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by scoutt 7y ago
Hacking is just interesting only if you are not following any "tutorial". Today you can run an embedded linux under 10 minutes with less that 20 bucks with a RPI by reading some tutorial or watching a youtube video. What's th
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by scoutt 7y ago
Where do I hang the back plate? Also, the ugliest car ever. Worse than the latest Batman car.
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by scoutt 7y ago
> If it ever was This video[1] from slack.com front page has 3 chat windows. 1 of them is about two engineers chatting about a git pull request, so I guess 1/3 of their target persona is a developer? [1] - https://a.slack
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by scoutt 7y ago
> inefficiencies Think that while this person is looking at the iPhone on the subway, it's also probably unaware that there is (in this very moment, in the world) people starving to dead or dying from deceases that already have a cu
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by scoutt 7y ago
I am glad to see that websites are struggling to ruthlessly track users for showing ads. It means that the efforts so far are working. They have our attention. Now it's time for standards creators to be responsible and to do somethin
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by scoutt 7y ago
> a relic of the past I could be a potential customer, since my company works on the embedded market and we design and manufacture all our PCBs. There was a time the company has a moment of big growth, and we looked into solutions like y
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by scoutt 7y ago
AFAIK, being HTTP, you won't be able to differentiate and/or route it. And it can be done outside the control of the OS or browser (with js embedded in a page, application, etc.) so even if you configure your browser/system,
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by scoutt 7y ago
> DNS over HTTPS will prevent clients in your network from using the default local DNS services. Relevant: Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21562295
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by scoutt 7y ago
Yeah, but why learntherisk.org? Is this an authoritative source of information? That website screams confirmation bias all-around.
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by scoutt 7y ago
> wrapping text Oh my. Who uses wrapping text for coding?
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by scoutt 7y ago
Notifications: So if I have a couple of PCs idling, do they show ads? If ads are shown then there is a waste that someone is paying, and publishers will complain. Can I set 10 raspberry pi to start farming BAT? At this point Brave should st
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by scoutt 7y ago
> “Either we all accept the $330 billion ad-tech industry treating us as their products, exploiting our data, piling on more data breaches and privacy scandals, and starving publishers of revenue; or ... Give Brave a piece of that moist
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by scoutt 7y ago
Regarding attention monsters, I didn't found mention in the article about the effort required to maintain a certain level of attention (over time). Please point it out if I missed it. Reading a book and dealing with abstract thinking c
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by scoutt 7y ago
> but that whats the harm if it makes you feel better. Compulsive shopping: works for some. It's not the final solution, but it may make you feel better. And some will profit from it. The same applies to astrology.
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by scoutt 7y ago
>> We want to do the movie for the 35- to 40-year-olds who remember watching it. C'mon. Not this again, please. I'm tired of revisiting the 80's and 90's. Enough superhero movies. I want new things, I want a Rendez
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by scoutt 7y ago
I was a "dog only" type of person until recently (a year ago) I saw this poor cat being hit by a car and left there to die. I quickly took her to the vet and then home. Now I own two dogs and the cat. The dogs know when it's
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by scoutt 7y ago
>> I'm still waiting for the option to see the ads that I want to see. It's not about what you like, it's about what you need or think you need. Probably is because your interests change over time. And because they want
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by scoutt 7y ago
>> contracts From the blog post: "players ... must abide by the official competition rules." They have a set of rules to follow. I don't know how much clear these are. >> Blizzard should stand up for liberal d
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by scoutt 7y ago
9) The expert barely tolerates when the title 'expert' is used by everybody else to merely justify their lack of knowledge in a given area. "I don't know nothing about databases, but X/Y can solve it because he&#x2F
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by scoutt 7y ago
With the risk of being flagged I may say that Blizzard did the right thing BUT ONLY if the interview was a an official post-match interview. Otherwise they did wrong, since they cannot force people into not telling whatever they want by a
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by scoutt 7y ago
I don't find pronunciation extremely difficult (as spanish has most of the 'sounds' already), but in most cases, as the word 'lead', can be parsed easily according to context. What infuriates me the most of the engl
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by scoutt 7y ago
Apply that masculine/feminine rule to 'wing'/'wings', or 'sea', or 'eagle'/'eagles' in spanish :) I know those are exceptions. The thing is... there are a lot of exceptions.
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by scoutt 7y ago
I speak/write ~english, ~italian and spanish, and if I have to arrange them by 'coherence' it would be english-spanish-italian. >> Italian is phonetically one of the simplest languages on the earth The fundamental impor
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by scoutt 7y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I love how the story goes through everything that should not be done, from blind investment to breaches and personal information leak (in a thumb-drive!!). And this is just one company.
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by scoutt 7y ago
Not implying anything, but perhaps they wanted to fire you or wanted you to resign for whatever reason (including those that have nothing to do with you personally).
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by scoutt 7y ago
Well, I guess this is a chance you (all of us, actually) can profit from and learn that ethics is a convenience feature, just like the headphone jack.
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by scoutt 7y ago
> 2. Ethics The ethic ends where the money-loss (or missing profit) begins. I don't understand why so many people are surprised when Apple (or whatever) pulls something like this. I don't mean to be rude (I don't know yo
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by scoutt 7y ago
Does this mean that ad-blocking HW/SW that uses DNS to filter remote sites (Pi-Hole?) will stop working? That's the only reason I see Google will try a move like that.
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by scoutt 7y ago
Kind of a rant, so forgive me for venting out :) An untold truth is that datasheets are also the terrain for disputes with tech support. That is, there is a whole team of people called Application Engineers in said companies dedicated to su
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by scoutt 7y ago
It's the age of auto-censure. Now everybody should go around the office, the school and life wearing nice people masks, avoiding to express anything that's near controversial. The punishment? Public embarrassment and shaming, in

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