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"Your data belongs to you" but we can take any of your data we can find and use it for free for ever, without crediting you, notifying you, or giving you any way of having it removed.

Love it, I'm still often surprised by how long a hop can be. e.g. I'm looking at one from France to Singapore.

If you're looking to trace to something far away when doing a demo we've got servers in ~280 cities around the world so <random large city>.wonderproxy.com works. e.g. taipei.wonderproxy.com or santiago.wonderproxy.com, berlin, newyork, etc.

Speaking as a shareholder: It would be kinda swell if they went public though.

Reminds me of how Yahoo! worked back in the day. All their display logic in PHP, with the hard business logic in c extensions.

MaxMind is very common, IPInfo is also good. https://ipinfo.io/developers/database-download

If you want to test your IP blocks, we have servers on both China and Russia, we can try to take a screenshot from there to see what we get (free, no signup) https://testlocal.ly/

I don't think that in person voting with ID is a fool proof way to guarantee that only the people who "should be voting" get to vote.

I also think you disenfranchise too many people when you do that.

- People who work on oil rigs won't get to vote

- People who do shift work covering the hours the polls are open wont get to vote

- People who are of sound mind, but too unwell to travel to a polling location wont get to vote

- November is Red/blue king crab season in Alaska, guess those people don't get to vote

- Flight attendants & pilots might be away from home that day.

- People in the military might be on exercise that day, we're cutting them off (though I'll assume deployed service members will get to vote wherever they are)

- Long haul truckers are out of luck

- Anyone on vacation is missing their chance

- College students are always a wildcard, do they cast a ballot where they are (ID could be from a different state) or go home for the weekend?

Love it.

It is not easy for children to cut cardboard with scissors. I'd say that remains true at least until age 10. Some younger may be able to manage a small amount of cutting but would get tired quickly.

I volunteer with scouts, kids aged 5-8. We ran a cardboard based activity with the makedo stuff. We tried to supplement with scissors, they were not effective.

I have also felt the need to claim to be “SOC 2 Certified”. It’s made hard by so many vendors using that language, that it’s come to be expected. Do I want to start the sales call by explaining that the purchaser is wrong… or just say yes, and if you sign this NDA you can have our auditors report.

I think the “prove you’re human by hitting the button” attack is pretty clever.

With the range of different ways captchas are presented today I can see it getting a good % of folks.

I think it’s a problem to lie to people about what’s happening with their “recycled” goods.

If you scrap a laptop you get a nice, auditable, chain of custody from the end user to the company that will certify it's been destroyed. If you sell someone their old laptop you need to ensure that it's actually been wiped, not just "I copied my files over and started using the new one". I've seen a few IT departments be not great at "Sam got their new laptop two weeks ago, someone should follow up now to see if the wipe on the old one happened".

One choice won't get you fired, the other might save you a bit of cash.

My extension problem story is a bit different. We distribute an extension that makes it easy to switch between proxy servers for geolocation testing.

I ran my worst client demo ever a few months ago. It was like our product simply didn’t work. A lot of pulled hair and frustrating debugging later we discovered that a recent update to the 1Password extension broke ours. They were subscribing to an auth event, but not returning, this timed out so our subscriber was never called. So our extension would tell the browser to change proxy servers, then sit ready to provide credentials, but the request would never come. 1Password’s support team was better than grammerly’s, but it’s hard to convince an unknown PM to prioritize something, especially if you’re speaking to them via a support team.

We’ve since discovered that there’s some Russian extension you need for government websites that has the same issue.

Why? Why do we have to? Why do companies get to take the creative output of humanity for free to make a profit?

Why is it a national security issue? Because people who could make billions of dollars say so?

I think this was a really brave call for help from the writer. They needed help and they asked for it, from strangers!

I feel like polling twice a day (with the right etags) will beat exponential back offs.

Exponential back off is great for a lot of problems, but irregularly updated blogs doesn’t seem like one of them.

Traditionally csrf tokens had two parts: something in a cookie(/server side data store that used a cookie as the id), and something in a form element on the page.

So while an attacker could trick your browser to making a request to get the cookie, and trick your browser into submitting arbitrary form data, they couldn’t get the csrf tokens to match.

The author tried, but the clocks wouldn’t stay in sync. It’s in a sidenote expandable section.

> Unfortunately, these Chromebooks could not reliably keep track of time within milliseconds of each other, so this method didn't work for us.

How sure are you that it's harmless? Campfire smoke is pretty bad for your lungs.

Just after a successful union vote in Quebec, Amazon decided to close all warehouses in the province. There’s lots of ways to send messages to workers.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7438078

Great. The stated goal of a lot of these companies seems to be “train the model on the output of humans, then hire us instead of the humans”.

It’s been interesting that media where watermarking has been feasible (like photography) have seen creators get access to some compensation, while text based creators get nothing.

Our service testlocal.ly can grab screenshots for you from different countries really quickly if you want a free check.

There’s several stories of open source projects being handed off to someone who seemed helpful, only to have them turn around and add malware months later.

I completely understand a desire to shut things down cleanly, rather than risk something you watched over for years become something terrible.

I run privacy badger. It doesn’t block ads, it blocks sites that seem to try and track you around the net. That suits my goals nicely.

My problem isn’t being shown an ad beside content I’m consuming, it’s being tracked.

I'd really like to hold onto the belief that "make lying easier" doesn't speak to the everyman for just a little bit longer please.

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

To me Firesheep was a tipping point in the move to HTTPS everywhere. SSL was no longer just for logins or banks. It was for everything.

I run a product that has a free tier. There's one person with ~30 accounts, each with their own unique email address (gmail).

Credit cards are a decent tool to stem the tide of people making lots of free accounts.

I saw “The Menu” and “Palm Springs” having never even heard of them. I would highly recommend both, especially if you know nothing about them.

Ive also seen trailers for the movie I am about to see, that revealed things I didn’t know already.