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by r3bl 9y ago
I fully agree with dsr_'s comment: act locally. The principle of net neutrality needs to be fought in every single country. I organized a smaller in scale "Internet protest" in my region (Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia), convinc
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by r3bl 9y ago
Well, I'm outside of the US, and needed to turn on a VPN to just be able to see the impact of the Battle for the Net action. Most of the websites had some sort of geographical restrictions on who to show the message to.
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by r3bl 9y ago
Of course it's harmful! We have a similar thing in our region (Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia). Mobile operators give you access to a couple of services unmetered, and you spend your data for other. As long as you can't choose the servic
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by r3bl 9y ago
Yeah, my first contact with their support was excellent. My issue got explained within half an hour and it got resolved within an hour (IIRC). The second was literally caused by a typo on my end, and it literally took 82 days and me asking
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by r3bl 9y ago
To be honest, like I said above that screenshot, that was my second reminder email, I didn't take a screenshot of the first one.
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by r3bl 9y ago
> and as it turns out, not working on just one person's account. It's actually three. Three accounts, on three different browsers (Chromium, Firefox, Safari), using three different operating systems (Ubuntu, Windows, macOS). I
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by r3bl 9y ago
If it makes you feel any better, it was a pain in the ass to write it down on mobile too. I had to rearrange tweets every time I've added a new one, and then when I published it, they were suddenly all in a different order than the one
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by r3bl 9y ago
On the bright side, at least it didn't take me 82 days to reach someone within Twitter, as much as it took me to reach someone within GitHub two years ago: https://blog.r3bl.me/en/worst-support-experience-ever&#x2F
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The trouble I had trying to contact Twitter support about a security issue(twitter.com)
139 points by r3bl 9y ago|43 comments
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by r3bl 9y ago
> How can one person read 42k anything. It's actually quite easy in this case. Most of them are threads, from a quick skim on the replies. So you separate them into threads, treating the person that replied to the top comment (so, m
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by r3bl 9y ago
Here's a quote from the draft that I particularly like: > The providers of electronic communications services shall ensure that there is sufficient protection in place against unauthorised access or alterations to the electronic com
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by r3bl 9y ago
To be honest, Facebook is the owner of WhatsApp (Signal's end-to-end encryption) and they've incorporated end-to-end encryption in their core product too (Messenger's "secret conversations"), albeit not by default.
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by r3bl 9y ago
I went a step further. I added two email addresses (one ditched long time ago), was created a "report", but I had to create an account to access it... which I did, received a temporary password via email (lol), and gained access t
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by r3bl 9y ago
Fun sidenote: I was the very first civilian to contribute to their GitHub project back in July 2015, when SIMP was the only project they had up on GitHub. It was literally a one letter change in the README file, but I still have the privile
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by r3bl 9y ago
Ah, well, at least the sentence is consistent and does not change. Something like: site:amazon.com "At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied." Give
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by r3bl 9y ago
How do you differentiate between DRM-free and DRM-protected books on Amazon? Up until I have read this comment, I didn't even know that Amazon support DRM-free books.
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by r3bl 9y ago
They have also made Calibre look a little less crappy on high definition screens, and added a conversion to .docx: https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve
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by r3bl 9y ago
Yup, that's exactly what I do. I sync over the database and library over to Nextcloud to have it available on both of the operating systems I'm using. It's also synced automatically to an external hard drive connected to the
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by r3bl 9y ago
Someone already tried requesting data about two suspects from Whisper Systems. What they got is "one number is not a Signal user, while the second one created his account on X day at Y time."[0] So yeah, Signal doesn't retain
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by r3bl 9y ago
I would say that the Betteridge's law of headlines has been proven once again by this thread, but this is no article and the headline here seems more click-baity than the actual subject line of the thread.
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by r3bl 9y ago
From the FAQ: > Q: I submitted a problem - what happens next? > A: Over the next 14 days, developers will be able to apply to solve your problem. You'll get a list of applications and a recommendation of who to choose. So, I gues
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Industroyer: Biggest threat to industrial control systems since Stuxnet(welivesecurity.com)
1 points by r3bl 9y ago|0 comments
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by r3bl 9y ago
So, please, correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understood: 1. You don't respect DNT by default for a majority of users (since a user explicitly needs to disable JS). 2. You provide a relatively easy option for your viewers t
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by r3bl 9y ago
If I really want to enforce a DNT policy on my website, it is absolutely my responsibility to find a way to not embed a YouTube video by default, since I do know that YouTube doesn't give a crap about a DNT policy. It is also in my res
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by r3bl 9y ago
I have noticed at least two more sites doing the same, as far as YouTube videos are concerned: Medium and DuckDuckGo. They allow you to specifically override your DNT policy and watch the video embedded, or open the YouTube video in a separ
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by r3bl 9y ago
I have edited my post so that it includes "Do Not Track" instead of DNT in the first paragraph. Hope that will stop others from having to look it up.
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Ask HN: Do you respect DNT in your personal websites? How?
75 points by r3bl 9y ago|54 comments
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by r3bl 9y ago
Yes, when those laws are in place, but almost never actually enforced. Nextbike[0] is extremely popular in my city, even though my country has a helmet law in place. They also offer a bike for 30 minutes per day completely free (you can a
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by r3bl 9y ago
Maybe if Google went with "Pay us $10 per month for us not to show you any AdSense anywhere on the web", this would be successful. In this form, I highly doubt it.
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by r3bl 9y ago
Yup, I tend to read a lot of genres, going from highly technical ones, to the fiction and science fiction, all the way down to a couple of YA books when I need something really light just to pass my time. To make the matter even more compli

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