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by pimterry 5y ago
Cloud Run does look promising - I'd love to move towards a model of "just push container" without all the other hassle. Are there many other good contenders in this space?
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by pimterry 5y ago
> better privacy/security than a webapp Is this true? Desktop apps have far more power to create privacy or security concerns that web apps do. The web sandbox isn't perfect by any means, but it's very good and far stricte
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by pimterry 5y ago
Eventually, sure, but I think this would have to become very widespread before that happened - they've only just blocked Google News today. The instructions above do encourage self-hosting the script though, for both avoiding-block &am
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by pimterry 5y ago
> Instead of malware, a better approach to free expression would be to use messages in commit logs to send anti-propaganda messages and to issue trackers to share accurate news inside Russia of what is really happening in Ukraine at the
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by pimterry 5y ago
In the EU & UK at least, for many cases this already exists: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr . > the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces leg
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Making Dropbox's camera uploads on Android faster and more reliable(dropbox.tech)
4 points by pimterry 5y ago|0 comments
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by pimterry 5y ago
The 'privacy vault' feature sounds interesting - do you have any more details how that might work?
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by pimterry 5y ago
You can even go further: tell your employees that you'll be sending out fake test bribe offers, which they'll be expected to report, and that they'll be rewarded for doing so. Similar to how IT in many large companies nowaday
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by pimterry 5y ago
Finally, an attack that redefines my tiling window manager addiction as a security measure.
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by pimterry 5y ago
The meat is page 5 under "The changes the proposal would bring". Highlights: * Job-seekers would have a right to information about the pay range of posts they apply for * Employers would be prohibited from asking about an applican
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EU to mandate public salary information for all job postings [pdf](europarl.europa.eu)
459 points by pimterry 5y ago|383 comments
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by pimterry 5y ago
Very good point, done.
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by pimterry 5y ago
Exactly, it's just a very quick hack, and scraping and parsing is 'good enough'. Not pretty or long-term reliable, but it does the job. Very happy to take suggestions for other services - any ideas? What other critical dev in
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by pimterry 5y ago
I built this a little while back just to quickly check the real statuses of some major services that have been silently going down a lot recently (and to mess around with Svelte & Cloudflare pages). Seems like today might just be the pe
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Show HN: The Status Page Status Page(statuspagestatuspage.com)
9 points by pimterry 5y ago|10 comments
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by pimterry 5y ago
> My experience is that it’s mostly cultural, and often comes down to whether the person you’re speaking to has themself had to try using a foreign language, thus gaining the empathy to help you out. I think another part is how much dive
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by pimterry 5y ago
Out of curiosity, I went to check the current numbers: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share Overall, yes it is still a major player (20%) but notably almost all of that is on mobile where it's 27% of users w
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Belgium to give workers right to request four-day week(theguardian.com)
2 points by pimterry 5y ago|3 comments
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What are sparse files and how to tell if a file is stored sparsely(ctrl.blog)
3 points by pimterry 5y ago|0 comments
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by pimterry 5y ago
In terms of feedback, there's an issue thread here covering some points already: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/41920
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by pimterry 5y ago
It looks like self-hosting Posthog ( https://posthog.com/ ) should work, and they look great. They're a US company, so you can't use their cloud service, but it's designed to be self-hosted and they have a list
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by pimterry 5y ago
This risk also applies to any card terminal where you pay contactlessly. In Europe, that effectively means every card terminal everywhere and a comfortable majority of card transactions ( https://www.mastercard.com/news/
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by pimterry 5y ago
> don't require you to ship a browser with your application The key feature of Neutralino (as opposed to Electron) is that it does _not_ require you to ship a browser - it provides similar developer UX to Electron, but it uses your
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How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and love long-lived connections(blog.cloudflare.com)
195 points by pimterry 5y ago|43 comments
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by pimterry 5y ago
Ah, good info, thanks! Looks like the full list of 'already approved as adequate' countries for data protection is: - Andorra - Argentina - Canada (commercial organisations) - Faroe Islands - Guernsey - Israel - Isle of Man - Japa
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by pimterry 5y ago
Interestingly, it's not actually about being in the EU specifically, it's just about being in a jurisdiction with equivalent data protections. It's not a "must be EU" cloud requirement, it's a "must not be
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A Five-Year Journey to Financial Freedom and Beyond(coryzue.com)
3 points by pimterry 5y ago|0 comments
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by pimterry 5y ago
Shorter queues for non-essential procedures, nicer facilities (e.g. private rooms instead of wards), doctors who speak your language of preference, doctors available by videocall, healthcare whilst abroad included, that kind of thing. Nothi
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by pimterry 5y ago
I think this depends a lot on the culture. I've found (in Barcelona) that it was hard to integrate initially due to language barriers and lack of an existing local network to bootstrap from, but over time those issues have disappeared.
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A Hypercore P2P innovation could bring more privacy to IPFS(ctrl.blog)
32 points by pimterry 5y ago|16 comments

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