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Ask HN: How do you protect your parents from tech scammers?
155 points by nilsb 7y ago|180 comments
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by nilsb 7y ago
We've certainly come a long way since https://www.cnet.com/news/food-domain-found-obscene/ - or have we?
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by nilsb 7y ago
While it's a fascinating project I'd have some security concerns about plugging someone's USB business card into my computer.
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by nilsb 7y ago
Unfortunately I don't have much experience with btrfs, however I've found the CLI commands for ZFS to be much more intuitive to use - both in terms of how they're invoked and their output. There's one command for handlin
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by nilsb 7y ago
I contributed a few patches to ZFS on Linux about 8 years ago - at a time when it was still very much in its infancy and panic'd when you looked at it in the wrong way. It's incredible how far they've come. We're using Z
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by nilsb 7y ago
Indeed, this is why for C++ people are generally told to use std::vector (i.e. arrays) when some other data structure may in theory be more appropriate.
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by nilsb 7y ago
There's also https://wheelmap.org/ which focuses on tagging accessibility issues with shops and other buildings on OSM.
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by nilsb 7y ago
I tend to have dozens of tabs open at the same time. However, only a few of them usually have video elements and Chrome could probably discard the media cache for all of them - except for the currently active one. My assumption here is that
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by nilsb 7y ago
Or maybe the "rise" in autism rates is due to the fact that our diagnostic tools have become more advanced in the past 20 years which has resulted in more people getting their diagnoses. In particular older people (i.e. 30+) are g
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by nilsb 10y ago
This sounds like something that could have a potential use for non-hearing-impaired people who have sensory overload issues (e.g. autism).