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746F7475··on Post Ghost Shutdown: An Open Letter to Twitter
I'm guessing the word to pay attention to is "accessing". So I guess as long as you are accessing the site you are under ToS.
746F7475··on Post Ghost Shutdown: An Open Letter to Twitter
You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the Services: (i) access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Services, Twitter’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Twitter’s providers; (ii) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measures; (iii) access or search or attempt to access or search the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available, published interfaces that are provided by Twitter (and only pursuant to the applicable terms and conditions), unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Twitter (NOTE: crawling the Services is permissible if done in accordance with the provisions of the robots.txt file, however, scraping the Services without the prior consent of Twitter is expressly prohibited); (iv) forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information; or (v) interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing the Services, or by scripting the creation of Content in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on the Services.

Relevant part: "You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the Services: (...) crawling the Services is permissible if done in accordance with the provisions of the robots.txt file, however, scraping the Services without the prior consent of Twitter is expressly prohibited"

746F7475··on The Problem with Reality
Just that, say you play one of the survival horror games that people are waiting for to hit VR, you get jump scared and have to run away from the monster and you just blow straigh into a wall. unless of course it starts to show the turning thing way before you a wall (like 2 meters away) which would mean you have to have big room to play in.
746F7475··on The Problem with Reality
if it's small enough that user won't notice, you'd still need a big open space. Otherwise it's obvious and obnoxious. There was some games where once you got close to a wall, you could spin in place and the world would keep up with you, but this means you can't have any kind of fight or escape scenes in your game.
746F7475··on The Problem with Reality
How much will it cost to be able to view this Mars experience through the VR and how many times can you do it before it get's boring?
746F7475··on The Problem with Reality
Imo the biggest problem with VR is lack of controls. All of the games I've seen (that aren't driving/flying simulators) use same "teleportation" movement gimmick with some slight leaning/ducking or they just have you stand in place while stuff happens around you.
746F7475··on Peter Doig sued for disavowing 40-year-old painting
This is so ass backwards. With this one could try to sell anything fake as part of someones works and if pointed to be wrong just sue for damages. Imo this should be treated as forgery and the guy selling the painting should be punished.
746F7475··on Akka.NET 1.1: Akka.Cluster, Akka.Streams, and Multi-Node Testing
In Finnish "akka" is derogatory term for a woman. Closes translation would be "bitch".
746F7475··on Unpleasant Design
There are other places to cover from rain than a bus stop, but busses seldom pick up passengers from non-bus stops.
746F7475··on Unpleasant Design
Quick hypothetical you have a choice between taking cover from rain in a small bus stop which sadly has only this lean-on bench; or you take cover from rain in the same small bus stop expect this time there's a homeless guy sleeping on the only bench.
746F7475··on Unpleasant Design
Simple cost-benefit. If your problem is that homeless people are sleeping in front of your ads and you can A) shelter some homeless people for several weeks or B) install spikes and keep every homeless person away (seemingly) forever.
746F7475··on BSD vs. Linux (2005)
GPUs have been the pain of my Linux existence, everything else is generic enough to work, but last time I tried Ubuntu the default settings manager crashed at the mere sight of my GPU and when I installed a differed WM either couldn't find the resolutions I wanted to run or they didn't stick around after booting. After messing around with some "xorg-edgers" drivers I ended up with machine which claimed it had no displays anywhere and I just gave up and installed Windows.

It always seems to be one thing or another. Either it's some program/service I use daily that doesn't work (or doesn't quite work as well as I know it can) or it's some strange issue with sound or most likely GPU

746F7475··on BSD vs. Linux (2005)
I remember having trouble with wifi chipsets ~5-6 years ago when smaller netbooks started to hit the scene. I had one of thous, like 8" laptops with brand new ARM chip and 4 hour battery life, for it getting wifi working was hard, but after that I haven't had much trouble with wifi, but maybe I've just been lucky.
746F7475··on Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
Did you really have a passion for politics at age 12? This coupled with "I had no trouble using command-line encryption to communicate." makes this read like a farce. First you act like ultimate prodigy that peaked at tender age of 12 and then go boast with mad skills of running a cli command.
746F7475··on Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
Why are all dropouts who "made it" making such a big deal out of it.
746F7475··on BSD vs. Linux (2005)
Whenever I hear "BSD" I always think: "if you want to use BSD you have to build a machine for it". This isn't really based on any real world experience, but whenever BSD comes up as a topic only thing that sticks with me is: "it only likes very specific hardware" which makes me very hesitant to ever consider trying it. I've had so many hardware incompatibility problems with Ubuntu, which is suppose to support almost everything, I don't even wanna think about trying to run BSD.
746F7475··on Mozilla shouldn't copy Chrome's permission prompt for extensions
> In fact, lots of confused users asked why Adblock Plus needed this permission and whether it was spying on them. And we explained that the process of blocking ads is in fact what Chrome describes as changing data on all websites.

