nvarsj

58 ms·

781.
by nvarsj 6y ago
That's server side encryption. My point is if you store sensitive files on a remote server not under your complete control, you should always use client side encryption. Good client side encryption will not leak filenames/director
782.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Why not just use client side encryption and be done with it? Why would anyone browse their personal files remotely on a web ui? If you care about privacy, take the proper precautions. There really isn't any competitor to B2 on price, o
783.
by nvarsj 6y ago
It's more of the fact that S3 is expensive for storing lots of data, isn't it? I think tarsnap charges only a small margin on top of S3.
784.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Exactly... all my b2 files are client side encrypted. It would be a really bad idea not to do that.
785.
by nvarsj 6y ago
The UK tax system is also hostile to families. No joint tax burden in a family makes it really tough. Lots of policies would have to change to encourage people to have children. Cost of going from a 1 bedroom apartment to 2-3 bedroom flat&#
786.
by nvarsj 6y ago
I thought some people might find it amusing the kind of mistakes I made. Here are a couple. I asked my Pakistani heritage boss when he immigrated, innocently. Note I'm an immigrant to the US myself and now the UK, so I thought it was n
787.
by nvarsj 6y ago
It's not an American thing, this happens everywhere. I moved to London from the US a few years ago, and when I first moved here, interacting with unfamiliar cultures, I made these kind of mistakes all the time.
788.
by nvarsj 6y ago
I don't think it's as simple as supply and demand as you suggest. The behavior of record companies and distributors is completely atrocious in the music industry. It's monopolist behavior, and it completely distorts the actua
789.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Let's not forget who brought us the wonderful law: Theresa May, as home secretary. Architect of the Windrush scandal, for which she took 0 responsibility. She probably envisioned the Home office doing mass denial of visas based on a lo
790.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Oh I totally agree. I treat my phone as purely a consumption and communication device. It's a dumb brick that should do those things well, including being secure. The more walled garden the better, in my opinion, as long as it's d
791.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Yeah I know how Spotify works. What I mean is the end user has no idea where the source comes from, how it was mastered or ripped, or what Spotify's criteria is for quality. It is opaque, and there have been examples of bad digital mas
792.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Roon sounds like it would be great for you - but you'll have to spend some time and money on setting it up. I have all my music in lossless FLAC on a Synology NAS and run the Roon server on there. The Roon client should work on your ph
793.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Spotify is pretty much bottom of the barrel if you're a music album fan, I think. I find it's only good at playing random songs on giant playlists, or playing the radio. Managing a library of albums is a huge pain and I still don&
794.
by nvarsj 6y ago
MUDs are great, and I think the gameplay of the best ones is still untouched by modern MMORPGs. Implementing new features, scripting new interactions, and so on takes much less work after all, being text based. You also have incredibly rich
795.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Yeah true, macro heavy code can be really difficult, as you can make your own metalanguage with macros. The ruby codebase is a lot like that, but I still find it pretty easy to read. But I can imagine someone going crazy with macros could r
796.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Google C++ looks a lot like Java, maybe that's where they are coming from. But it's still quite a stretch!
797.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Go _is_ easy to read. I can read almost any go codebase, even giant ones, and see what's going on pretty quickly. Same with C - the Linux kernel is surprisingly easy to understand once you know the basic data structures it uses. There
798.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Think you learned your lesson? I am the same, and I won't touch addictive games anymore - it takes far too much effort to get unaddicted. Not to mention all that time lost where I would have had more _real_ enjoyment, and enriched my l
799.
by nvarsj 6y ago
I can strongly recommend buying the complete Calvin and Hobbes collection off of Amazon. Especially if you have kids. I bought this when my son was around 7 and he absolutely devoured the books. He's older now but still goes back and r
800.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Is there any point to air purifiers at all? I remember researching them a while ago as a way to alleviate my allergy symptoms without medicine. But the overall scientific consensus seems very dubious. To be frank, it seems like yet another
801.
by nvarsj 6y ago
I feel like Google is a case study in an engineering only company. Everything is reduced to a technical problem. Incentives are aligned to solve technical problems. No one wants to work on something unless it is technically interesting and
802.
by nvarsj 6y ago
It's just my personal interest. I could potentially put my own research up somewhere, but it would be something fairly casual at this point. I just don't see it discussed very much, despite the ramifications for long term preserva
803.
Ask HN: Could what.cd have been considered an archive for copyright purposes?
4 points by nvarsj 6y ago|2 comments
804.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Yeah you're not wrong. I think HN is pretty good here though - we do have genuine experts (on tech) that correct people. That's why I value HN so much - I learn a lot even when I make stupid, wrong comments.
805.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Yes, it's a reductionist argument that can apply to literally anything. Let's just delete all user discussions on the internet, and only allow PhD granted experts to discuss things on panels where they must provide primary sources
806.
by nvarsj 6y ago
> Also, there's this huge misconception that the markets are "free", and that means anyone can participate You just hit the nail on the head. Lots of people believe that in a free and fair market, everyone should have equa
807.
by nvarsj 6y ago
I use Starling for my business (Monzo didn't have business accounts at the time). The app is much worse than Monzo. However they do have better export facilities, and you can do transfers via website, so for business I think it is more
808.
by nvarsj 6y ago
What a strange comment. Their "hipster stack" works really, really well. It's the best banking UX available by far, and I've moved all my primary banking to it.
809.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Their architect lamps are still good and last for ages. They cost £10 - the designer ones cost over a hundred pounds.
810.
by nvarsj 6y ago
Did you read the article? The census considers anyone with Japanese citizenship to be "Japanese". Therefore it's useless as a measure of ethnic diversity.

More ›