tombrossman

My understanding is that the 'flu shot' changes every year, in anticipation of the strains predicted to be the most prevalent that year.

In other words, flu shot producers say "we think flu strains A, B, and C will spread this year" and strains B, C, and D may be what actually spread.

It's still worth getting because even if you catch strain D, your immune system still easily defeated B and C when exposed and you didn't even notice.

Cloudflare are technically competent which is great, but their clients are impossible to assess. I see a lot of formerly insecure local web servers switching over to Cloudflare (and HTTPS), and I know it's the same morons operating the web server. For me the safe default assumption must be that the site behind them is run by people who are not technically competent. I suppose Cloudflare could set a server header indicating the connection between them and the proxied site is HTTPS?

I have also used it to stop unwanted postal ads from local companies. I get to find out how they obtained my info, and also stop some junk mail.

For the sibling comments mentioning the GDPR popups / cookie notices, why not add a blocklist for these to your adblocker? At this point adblockers should be considered basic security software, like a firewall or antivirus. These lists exist are are pretty comprehensive.

As an American living in Europe I think it's a great law and I wish there was something comparable to protect my friends and family stateside. And as someone who administers a fair amount of business and client data, I do not find the law inconvenient to comply with. I am very pro-privacy and protective of user data, and I didn't have to make any major adjustments.

Sure they can, one nutjob juror cannot convict.

I've also been seated on juries where some of my fellow jurors were quite obviously biased against the defendant, and this really hurt their credibility with me. I wasn't the only one either, other jurors challenged some of the statements they made and it was clear to me that they also picked up on the bias and rejected it.

My first time on a jury a pleasant looking retired white man said he wanted to be foreman, for a trial of a Hispanic youth, and the guy started with "well he's obviously guilty right?" and he was serious. This was met with total outrage from several others on the jury and the foreman sat there meekly for the rest of the deliberations. The rest of us carefully reviewed the evidence and the defendant absolutely received a fair trial.

There's probably something in the fine print of your contract with them that lets them get away with whatever happened, but always escalate matters as it's pretty effective. Press them on social media, if there's arbitration try it or small claims court, and involve any local media or politicians that you can get on your side.

Basically, just be a huge pain in the ass and do not give up or go away until they back down. This can take a while and you must document everything, every interaction.

The last time I had this working perfectly was with a Nexus 4 and I find that call recording apps do not work on newer phones I've bought since. Any suggestions? Android or iOS, I don't care which platform as long as it works well.

I used to set the app to only record incoming calls from callers not in my address book, and on several occasions it was a huge benefit to have these to refer to later.

Companies really do not like it when you email them recordings of their employee lying to you, and will go out of their way to make things right immediately when that happens.

American living in Europe here, and while I realize this is a bit of a curveball I'd like to point out that it is not difficult to avoid Chinese made products. My TV is a Samsung made in Hungary, my phone made in Taiwan (I do have an old Thinkpad made in China though).

I try to avoid Chinese made products. Not because of any nationalism, but because better quality alternatives exist at nearly the same price point.

For example I have a German made fridge and it's exceptional. It is difficult to get excited about a fridge but when I disassemble the shelves and bins to clean it I notice carefully finished edges beneath cosmetic covers that most customers would never see. The plastic parts haven't gone brittle and do not crack or chip. The glass shelves are thick and heavy and tempered. There are thoughtful touches that come from superior engineering and quality raw materials. It only cost a tiny bit more than similar Chinese models and I expect it will outlast them while retaining all of its original functionality.

"How contacts engage with your content gives you insight into what's working and what's not. Mailspring can notify you when your links are clicked so you know what's generating interest."

That's something I would actively avoid or circumvent if I discovered it. Do you tell people who you email about this, or hope they don't notice (or care)?

I found it worked better for me because the annoyances list was too broad and blocked too many legitimate page elements, such as the <div> containing the play button for NPR podcasts.

My understanding is that GrapheneOS[0] is the successor to CopperheadOS, and I think that's what I'll try next. There isn't an Exodus Privacy or F-Droid for iOS and these are sorely missed.

[0]https://grapheneos.org/

  wwwinfo()
  {
  printf "##\n# PAGE INFO\n##\n"
  curl \
  --silent \
  --output /dev/null \
  --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36' \
  --write-out \
  "    Remote IP: %{remote_ip}
           Port: %{remote_port}
    Name Lookup: %{time_namelookup}s
   Connect Time: %{time_connect}s
  TLS Handshake: %{time_appconnect}s
     Total Time: %{time_total}s
     Down Speed: %{speed_download}B/s\n" \
  "$1" &&\
  printf "##\n# HEADERS\n##\n"
  curl --head "$1"
  }

You are better off finding a local framing shop to custom make something for you. They don't charge too much unless you opt for fancy frame material and matting.

It demonstrates that support for Google Analytics is not unanimous within Mozilla, and even if someone removes it from a product page that action is detected by others and reversed.

Privacy aware users should block this sort of thing at their router using a hosts file, or Pi-hole, which is far more effective than calling companies out on Twitter and hoping for the best.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Preferences...

I reverted to the HERE maps app for navigation which worked perfectly, but does not appear to be compatible with CarPlay yet, so I had to use a mount for the phone.

Not OP but I can definitely say that's a yes from me after doing this repeatedly. I cold email people once a month or so, and if it is to do with anything sensitive I'll check to see if a public key is available for them (on their website is best, else I check a public key server and use that key as long as there is only one listed).

I get a better response rate from PGP/GPG users too, I can only recall one not responding to an encrypted message and I sent a follow-up message unencrypted which they responded to.

I think it's important to send PGP messages for ordinary communications whenever possible, because this normalizes it and may increase the workload for those trying to defeat it.

No affiliation with either company, just a happy customer of both.

  [0]https://aws.amazon.com/route53/domain-registration-agreement/
  [1]https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/advanced_users/dnssec.html

Easier said than done, and I don't think camouflaging them was ever a priority. Even today, you can see the excavated material spilling down the hill in front of large bunkers 70+ years later, which makes them fairly easy to locate: https://www.cios.org.je/assets/images/other/noirmont-headlan... (this location is also easy to spot in wartime RAF reconnaissance images that I've seen)

This is very welcome news, please do a "Show HN" or post a link to the announcement when it's ready.

For now, before I install an iOS app I run the Exodus Privacy tool on the Android version and must assume the same trackers are present on both platforms. What is worse, Apple fail to label which apps contain ads in the store so I can't even tell which ones are adware before installing (apps with ads are clearly disclosed in Google Play).

I don't mind paying the TV license fee as the content is excellent, but I browse the website and download what I want to watch with youdube-dl, because I categorically reject their creepy tracking, which they refuse to properly explain. If youtube-dl stops working, I'll keep paying the licence to support the programming, but will look for torrents of the shows to download instead.

As an aside, on iOS, the airline apps I have used work like the Wallet app and are visible on the lock-screen, the device must be powered on but remains locked when you display your boarding pass, etc.

I wish I had tried it earlier but I think the KDE dependencies put me off, fortunately it's also released as an AppImage and runs perfectly on my Ubuntu desktop.

I'm using it for two years now on my gigabit FTTH connection, running in a LXC container on my router. No problems to report.

The pub chains are registered with our Information Commissioners office and I am struggling to understand how every one of those people (including the ICO!) could have missed this.

I note Bluetooth also uses MAC addresses, so this issue is not limited to WiFi. Spoofing your WiFi MAC on a mobile phone with Bluetooth may not be making you as anonymous as you hope to be.