ArbitraryCrow

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by ArbitraryCrow 13y ago
I've been interested in this topic for a while, and I've found most people's responses to the question falls into 3 broad categories: 1) This is just tin-foil-hat paranoia. You're crazy. (This is by far the most popular
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by ArbitraryCrow 13y ago
Not in my jurisdiction. You're responsible for maintaining a safe distance to the vehicle in front of you, to allow for unexpected stops. It doesn't matter if they stop for a cat, a toddler, or hallucinated giant killer marmosets
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by ArbitraryCrow 13y ago
I wound up doing this myself, after spending an undue amount of time struggling with a morass of insanely written Javascript. Fiddler proved indispensable for observing the actual interaction with the web server.
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by ArbitraryCrow 13y ago
The goal, according to him, is to build models of every single person in the country, model the social graph, and be able to classify people as potential threats. Another example of government waste and redundancy. We already have Faceboo
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by ArbitraryCrow 13y ago
Foreshadowing aside, I neither expect nor care if my employer provides me with beverages. Not even coffee. If it's there, I'll probably take advantage of it from time to time, but it wouldn't actually influence my decision on where to work.
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by ArbitraryCrow 13y ago
Yes, but it would have to be done on every system that I use to access my server. Also, not all systems use the standard openssh unix client, or they may not allow access to the user configuration files. So changing the port is just an anno
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by ArbitraryCrow 13y ago
For a while, I put my home ssh server on port 443. It avoided the SSH credential guessing attacks, and still let me use a port that is allowed out by most firewalls. However, I eventually went back to port 22, for several reasons. It's anno
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by ArbitraryCrow 13y ago
I have very little experience with Javascript. I come from a Python background. So please excuse my ignorance, but this doesn't sound like a designed language feature at all. These look like tricks that programmers discovered they could use