Sounds to me that the permissions prompt is doing exactly what it should be doing, informing users what the extension can do.

Sure it would be fun if there was a qualified code review process which could gather all necessary permissions from the code, but with bigger extensions this would take days or weeks to get right and unless you can get money out of your extension that is a long wait. Like, I've made couple extensions I've wanted and when I get them done and uploaded I just want to show them off to few friends and install it myself. These are very much spur of a moment things, if I had to wait through rounds and rounds of codereview and questions about my code I probably couldn't be arsed to create extensions.

746F7475··on How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox
But that doesn't work as well, since for example on this page there is JS event tied to scrolling the page that moves the header with you. So you'd have to tie your own anti-move trigger to the same event, which might mean same script won't be universal. If you just remove the header with a script, you can still get to the navigation by refreshing the page.
746F7475··on Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
Judging by the downvotes, obviously some people have no idea how maintaining libraries work.
746F7475··on Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
>Changes to upstream libraries trigger tests on consumers of that library, so breaking changes tend not to happen.

This doesn't prevent build breaking changes, it just makes the team using the library aware what is broken and they can have fix ready when they want to upgrade their dependencies.

746F7475··on Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
How can wordpress keep it's doors open if all Facebook users started free blogs? Last time I checked it wasn't nearly as easy to create wordpress site or a blog post as it is to create facebook update. Same rings true with RSS, it's not nearly as easy as using facebook feed(s).

As for Zuckerbergs password, if you don't care about the account then password doesn't matter.

746F7475··on Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid
Be as it may, these things need to be escalated. At least police can access the security cameras in the area to possibly catch whoever installed the device and at very least they are now aware that in said area skimmers have been installed.
746F7475··on Even Mark Zuckerberg puts tape over his webcam
Why did I get downvoted?
746F7475··on Even Mark Zuckerberg puts tape over his webcam
The light is controller via software, it would be wiser if the light took power from the camera (e.g. if camera was powered the light would be on), but currently it doesn't do that.
746F7475··on So I refused a white board technical test and was asked to leave
>I despise being treated as a performing seal.

This is 100% in your head and about your attitude. Your ego is the problem, nothing else. I'm introverted as fuck, but I realize that this is part of interview process and if you act like a self centered cunt, who isn't willing to do a simple task like writing little code on a board, you aren't worth the effort for most projects.

746F7475··on So I refused a white board technical test and was asked to leave
>Whiteboard interviews are humiliating even if you pass.

Stop thinking so highly of yourself. There is nothing humiliating about them. If you get feeling of humiliation from someone watching you work, then you are going to have a bad time working in a team.

746F7475··on 3 shirts, 4 pairs of trousers, meet Japans hardcore minimalists
I don't get this new fad of 'not having a phone'
746F7475··on 3 shirts, 4 pairs of trousers, meet Japans hardcore minimalists
If you are only sending one letter per year, then maybe you should just buy smaller packs, even if they are little more expensive. On other hand you probably have drawers full of useless stuff. Clean out one for things you need, but not very often, like stamps, letters, tape, scissors, etc.

Nail trimmers can live in your bathroom shelf with your soap and shampoo. Then you only need toilet paper, which should be easy to store in any bathroom.

If you need formal shoes often then storing single extra pair (assuming you just have summer and winter shoes, one pair each) isn't a big deal, but more often than not you need formal shoes so rarely that you might as well rent them for the occasion.

Main idea is to get rid of the stuff that doesn't matter and keep only the stuff that does matter and you get use out of. Sure at the moment sink plunger might not give you joy as a thing, but it sure does when your sink clogs.

746F7475··on Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability
So that means if you are against majority thought you are shit out of luck. Just think of any time when majority consensus hasn't been the optimal solution.
746F7475··on Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability
So can random people who agree with each other completely control everything that happens with the currency? So if there is a company who they dislike can they just decide that they have no money?
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