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edwardon The TV antenna is making a comeback

In 2010 when I lived in the San Francisco I ordered my broadband from Comcast, but I didn't pay for the TV package.

I added a splitter to the Comcast coax cable, then plugged one wire into the cable modem and the other into the back of my TV. Network TV channels for no extra cost.

edwardon In defense of client certificates

Debian single sign-on (SSO) recently switched to using client certificates.

See https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSingleSignOn

edwardon The End of History? (1989)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...

edwardon Samsung TVs appear less energy efficient in real life than in tests

The Guardian fixed the title, but not the URL.

edwardon The real anti-Facebook is good old email

I like it when I can get my favourite username (edward). I signed up. Now what?

edwardon The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)

Parsing HTML with a regex? You should read this answer on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/84250

edwardon Google Brings in Chief for Self-Driving Cars

Same story without paywall: http://www.ibloomberg.net/google-brings-in-chief-for-self-dr...

edwardon TSA Master Keys

Reminds me of this story:

Jail keys changed after TV lapse http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5145026.stm

edwardon The full stack developer is a myth

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7854504

edwardon Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS

504 Gateway Time-out

edwardon Sandstorm App Market

There was a talk about Santstorm at Debconf. (258M)

http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2015/...

edwardon Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds

Debconf15 is happening right now. Here is a video with details of the latest progress: (warning 2.1G)

http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2015/...

Sorry, I didn't realise it had been posted before.

edwardon New in American Fuzzy Lop: Persistent Mode

Whoops, my mistake.

edwardon Could we fly from London to New York in an hour?

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

edwardon Microsoft's homepage circa 1994

And in 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/19981205060735/http://microsoft.c...

edwardon Bitstamp Incident Report 2-20-15

"The sender was offering Mr. Kodric the opportunity to join Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the International Honour Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines. The UPE site is hosted within the acm.org domain. On 11 December, as part of this offer, the attacker sent a number of attachments. One of these, UPE_application_form.doc, contained obfuscated malicious VBA script. When opened, this script ran automatically and pulled down a malicious file from IP address 185.31.209.145, thereby compromising the machine."

edwardon Uber managers arrested in France over 'illicit' taxi service

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9798405

edwardon Google didn’t lead the self-driving vehicle revolution, John Deere did

Self-driving tractor in 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xS3eIHzLk

edwardon Y Combinator News

This site used to be called Startup News. Using a name that is different from the URL means you can rename it without needing to change the web address.

edwardon How US students get a university degree for free in Germany

The drinking age in the US is 21. This doesn't stop college students from drinking, it just means they can end up in trouble with law enforcement or the university authorities.

US students who study in Europe are free to drink without breaking the law.

Also, some would argue that Germany beer is better.

edwardon ØMQ - The Guide

The HTML for this page is 2.7MB. Somebody on the train to FOSDEM was telling me that they use it as a test case for web browsers and HTML parsers.

edwardon The Backing Up of the Internet Archive Continues

The link into 300 Funston Ave is 10Gbit. There is no shortage of bandwidth.

edwardon Math Blaster Copy Protection

Maybe a better (more stable) URL: http://archive.org/download/MathBlaster4amCrack/Math%20Blast...

Alternatively: http://archive.org/stream/MathBlaster4amCrack/Math%20Blaster...

edwardon Illegal drugs: The wars don’t work

UK political party, Cannabis is safer than alcohol (CISTA) is fielding candidates in the UK general election next month.

http://cista.org/

Funded by one of the co-founders of Bebo, a social network.

edwardon Metaprogramming custom control structures in C

Simon Tatham is the author of putty, he knows what he is talking about.

edwardon Computers Beating Humans at Advanced Chess

I guessed this was Tyler Cowen from the headline. He goes on and on about chess in his book, Average is Over.

edwardon Tea with strangers

Feedback: "Cambridge" is ambiguous.

edwardon What Facebook looked like in 2006

Did you click the beta button and leave feedback?

edwardon What Facebook looked like in 2006

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edwardon EmacsConf 2015 Planning Doc

They're using Github and Google Groups to plan EmacsConf? Neither of these systems are free software. RMS will be unhappy.