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I think The Intercept can be a really good antidote to pro-government sensationalism. I like The Guardian, too.

"The Cliqz anti-tracking technology is a truly revolutionary solution that uses algorithmic blocking that doesn’t require a blocklist..."

That sounds an awful lot like the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Privacy Badger.

Pretty spooky stuff. I couldn't find a list, though. Are there any good ones other than F-Secure?

The lack of federation is unnerving, but the main server-less alternative I know of is PGP or maybe OTR, and PGP is way too hard for most people IMO. Also, OTR doesn't trust the fingerprint from first messages, so even that introduces an extra hoop to jump through.

Thank God you posted this; my office ordered Indian food today.

Well, it sounds like they're working with Linux in some markets and going their own way on others.

Please consider removing "Very wow" from the homepage. That joke is old now and if anything you'll lose sales.

Either way, this rule doesn't apply to Hacker News, right...?

I wanted to write something like this in Haskell a couple weeks ago but didn't know where to start. Thanks for the help!

Exactly. That's what I use.

Hmm. I guess many developers use just the right amount of MacOS specific tools to justify this now. The git client Tower is something I've eyed before, but most tools I use are available on Linux, and I say that as someone who uses a Mac at work.

I also had to do this. Keep in mind that ```brew update``` might take a while to output anything when you do this (it did for me), and then it will ask you to wait while it migrates to a new directory.

Opening up your customers' traffic to third parties makes things less secure? Whoulda thunk?

"That's it for us monkeys."

http://www.theonion.com/article/dolphins-evolve-opposable-th...

I feel like this is a good argument for taking another look at projects like Diaspora and Friendica Red

I can access it. Also, Down For Everyone Or Just Me says it is up as well.

I've been telling people to use correct-horse-battery-staples for years. Glad to see I'm not the only professional thinking this.

cringes Well, I admit there are only a few things they don't have the full rights to, and they're shows I don't watch, but I still find this grating. They said "ad-free" and I pay for that. Not "almost ad-free".

And we wonder why they keep gaining weight...

I think I read once that in Japan they animate first and then record voiceovers afterwards?

The only TRUE way to watch anime. ;-)

The anime club at my college was so adamant about this that they put a no-dubs rule in their constitution.

I see it uses busybox. Does this mean it's for low-spec instances and embedded devices, or did they base it on busybox because shellshock only affected GNU Bash and they felt the GNU tools couldn't be trusted anymore?

As opposed to the current situation:

"In other news, John Spinnerman of Conglomerate News Network has stepped down after fabricating the story of the latest major scandal, in a sequence of events Beltway insiders are now calling Gategate..."

With more and more businesses using stuff in-browser, I have been wondering for a while if people will bother to continue paying for Windows seats

The article does link to one investigation from The Guardian about abusive comments left on articles written by journalists whose genders are known.

There have been times where files have been too big even for Sublime Text to load on my Macbook without slowing it down. In those cases I've used Vim with the LargeFile plugin.