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by jacobwg 9y ago
Without https, a man in the middle could easily rewrite your website's content in different ways for different purposes, inject scripts, etc. Which at first sounds a little theoretical except that ISPs have actually done this to injec
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by jacobwg 9y ago
I believe Opera is simply loading the webapps for these services in a web panel, so it's "official" in that it loads the official UI, but unofficial in that it's not a corporate partnership.
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by jacobwg 9y ago
I've seen secrets stored in special files, or personally I prefer something like https://www.vaultproject.io/ , which may still use environment variables, but they can potentially be passed in in a more secure, controll
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by jacobwg 9y ago
A LOT of spam originates from EC2, to the point that many major email providers have blocked all of EC2.
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by jacobwg 9y ago
The problem here is bandwidth - people on capped internet plans won't want to participate in the tor network traffic by running a relay on their IoT devices.
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by jacobwg 10y ago
Because Google is primarily (not solely) an advertising / information company, so there's a financial incentive to sacrifice privacy. Apple is primarily (not solely) a hardware / product company, so the financial incentives a
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To www or not www(netlify.com)
208 points by jacobwg 10y ago|125 comments
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by jacobwg 10y ago
The difference there is you can potentially do something about it, vs having to wait on an upstream provider to fix an issue for everybody.
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by jacobwg 10y ago
I can second many of the things already posted. I would also emphasize that unemployment, if available, helps tide things over financially and you should file for it immediately . It takes a few weeks before the first unemployment check a
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by jacobwg 10y ago
There is no mention of David Cay Johnston on the page - it says the author is "Sarah Okeson".
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by jacobwg 10y ago
Yes, and that's why there are mining pools, where Joe Bloggs connects his computer to a pool of other similarly underpowered computers to perform the complex calculations required to mine a block in a distributed fashion. Then when a
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Plex Skill for Amazon Alexa(plex.tv)
2 points by jacobwg 10y ago|0 comments
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by jacobwg 10y ago
True - I liked that it had some points to think about and a few insights, but it is fairly heavy-handed. Just finished Cumulus as a similar recommendation to the Circle and hated it. It made the Circle look wonderfully nuanced in compari
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by jacobwg 10y ago
Reminds me of the fictional TruYou product from the book The Circle . Which is a fascinating read that explores how "good" intentions like this can end in undesirable results.
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by jacobwg 10y ago
I may be missing something, but how is this: let response = await request` url: https://api.myapp.com/register method: POST body: ${body} headers: ${{ Authorization: 'Bearer: token' }}
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by jacobwg 10y ago
Currently an 8. Worked at an 8 or 9 a few years ago, architecting large parts of a startup's backend and really enjoyed the creative freedom. Then changed jobs and hopped on the new technology hype train and burned myself out down to
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Why We Chose Turbolinks(changelog.com)
9 points by jacobwg 10y ago|0 comments
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by jacobwg 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12948043 , but no idea why this one is a dupe now (since the top comment explains it was buried to avoid flagging future posts as dupe).
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by jacobwg 10y ago
I read someplace that the phenomenon of modern celebrities and the communication networks / styles necessary to develop those celebrities started to take off at a time that coincides with those ever-increasing numbers of celebrities to
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by jacobwg 10y ago
A link to the demo from Adobe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw
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by jacobwg 10y ago
Yeah, I tend to agree, which is why the word is in quotes. It's intended to be democracy, it's billed as democracy, but it doesn't seem to really be what it's supposed to be.
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by jacobwg 10y ago
It's a massive country with extreme diversity. There's lots of people who see what is going on like you do, and lots who don't. Point being, just know that many, many people on the inside aren't "brainwashed"
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Plex Cloud(plex.tv)
2 points by jacobwg 10y ago|0 comments
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by jacobwg 10y ago
For those of us who don't know what this was, what was it?
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To Air Is Human, Plex DVR Is Divine(plex.tv)
1 points by jacobwg 10y ago|0 comments
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by jacobwg 10y ago
From 21 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12145137
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by jacobwg 10y ago
GitHub will actually render a full preview on the website, no download required. https://github.com/ionescu007/lxss/blob/master/The%20Linux%2...
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Replacing React with Rails(blog.jacobwgillespie.com)
2 points by jacobwg 10y ago|0 comments
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The gift of privacy: How Edward Snowden changed the way I parent(salon.com)
3 points by jacobwg 10y ago|0 comments
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Half Staff – SMS messages when the US flag is lowered(halfstaff.co)
1 points by jacobwg 10y ago|0 comments

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