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by jvdh 11y ago
that's exactly the wrong way to think about this. If we want everybody else to use these kinds of tools, they have to look good, and be easy to use.
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The Taboo of Burnout(reddit.com)
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by jvdh 11y ago
The Netherlands has seen some refinement of the cookie law, and there are some sites, for example http://www.ns.nl where you now have a choice in what kind of cookies you want to allow. Again, companies are trying very hard to h
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by jvdh 11y ago
The idea behind this proposal was a noble one: companies should ask permission before invading the privacy of consumers. Unfortunately, companies collectively decided that their businessmodel does not need changing at all, and simply implem
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by jvdh 11y ago
The article is using 'fancy' graphs, economic 101 and a long analysis to hide the fact that he is basing most of his theory on gut feeling. There are several points at which he states this himself, but fails to mention that these
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by jvdh 11y ago
The video on their site is terrible. It's some kind of artsy impression of what you could do with the suit. That's all fine, but it gives the impression that the suit is just some kind of band that you pull around your chest and t
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by jvdh 11y ago
Discovering Path MTU black holes on the Internet using RIPE Atlas: https://www.os3.nl/_media/2011-2012/courses/rp2/p57_report.p... A Master thesis research report from 2012 which examined this very probl
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by jvdh 12y ago
Like I said, this changed my interests and career. I've written several papers on this, including one analyzing the ethical aspects of violating users' privacy to support a general cause. All papers are online at staff.fnwi.uva.nl
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by jvdh 12y ago
I have less of a problem with downloading being illegal in general. I strongly object to censorship in a democratic society, especially without a good checking mechanism or rules about ending a blockade.
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by jvdh 12y ago
I'm going to answer from my own experience, which may or may not fit your situation at all (you're kind of vague about it, so there's no way to judge). This is also in part inspired by the comment of humanarity ( https:/
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by jvdh 12y ago
Reading the abstract and the conclusion is the most important part of reading and selecting academic papers. Especially in the beginning. If you read the abstract and the conclusion you should have a good sense of what this paper is about,
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by jvdh 12y ago
First of all, I'm a bit surprised that the article does not even mention Club Mate. Second, it's catching on in the Netherlands through the underground. All hackerspaces have their own supply line, either through their own import,
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by jvdh 12y ago
As a user you're exposing your reading habits to them. You can't know whether they do something with that or not. They don't even mention it.
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by jvdh 12y ago
I've switched recently to a self-hosted TinyTinyRSS, and it works like a charm: http://tt-rss.org I've been trying to rid of Google products as much as possible. I have a mail-server, an ownCloud instance and since re
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by jvdh 12y ago
It's fascinating to see all the comments around it on Reddit and other sites. See http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page for more links. The largest group of people commenting seem to be able to
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by jvdh 12y ago
Do you think it is feasible to release a similarly priced, similarly capable device with completely open hardware? The RPi has sold immensely to home users, but also in education. The foundation is also open to criticism and has shown in th
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by jvdh 12y ago
The nature of DNS is redundancy. every domain must have redundant servers. Most top level domains have multiple servers that can serve results.
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by jvdh 12y ago
Interesting, trying to do that in Safari gives an error (in Italian). Something about those URLs not being allowed. I'm guessing that Chrome does allow you to do this?
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by jvdh 12y ago
> Parsecs are not metric. Heck, light years are not metric; and look at how rich the unit is, it tells you a lot about the distance. Try to express the distance to Alpha Centauri in metric units and comprehend it. The distance to Alpha C
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by jvdh 12y ago
The most important advice I tell people who are thinking about getting a PhD is that they have to be really really motivated. 100% of the PhD students have at least one moment during their PhD work that they are seriously considering quitti
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by jvdh 12y ago
> release-upgrade can be either perfect or very painful. This seems to be in the nature of the task. Freebsd-update is also often perfect, but if it goes wrong it can be very painful as well. On the other hand, you do have a rollback fea
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by jvdh 12y ago
This is not the right question to ask. Ubuntu is aimed at making Linux available to the masses on the desktop. FreeBSD has the aim to create a solid Unix environment. IMO FreeBSD is awesome as a server, and okay-ish for the desktop. PC-BSD
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by jvdh 12y ago
I have no idea which shell you used, but this has worked for years in both zsh, and also in bash on FreeBSD. With zsh you even get tab completion of ports, packages, and other command specific arguments.
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by jvdh 12y ago
I have only experienced ADHD second hand, my partner has been diagnosed with it years ago, and a good friend of mine as well. I recognise the "coping mechanisms" with alcohol, and the frustration of getting mundane things done. Th
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by jvdh 12y ago
If you want authors to actually write (scientific) papers in this editor you'll need a lot more: * including figures, with captions * tabels, with captions * sections * Something like the \ref{} command to refer to tables, fi
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by jvdh 12y ago
Consider the layout that he applied to the citation sentence, where Word waves a magic wand and leaves some of them italic and some not. The simplicity of WordPerfect and LyX does not do that. The underlying problem is that Word tries to be
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by jvdh 12y ago
Most houses have windows, which are usually a lot less secure than walls or doors. If you want to get in, you can, it's just a matter of time.
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by jvdh 12y ago
This is exploitable now. Padding oracles have been found before, and are even homework assignments of the Coursera cryptography course. The specifics of this bug make it a little bit harder but the paper explains how to work around this. E
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by jvdh 12y ago
The bad quality of pictures don't help the story. Both his pictures and the website itself look like they were made in the 90s. The author of the "interview" also admits that he has not physically met Jim Green. What also doe
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by jvdh 12y ago
Kudos for stating the obvious. Now how do we do something about this?

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