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by kobayashi 8y ago
Related longform article from a first-person perspective: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/07/07/a-sudden-illne... Edit: Weird...this article now also on the first page of HN.
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Simply put, libraries are incredible(nationalpost.com)
1 points by kobayashi 8y ago|0 comments
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by kobayashi 8y ago
I was setting up a new network and thought it was my settings! I've been driving myself mad for the last 45 minutes thinking that I had fudged up somewhere! Thank goodness for this post
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by kobayashi 8y ago
Pulled?
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by kobayashi 8y ago
I strongly disagree with your portrayal of Turkey’s problems as not being in large part stemming from Erdoğan and his rule. He has hollowed out the government and banking institutions of capable and educated, in favour of political function
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by kobayashi 8y ago
I'm in the exact same boat. Better treatment than I've given to an iPhone 6s and iPhone 5, and despite neither of those phones ever having had any visible scratches, my iPhone X is COVERED in microscratches. And to be clear, alway
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by kobayashi 8y ago
>I have no love for Apple (clearly) For those who are unaware, Saurik created Cydia, the package manager for jailbroken iOS devices, as well as a whole bunch of jailbroken iOS-related software.
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by kobayashi 8y ago
How far into the future? 1Password 8?
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by kobayashi 8y ago
Thank you for the info. If anyone is here from AgileBits/1Password please chime in.
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by kobayashi 8y ago
Are you sure they’ve killed WLAN sync??
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by kobayashi 8y ago
Also it’s a constitutional issue in Canada. The foundation of Canada was by mainly two groups: the English settlers in the French settlers. The confederation of Canada therefore gave both languages equal status.
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by kobayashi 8y ago
This is the first VPN provider to seem to have secured official access to Netflix via a VPN server. The offering is limited to the upper-tier paid plans. It's unclear to me how such an offering was secured, as Netflix has yet to commen
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ProtonVPN now officially supports watching Netflix from certain servers(protonvpn.com)
2 points by kobayashi 8y ago|2 comments
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by kobayashi 9y ago
Thanks very much — both for this reply and for all your write-ups!
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by kobayashi 9y ago
Do you think that these top-tier cards are necessary for use in a Pi-Hole in an average home? Or is something like a Lexar card good enough?
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by kobayashi 9y ago
Has anyone found there to be a noticeable difference between a Lexar (or the like) and a Samsung Evo+ when using a Pi-Hole?
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by kobayashi 9y ago
Where is that setting on iOS?
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by kobayashi 9y ago
I think you're referring to Broadcom trying to acquire Qualcomm. Very different situation. This is a good breakdown of why that was blocked: https://stratechery.com/2018/qualcomm-national-security-and-...
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by kobayashi 9y ago
This is better than nothing, but the fact that it's only _client side applications_ means that this is doesn't add much security for PIA users. The largest threat of PIA has never centred about their client app, but in their serve
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by kobayashi 9y ago
There is no such consensus. As extensively outlined elsewhere (such as the r/science reddit thread posted elsewhere on this HN page), this group seems to have had an agenda other than rigorous scientific exploration.
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by kobayashi 9y ago
All of your comment is accurate. In addition, this is not news in the sense that this is not _new_. Anecdotally, this feature has been active for many for months, if not years.
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by kobayashi 9y ago
I had a similar issue a long time ago. I was able to circumvent the roadblock by signing up on a different device, and then signing in on the original device.
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by kobayashi 9y ago
In my previous experience with Wallabag (approx 2 years ago) I found their text-to-speech functionality to be significantly worse than Pocket, which is a shame.
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Pocket Removes Hacker News, Reddit 'Save to Pocket' Browser Integrations
6 points by kobayashi 9y ago|4 comments
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by kobayashi 9y ago
Tim Urban of Wait But Why is a national treasure. One of his best-ever articles.
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by kobayashi 9y ago
And/or prioritize PGP support
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by kobayashi 9y ago
How privileged you are, then, not to live under the Chinese regime.
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by kobayashi 9y ago
This seems to be why: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x24.html
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by kobayashi 9y ago
These alt-rightists are about 180 degrees away from neoconservatives. Neocons are the most vocal Never Trump conservative contingent.
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PayPal’s Emails Encourage Dangerous Habits(cantoriscomputing.wordpress.com)
2 points by kobayashi 9y ago|0 comments

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