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by zzyzxd 5y ago
IMHO, services like Hey is for people who don't know how, or don't want to bother, to set proper inbox rules (it has many other features for sure but organizing emails is one of the biggest selling point as far as I see). But for
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
I like the limit on GitHub actions. It won't be sustainable in long term otherwise. You just can't count on people's self discipline for this kind of stuff, and there will always be malicious usage as long as the system allow
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
I mean, technically speaking, a DNS is a database. I am not saying I like this idea, but are there any regulations on what you can or cannot put in TXT records? > Imagine having to pay a subscription to resolve DNS queries... Great, I
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
IMHO search ads are bad search results, and in 99% of time they are not something I would want to click. So they are doing nothing useful but only adding friction to my search experience. I am not against privacy friendly ads in free servic
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
The frustration I am talking about is: Check query result -> realize the result is bad -> scroll back to the search bar -> place cursor at the beginning of the query -> enter "!g" -> redirect to Google.com It is not
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328758 If things go as planned, this may become a paid, ad-free, zero-tracking search engine. I can't express how exciting this is to me. Over the pas
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
Curious about how effective this kind of "private" PIP can be? PIP is scary to foreign workers who are on temporary worker visa. Losing a job means that you may have to leave the country, which is a life changing event. It is so s
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
> I pretty much destroyed email for those people. GUI clients might be destroyed, but wasn't writing an IMAP script to bulk delete all emails an option?
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
A lot of confused users will mark the email as a spam though. It would be interesting for the marketing team to check the related metrics before and after...
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
It is still their fault -- they did something they shouldn't have done. But the mistake exposes a bigger problem in the underlying infra, which is a good thing.
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
Ah, I did miss this section when I was browsing the main repo, it is kinda difficult to spot, especially since the section is collapsed by default. However, I was mainly talking about the documentation site, because documentation is always
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
I am sure there are many ways to install it securely. But why aren't any of them mentioned in the documentation? Besides searching the entire github organization, how can people discover these alternative installation methods?
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
> Can't wait to try it? Go ahead! > curl https://get.wasmer.io -sSfL | sh No, thanks. I looked at the docs and running this shell script from internet is the only mentioned installation method. Then I took a look at t
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
> Thanos would be extreme overkill for this number of metrics Data volume is just one thing. Thanos makes Prometheus stateless and easy to shard, all in a non-invasive approach that is solid, boring, and just works. The architecture work
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
> The report blamed the JPL's failure to segment its internal network into smaller segments Network boundary can never provide strong enough security protection. No matter how small each segment is. Just because a device is in your
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
Apple is giving non-technical users the ability to create ephemeral email addresses. It is good for privacy, but those addresses with random characters will be a nightmare to spell out.. I wish they could have taken the correct-horse-batter
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
There are many valid use cases for URL shortener, I am not sure if this is one of them. IMHO, this is a display layer issue that only affects human eyes, and should be handled on display layer (html, email rendering...etc) -- just don'
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
I probably should have added a disclaimer when posting this: - "A while ago" is about a year ago. When choosing a new email client, run your own test and don't take my stale test results. emailprivacytester.com is fantastic.
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
I think it depends on the software's targeting user group. This is okay, and probably the preferred behavior if your users are all tech-savvy. But it is hard to explain to non-technical users why this ugly text email is better than tha
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
This is an interesting reading. Although there are more tracking mechanisms than pixels. Surely you can configure your email client to not to load remote content automatically, but most of the clients will still leak information in various
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
Interestingly, Apple is attempting to address this issue in today's WWDC. The new iOS/iPadOS 15 will somehow "hide" your ip address when loading remote content. They didn't go into details about the implementation i
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
> without deception I am not a native English speaker, but I am not sure about that. Look at the word "track" -- pretty much no one would want to be tracked, right? I guess if they replace "track" with "identify&
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
> 1. Cannot identify any killer features above what I already have with forever free tools with much larger support communities. It does have the features I want, although not enough to convince me to switch right now. cli can be painful
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
youtube.com. was heaven for me before they fixed it[1]. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23581118
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
I am willing to pay to get rid of ads, but that also makes it easier for Google to track me, since now I have to login a Google account. What's worse for me is, because I use private/incognito browser sessions by default, it will
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
> Using monospaced characters everywhere means that you'll never encounter positional issues ever. I have seen many people, including myself, fat-fingered (or when their cats ran across the keyboards) 3 or 5 spaces in 4-space indent
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
Default is powerful. I think one of the most important reason that ATT freaked out ad vendors, is because its default setting is "disable tracking". I would imagine that if Apple prompt user with a pop up asking "do you want
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
I agree with you that it is not Alpine's fault for not being as good as today's Distroless 10 years ago. In fact it is still my favorite tool for several use cases (e.g., injecting a sidecar container for adhoc debugging). What I
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by zzyzxd 5y ago
Specifically in container space, when I chatted with other developers regarding reasons of choosing Alpine, the top one answer is the size of the base image comparing to other popular Linux distro images like Ubuntu or Debian. Smaller size
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by zzyzxd 6y ago
Sure. But do you constantly verify backups, check hard drive health and file corruptions, practice disaster recovery? And these are just for the integrity of your _encrypted_ data. There are a lot more to do to fully secure your home infra

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