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by vntok 6y ago
If the LED is broken, so is the camera.
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by vntok 6y ago
What is the name of that blogging software Microsoft is providing in competition with Medium?
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by vntok 6y ago
Why are you talking about women in the world? The parent's argument is on the vc world, which is pretty different.
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by vntok 6y ago
Can't speak for others but Microsoft Teams & Skype do not have E2E, and neither does Google Hangout/Meet.
725.
by vntok 6y ago
Lying about a feature is exactly what Silicon Valley's "fake it till you make it" culture encourages. Crucifying Zoom over this while letting virtually every other company in the space (inc. Hangout/Meet and MS Teams&#x2
726.
by vntok 6y ago
Where does your 99% number come from in "Windows scare away 99% of users from running the installer"? From what I've seen, on the contrary most non-tech users simply click on "accept the risk" every single time ther
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by vntok 6y ago
Yours is a good analogy indeed. Sure, the prosecutors can and should refer the case of the smoking gun to their colleagues from a crime unit. But the thief still goes to prison for stealing cash, jewellery and electronics.
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by vntok 6y ago
That analogy would be more apt in "not mentioning in an indictment for a thief that in addition to thousands of precious pearls, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds, one of the objects stolen was a loaf of bread to feed their starving fam
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by vntok 6y ago
That is a non sequitur. Per the article: "The prosecution case alleges Assange risked American lives by releasing hundreds of thousands of US intelligence documents." The video is but one of those secret military materials. No nee
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by vntok 6y ago
That URL is utterly indecipherable by 99.99% of Internet users, so displaying it in full does absolutely nothing to protect users. The onus to protect against a website takeover is on the domain/server owner, certainly not on the brows
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by vntok 6y ago
"URLs as breadcrumbs" solve this cleanly. They've already been visible for years in web search results. Here the address bar would show "(padlock) [Github Inc] Github.com > Name Of Account > Name Of Project" f
732.
by vntok 6y ago
A better comparison would be mybank.com/logmein vs mybank.com/login vs mybank.com/l.jx?s=AU8NE6FX5IKMD2 And no, users do not need to care the slightest whether they go to the first, second or 3rd URL. What they care about is
733.
by vntok 6y ago
Why would you want to block 70-75% of Web users from your web application?
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by vntok 6y ago
Google has a ~0.2% hiring acceptance rate, which is much more selective than the vast majority of software companies. For Google developers to be "normal people", the hiring process would have to be absolutely terrible.
735.
by vntok 6y ago
Well one could try to change the meaning of "==" to make the equation true. Think about comparator overloading in supported languages where the x and/or y variables are actually objects, for example.
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by vntok 6y ago
Are you aware "PRISM-like programs" apply to every single US based webserving entity? Why are you calling Cloudflare out when there's thousands of companies who are subject to the very same risk? Is it possible that PRISM pro
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by vntok 6y ago
That's a laugh. Are you seriously implying people who benefit freely* from Cloudflare's state of the art network firewalls and anti-ddos shields are somehow more at risk than others because they contracted with a particular securi
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by vntok 6y ago
Cloudflare's MITM is normalized and very good for security.
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by vntok 6y ago
My point is it's an easy problem once you decide that you don't care about false positives, ie temporarily banning "legitimate" users whose behaviour is indistinguishable from that of bots. Arguably, those "legitima
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by vntok 6y ago
No need for signalling point #1, point #2 alone makes you a much better fit to any company than that guy.
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by vntok 6y ago
Easy: solve 5 captchas (all known captchas of course, not 2 knowns and 3 unknowns) a day for 2 days and you get authorized again. Next violation, solve 5 captchas per day for a week. Next one, 5 per day for a month.
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by vntok 6y ago
That's not a problem. If a person is indistinguishable from a bad/rogue/misbehaving bot, it's much better for everyone to ban them.
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by vntok 6y ago
Allowing signups without phone numbers serves as a honeypot.
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by vntok 6y ago
> that person can go through the process themselves to pass the arbitration, then set the bot running again. That is not scalable, which is exactly the point.
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by vntok 6y ago
I'd wager probably none or a handfew at most. Frame-by-frame video was and still is important to incident analysis.
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by vntok 6y ago
What data do you think is tracked exactly?
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by vntok 6y ago
This reminds me of the SEO industry, where people apply cheap tricks for years telling themselves they can outsmart Google, then suddenly there's a core update and all those sites get heavily penalized. This will probably backfire on f
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by vntok 6y ago
A court system that works perfectly still won't be of any help to get you fed when food isn't grown and made available to the civil servants in the first place.
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by vntok 6y ago
Isn't the user-desired functionality that the New York Times make enough money to continue investigating and publishing news? Ads are simply a means to an end.
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by vntok 6y ago
Don't be so dismissive. Collapsing groups is coming up, you can even enable its preview version through a chrome flag.

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