notzorbo3

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by notzorbo3 9y ago
> A pity that multinational companies can usually afford much better lawyers than the average Joe. I'm always amazed at how afraid customers are of companies in the US/UK. Like this article, where they threaten legal action and
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
> the alternative, having no formal history lessons, is far worse It depends. If the history lessons are strongly indoctrinating, then it's better not to have them. How many of the very good principles of Communism are being dismiss
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
Maybe we should have our worst historical enemies write our history textbooks for us.
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
> My history texts taught me to be once quite strongly of the belief that the atomic bombings of Japan were necessary, and even saved lives So that's where that attitude / excuse comes from whenever I talk to americans about th
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
>I just know a lot of people find side projects fun because they can let loose a bit and try out random stuff that may not be their "best" code. This is still a huge asset. It's important for a person to want to grow and l
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
When I look at a developer's Github profile I know that: 1. They care enough to have a Github profile 2. I can see their actual interests. 3. I know they're interested in random experiments 4. I can see if and how they treat their
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
> Employers don't care. The wrong empoyers don't care. The right ones do. My github portfolio is a means for me to determine if a potential employer is suitable for me, not the other way around. It's not a test for me
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
Why not? Can you elaborate? Because 10 minutes with a Github account is enough for me to decide whether I'd hire someone or not.
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
You know what's universally hard? Finding people who are good at their jobs. References don't matter, experience doesn't matter, education doesn't matter. Why not? Because it doesn't say anything about actual skill.
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_issues
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
In modern times (read: every site leaks its database all over the place), you really need a different password per service. XKCD approach isn't going to help, since you'll never be able to remember the password to a site you haven
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
Can you elaborate a bit? I'm asking because as a bit of security aficionado, I've yet to see a scheme that's better than passwords + 2FA.
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
> that the passwords would be recoverable by you Just click "Forgot password"?
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
Diceware encourages reuse of a single password on multiple sites. It's also much more time consuming than just clicking the "randomly generate password" button and having it spit out a 30 char password. That, and a randomly g
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
This page is more broken than usual, so it's still interesting. Regardless of you snide remark.
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
It's interesting that people go out of their way to complain about their privacy being invaded by cameras, drones, the NSA snooping backbones, google, etc but most of us are fine with out browsers connecting to 61 different domains (CN
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
The craziness is that more and more sites won't even render anymore without third-party javascript. Without bootstrap, jquery, fonts, etc, at least the page will still work, and it will work better because there's no bootstrap, jq
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
Normal website works fine without cookies and javascript. AMP version does not. It gives you a blank page. Thus, AMP is bad, since a simple HTML page like this one should never require javascript to just display the contents.
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
> It really has changed the way I use the internet. I agree so much. I cannot recommend umatrix highly enough. It has put me completely back in control of what sites can and can't do. I block everything by default except for first-p
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
I run umatrix, and I block everything. Cookies, CSS, images, scripts, media, XHR, etc. Everything, except for CSS and images from the thirst-party domain (e.g. *.ycombinator.com). Most sites actually work better with this. They're fast
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
Most vulnerabilities are listed as: "allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user". So it would seem that Edge is good at preventing elevated privileges. However, I don't care at all about e
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
Thinking the "market will fix everything eventually" is like thinking democracy will eventually fix a dictatorship.
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
Location History is something different I believe. It's whether Android / Google stores the history of places you've been too. It says nothing about whether it's doing things with your current location. On Android 7.x: S
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
Android's location tracking is a feature and I believe is not turned on automatically. Most of Windows 10's data collection serves no obvious purpose and is on by default. It's also 4 screens full of toggles that make you go
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
Let's also quote the relevant parts: > However, it failed to result in major concessions from the British.
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
If you do those things to a force invading your country, sure. For protests, no.
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
It's probably a combination of high cost of texts at the time when Whatsapp became popular, no limit (or much larger limit) to the size of texts, a reasonable probability of texts not arriving or arriving late and a "fuck telcos f
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
That's even worse, because it makes it easier to correlate when two people are Whatsapping with each other. If they both happen to be online at the same time a lot...
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
> They provided details - the passwords were salted SHA1 hashes which is not a pretty story to tell in this day and age, but they told it truthfully regardless The leak is from 2012, which might explain SHA1 usage. It should still have b
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by notzorbo3 9y ago
There's plenty of gamified learning out there. It's just not something most educators want to use for some reason. Learning has to be boring and dull after all! Meanwhile, I started learning english (not a native speaker) at age 5

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