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by nerflad 9y ago
Wow, $75 for 15/3... I wish them well but that is seriously not competitive at all.
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by nerflad 9y ago
It's a reference to a statement the current president made during his campaign.
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by nerflad 9y ago
This. I am reasonably confident in my security on the client side, but my credit union's janky ASP site does not inspire confidence at all .
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by nerflad 9y ago
HN Tabs are like an unstoppable cancer. I'm on XFCE and I have a whole workspace dedicated to over a year's worth of articles, books, discussions, etc from HN that "I'll eventually get around to reading".
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by nerflad 9y ago
Speaking of PIA, I've noticed I get a 403 from Hacker News if I try to connect from my usual endpoint. Does HN have a no-VPN policy? Or they just block abusive domains?
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by nerflad 9y ago
What a great idea.
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by nerflad 9y ago
You're absolutely right, but the marketing for these is misleading. Many people think it's okay since they're advertised as being flushable.
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by nerflad 9y ago
I read Dan's website in Firefox Reader View. It's great. I love the plaintext web but I agree some better default styling wouldn't hurt.
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by nerflad 9y ago
Nothing like the "home base" toilet.
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by nerflad 9y ago
It's "who moved my cheese". People will violently resist changing their routines.
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Netflix user targeted by ‘Bee Movie’ ad identified(nypost.com)
4 points by nerflad 9y ago|0 comments
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by nerflad 9y ago
You may already know about Hatsune Miku[0]. I imagine it's only a matter of time before we see this kind of thing in film too. [0]: https://ec.crypton.co.jp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01_us
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by nerflad 9y ago
Important info. But Stallman's writing style is so idiosyncratic that I can't help but read it in his voice, which I find hilarious.
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by nerflad 9y ago
Software from the 80's tends not to.
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by nerflad 9y ago
Wow, just last night I was thinking about how Thunderbird is getting so long in the tooth. It's still my favorite email client. Happy to see this update!
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by nerflad 9y ago
Sounds like that could be a possibility. I found a Stack Exchange answer with a great explanation of the reason that might happen[0]. [0]: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/70696/106972
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SSH Key Collision Found on GitHub(twitter.com)
18 points by nerflad 9y ago|2 comments
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by nerflad 9y ago
What level of specificity would you no longer be comfortable with? If it had been 500 or 50 people, would that still have been okay? How you can be sure that this data is inocuous? You can't predict the intentions of every stalker o
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by nerflad 9y ago
I encourage you to check out https://hdtracks.com . As far as the expense goes, yes you're right it's a drag. One thing I like to do is buy used CD's on ebay or Amazon (usually about half price from a reseller, o
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by nerflad 9y ago
In this example, you're absolutely right, and if all they had was my name and my listening history, that wouldn't be so bad. But some of the ads do reference specific individuals. Spotify in particular have made it clear that 1
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by nerflad 9y ago
> For all we know, these claims could as well be made up. The companies have confirmed that is not the case. > They didn't actually violate these peoples privacy by dropping their names. The articles mentions a Spotif
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by nerflad 9y ago
Cute? No. These ads are smug and tone-deaf. Complete disregard for privacy has become the rule rather than the exception on the internet, and these ads practically celebrate that. I don't care if the data is anonymized. I've ne
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by nerflad 9y ago
Then I hope the mods change the title to something like "Much of what you hear about Tulip Fever is exaggerated".
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by nerflad 9y ago
Thanks, I should have googled before replying.
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by nerflad 9y ago
Oops, that was supposed to be a a footnote (just my acknowledgement that there had been some changes to cmd for Windows 10), but I decided to put it inline. Can't edit with the HN app I'm using currently.
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by nerflad 9y ago
I know all about the alternative terminals for Windows and none of them are much better. ConEmu feels so hacky and way out of scope for what it's supposed to be doing. Does it still require Administrator, and hook directly into the f
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by nerflad 9y ago
That comment was supposedly put in the code for an intern who was still learning about the system. "You are not expected to understand this", as in, "this will not be on the test".
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by nerflad 9y ago
I'm interested how well the client works under cmd.exe. Last I tried to use ssh via cygwin, I remember having a lot of issues with escape codes not working, to the point that I had to go ahead and install puTTY anyway, just because i
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by nerflad 9y ago
Markets are a reflection of human action. Political science is concerned with quantifying and influencing human action, thus markets are a fundamental feature of all political schools of thought.
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by nerflad 9y ago
I'll check it out. Thank you.

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