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by jwalton 6y ago
The information that was scraped here, though, are phone numbers that Facebook requires you to add to your account and that they promised would not be used for anything other than authentication purposes. Most of these numbers should not h
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by jwalton 6y ago
Yes, it’s a broad industry issue that companies like Facebook will ask us for our phone numbers and promise they will only be used for authentication [1], and then leak them by publishing them on the Internet and letting third parties scrap
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by jwalton 6y ago
> The DMCA already makes it easy enough to keep things like KickAssTorrents offline, which was honestly the closest I've seen to a good tracker going mainstream. The DMCA is an American law, which does not apply in Canada or much of
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Now you can create an API where it’s not enough to pass in an object that has all the properties the API requires, it has to have some special inscrutable magic that you can’t programmatically observe. I can only imagine the sort of conf
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by jwalton 6y ago
Not only is this kind of a useless product, it hijacks the scroll bar. :(
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And punk kids would be covering them over with stickers that machine read as something entirely different. :P Not as easy a thing to crack as it could be. You could cryptographically sign them (sign your signs!) and maybe encode approxima
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by jwalton 6y ago
Not that I know of. Also, not that “alt-s” will produce an s character on a US keyboard on windows, but will not produce an s on MacOS with a US layout - alt-anything will produce all sorts of interesting characters on MacOS.
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I think it’s called a “pleasure card” because it’s supposed to be the opposite of a “business card” (like the idiom “business or pleasure”.)
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by jwalton 6y ago
The ideal justice system would not help you get revenge on someone who killed your family, but dissuade anyone from killing your family in the first place?
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by jwalton 6y ago
The number may have been chosen for legal reasons. Here in Ontario, we have no fault insurance, but if you're in an accident with another car from out-of-province, and you caused the accident, you/your insurance will be sued for
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by jwalton 6y ago
*debounce Stupid autocorrect.
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by jwalton 6y ago
This is the function they are using to detect the background color: https://github.com/muesli/termenv/blob/d1b90ad4a4915162648dd... (There’s a different version of it for Windows.)
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by jwalton 6y ago
> if it's not possible by being emphatic "Emphatic" means "forceful and definite in expression or action." Maybe you meant "empathetic"?
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by jwalton 6y ago
Things that should be simple are surprisingly complicated in go. If you hit up DuckDuckGo, and search for “golang denounce”, the first two hits are very simple implementations of denouncing a function in go... both of which leak goroutines
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by jwalton 6y ago
I ported XScreenSaver to Windows years ago, but Mr. Zawinski asked me not to distribute it because he didn’t want his work to help promote Windows.
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Historically, countries that have outlawed speech have outlawed “talking about being gay” far more often than “harassing gay people”. I suspect it’s a unique form of madness that assumes that if you open the door to outlawing speech in Ame
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by jwalton 6y ago
1) The car can have different behaviour if a passenger is onboard or not. Most passenger cars already disable the passenger side airbag if no one is sitting in the passenger seat. 2) If I’m not in my car and it’s driving around, and police
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GChalk – Terminal string styling for Golang, with painless Win10 support(github.com)
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I had a similar 1Password moment. I was buying airline tickets; entered my name, my wife’s name, address, declined insurance, declined hotel offer, scroll scroll scroll... Then I let 1Password fill in my payment details, which it did perfec
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Go channels are bad and you should feel bad (2016)(jtolio.com)
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Only if you think the horrific damage done to American democracy by Facebook and friends was more than offset by a little extra tax revenue.
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by jwalton 6y ago
Seems like the US didn’t enforce antitrust laws and allowed YouTube to grow into a monstrous monopoly, because they wanted Internet revenues to all flow into America rather than into a variety of companies, some of which might end up not be
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by jwalton 6y ago
The "Gyro-Cube" example seems to have the alpha and gamma angles swapped.
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By the time it’s in your go.mod, the malicious software has already been downloaded and installed on your machine, though. Damage may already have been done at that point.
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It’d be nice if you had a brief explanation of what all these flags are and why you’re using them. You can after all convey a video to gif with “ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -o video.gif”.
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by jwalton 6y ago
My daughter uses Messenger Kids to interact with her friends, now that COVID means she can’t see any of them in real life. (It wouldn’t have been my first choice, but it’s what all the other kids are on, so we have no real choice.) If she a
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by jwalton 6y ago
I don’t understand how people can stand to use Facebook. It was fun a long time ago. Then, when I didn’t use it for a few weeks, I started getting “notifications” that, instead of saying “someone commented on your post” or “someone liked yo
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by jwalton 6y ago
Another reason not to use EST/EDT is that they are overspecifying the time zone in most cases. If you ask for output in EDT, but the date is in December (which is not part of daylight savings time) then should the date output be UTC-4
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by jwalton 6y ago
I spent an entire weekend, dialed in by modem from Canada to a certain oil exporting middle eastern country, trying to figure out why the control plane for the ATM WAN that ran LANE for all their hospitals and 911 services was down. Fun ti
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by jwalton 6y ago
"prod-web02" implies that this is the second web server in a cluster of web servers. That makes a lot of sense in 2021, where "prod-web02" is likely an AWS instance or a docker VM that is doing nothing but serving web p

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