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by larvaetron 4y ago
I've been mostly a lurker on HN for over a decade. I never thought I'd see the day where a large portion of the userbase supports bringing back mental asylums and forced medication.
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by larvaetron 4y ago
> I'm really getting tired of this kind of take. I'm really getting tired of this kind of hand-wavey response.
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by larvaetron 4y ago
They passed the selfhosting milestone a few months back IIRC
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by larvaetron 5y ago
> Disinformation is spam. I believe, at a fundamental level, this statement is far too ambiguous to be considered a reasonable conclusion.
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by larvaetron 5y ago
> there's a lot of "anti censorship" warriors in this thread You say that as if being "anti censorship" is a weird, or bad thing. What reasonable person would agree that being "pro censorship" is an ide
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by larvaetron 5y ago
UEFI technically isn't single-tasking, it has a task scheduler.
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by larvaetron 5y ago
So copyright isn't a thing anymore?
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by larvaetron 5y ago
> There are legit reasons to have a router be publicly accessible. No, there are not. > How else would one remotely manage a router Over a WireGuard connection to a secure management network. > The only real issue would be using a
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by larvaetron 5y ago
> even though lobsters is a directly competing message board lobste.rs is invite only, so not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
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by larvaetron 6y ago
> Almost every day I see some comment by an "ex-Redditor," "Reddit refugee," etc. on HN and similar sites. I wonder if this has anything to do with the "downvoting comments I don't like" phenomenon that
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by larvaetron 6y ago
> You are not genuinely curious. You are not genuinely asking. You do not genuinely wonder if there is altruism involved. What the hell kind of comment is this? Who are YOU to make that assertion?
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by larvaetron 6y ago
Did this project previously go by a different name? Maybe I'm misremembering but I could swear I saw something like this posted a few years back, the Calculator demo in particular.
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by larvaetron 6y ago
The "graying out comments I don't like" effect on HN is getting really bad lately.
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by larvaetron 7y ago
> It's illegal for anyone else to deliver letters. Tell that to FedEx[0]. [0]: http://www.fedex.com/gp_english/tools/package1.html
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by larvaetron 7y ago
> It's a structure where we put men on stage and leave (a few) women to silently sit in the back. That's quite a bold claim. Can you delineate this "structure", since you seem confident that the organizers are making
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by larvaetron 7y ago
In which states? I've never heard of an instance where any state legislature passed a rule that forbids employees from discussing politics. I'm surprised there wouldn't be massive outrage over it.
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by larvaetron 7y ago
> So it surprises me that so many people were frustrated by it. That might have been (in part) due to all of the underpowered PCs sold with "Windows Vista Capable" badges, IIRC there was a class-action lawsuit because of it.
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by larvaetron 7y ago
It's kind of funny that the styling example is literally just plain-old CSS and HTML, not sure if that was intentional?
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by larvaetron 7y ago
> you dont have to log in ever again. That isn't my experience. Every so often I visit a few locations and hop on the xfinitywifi, and I need to authenticate each time.
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by larvaetron 7y ago
> it's just a proof that it CAN be done, rather than a practical solution. Thankfully this is Hacker News, not Practical News.
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by larvaetron 9y ago
> (Edit #1, 7.30pm GMT): A lot of people are saying that this flaw requires physical access. However, as I pointed out above, you don’t need physical access, a maliciously installed application can easily access the activity and capture
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by larvaetron 9y ago
>Some graphical FTP clients might download a list of files, but certainly not all. Certainly, most? I can't think of any FTP GUI application I've ever used not displaying a list of files stored on the remote host upon connectin
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by larvaetron 9y ago
Innovis as well.
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by larvaetron 9y ago
It would be analogous to a security breach of a manufacturer's database of keycuts and corresponding locks, not outright refusing to lock your doors.
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by larvaetron 9y ago
Which is great if you're able to do that before someone snatches your phone and aims the camera at your face to unlock it.
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by larvaetron 9y ago
> Did you know that your browser (Opera ) is out of date? Erm, thanks... but I'm using Chrome on a Google Pixel?
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by larvaetron 9y ago
It probably varies by state in the US, I know that where I live, the primary lienholder is in possession of the title and releases it when the loan is paid in full. I can't think of a scenario where I could own a vehicle and physically
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by larvaetron 9y ago
I wouldn't classify "think of the children" as a right-wingers' club - Tipper Gore co-founded the PMRC.
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by larvaetron 9y ago
I guess I'm missing the point. If this is a growing trend in communication, why pretend it doesn't exist?
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by larvaetron 9y ago
The problem of not having an Active Directory REST API.

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