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hello_asdf··on Bully Hunters anti-harassment campaign shuts down as criticism mounts – PC Gamer
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
hello_asdf··on Google's Project Zero exposes unpatched Windows 10 lockdown bypass
It's unfortunate that this is necessary, but you can use this if you'd like to limit that a bit. You'll have to put it on your router or on your own dns server though, as I think Windows will ignore some hosts from the system file.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocke...

hello_asdf··on Anonymous Aggregate User Behaviour Analytics (2016)
Yep, you're right. Then no, I don't see how Homebrew complies with GDPR as it's opt-out.
hello_asdf··on Anonymous Aggregate User Behaviour Analytics (2016)
It appears so.

https://gdpr.report/news/2018/02/01/gdpr-google-analytics-2/

This page carefully describes what data they are going to be using, so I don't see any reason it would violate it especially since they're not passing any PII.

hello_asdf··on Anonymous Aggregate User Behaviour Analytics (2016)
This is easily turned off via your shell config file or through homebrew itself thankfully.

   export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
or

   brew analytics off
hello_asdf··on Coffee sold in California must carry cancer warning, judge rules
I get the sarcasm, but would this be legal? It's satire if it's not actually known as a carcinogen, and a legal requirement if it is. It would dilute the warning in the public's perception, but companies might find it cheapest and easiest to just stick it on everything.
hello_asdf··on Ask HN: What's your favourite ZSH theme?
I'm currently using base16-summerfruit-dark. The light version is good too, but search in vim doesn't have enough contrast for it to be practical.

https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell

hello_asdf··on Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
Is there a list of domains that Microsoft is using to download these apps from? I can't find one by Googling.
hello_asdf··on Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to apps and iMessages
I've never done any fuzzing personally, but wouldn't this be discoverable internally during testing?

I would think that they would attempt sending all possible characters, especially because they've had issues with this in the past.

hello_asdf··on Ask HN: Entry-level salary and skillset for a software engineer specializing in ML
And what is the typical salary range on what someone will pay me?
hello_asdf··on Ask HN: Extremely easy steps towards extra security/privacy?
Regarding #3, I'd recommend https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/
hello_asdf··on CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
I don't understand why you would pay money to put up with this when it is incredibly easy to pirate. Given that it's available overseas on Netflix, a service I already pay for, pirating Star Trek is the moral equivalent of using a VPN to bypass region locking.
hello_asdf··on Towards a bra-free Instagram experience
Are there common domains to Instagram sponsored posts? I'm wondering if blocking DNS on routers / devices would give some temporary relief for this situation.

I'm sorry that you're being bombarded with this, it'd be nice if Facebook provided topic blocking for ads beyond alcohol and parenting.

hello_asdf··on No Man’s Sky One Year Later
Try Europa Universalis 4 by Paradox Interactive. It's a strategy game.
hello_asdf··on Removing Edge Magazine DRM
Wouldn't the application still be encrypted then? I thought the benefit of jailbroken in this case, was using Clutch to decrypt it.
hello_asdf··on Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon
Do you have a link to this? It sounds interesting, thanks.
hello_asdf··on Opera browser sold to a Chinese consortium for $600M
Would you share your userchrome.css file? Thanks.
hello_asdf··on Demon in the Freezer
I was under the impression that this author had been mostly discredited due to his discussions on the Soviets combining various other contagions and smallpox being highly improbable [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Alibek#Criticism

hello_asdf··on Apple closes trading with $700B+ market cap
Excuse my ignorance here, but why would someone sell back and forth to themselves?
hello_asdf··on Emacs 24.4 released
Seriously? I played around with emacs this weekend, and used it exclusively at work today.. I kept restarting it because I thought evil was bugging out.

I'd agree that evil mode is quite nice, and emacs seems like something useful to know. It really depends what you prefer. I'm trying out emacs specifically for the formatting plugins as vim seems to fall behind in that regard.

hello_asdf··on Tamper: Chrome devtools extension for capturing and editing HTTP requests
This seems like a really great tool, but it doesn't appear to to work on Linux.
hello_asdf··on From Vim to Emacs
As someone who has always used vim, what are the benefits of this system over a standard vim installation?
hello_asdf··on Acrobat Reader for Linux removed
I've been using zathura and it works quite well.
hello_asdf··on Best Desktop Keyboards
I would really like to get that Das Keyboard Ultimate edition, any one have any comments on either that model or their keyboards in general?
hello_asdf··on Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg
I liked Reddit back when it was less well known. Now, it just appears that the content appeals to the lowest common denominator. Some of the content is still great (i.e. r/dwarffortress), but a lot of the site has degraded into junk. If anyone has some good subreddits that are still decent, I'd love to know what they are.
hello_asdf··on Reasons why OUYA is a bad idea (at best)
This blog seemed rather negative about the system, but I'm still excited to see how OUYA turns out. I know that I can hook up a box to a tv, and program for it. Most programmers know that. However, it's the idea that you're programming for a standalone console that just makes me want to code.
hello_asdf··on goomwwm: Get out of my way, Window Manager
Would you mind uploading your rc files for Awesome? I'm thinking of trying out some tiling window managers again.
hello_asdf··on goomwwm: Get out of my way, Window Manager
You can always dual boot with Linux and OSX. I am triple booting on mine, and it works perfectly. The only reason I really boot into OSX is to do iPhone development.
hello_asdf··on goomwwm: Get out of my way, Window Manager
Take a look at tinywm to get an idea of the basics behind writing your own window manager. I'm using evilwm, and have been for years. However, I've tried about 15 different tiling window managers, and I have yet to find one that suits my needs perfectly. I stayed with subtle for about a week, but it just wasn't for me.
hello_asdf··on Quake 3 Source Code Review
I'm not really adding anything of value to this discussion, but I've always loved reading his code reviews. I have an unshaken belief in the genius that is John Carmack.
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