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by zorbo 12y ago
> It makes it sound like there's no data being collected from you, only from the sites. And when you click through, that's exactly what they say they do. What they list under "See more" is an accurate summary. Of cour
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by zorbo 12y ago
The option is off by default. Does everything have to be made into a privacy-invading scandal piece? I expect better from the MIT technical review.
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by zorbo 12y ago
Completely coincidental, I'm sure.
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by zorbo 12y ago
Good to know, thanks for the correction.
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by zorbo 12y ago
By that logic, we shouldn't have done anything about pop-up windows with ads either? Yet we did, and the world was a little bit better for it. Naturally advertisers, being the sneaky shits they are, didn't learn their lessons and
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by zorbo 12y ago
From the little experience I have with HTTPSB, I'd say that it was more of a NoScript alternative. It feels to me like a webbrowser firewall. They seem to have moved into the adblocking field now though. Here's how I see it: * A
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by zorbo 12y ago
As far as I know (anybody please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this), it's Adblock PLUS that can't be trusted. Adblock (without the plus) is a completely separate project that's much more trustworthy. Adblock PLUS ba
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by zorbo 12y ago
HTTPSB just isn't userfriendly enough for me. I run Adblock (not plus though) + Ghostery, and perhaps they use more memory and CPU, but if they do I've never noticed nor cared about it. Their userfriendliness is amazing though. HT
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by zorbo 12y ago
I'd like to add a rule 3: Don't impose or evangelize rules you don't fully understand.
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by zorbo 12y ago
If you got 0.3 req/s from wordpress, there was probably something wrong with your configuration or system. I run wordpress on absolutely ancient hardware via Apache SuPHP. It basically does a sudo + CGI-like exec per request . It stil
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by zorbo 12y ago
Mirror / Google cached version: http://goo.gl/UAzttI
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by zorbo 12y ago
I've heard similar problems from other people. I've been buying Ikea furniture almost my entire life and I've never experienced this problem. Naturally I've had Ikea products wear and tear, but not generally faster than
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by zorbo 12y ago
I have to say, that's a pretty big piece of mental gymnastics to justify why this would be objectionable.
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by zorbo 12y ago
I wasn't really talking about his dietary recommendations, although those are probably harmful as well. I was talking more about his nonsense about the stuff he says about, for instance, pregnancy gingivitis. It's obvious he has a
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by zorbo 12y ago
That could be it. His blog is also full of all kinds of harmful medical advice not backed by any kind of knowledge of the subjects much less any kind of science. Generally not the kind of of crowd hacker news "associates" with.
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by zorbo 12y ago
Forgive me, but I'm having trouble understanding why his death is significant for a crowd such as Hacker news? I didn't know about him, and I don't mean to talk ill of the dead, but from a quick google it would seem he's
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by zorbo 12y ago
I'm Dutch and my girlfriend is Russian, and she was absolutely amazed at how often and easily we make a little smalltalk with complete strangers here in the Netherlands. It may not seem to be a popular thing to do here, but compared to
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by zorbo 12y ago
> It must be hard for the bullying victim but it's something that has to be done. That's another thing. I sometimes wonder if, with all these rules and regulations and protections in place, we're not taking away some of th
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by zorbo 12y ago
I think the first step should be reasonable discourse with the bullies parents, not threatening them. But I also think that threatening people can be a good solution. In the past I was involved in a situation where the law just couldn'
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by zorbo 13y ago
You can have great software without insulting half the internet and being an immature brat. A beautiful landing page is optional.
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by zorbo 13y ago
I haven't seen an explanation for it, but one reasonable guess would be momentum. If you want to get work done, you don't want to have to wade through red-tape and bureaucracy to get it done. You don't want to work on somethi
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by zorbo 13y ago
Ah yes, the kind of professionalism I've come to expect from OpenBSD. They make decent software, but boy could they use some work in the PR department.
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by zorbo 13y ago
That, or Harmful things Less harmful alternatives <thing that is > <thing that is > <not Plan9 / OpenBSD > <Plan9 / OpenBSD > Most interesting thing
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by zorbo 13y ago
I personally don't care that much about most articles being printable, but if you're making any kind of material that is supposed to be studied, please, please make sure it's properly printable. Doing research / studying
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by zorbo 13y ago
It depends. We've got pretty strict security requirements as we operate in the medical and government sector. A black box appliance or something that auto-updates outside of normal patching rounds is probably out of the question.
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by zorbo 13y ago
Will this be provided As-A-Service, or will it be a downloadable product that can be deployed in-house? This is exactly what I have been looking for for a while, but there's absolutely zero chance we're going to send any of our bu
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by zorbo 13y ago
Okay, so. * misleading title. Goldman Sachs stole nothing. * This guy steals code from Goldman Sachs. * Covers his tracks. There is almost no reason why your password ever ends up in your bash history. If it does, you edit out only the pa
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by zorbo 13y ago
^ Logical fallacy fallacy http://www.fallacyfiles.org/fallfall.html The beauty of logical fallacies is that you can use them to discredit anything you want. "Scientists are in agreement".. Appeal to authority! But
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by zorbo 13y ago
VPN is not mutually exclusive with using SSH. What he's saying is that people should firewall their SSH ports to only allow access from trusted IPs, and VPN's make that easier to do.
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by zorbo 13y ago
That's a joke, right? SQLite isn't even in the same ballpark as MySQL. It has a thousand uses, but a replacement for MySQL it is not.

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