 (15735789)(Nov2017:175points,78 comments) A very similar conversation to this one, but with more criticism of the advice in the associated a
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I believe it is headed for Linux kernel mainline soon-ish. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15596963
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This is actually a great point about a highly targeted physical marketing opportunity. I recently saw a small sign nailed to a tree on one of the thousands of back roads in the area that basically turn into a parking lot during rush hour. I
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Too bad O'Reilly no longer sells books -- Cyber Monday 50% off is no more.
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The stuff magic to me is the tools that speak both HTTPS + SSH or some other protocol, showing some normal site to anyone but those in the know. I've never had to use them since as you say few are that hardcore in their lockdowns, but
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Worth looking at ZeroTier (commercial - actually running a hardware IndieGoGo right now) and WireGuard (IPSec - 'The Next Generation' / 'Voyager' or whichever you thought was best) as modern options.
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Some may not know about Harvard's Extension School: http://blog.markshead.com/911/harvard-online-masters-degree-... Master’s degree (ALM in IT): mostly on-line (8 weeks on-campus) for appx. $30K.
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Three days ago: BountySource suspended from GitHub | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747328 Useful discussion on the concept there; they were temporarily suspended for not supporting opt-out. Whisper Systems suppor
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F5 inserts the current date / time in Notepad.
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It would be nice if more of the communication with maintainers was done in public. Then discussions such as these could be filled with links demonstrating best practices (or suggestions) in action. (Some people like me may be wary of tying
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Can you provide a link to an example of doing this or something similar?
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I remember one time Everything was mentioned someone also mentioned Wox but a reply said the combo launcher+Everything is not as good as separate tools. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13738309
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Google is definitely pushing location services hard. I was happy to learn it's possible to disable Google Now yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15743055 Another option besides an iPhone is to replace Goog
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Thanks for the heads-up re: TLS Client Channel ID. Sounds like another reason to limit my personal use of Google's Chrome browser.
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Yes. Surprised to see this is only half the way up the page. Data breaches wouldn't be the issue they are if banks were liable when they were fooled. This is definitely Don Quixote windmill territory though, the banks have a well-funde
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There are a few things that might be worth checking out: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=code%20search
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Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint (2012) [pdf](robertgaskins.com)
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You would do better to look in the Appleton area if you don't want to travel far, otherwise Milwaukee/Madison could be worth a trip (especially conferences) and Chicago should have everything. Rob Walling is in MN right now, might
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Unfortunately for me even edited video is still tougher to consume than the written word, when it comes to technical content. I have a much easier time digesting information at my own pace.
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Experiment with UEFI Using Visual Studio(github.com)
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> They've done a lot of interesting stuff in the language since it first came out It was always interesting to see which features were just syntactic sugar (and thus backwards compatible) vs. which required runtime support.
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This is good to know, an interesting contrast to YouTube TV advertising support for 6-ish account sharing out of the box. Maybe it'd be worth paying for a separate account for the TV.
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I tried to avoid gigantic quotes from the Vidcon Medium post I linked previously, but I'm assuming you read this: Our founder, Hank Green, talked with our panelist and said two things: 1. He told her that her comment had violated our
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That's a great question, and fits nicely in the context of the current discussion. I think the primary claim to fame for this C-based https://github.com/kovidgoyal/html5-parser is serving as a drop-in performance
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https://xkcd.com/1053 espouses the benefits of purposely choosing an encouraging response.
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I would love to learn more about best practices and tools for digitization, specifically focused on archiving sentimental items. Tips and tools for (relatively) inexpensive, private (not advertising/tracking-funded) and secure sharing
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The http://www.fbpurity.com/ browser extension tracks unfriending, but the main feature for me is newsfeed filters.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14588333 (beautifulsoup/lxml upgrade) > Python: interactive glue language between high performance C libraries. Appreciate this walkthrough for Rust!
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If you missed the discussion with details about how the technology actually works, rather than xplat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13559662 linked Q&A https://www.reddit.com/r/programming&#x

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