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glitchdouton English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)

But only recently.

I learned a lot of English just watching Cartoon Network (undubbed and unsubbed)!

glitchdouton Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program

> Has he flip-flopped?

Well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8

glitchdouton Chrome Devtools Tips and Tricks

Yup. You can then use the copy command on that variable so you can paste and view the large array or json in your text editor of choice.

`copy(temp1)`

glitchdouton Apple’s approach to privacy

> I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will.

The slides imply Apple gives access to data on customers. Tim Cook says Apple does not give access to their servers. Is that really the point you're trying to make?

That's just semantics and weasel words, nothing more.

glitchdouton Why we're leaving Heroku

Don't forget

- Not caring that its intelligence agencies are selling their own citizens metadata (and content)

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2015-08/xkeyscore-nsa...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/germany-hands-ove...

This has not been proven (yet).

glitchdouton What Ever Happened to Google Books?

information about you and the places you visit != free

glitchdouton Inside Popcorn Time – the world's fastest growing piracy site

> Popcorn Time is an application that most people download in binary form, so it could steal your personal data, inject advertising in other sites, use your computer as a proxy... etc. It's not a step forward.

This is FUD.

glitchdouton Google’s look, evolved

Yep. It immediately reminded me of this video: https://ind.ie/the-camera-panopticon/

Right in the first minute:

> What if surveillance didn't look this scary? What if it actually looked pretty friendly? Could we still identify it as a threat?

glitchdouton UK surveillance “worse than 1984” says new UN privacy chief

> The NSA and GCHQ aren't allowed to blackmail politicians.

I must admit I laughed at this.

glitchdouton GCC is moving to git

Re-read the post. At no point did the author claim he rewrote public history. He had a certain changeset in the experimental branch, an assumed private branch. He then broke that changeset into two, merged the ready-for-production code into the stable branch and then rewrote history of the experimental branch so that it sat on top of the updated stable branch. As simple as that.

glitchdouton A Response to Your Petition on Edward Snowden

> The President cannot pardon someone for a federal crime they have not been convicted of.

Yes, he can. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/05/opinion/l-constitution-all...

glitchdouton Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around

Here's a better link for [2]. It even includes a transcript.

https://ind.ie/the-camera-panopticon/

glitchdouton Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around

I think TheLoneWolfling explained it well, but I'll give you an example:

I want to be logged in in Chrome so that my bookmarks sync between devices. But I want to be logged out of my Google session so that my searches aren't tied to my Google account.

On Mobile Chrome, if you log into Chrome, you log into your Google account. There's no way to separate the two.

glitchdouton The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

Either it's an uninformed person or it's a shill. Public opinion manipulating, as usual.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

glitchdouton Introducing the Code Climate Platform

Really great news!

Will you open source the engines you are currently using to analyse Ruby code? You know, Brakeman, Flog and Flay?

Disclaimer: I wrote a gem similar (but which can't be compared) to Code Climate and I've always wondered how you guys highlight sections of duplicate code. My bet is that you rewrote Flay :P

glitchdouton DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke

Yeah, I hate that DDG is missing that feature. I always use Google in those cases...

glitchdouton DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke

If you are logged into Chrome and use `!g`, yes. You can even check it at https://history.google.com/history/

In the past that page would even discriminate searches made with DuckDuckGo. They recently redesigned the History page to fit their Material Design look.

I would hope that when I'm logged out, Chrome would not track me... And what about Chromium?

glitchdouton Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK'

They could? More like they are.

glitchdouton The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads

I have never and will never (ever!) click on any ad. So it doesn't matter that ad-block is removing non-annoying 'acceptable ads'. I never click them, so the sites I love will never get any revenue anyway...

glitchdouton Senate Approves Bill to Rein in N.S.A. Surveillance

It's a bad thing. Also, you shouldn't trust the Times on issues like this. And I wonder why, of all the available articles, the Times was the one chosen to be submitted here on HN.

Anyway, just read ArsTechnica reporting:

* Let the snooping resume: Senate revives Patriot Act surveillance measures http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/let-the-snooping-...

* How the end of Patriot Act provisions changes NSA surveillance http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/how-the-end-of-pa...

glitchdouton Git in six hundred words

You don't need a course. All you need is to watch the presentation "Git For Ages 4 And Up" https://youtu.be/1ffBJ4sVUb4?t=10m32s

glitchdouton Dealing with SMS Spam

> Based on the postcode they held on file, my phone number was obtained over 8 years ago!

I wonder how much of my personal information is floating around on the web... And how many different companies are holding on to it, waiting to cash in on it.

glitchdouton Declassified Report Shows Doubts About Value of NSA’s Warrantless Spying

Given that the NSA spied on Obama when he was still a wannabe-senator, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he was blackmailed [1].

Also, just watch candidate Obama debate President Obama on government surveillance [2].

I mean, short of someone providing a document detailing how the NSA intents on spying on the next presidents of the United States and manipulating them, I don't see any more clear evidence than this.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m1XbWOfVk&t=3m11s

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8

glitchdouton Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins

> innocent people are getting hurt - however we try really hard to minimize their numbers

From the article:

> Sensor: Maybe just a warm spot from where he’s been sitting.

> Pilot: I was hoping we could make a rifle out. Never mind.

glitchdouton Further ties of NSA to Equation Group hackers

> whistleblower Russ Tice said [...] that the NSA had a tap on Barack Obama as early as 2004.

Source: https://youtu.be/d6m1XbWOfVk?t=2m45s

They went after General Patreus, Justice Alito and Senator Barack Obama [3:25].

glitchdouton The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets

But they sure can serve it successfully. They control the cables through which everyone's internet traffic passes, and when you download a program (such as Xcode) they can substitute it with their poisoned program [1].

I'll quote:

> All it takes is a single request from a victim passing a wiretap for exploitation to occur. Once the QUANTUM wiretap identifies the victim, it simply packet injects a 302 redirect to a FOXACID server. Now the victim’s browser starts talking to the FOXACID server, which quickly takes over the victim’s computer.

... or doesn't take over the victim's computer, but provides a download of a poisoned Xcode.

These motherfuckers have compromised the whole internet.

[1]: http://www.wired.com/2013/11/this-is-how-the-internet-backbo...

glitchdouton Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance

> what good is panopticon if nobody is aware of it?

You can blackmail all those in positions of power (politicians , judges, etc) into doing what you want? Who cares what the rest of the population (those low-life sheep) think.

(This is what most likely goes on in their minds.)

glitchdouton Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security

If I didn't know that the government is manipulating social media all the time, I totally would not think you're a shill trying to discredit these news reports by claiming that Jake Appelbaum is a non-technical journalist.

* Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...)

* How Covert Agents Infiltrate The Internet To Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...)