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by penagwin 7y ago
I dislike tracking as much as anyone, but can you really fault them for using Google analytics? It's not like PBS choose to use them "to profit off the viewers".
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by penagwin 7y ago
I think he was worried about ads that were targeted at adults, but their game was targeted at kids. Similar to how Spotify with ads includes Trojan condom commercials, which makes Spotify-with-ads unusable in many situations
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by penagwin 7y ago
ICO is a fancy word for "Kick Starter" or crowdfunding. That's why all the crypto people are disagreeing with you. Are most ICO's scams? Yeah sadly. Are there lots of scams on Kickstarter/indiegogo/etc? Yes sad
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by penagwin 7y ago
Telling in a good or bad way?
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by penagwin 7y ago
I have a feeling it comes down to how it's exposed, and who is "using" cockroachDB. If Airtable uses cockroachDB then that's fine. The issue is when the cockroachDB is the product that the customer pays for.
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by penagwin 7y ago
Actually I think a watchdog timer doesn't watch anything except it's timer. > A watchdog timer is an electronic timer that is used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions. During normal operation, the computer regularl
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by penagwin 7y ago
I'm just curious, do you own/work for a company with a bunch of ip addresses? Or did you buy them for a homelab? Also, is there an "affordable" way to own an IP?
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by penagwin 7y ago
Hmm I was wondering if that was the case nowadays. Honestly I don't think the extra step is worth it since the VPS will still know your origin IP in the event of a subpoena anyway. You could try https://privacy.com but iron
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by penagwin 7y ago
Luminati didn't start off like that. They started by burying what they were doing in a "free" vpn. I asked, and they are only interested in partners with 100k active users a month. They REALLY REALLY wanted to talk to me over
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by penagwin 7y ago
This here is assuming you don't have a nation state actively trying to track you down. Otherwise see [0] One option is to use basically any provider + prepaid visa cards. Just access the website over tor or a VPN you semi trust. Sure i
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by penagwin 7y ago
See that's the first part of the story to me were both stories make a bit of sense. Nord says they discovered a configuration file with IP addresses that still worked. If those were infrastructure IP's, and not otherwise public, t
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by penagwin 7y ago
Exactly this. For non-state actors my "data" is gone. You'd need a warrant to get data from my VPS provider, so for most of the common threats I'm pretty anonymous to non-state actors. Maybe you don't want your em
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by penagwin 7y ago
At the end of the day they're mostly just fancy OpenVPN profiles. The entire space is fishy AF IMO. I'm thankful that linustechtips seems to evaluate their VPN sponsors at least. I believe they dropped tunnelbear in favor of PIA b
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by penagwin 7y ago
Is the difference larger (and more expensive) explosions? If so sign me up! :D
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by penagwin 7y ago
My friend that's a locomotive engineer in a really pretty part of BC once told me this pickup line "Hey baby, I get to drive a multi-million dollar company vehicle, with a full window view of gorgeous mountain landscapes, with fle
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by penagwin 7y ago
Oh trust me, I'm well aware of "VPN providers". Just checkout luminati.io . See how they offer an SDK so "You can offer the user a choice between advertisements or a bit of background data usage"? I asked, and they
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by penagwin 7y ago
While Watchdog Timer is more so an external-to-the-cpu system for embedded systems, I'm not sure if there's a word for it in the software world other then some form of timeout?
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by penagwin 7y ago
To be fair this kind of vulnerability is kinda common. All it takes is some AWS bucket to be left public. Surely you've seen it on HN for years? MongoDB for company X found with no password, government AWS bucket left public, etc. That
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by penagwin 7y ago
I'm not sure, their response could be fabricated too. I'm interested in if Torguard has any evidence of them physically approaching their employee. > Within an hour of this in-person and unannounced visit, the same TorGuard con
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by penagwin 7y ago
> On or about May 17, 2019 an unknown individual appeared unannounced at the personal residence of a TorGuard contractor, asking to speak with him about his relationship with TorGuard and the VPN industry This whole thing sounds sketchy
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by penagwin 7y ago
I firmly don't believe they're changing frameworks to "provide platform lockin". Development philosophies change over time, like the other's said, some of those UI frameworks you mentioned are 20+ years old. It does
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by penagwin 7y ago
I'd go with SapporoChris's answer with Mechanical Engineer. Locomotive Engineer's basically are the one in charge of operating the locomotive. What most people think of as a "Conductor" is actually a lower level job
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by penagwin 7y ago
Well obviously they have agreements with AMD. Apple gets special treatment from AMD/Intel/Nvidia, they get to see unrevealed roadmaps, custom contracts etc. Whether it's an exclusivity deal or not we may never know. But it do
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by penagwin 7y ago
Does any current-gen apple hardware ship with Nvidia hardware? To my knowledge they don't, which would explain why they haven't made any drivers for it (the only people who can get a GTX 1070 with mac osx would either have to spen
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by penagwin 7y ago
I believe it's happened before where people have setup bot accounts to buy game licenses from indie developers, just to resell the keys on G2A/Kinguin. However they do it with stolen credit cards, so the indie developers get hit w
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by penagwin 7y ago
Oh gosh I just realized I don't have the self control to teach children. Context: I'm a software engineer. All my explanations would be the "realistic" but kinda sarcastic answers. Computer Engineer - Copy's pastes
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by penagwin 7y ago
I too am interested in the source. Mostly out of curiosity, here in the US our laws definitely don't exclude things like building in backdoors, adding js payloads, etc (Although a few political lines have been drawn, such as Apple refu
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by penagwin 7y ago
Worst case they proxy all of the requests and can essentially access anything open on the port. For me it's all development stuff, so if they want access to a broken-half-the-time application with mock data then whatever. However they&
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by penagwin 7y ago
The problem is you can't reliability detect non-deterministic bugs, so in those cases you essentially have to use the UA to decide if you can use them.
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by penagwin 7y ago
While I think it would be a shame to completely disable the ability for remote sites to access localhost (I'm sure it can be useful somehow), it would make far more sense to be opt-in for those cases. Maybe browsers should assume a COR

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