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by robteix 8y ago
Aside from the obvious wrong of blocking people based on their origin, what's up with these companies closing accounts with no warning and no recourse? I know they're private companies and they _can_ do it, but just because you ca
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UK Law to Ban Porn Wesites from Showing Huge Range of Sex Acts(independent.co.uk)
6 points by robteix 8y ago|5 comments
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How WhatsApp Fuels Fake News and Violence in India(wired.com)
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Wanted: The ‘perfect babysitter.’ Must pass AI scan for respect and attitude(washingtonpost.com)
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World's first AI news anchor makes “his” China debut(xinhuanet.com)
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by robteix 8y ago
> Even if the biggest part of our attendees are men, we like to welcome women and encourage them to join security conferences. That’s why the goal of the network team is to not hurt them by fighting against p0rn on the WoS! Maybe I’m a m
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by robteix 8y ago
There are actually two problems here: 1. Bing allowing malicious ads 2. Edge not marking malicious sites Problem #1 has nothing to do with Edge (other than Edge using Bing by default) and I’m sure Google may let malicious ads through from t
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The Trump Administration is suing California to quash its net neutrality law
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by robteix 8y ago
I don't know about movies, but you can definitely lose apps. I used to own a game called X-Plane that I played on my iPad. Then the authors created a new "version" (as a new paid app.) At some point, I reset my iPad and set i
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by robteix 8y ago
Are you sure it does that? I've always used Firefox and Chrome on my Macs and I can't remember ever seeing anything like that. This include my Mojave beta machine. TBF, I automate my installs so both Firefox and Chrome are install
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Playing with Go module proxies(roberto.selbach.ca)
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Wasm with Go to build an S2 cover map viewer(blog.nobugware.com)
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Go modules proxy(roberto.selbach.ca)
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by robteix 8y ago
Happens automatically when you run 'go mod init' in a directory containing Gopkg.lock. Caught me by surprise the first time as I had no idea it did that :)
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Introduction to Go Modules(roberto.selbach.ca)
252 points by robteix 8y ago|101 comments
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Firefox Add-On with 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History(bleepingcomputer.com)
8 points by robteix 8y ago|2 comments
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My Own Car System, Rear Camera, Offline Maps and Routing with Go(blog.nobugware.com)
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by robteix 8y ago
Canada does not have an "investor passport." And AFAIK, neither do Australia nor NZ. They offer _residency_ visas, not citizenship. Once you are a permanent resident, you can apply for citizenship once you fulfill the residency re
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by robteix 8y ago
According to one of the posts[0] on the photographer's website: > The metal device visible in the left picture was part of a spinning chair. It held the head in the correct position during the photographing. [0] http://ww
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Firefox and the 4yr battle to have Google to treat it as a first-class citizen(zdnet.com)
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by robteix 8y ago
I have a family subscription of 1PW. I can easily share some password with my wife and our daughter is getting used to using a password manager before she's 10. I totally empathize with those who refuse to use cloud/subscription s
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by robteix 8y ago
Agree. The discussion with my friend was actually sparked by the home assignment someone asked him to do. That was easily a 10-hour job. That's way too much. He correctly declined.
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by robteix 8y ago
I was discussing this with a friend just last week. He too believes it is wrong to ask for a home assignment. But I have serious anxiety problems so I find whiteboard coding tests terribly difficult. Same thing with pair programming -- it&#
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by robteix 8y ago
That's the point though: this isn't a new messaging service, it is a protocol standard that will be implemented by carriers, not Google. It is not thing that Google will shut down because there is nothing to shut down. We have bet
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by robteix 9y ago
It's actually https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
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by robteix 9y ago
> If Comcast announced they were doing this, HN would be up in arms about how they were modifying traffic. I'm aware of the browser vs service provider difference, but the end result is the same. I wouldn't as easily dismiss th
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‘Splinternet’ to herald a trade war for the ages(ft.com)
2 points by robteix 9y ago|0 comments
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by robteix 9y ago
Same here. I find the Google Assistant's voice recognition very near perfect. I'm not a native english speaker but I would think that would make it harder than easier.
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Facebook Admits Spam Texts to Two-Factor Authentication Users Were a Bug(gizmodo.com)
1 points by robteix 9y ago|0 comments
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by robteix 9y ago
I love Gmail's UI but years ago I realized that I couldn't trust my online identity to a single entity. What I did was to sign up for Fastmail with my own custom domain and forward stuff to my @gmail.com address. This way I contin

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