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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/0xadada; my proof: https://keybase.io/0xadada/sigs/PLXad4tOyV_9ba70C_6w7S-A9a4jfFfU367-VdT4Fm8 ]
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0xADADA··on Why we parted ways with Grammarly (and you should too)
Holy crap, i just got our first bug report about this exact same problem, Ember 2.14.
0xADADA··on Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime
I dont think JavaScript needs threads.
0xADADA··on Shining Light on National Security Letters
I dont see how these provide any transparency other than into pure process.

These provide no context, who, or what type of accounts were sent NSLs. Were they suspected child pornographers? Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Terrorists?

Since any pertinent information was redacted, we get nothing more than nearly identical form-letter templates with nothing much unique except the file number and date and who sent it.

THANKS OBAMA

0xADADA··on After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface
Whats BGP?
0xADADA··on After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface
whats a RIPE interface?
0xADADA··on NSA OSS Technologies
YES

These assholes are hoping the OSS community contributes back to reduce our own privacy! wtf

> The government benefits from the open source community’s enhancements to the technology.

0xADADA··on NSA OSS Technologies
They say it clearly themselves:

> The government benefits from the open source community’s enhancements to the technology.

They're hoping that by putting this code out there, unwitting dupes will then collaborate with them to contribute to the surveillance state.

0xADADA··on An Advanced Intro to GnuPG
I thought GnuPG was so last year?
0xADADA··on Princess Mako to lose Japan royal status by marrying commoner
do ppl still actually care about royalty?
0xADADA··on Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of its staff
I looked into this, because a bracelet I bought for my wife looked great on Etsy, but when it arrived, it was obviously shitty chinese-knock-off quality

Here is the bracelet I bought as a gift, $52

https://www.etsy.com/transaction/1238204808

Here is the same fucking thing, on AliExpress for $6.52 a piece, or you can buy them in lots of 6 for $20.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/24k-Gold-Electroplated-Edge-...

fucking fuck.

0xADADA··on Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
My favorite part of Wunderlist was the wood background option, makes a beautiful desktop wallpaper

I'm really glad i exported it out:

http://imgur.com/Hjajl

0xADADA··on Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
> “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”

Wunderlist refugees flee the Empire of Microsoft for refuge at sites like https://todoist.com/

0xADADA··on EmberConf 2017: State of the Union
I was playing with glimmer.js, it feels like you can now "NPM your way to a full app" similar to the react eco system (if you're into that sorta thing).
0xADADA··on Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components
Looks like its a smaller deployment (38kb) nearly as small as Preact, much smaller than Ember, and brings TypeScript support and <angle-bracket> style components to the ember ecosystem.
0xADADA··on Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com
What is the porn color? I don't understand the reference. What makes it "the porn color"?

Aren't links blue (#0000ff) by default?

0xADADA··on Google Squashed a Chrome Extension That Flooded Ad Networks with Disinformation
You'd be advised to read their book, by Nissenbaum and Brunton that describes the theory behind privacy through obfuscation. It argues that by clicking all the ads, all useful information is lost in the noise. Simply put, the signal-to-noise ratio is so heavily biased to noise that the signal is lost. https://www.amazon.com/Obfuscation-Users-Guide-Privacy-Prote...
0xADADA··on Introducing Keybase Chat
Are ya'll going to post a SHA checksum for the downloadable dmg alongside the download?
0xADADA··on My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]
This talk expresses many of my concerns with desktop & laptop hardware over the last few years.

Recently however, Apple has changed their hardware design philosophy from a fairly open platform to a more proprietary and disposable one. They’ve eliminated the ability to change or upgrade components. The 3rd generation MacBooks have a battery that is glued in place, the memory is soldered directly to the logic board. Later models would come with the hard drive soldered down as well.

Lyle Wiens of iFixIt, said it best in 2012

> "When Apple dropped the MacBook Air to $999 in 2010 to match the price point of the MacBook, they gave users a clear choice: the thin, light, and un-upgradeable MacBook Air or the heavier, longer lasting, [upgradable], more rugged, and more powerful MacBook. Same price, two very different products. At the time, I wasn’t very happy with the non-upgradeable RAM on the MacBook Air, but I respected that Apple had given their users a choice. It was up to us: Did we want a machine that would be stuck with 2GB of RAM forever? Would we support laptops that required replacement every year or two as applications required more memory and batteries atrophied?"

Consumers overwhelmingly voted yes, and the Air grew to take 40 percent of Apple’s notebook sales by the end of 2010.

This sort of vendor-lock down and planned-obsolecence has bothered me to such an extent that the next laptop I buy won’t be Apple hardware.

Meanwhile, Apple has secured an oligopoly in the market, they have such a dominant position with hardware manufacturers that they seem to be squeezing competitors out of getting access to top-quality components (or their competitors don’t care about quality). These manufacturers seem to be building computers with “Apples’ scraps and leftovers”.

Put simply; I don’t see any manufacturers building laptops at the same level of quality that Apple does, and yet, I can’t buy a product that is so tightly controlled, and designed to be obsolete in two years.

0xADADA··on Why the Elixir language has great potential
Someone read Antifragile...
0xADADA··on John Cage’s Gift to Us
> Today, our means of synthesizing sound, imagery and even intelligble content I think dwarf those to which Cage was ever exposed.

I think Cage would've been totally unimpressed with our technologic "mastery" of the control of sound. His work revealed that the control of the structure of sound was approaching a cul-de-sac (hence his boredom with Tschaikowsky/Bruckner/Stravinsky) and therefore a very limiting perspective on what is beautiful/emotive or even what it means to be "music".

0xADADA··on Elevated error rates on applications and deployments
Heroku was acquired by SalesForce, and like everything Salesforce touches, it'll slowly descend into a steaming pile of
0xADADA··on Why you should avoid TFS version control
Are there any articles advocating the use of TFS?
0xADADA··on Freedom of speech is in retreat
Don't forget NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreements).
0xADADA··on Leaving the Nest
death knell
0xADADA··on Pills: A simple responsive CSS grid for humans
What went wrong: CSS codebases became unmaintainable over time.

I could go into more detail, but I think most people will concur.

0xADADA··on Tucows Cuts the Crap (removes ads from their download site)
people still use that site?
0xADADA··on Mosh: the mobile shell
Why not just use mosh to establish & maintain the connection then then use tmux/screen to manage the terminal sessions?
0xADADA··on Facebook Rights Manager
DING DING DING

"Digital Rights Management" more like "Digital Restrictions Management"

0xADADA··on The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming
I own a working NeXTSTEP (Color!), if anyone wants one. I'm not using it.
0xADADA··on Responsive Pixel Art
Should've been tagged <NSFW>
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