mcovey

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by mcovey 12y ago
It's configurable (you can disable it in settings), and its intention is supposedly to block sending a referrer header.
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by mcovey 12y ago
>I need time, low pressure, and privacy to code well. Me too. I've had jobs where I had to work in areas with high foot traffic, lots of distractions, I could never get in "the zone" and never got any real work done. Well,
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by mcovey 12y ago
instead of "shittysecurity.com" you might want to use something like "example.com", for one because some people will see it as inflammatory, and because some eager devs might be presenting this to bosses who will take of
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by mcovey 12y ago
I've already had to put my money where my mouth is and quit a job over a noncompete clause once. I am fine signing agreements to never disclose anything imaginable about a job, to return company property and destroy any copies of docum
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by mcovey 12y ago
tcplay - https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play - is truecrypt compatible but based on dm-crypt, afaik it's only compatible with Linux/BSD although for privacy-conscious individuals, few other operating systems ma
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by mcovey 12y ago
It's off by default. I've made the informed choice to opt in because I read their blog and understand how they work and I like the product. There could be no less offensive way of collecting data.
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by mcovey 13y ago
I've driven several cars with a backup camera and never used it, instead I used my eyes. Maybe I'm just not used to them since my main vehicle doesn't have one, but I feel like the one time I need it to work it will have some
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by mcovey 13y ago
I wish I could pick the language so I could upload shell scripts without extensions, but it doesn't even read the shebang line.
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by mcovey 13y ago
I have no idea as to the status of userscripts on mobile devices but at least on the desktop they are my go-to for personalizing my internet: ("news.ycombinator.com" === window.location.hostname) && (function ()
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by mcovey 13y ago
echo ' 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com' >> /etc/hosts
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by mcovey 13y ago
https://github.com/fatih/subvim - unfortunately "Linux version is on the todo list, I'll work on it asap"
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by mcovey 13y ago
I want an RSS feed
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by mcovey 13y ago
One program I missed when I moved from Windows to Linux was Freename - http://freename.sourceforge.net/ - which does exactly this. My solution was a bit hackier, a bash script that did spit out a bunch of lines for each fil
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by mcovey 13y ago
I'm in the same boat I gave up on TV and movies altogether, and more recently forced myself to give up political/world news as well. It's quite nice.
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by mcovey 13y ago
Gmail's HTML-only mode works fine in Opera 12, and unless you really like the (imho slow and bloated) interface of regular gmail, it is better . The only issues I had were bulk deleting spam and trash, it took me only a 5 line userscr
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by mcovey 13y ago
Dragonfly was/is by far the best debugger of any browser. I still use Opera 12 so I still use it, but for how much longer remains to be seen... I don't have high hopes for the new Opera being supported on Linux and even if it is,
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by mcovey 13y ago
I had a really bad ant problem with sugar ants a few months ago. I used a bait called terro that is actually just borax and sugar water. Mine were coming from the wall somewhere, and coming up under the carpet, I put the baits underneath th
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by mcovey 13y ago
The code is unfortunately written in straight procedural PHP. It is kind of spaghetti code. The end result is quite pretty, but it ignores all of the best practices in PHP development right now. Also the last time I tried to set it up, it r
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by mcovey 13y ago
I've not even got time to coordinate outsourcing my impending fortune. You can forward those profits to my checking account.
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by mcovey 13y ago
Agreed. The official story sounds made up.
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by mcovey 13y ago
You can get a quite simpler look if you disable javascript. Same goes for gmail, I've been using gmail's html-only interface (well, there actually is some js but its not required) and I get a kick out of how many complaints I hear
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by mcovey 13y ago
Per-site preferences will be returning to Opera in a future version, so don't lose hope.
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by mcovey 13y ago
They didn't just switch to webkit, they killed the product and made a chromium fork, and called it "Opera."
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by mcovey 13y ago
Ahh this is why I've always gotten an account that can not overdraft, and I refuse to opt-in to any overdraft crap. If I am out of money, I want to be out of money, and to not be able to buy things, period.
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by mcovey 13y ago
One of the last complaints anyone has had about PHP is that it's slow. PHP's main competitors have only recently begun to catch up in terms of speed, and the future of PHP is looking like it's going to remain competitive and
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by mcovey 13y ago
Probably AES, not RSA. IIRC a 128-bit AES key is about equivalent in security to a 2048-bit RSA key.
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by mcovey 13y ago
>fourth Clinton administration I contemplate killing myself every time I imagine this possibility.
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by mcovey 13y ago
Instead of going through all this hassle with private clouds just to avoid using a service like Dropbox, I have some shell scripts that use rsync and curl to grab almost everything I want to back up from my hard drive and the internet (rss
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by mcovey 13y ago
The point is to host outside the US because it hurts the US economy and takes their business away. That is the only way to get anything done in America. If it hurts the economy, they will do anything to fix it. Of course the USA is leading
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by mcovey 13y ago
> How do you square that with the claim that the NSA is tracking only metadata? It's horseshit.

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