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   by retox 10y ago

   Where did all the hype over shitty chat bots come from? It seemed to fill up HN and every tech publication overnight. Now even Skype, an application for chatting with real people, has a bots tab. It was clear from the get go it was just ano
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   by retox 10y ago

   I get where you're coming from, it wasn't a particularly good metaphor I put forward. I would argue that there's some legitimacy in claiming that frameworks are just prepackaged collections of tools. It's funny you menti
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   by retox 10y ago

   If you think of patterns and frameworks as tools, when you're a beginner the only way to master and ultimately discover the limitations of those tools is to use them everyday.
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   CrowdStrike Rewrites Part of Disputed Russian Hacking Report(voanews.com)

   2 points by retox 10y ago|0 comments
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   by retox 10y ago

   How does this square with freedom of speech? Outlawing satire and jokes is outrageous, even if the actual aim is somewhat laudable.
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   by retox 10y ago

   Shamed 0-day peddler Kevin Mitnick. https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/shopping/absolute-zero-day-e...
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   by retox 10y ago

   >Only a few of the games I've backed ended up in a product that I would've bought I don't have any special insight but I get the feeling that this is how very many game development investments pan out. Generally I think it
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   by retox 10y ago

   If I'm wrong tell me how.
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   by retox 10y ago

   I use Chrome for testing and I'm constantly astounded. Apparently I need an add-on just to open a blank page on browser load, and even then you have to manually remove the about:blank text before entering the first url.
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    by retox 10y ago

    I won't address all your points because I'm phone posting, sorry. It seems to me that there are two ideal consumers of the tor product; the people who need to use it because they are at risk of being identified in meatspace (need
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    by retox 10y ago

    I was fresh out of uni, teaching Ada and C++ best practice, along with toolkit and processes. Literally spent my last penny getting to the job interview, then lived on credit and supermarket end-of-day markdowns for six months.
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    by retox 10y ago

    An absolutely insane default IMO, especially when those who might need to use Tor the most are the technically illiterate.
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    by retox 10y ago

    I understand where you're coming from. In a past life I trained defence people how to build better software for their killing machines. Sometimes you just have to pay the bills.
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    by retox 10y ago

    My banks online password requirements match the suggestions in these documents, but the passwords are entirely case insensitive. So its the same if I type "password" or "PaSSwOrD". There is a second passphrase that youre
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    by retox 10y ago

    Probably off-topic but I checked Isaac Asimov's "Realm of Numbers" from my library on the recommendation of HN and it's great. One of the earlier chapters outlines how the abacus and its concept of 'the unmoved row&
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    by retox 10y ago

    I signed up using that offer, $25 matched. It was obvious at every step of the sign-up what was happening with regard to the matching. Either you had the page cached or they screwed up, but worth getting in touch they are very responsive wh
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    by retox 10y ago

    Mainstream media is an uncritical mouthpiece for official sources.
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    by retox 10y ago

    Thank you for your reply, I appreciate it.
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    by retox 10y ago

    Is there any impact on the tor browser bundle which uses Firefox?
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    by retox 10y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...
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    by retox 10y ago

    Long been rumoured in the more paranoid corners of the web they are intelligence front/partners.
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    by retox 10y ago

    Or social media companies.
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    by retox 10y ago

    I'm still astonished people on HN trust Facebook enough to have any of their apps installed. Since day one their developers have shown complete disregard for users privacy.
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    by retox 10y ago

    Press alt to see the menu.
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    by retox 10y ago

    A big reason I dont trust signal. Every single that app has some bad side, signals is the reliance on Google.
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    by retox 10y ago

    I read that in the Dan Brown book, Digital Fortress.
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    by retox 10y ago

    Everything I hear about this company is sickening. Bros with toys and no morals.
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    by retox 10y ago

    They realised they would actually have to provide customer support and that they couldn't quietly ditch a car after 18 months.
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    by retox 10y ago

    I heard the same thing about async code...
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    by retox 10y ago

    Could you link me to that plugin please?