pdkl95

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by pdkl95 8y ago
Most of that change into cable TV - where a few large corporations control the means of publication - already happened. Section 230 may have helped that centralization, making it possible to create and extract rent from new forms of infrast
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by pdkl95 8y ago
edit: sorry, accidentally submitted early So what. Removing one of the largest sources entropy available for fingerprinting users is important. We shouldn't maintain the terrible long-term effects[1] of tracking everything just to help
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Requiring a phone number causes problems and, depending on the situation, is easily bypassed by a determined bot author. [see other comments in this thread] It is also ineffective at preventing people from posting rude, misguided, or hatefu
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by pdkl95 8y ago
A lot of people listened to Douglas Crockford when he talked about "The Good Parts"[1] of Javascript. Unfortunately, very few people also listened to his warning[2] than mixing foreign Javascript was insecure by design (only prope
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> dramatically different from the way the general audience uses a search engine How many people have you actually talked to? Over the last few months I've had more than a few non-tech friends/family/etc complain to me abou
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737 Max Update “A Pilot's Prospective”(youtube.com)
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http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/06/12/frequentism-and-bay...
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> blaming Google for it /existing/ is just disingenuous scapegoating I never said they created it; Google, FB, etc, are the "leading forces pushing the world" into a new type of economy. It almost certainly wo9uld ex
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by pdkl95 8y ago
I suggest that anybody downvoting this read this[1] article for a surprisingly comprehensive overview of how Google et al are ruining democracy and (mostly-)free society as they shift our economy from the traditional forms of capitalism
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What's wrong with blaming “information” for political chaos(boingboing.net)
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Ruby gets close (which is one of the reasons I use it a lot): * Function calls are messages sent to objects, which can be sent to any object directly with Object#send and received as messages when an object[1] responds to #message_missing.
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> In this thread, you're missing the point somewhat I assure you I'm not; I'm trying to explain why worrying about these problems at the filename level doesn't actually solve the problem, which should be handled at a
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> But that does not solve the problem at all. I never claimed it did. I'm commenting on the many Bourne shell examples in the article, which seem to use many common incorrect solutions, while ignoring the method that was added to
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> But it turns out this doesn't really work, because not all commands support "--" So what? If you don't read the documentation for your the programs you run, mistaking filenames for an option is only only one of the
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> It is possible to workaround this, for example by pre pending "./". Or you could use the solutio9n provided by most argument parsers: the "--" option that disables option parsing for the remaining options. Tryi
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$ curl https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html > /tmp/page.html $ grep -c '"$@"' /tmp/page.html 0 $ grep -c '$@' /tmp&#x2
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by pdkl95 8y ago
While the goals are slightly different, I highly recommend reading[1] about the methods used by GCHQ's JTRIG unit (including the full Snowden document[2]). They are not really about specific metho9ds to manipulate groups of people, b
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Why would anybody bother trying to hide traffic? Lots of apps already waste bandwidth and CPU to exfiltrate a wide variety of data, often sending it straight to Facebook[1]. They simply relabeled it "analytics", [1] https:/&
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by pdkl95 8y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11... "Why one of cybersecurity’s thought leaders [Dan Geer] uses a pager instead of a smart phone"
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The breach of trust is bad enough, but the fact that it is a microphone opens the possibility of criminal wiretapping charges.
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> you just want to run it and see whether it at least sometimes produces the right output Then use a dynamic language like ruby or python and enjoy not only data type freedom, but also features like easy introspection and code manipulati
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by pdkl95 8y ago
In addition to the practicality of choosing the big, obvious violators first, one or two actions against well-known targets should hopefully convince a lot of the secondary and tertiary potential enforcement targets that the EU is serious
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> Anyways, isn't this click fraud? Absolutely not. We don't have any sort of contractual or business relationship. The only way this could be "click fraud" is if someone hosting ads used adnauseam to fraudulently en
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> You can't make decisions at the voting booth without being informed. True, but that doesn't mean traditional "professional, reliable news sources" are the best (or only) way for people to gain the necessary informat
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by pdkl95 8y ago
wl_list seems like an incomplete re-implementation of the LIST_ macros in <sys/queue.h>. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/queue.3.html https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd&#x
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> creepy Creepy is the right word. It might even be too soft; some of my non-technical friends would probably prefer "target that needs to be razed[1]". > The idea ... is interesting. The Teller-Ulam design[2] is "int
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> [ This content should be overridden by GTM. ] lol... pages look better if you send the actual document instead of assuming you have permission to run software in my browser.
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> And they can quit if they disagree with the business path Microsoft ultimately chooses. Or, they can collectively petition, negotiate, or even apply direct political pressure against their employer. Is that what the real argument is ab
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> The protesters are trying to get public support behind them So what? Exercising their right to free speech does not "sabotage U.S. military". > so Microsoft drops the contract completely, Yes, effecting larger change is th
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After their internal memos about valuing "connecting people" over anything else (like safety) leaked[1], some of the comments by Facebook employees were almost cult-like[2]: > Leakers, please resign instead of sabotaging the co

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