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by tombrossman 7y ago
> I think op is saying, at the cost of an undetectable fraction of a second rounding error when you SSH somewhere, so what? I tried switching from a 2048-bit to a 4096-bit key to control a modestly sized VPS (~4GB RAM, 2CPU) and scp file
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by tombrossman 7y ago
> Got my flu shot last year, still ended up with severe flu in February. The flu shot is not completely effective. My understanding is that the 'flu shot' changes every year, in anticipation of the strains predicted to be the
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Swinging the Vote?(themarkup.org)
20 points by tombrossman 7y ago|8 comments
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by tombrossman 7y ago
My primary concern with Cloudflare proxied sites is that I have no way to assess the technical competency of the sites they proxy. I can check most HTTPS sites using an online tool such as SSL Labs or Mozilla's Observatory. For example
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by tombrossman 7y ago
I've used the new laws twice now to close online accounts with companies that were uncooperative or too 'clingy' (looking at you, OVH and Microsoft). Much easier to send a registered letter than waiting on hold or searching f
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by tombrossman 7y ago
This assumes that someone from every site has a Google account and consents to their Privacy Policy and Terms. This is not a safe assumption, nor is it fair to make this a requirement.
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by tombrossman 7y ago
> if a juror is that certain, pre-trial, that a defendant is guilty, there is no way that the defendant can get a fair trial Sure they can, one nutjob juror cannot convict. I've also been seated on juries where some of my fellow jur
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Can Help the News Business(nytimes.com)
18 points by tombrossman 7y ago|6 comments
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by tombrossman 7y ago
That's a shame, what was their explanation? Did they say it's OK for Chase employees to lie to customers, or did they dispute the authenticity of your recording? There's probably something in the fine print of your contract
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by tombrossman 7y ago
Curious, what call recording app do you use now please, and does it properly record full duplex audio from the line (so not using speaker/headset/other workarounds)? The last time I had this working perfectly was with a Nexus 4 an
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by tombrossman 7y ago
> Find me the American that doesn't have a Chinese-made TV, a Chinese-made phone, a Chinese-made laptop... American living in Europe here, and while I realize this is a bit of a curveball I'd like to point out that it is not d
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by tombrossman 7y ago
"Activity tracking is built into Mailspring so you get notified as soon as contacts read your messages and can follow up appropriately." "How contacts engage with your content gives you insight into what's working and
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by tombrossman 7y ago
See also https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ for a larger and more specific blocklist. I found it worked better for me because the annoyances list was too broad and blocked too many legitimate page elements, such as t
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by tombrossman 7y ago
American living in Britain here, and I have this page bookmarked (and must refer to it frequently): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_British_terms_not_...
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by tombrossman 7y ago
I agree with you about the trackers, but I just assume ads=tracking. I cannot see any app marketplace saying their apps contain tracking in the main description (it's always buried in the fine print). My understanding is that GrapheneO
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by tombrossman 7y ago
The advantage to using Google Play is that apps containing ads are clearly labelled as such. Apple won't tell you this in advance. (This was my biggest surprise, recently switching from Android after the CopperheadOS meltdown)
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by tombrossman 7y ago
I saw a similar curl post last week and was inspired to add this to my ~/.bashrc for basic timing and headers info: wwwinfo() { printf "##\n# PAGE INFO\n##\n" curl \ --silent \ --output /dev/null \ -
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Ask HN: Interesting RSS Feeds to Subscribe To?
5 points by tombrossman 7y ago|1 comments
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by tombrossman 7y ago
Did you contact Amazon or the seller, and what was the outcome? You received a defective item and your out of pocket costs should be nothing. You should dispute the return costs with both Amazon and the seller, and the seller may tell you t
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by tombrossman 7y ago
This is an interesting (closed) bug filed against their SSL config generator. https://github.com/mozilla/ssl-config-generator/issues/8 It demonstrates that support for Google Analytics is not unanimous within
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by tombrossman 7y ago
In Firefox you can override this and re-enable pasting by toggling dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to 'False' (in about:config). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Preferences...
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by tombrossman 7y ago
I was in Scotland last month, using Apple maps with a rental car, and it was not reliable. I'd look up an address and when near the destination I would get instructions like "park the car here and continue on foot" to waypoin
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by tombrossman 7y ago
> Do you feel like PGP is a good way to cold email people in practice? Not OP but I can definitely say that's a yes from me after doing this repeatedly. I cold email people once a month or so, and if it is to do with anything sensit
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by tombrossman 7y ago
I recommend also trying Grsync (released in 2005), which is mostly the same thing and is available with multiple languages support. http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
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by tombrossman 7y ago
Try an online generator such as https://dmarcian.com/dmarc-record-wizard/ to create one. No affiliation, just a well done generator I have used that walks you through the process.
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by tombrossman 7y ago
If you are buying a domain through Route 53, there is a good chance the purchase is actually being handled by Gandi[0]. Gandi supports DNSSEC[1] (it's literally a check box in the options, very simple) so you may as well skip buying th
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by tombrossman 8y ago
> It would be such a little thing to dump the earth they excavated when building the bunker back on top of the thing and spread it around so grass grew etc, hiding the damn thing. Easier said than done, and I don't think camouflagin
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by tombrossman 8y ago
> Working on this. It is very tricky to do for iOS in an App Store compliant manner, but doable. Apple has already approved it. This is very welcome news, please do a "Show HN" or post a link to the announcement when it's
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by tombrossman 8y ago
For the avoidance of doubt, they do not automatically match up TV licences to your BBC iPlayer account. When you go to the website to watch a video, you are redirected to the login page. From there, you are asked whether you have a TV licen
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by tombrossman 8y ago
On a related note, car rental places now email me the contract and rental documents by default, I receive no paperwork unless I remember to ask. The problem didn't register with me right away (It was so similar to what hotels do when y

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