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by p49k 6y ago
tarsnap is dead simple to use if you have classic Unix sysadmin knowledge, it takes care of the encryption/deduplication work behind the scenes, I trust it to work properly and be secure because the creator is someone who has integrit
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by p49k 6y ago
It’s a shame that no major online source or aggregator of news has tried to address this problem. Most sites already track what articles their users view; they could post a notification to everyone who saw it to inform them that what they r
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by p49k 6y ago
I would encourage anyone interested in this article to read it thoroughly to the end. This is one of the most satisfying articles I’ve read recently and I really enjoy the author’s unique sense of humor.
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by p49k 6y ago
They look exactly like AirPods, though, which is a design Apple created, as an evolution of EarPods. When EarPods were released, they looked unlike any earbuds ever released, despite the fact that ear buds as a product have existed for 30 y
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by p49k 6y ago
With heartbleed, a bug in the implementation of the protocol led to the server randomly leaking contents of the server’s memory, which could be anything from private keys to user or system passwords to other confidential information. No pas
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by p49k 6y ago
Heartbleed caused data leakage in the handshake phase of the protocol. I don’t know if SSH was affected, but there’s no reason why a similar exploit won’t be found for SSH in the future, and trivially obscuring your SSH port protects you
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by p49k 6y ago
A HN comment in another thread (which I can’t find atm) states that this is no longer relevant because exchanges now allow colocation in the same buildings as the servers running the exchange, and it’s relatively inexpensive. Is that commen
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by p49k 6y ago
I was blown away by GPT-3 until I got to try it myself and realized that most of the praise is based on cherry-picked examples. You can try it out at https://philosopherai.com to see for yourself.
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by p49k 6y ago
I think that for identical reasons, browser extensions should be severely restricted on dev machines to a whitelist. I think it’s crazy how so many developers install Chrome extensions managed by random anonymous people which often have bro
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by p49k 6y ago
You and others are providing a willfully ignorant and overly simplistic presentation of what affirmative action is. Your question is in bad faith. I don’t agree with a lot of political opinions of others but I don’t try to pretend like I do
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by p49k 6y ago
False dichotomy. No one is claiming that Apple shouldn’t be able to provide the option of limiting phones with parental controls to the main App Store if the parents set it up that way.
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It was never disallowed for developers to charge a higher fee on iOS app store purchases. They just aren’t allowed to make the user aware that they are paying more than required or explain why.
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I'm not a tax attorney, but I know that there are serious restrictions on how two companies (non profit or otherwise) owned by the same people or entities are allowed to use them to benefit each other. Those restrictions exist for obvi
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by p49k 6y ago
I’m not sure why you’re being snarky and uncivil. Yes they are related (never said they weren’t), but the Foundation cannot transfer $245k to the Corporation to help fund salaries of workers. The Corp exists to be run as a business and the
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by p49k 6y ago
The for-profit Mozilla Corporation laid off developers. The not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation is launching this initiative.
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by p49k 6y ago
I’ve heard hundreds of supporters speak and the message is fairly uniform: reduce the operational scope and budget of police significantly and use those resources on programs - proven to work elsewhere - which help people and communities in
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Anyone who has had discussions with such supporters in good faith would be aware that they are closely aligned on the central points of reform.
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by p49k 6y ago
Your comment makes a strong implication that prices are correlated with quality (and thus attempts to provide justification for price gouging by Canadian telcos) but the rest of the data makes it clear that’s not the case.
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by p49k 6y ago
Companies aren't inherently "entitled to" anything either, including "personhood," avoidance of personal liability of shareholders for company actions, patents and trademark protection for inventions, rights to use
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by p49k 6y ago
That’s an interesting piece of history, but how is that relevant in any way to this situation? Not just the fact that modern Western civilization doesn’t resemble 19th century England, but everything about the reasons/motivation behind
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by p49k 6y ago
Another commenter above linked to a NYT article that shows the US likely underreported by 20% from March-July.
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by p49k 6y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted because IMO this is touching on the reason why there is a backlash: Tesla constantly overstates and overpromises on their technology and then acts aggressively toward journalists and others who provide cr
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by p49k 6y ago
We shouldn’t have to choose between one of two products, each of which is controlled by a giant, unaccountable entity which has its own type of anti-competitive stranglehold on consumers and engages in harmful behavior. It’s pretty clear
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by p49k 6y ago
> Apple does not appear to have its customers agree to that Actually, with an EU iTunes account, you have an additional popup dialog you have to agree to with every in-app purchase where you have to agree that it does not qualify for t
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by p49k 6y ago
Probably through tutorials and verbosely-commented code examples?
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It seems like there should be a monthly thread where people are allowed to openly discuss criticism (constructively).
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Anker has several options for under $20 with very good build quality, sound quality and battery life. The mic for phone calls is a bit lacking; I haven’t found any cheap earbuds with noise cancelling mics.
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by p49k 6y ago
Many people in prison in the US did not commit the crime they were accused of; thanks to wildly inflated sentencing, many people choose a 1-year plea bargain over a 10-15 year roll of the dice.
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> there was a study released by Cornell this week Which was funded by the rideshare companies themselves and which has been heavily criticized for its methods, it should be pointed out.
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It is a police problem, and the purpose of initiatives like this is to make clear that our government is failing us and we need to start using other methods to get the problem of racism in policing under control, including pressuring the pr

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