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abus··on DDoS attack protection for at-risk public interest websites
Putting their sensitive traffic in the hands of Cloudflare without giving users any choice.
abus··on Ghostery Also Helps the Ad Industry
It has an option to turn off anonymous statistical data. If this works then I'm okay with it, if not, someone please let me know.
abus··on New Haxe website
Why does every website use broken unicode box character font import style now?
abus··on Google ruling 'astonishing', says Wikipedia founder Wales
`The presumption by internet companies and others that they can use peoples personal information in any way they see fit is wrong, and can only happen because the legal framework in most states is still in the last century when it comes to property rights in personal information.`
abus··on Show HN: Wesnoth – Free, turn-based strategy game
freeslugs did you make this? If not, why are you tagging it "Show HN"?
abus··on Unicode in Python 3
I've used the Py2 csv module with csv files containing accented characters and had no issues. Could you post an example?

This works fine, as does the corresponding writer:

    reader = csv.reader(open(FILENAME, 'rb'))
    for row in reader:
        print row
If you want a unicode string it's as simple as:

    value = row[0].decode('utf8')
Then before writing:

    row[0] = value.encode('utf8')
abus··on Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
I can confirm it's probably enabled by default, every network I see these days is spammed by Dropbox broadcast messages.
abus··on Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
Are there any issues you suspect Syncthing could suffer from?
abus··on ZTE Starts Sales of Open C Firefox OS Phone on eBay
I would buy this if it had a front facing camera.
abus··on Show HN: My first Ludum Dare entry, online multiplayer game Hide-n-Stab
How's it going?
abus··on Show HN: My first Ludum Dare entry, online multiplayer game Hide-n-Stab
Page doesn't load.
abus··on The cost of Linux's page fault handling
What in the world could have convinced Linus to use Google+?
abus··on Firefox 29
It's a workaround.
abus··on Firefox 29
It's "Firefox" not "FireFox".
abus··on Firefox 29
I felt the same way as you but try putting them in the "bookmarks toolbar". It works similarly and it's quite nice to have everything at the top of the screen after a while.
abus··on Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
How do you add a bar or spacing or separators?
abus··on Firefox 29
My mistake, sorry, I thought it was official because it's linked to on the Mozilla support page and I thought the developer "Aris" related to "Australis".
abus··on Firefox 29
It can spy on what you type in the address bar... Hilarious when the new header is "Committed to your privacy".
abus··on Firefox 29
Strangely if you erase or change the value of that preference, it still runs. Does that mean it's checking something else?
abus··on Firefox 29
about:config

    browser.uitour.enabled
to disable it.
abus··on Firefox 29
I agree with you. There is an addon to correct it though:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...

abus··on Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
They already built Firebug into the browser.
abus··on Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
Firefox really hates the users who like it because it's customisable and only caters to minimalist-preferring Chrome users who will use Chrome anyway.
abus··on Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
It looks absolutely terrible having addon icons crammed into the same bar as everything else. What's the problem with the addon bar? There's even less view pane area now because the top area is so large.

The active tab curve is feminine, not in a good way, but I can live with it.

It does feel faster though, maybe they broke some addons that were slowing it down. Time will tell.

abus··on Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3,500 for prototypes
Really should be https. I like the idea though and hope it's successful.
abus··on How to exploit home routers for anonymity
Why release pre-made tools that allow anyone to cause harm? You could still explain the problem without them or show code snippets if you have to.
abus··on OpenSSL leaks RSA private key information into entropy subsystem
That is the code that was removed. It was removed entirely. No error handling was added to replace it. I would hope it will error or pause elsewhere if there is not enough random data though.
abus··on Willem Pinckaers on Akamai's flawed OpenSSL allocator patch
Here's a patch that prevents any exploit ever occurring in OpenSSL:

    void *custom_malloc() {  }; 
It's only a POC though so you'll have to adapt it. You can go ahead and begin praising me and flaming my critics.
abus··on Willem Pinckaers on Akamai's flawed OpenSSL allocator patch
It would be better if someone independent set it up.
abus··on Programming and Depression (2012)
I think the issue is how long it takes to get in "the zone" or have the problem in working memory. If you go to sleep you know you'll have to go through that process again tomorrow before you can start being as productive again.
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