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This is something I'd love.

I find, when searching for info on a relatively uncommon bug DDG will give me a page that starts with a relevant stackoverflow answer then continues on to list a bunch of sites that scrape SO and repost the content. It's extremely annoying.

Bitbucket is also having issues since at least 13:47 UTC.

https://status.bitbucket.org/

Map makers add fake streets to mark their maps?

This was annoying to me when I had an older phone with less available memory. Many of the system apps were useless to me and just served to take up space. The system partition had to take up enough space to accommodate these apps whether I used them or not which resulted in less available space for what I did use. Pretty annoying.

3rd paragraph actually but yeah:

> 79% of participants in the interventions groups completed the 30 consecutive days protocol.

Same in all of New York anywhere north of the city. It's very common.

Not really, best I got is this[0] explanation. Apparently it started as a 4chan meme in 2014. I was talking about Mozilla's work on FF Quantum and someone brought this to my attention. It made me laugh so I thought I'd share it.

[0] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/google-ultron

Nope, same results on Ubuntu 16.04, FF 57

Edit: Looks really cool though! Maybe I can find a windows machine to give it a try on.

There is now a correction at the beginning of the article:

> Correction: An earlier version of this article said the vulnerability exploited by the hackers who broke into Equifax was the one disclosed on Sep. 4. It’s possible that the vulnerability that was targeted was one disclosed in March. We will update this post when we’ve confirmed which vulnerability it was.

In my experience it's getting better every few months. A year ago compared to now feels like it's a different search engine and I find new stuff every day, for example, vim cheat sheet

> news?

They launched the android version not too long ago. This is probably just a push to get the word out to people who may not have heard. Fair enough in my opinion.

> From my history I guess

I don't think it's from your history. It seems like many common websites are preset to autocomplete; stackoverflow.com for example. Because it doesn't save history this seems like a nice way to reduce friction for users. I could be wrong though.

Well, I guess if I sold sunscreen I'd do it at the beach.

FYI the most recent version of the Reddit app for iOS (3.5) has an option to open all links in an external browser. Apparently the safari view controller is in the works as well.

The only advice mentioned that is smartphone specific is the app suggestion. The rest are things like don't answer and register on the donotcall list which can be done with a rotary phone.

As for Verizon not blocking the number without charging you. Why not just switch?

You can hide them. The tabs sidebar only opens when you hit the key combo to open it or bump the side of the screen with your mouse. If anything it saves space.

This site is really cool. Thanks for sharing though I'm afraid I'll be wasting quite some time today playing around with it :)

[edit]

It looks like the site doesn't get such a large number of people very often and the CPU load is getting too high to hear anything clearly. For clearer audio of the buzzer check here:

http://websdr.printf.cc:8901/

The Washington post has an article[1] talking about this. It looks like the FBI did some digging to come up with the charges. Counts 2 through 4 are related to violations of 18 U.S.C. 2512 [2] which criminalizes making, selling, or advertising for sale illegal wiretapping devices. That's pretty interesting because as far as I know it would be a first to categorize malware as such a "device".

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2512

Email addresses have been working fine for me. What I would love though is a way to easily alias my phone number.

Another discussion from today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918545

To your edit:

I'm not sure how Package Control handles removals of packages but if they are left installed in sublime then this was probably the best move.

If the package was left "orphaned" in the editor the telemetry would remain but I'm pretty sure PC updates packeges automatically by default so pushing an update without it makes sure the code is removed for most users.

/u/michael0x2a on Reddit put together a nice tl;dr[1] of the story arc for those that don't want to dig through the thread.

tl;dr for that is basically:

Kite has been collecting "anonymous" data from sublime users with the SideBarEnhancements plugin installed. This has been happening for atleast a year and the data collected included activeNonBundledPackageNames which is basically a list of packages installed via Package Control.

It seems they were intentionally unclear about who the data was sent to and did not think to remove it from the plugin after the Atom Minimap incedent because:

> the truth is we didn't remember [2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6qwtfz/kite_in...

[2] https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/rfc-default-package-control-...

> the fact that someone has actually gone ahead and done this[...]

Well it's not exactly a novel idea. China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Turkey and others have implemented bans or heavy restrictions for quite some time now.

YouTube will do the same thing with Ublock Origin. I've had a tab open for a few hours and have blocked 625 requests and counting.

Makes me think of that quote from the begining of Money by Choking Victim[0]:

>> The function is system sustaining, it is to contain that overall system, and you don't look at the particular cost. I could demonstrate to you that every single bank robbery, that in every single case, practically. The cost of the police was more than the actually money that robbers took from the bank. Does that mean OH you see theres no really no economic interest involved then. They're not protecting the banks, the police are just doing this because they're on a power trip, or they're macho, or ah they're control freaks, that's why they do it. NO of course it's an economic, of course they're defending the banks, of course, because if they didn't stop that bank robbery, regardless of the cost, this could jeopardize the entire banking system. You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

It's not about an end all be all it's about keeping it in check.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDLBGTkLgow

It's pretty common for people living in NYC to refer to anything north of the city as "up state". I'm not sure exactly where that boundary starts but I'd imagine it's somewhere near the first grouping of 3 or more trees.

It's so common in fact that I'd be willing to bet the author lives or lived in NYC and you have some relationship with "up state". :)

Didn't know there was a messenger light. Maybe because there wasn't when I was traveling a few years back? I'd be really interested to see it. I did install FB light on a phone I bought in a developing country and was so excited by it. The whole app was maybe a few MB at the most and it was nothing but my friends content and the basic functionality of the early Facebook wall/feed (minus graffiti.) Like stepping back in time kinda. Made me remember how simple a concept FB is/was under all the algorithms, data mining and JavaScript.

That app, ironically enough, is a major reason I'm not on FB today. When I got home and installed the standard app (at 3xx MB) and immediately felt like I was tricked into installing bloated adware. It ate my data up (comparatively) and provided me with little to no extra features beyond a prettier UI. More ads, more analytics, more shitty newsfeed clutter. I uninstalled it and haven't been back to FB since :)

That's a great video and exactly the depth of answer I was hoping for. Thanks!

Is it a UK thing to add the "s" to math? I see it pretty often but it never seems right. I've always used the word as an unchanging irregular plural similar to "sheep".

Awesome thanks!