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istumbleron Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?

“A network interface which allows processes on the same internet host to communicate without the need for a network connection”

istumbleron Apple Does Not Include a Charger with All New MacBooks in UK and EU

> I don’t understand why [THE EU] need to make things harder on themselves

FTFY

istumbleron Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?

I wonder if they will approve my new apps: “Ezzy” and “Cray” where people can rate dates for how easy it was to get them into bed and how crazy they were during and/or after.

istumbleron Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it: researcher

You're thinking like a physicist, not a professor trying to get attention for their wackadoodle theory

istumbleron Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it: researcher

It also ignores that each successive generation of wireless is lower power than the last, so the will be more antennas, but operating at much lower power, for a lower effective dose.

istumbleron Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it: researcher

Wait until they hear about cosmic rays and neutron flux…

istumbleron Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it: researcher

All very speculative, note that these findings never come from physicists or engineers working on wireless technologies.

If cell phones caused even a small increase in cancer rates we would be seeing a massive epidemic, what we see instead is a steady decline in overall cancer rates: https://www.statista.com/statistics/184566/deaths-by-cancer-...

istumbleron Ask HN: How do you detect license infringement on closed source software?

There are also tools which are platform specific. On macOS, for e.g., the Mach-O format can be disassembled by `otool`, for objective-c projects (and maybe Swift) you can use `class-dump`

istumbleron Dot-com party madness (2000)

This brings back memories.

Also, what an amazing link graveyard.

Of course, Salesforce.com is still with us.

istumbleron Wi-Fi Assist: a $5M Mess

Ok ok ok. I've updated the article a few times to fix copy errors, if you have specific suggestions I'd be happy to hear them. It's very hard for most people to copy-edit their own text when it's still fresh.