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The Right to Waive Your Rights(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by spindritf 12y ago|0 comments
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by spindritf 12y ago
'tptacek maintains a "must read" list in his profile. I'd add kasey_junk to it. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
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by spindritf 12y ago
How is this weak political agitation on top of HN? It reads like a paroody. You’re an anthropology professor, what’s the ‘need’ for that?” (And indeed a lot of tabloid readers would take the existence of my job as the very definition of wa
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by spindritf 12y ago
There are S3 and Swift (OpenStack storage) which can be used through standardized APIs. Storage in both standards is offered by many independent providers.
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by spindritf 12y ago
They have a multiplatform client (including headless *nix) with a sync that actually works. Somehow no one else does.
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by spindritf 12y ago
It's pretty crazy that browsers send referral in the first place. Getting rid of it, accidentally or not, is not a bug. I use refcontrol[1] to spoof the referral. I'm always visiting from the front page of the website even though
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by spindritf 12y ago
It is most likely an underground organization, not related to any government or intelligence agency Or a few bored guys on an IRC channel. A few websites, couple of phone numbers, and some posters: once you have members in the targeted ci
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by spindritf 12y ago
When you're setting up a website for someone else, it's much easier to deal with no billing than it is even with $1/year. Email services provided on the side by hosting companies (or worse, registrars) don't measure up t
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by spindritf 12y ago
There's Yandex Mail for domains[1]. The domain panel is in Russian only but webmail is available in other languages including English. [1] https://pdd.yandex.ru/domains_add/
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by spindritf 12y ago
It is sad that completely factual, sourced and on-topic comments get downvoted on HN just because they go against the political beliefs of downvoters who don't even bother responding.
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Spain moves to protect domestic media with new 'Google tax'(theguardian.com)
3 points by spindritf 12y ago|0 comments
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by spindritf 12y ago
What? You live in a country where someone can use your name in a fund-raiser without your approval or authorization and you will face criminal charges with presumption of guilt? Some project on github is not even remotely your biggest probl
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by spindritf 12y ago
True belief here is one actually held. A belief is also not by definition the opposite of evidence, certainty or rationality. It's just something accepted as true, due to evidence or despite it, certain or uncertain, rational or irrati
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by spindritf 12y ago
Sure, social scientists are pretty open about their discrimination of conservatives. They admitted it in a survey[1]. The bigger problem is that social science has few correction mechanism. Your biases in computer science will usually be qu
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by spindritf 12y ago
I would assume that DigiCert checked each and every one of those.
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by spindritf 12y ago
No. It's a fully valid ceritifcate issued by DigiCert to CN = *.facebook.com O = "Facebook, Inc." L = Menlo Park ST = CA C = US with a bunch of altnames DNS Name: *.facebook.com DNS Name: fa
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by spindritf 12y ago
Or people feel satisfied with the cancelled tax and the energy for protest is safely released.
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by spindritf 12y ago
English is my second language and posting a comment on HN takes me five rewrites before clicking "add comment" and two+ edits after. Even then they don't necessarily come out all that clear judging by some of the responses I
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by spindritf 12y ago
I don't really understand this comment. You can host exim+mutt anywhere. With a megacorp, in the cloud, even under your bed... The only problem you face is getting the giants to accept your mail so you will probably want another server
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by spindritf 12y ago
I used to have a "homely mutt"[1] kind of setup but eventually got tired of offline imap, msmtp, and all that. Now I use mutt only directly on the server running exim. Painless support for multiple domains, completely arbitrary fr
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by spindritf 12y ago
This is part of a larger attack on anonymity online. That piece from Pacific Standard mentioned in the OP certainly was[1]. Before, it was "think of the children" used by politicians to justify various censorship measures[2]. Now,
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by spindritf 12y ago
Yeah, why is every image, heading, and paragraph on that page surrounded by scrollbars where most don't work and are not necessary?
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by spindritf 12y ago
Of course. It's so easy to use a different book store, even with kindle, that this whole argument holds no water. Since Amazon doesn't really carry Polish books, I get .mobis from random e-stores all the time. It takes no effort.
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by spindritf 12y ago
Perfect. Thanks. Yes, the domain control panel is in Russian only. Overall, I'm impressed with Yandex Mail. It has a few rough edges like that but also has features not even Gmail offers. Most prominently, scheduling emails.
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by spindritf 12y ago
Essentially, a free catch-all for any domain with forwarding to your Gmail (Gmail only for now) inbox. Not quite Google Apps but covers a decent chunk of what I used free Google Apps for. Speaking of which, maybe someone here will know if&#
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by spindritf 12y ago
Companies and developers need to make the conscious decision to host binaries via SSL/TLS Yes. And source code, too. If you can't provide ssl for downloads, you should be using a third party service like GitHub who can.
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by spindritf 12y ago
It allows people to signal that they care about privacy, their data, and stand against commercialism. Both the users, and the operators. It's like asking "what value does Nike/TapouT/Starbucks logo have?" Sure, you
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by spindritf 12y ago
Why do you block AWS?
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by spindritf 12y ago
Google managed to ride two subsequent waves: web (not pc which came before) and mobile. Between Glass and Magic Leap, they're well on their way to catch the third wave of virtual/augmented reality. And native adverts, really? Let&
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by spindritf 12y ago
I accumulated them over the years.

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