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devilsenigmaon A Screensaver for LG's Spying Smart TVs

Does anyone have a set of domains/ips to piehole to prevent such information going out?

devilsenigmaon ICE says international students must take in-person classes to remain in the US

This doesn't help. Not everyone has access to the same infrastructure in their home town/country. Let alone the fact that a class at $X AM/PM in the US may be in the late evenings, late nights in their home country.

devilsenigmaon Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx

At some point is it possible that Amazon buys UPS or FedEx to boost its own fleet?

devilsenigmaon Show HN: Hello

There is another similar extension called Momentum https://momentumdash.com/

devilsenigmaon MLab is being acquired by MongoDB

We migrated from Compose to Atlas and their support's been quite good and responsive. Compose was utter crap compared to what Atlas provides.

devilsenigmaon Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

There's https://send.firefox.com/ as well. Backed by Mozilla.

devilsenigmaon Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling

I'm guessing its some component of their AWS Chime product https://chime.aws/

devilsenigmaon Dasher: Writing text really fast without typing or speaking

People seem to pick up Dasher pick up pretty quickly http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/users.html and the demo makes it seem much easier than it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpOxbesRNBc

devilsenigmaon Dasher: Writing text really fast without typing or speaking

This is really awesome. It looks hard, but it isn't. Here's a talk from 2007 that explains it well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpOxbesRNBc

devilsenigmaon Announcing Quill 1.0

Technically how does Quill compare to Trix? https://trix-editor.org

Is there any blog post on their design/architecture? I couldn't find one.

devilsenigmaon Postmortem: Outage due to Elasticsearch’s flexibility and our carelessness

I ran into the same issue on one of our apps too. Nice to see it written down so thoroughly!

devilsenigmaon What is the worst thing about working at Microsoft?

>> It is working at a company that people don’t believe in, despite the immense importance it plays in their daily life.

Very true, Microsoft's business level software does not have as much visibility IMHO. People underestimate the role their software plays.

>> Imagine you got out of that chair for a second. Walked across the street to get a cup of coffee. Got hit by a bus. The ambulance that picks you up? Microsoft. The hospital that saves you? Microsoft. The doctor? Trained at a school running Microsoft, using delicate instruments running Microsoft. If you prefer not getting hit by a bus, think about the role that Microsoft has had in making sure your baby was born healthy.

What role, Windows, SQL Server, Azure? Microsoft may have helped there but so has the janitor who keeps the hospital clean, the barista who makes coffee for the doctors. Doesn't mean I'm going to thank Microsoft for saving my life when I get hit by a bus. This is a valid argument, but a very weak one because Microsoft is one cog in so many that keeps a hospital running.

Rest of the arguments in the article are quite valid, but when some tells me my ambulance is running Microsoft software I have a horrible flashback with a BSOD.

devilsenigmaon Warrant for the account of a Lavabit customer

He most likely did:

>> Snowden invited rights workers to a July meeting from the address "edsnowden@lavabit.com," according to a human rights specialist who attended the meeting

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/8/4602966/email-service-used-...

devilsenigmaon Warrant for the account of a Lavabit customer

I don't think they're shutting down over this warrant. This warrant doesn't seem to be related to Snowden as it was executed on March 28 - http://ia800908.us.archive.org/9/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.2362... Snowden's expose didn't happen until April/May

It seems a case about Child Pornography - http://ia800908.us.archive.org/9/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.2362...

A Gag order would have come with a National Security related incident

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I get 'Edward Snowden' as a tailored trend in the UAE as well

devilsenigmaon Markdown-based notepad

I would avoid Facebook account, too much personal information there. Try twitter, instead.

devilsenigmaon Ember 1.0 RC3 released

I just upgraded, and it seems quite snappy. Definitely see the performance upgrades working. Good job Ember team!

devilsenigmaon Ask HN: Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them?

try 99 designs.com for a logo design. There seems to be some good talent there.

devilsenigmaon Stopping blog spam or Why I started to block Internet Explorer 6

I'm using FF 3 and can't see this page. So much for user-agent sniffing.

devilsenigmaon Ask YC: Mac Text Editors

The learning curve for Vim, Emacs is much higher than textmate. If you can afford to buy Textmate, then do so. It is well worth the money and will increase your productivity.

devilsenigmaon Ask YC: Track IP Address to Companies?

Try using http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp that is what the wiki scanner http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/ uses.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiScanner#Technical_descripti...