GraemeL

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by GraemeL 5y ago
Castle Bravo was a ground burst and produced a crater about 2Km across. The debris from the crater ended up as fallout. Tsar Bomba was detonated at an altitude of 4Km, the shock wave prevented the fireball from reaching the ground and produ
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by GraemeL 5y ago
Accelerando > In IP geek circles, Manfred is legendary; he's the guy who patented the business practice of moving your e-business somewhere with a slack intellectual property regime in order to evade licensing encumbrances. He'
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by GraemeL 6y ago
They used to offer that functionality but removed it years ago. I've been using this userscript since then. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d... It might be called Google Hit Hider
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Google kills the Nest Secure, its $500 home security system(arstechnica.com)
2 points by GraemeL 6y ago|0 comments
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Covid-Tracing Framework Privacy Busted by Bluetooth(hackaday.com)
2 points by GraemeL 6y ago|0 comments
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by GraemeL 6y ago
The Firefox version has the ability to block third party scripts masked as first party ones through the use of CNAMEs. Chrome doesn't expose APIs to let extensions do it.
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by GraemeL 6y ago
I've been using this userscript since Google dropped the ability to block results years ago. It works across a bunch of search engines. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...
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ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner(arstechnica.com)
12 points by GraemeL 6y ago|0 comments
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Black Hole Orbits a More One, Crashing Through Its Accretion Disk(universetoday.com)
2 points by GraemeL 6y ago|0 comments
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by GraemeL 6y ago
Ignore it. They got the password from a data breach somewhere. Change the password on any other site that you use that password for. Using a password manager makes it much easier to use unique, complex passwords for each site you have a log
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by GraemeL 6y ago
Their submission got flagged so it vanished from the new links page. They think HN is doing it automatically for certain sites.
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by GraemeL 6y ago
I've had problems with pretty much every in-ear bud I've had up until I bought the AirPod Pro's. Not had a single time when I've felt they have even started to come loose. I wear them with the stalks pointing forward at
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Our New Book “Building Secure and Reliable Systems”(security.googleblog.com)
28 points by GraemeL 6y ago|1 comments
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The NCSC Research Problem Book(ncsc.gov.uk)
1 points by GraemeL 6y ago|0 comments
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Google Bans Infowars Android App over Coronavirus Claims(wired.com)
3 points by GraemeL 6y ago|1 comments
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by GraemeL 7y ago
Many of the streamers I watch on Twitch use Streamlabs for multiple things including donations. Can't vouch for them personally but they are certainly the most common on that platform.
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Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars(arstechnica.com)
313 points by GraemeL 7y ago|329 comments
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The Earn IT Bill: A New Path for DOJ to Finally Break Encryption(eff.org)
4 points by GraemeL 7y ago|0 comments
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Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson(adguard.com)
186 points by GraemeL 7y ago|234 comments
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Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs(arstechnica.com)
7 points by GraemeL 7y ago|1 comments
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Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found(arstechnica.com)
108 points by GraemeL 7y ago|60 comments
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by GraemeL 7y ago
uBlock Origin blocked 15 items on the page for me (20%) when I bypassed their geoblock. Not great, not terrible. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary in what was filtered so it's probably just knee-jerk.
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by GraemeL 7y ago
ZFC was created to avoid the paradoxes inherent in Cantor's set theory work.
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Mozilla removes all Avast Firefox extensions(ghacks.net)
5 points by GraemeL 7y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk 'pedo guy' defamation trial to begin(bbc.com)
3 points by GraemeL 7y ago|0 comments
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by GraemeL 7y ago
I've been using a userscript called Googles Hit Hider by Domain from Jefferson Scher that allows you to blacklist sites since Google removed the ability to do it natively (it works with all the major search engines, not just Google as
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by GraemeL 7y ago
I currently have 135k network rules active in uBlock Origin without having all of their lists active. Your 150k proposal is nowhere near enough.
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The Project Jengo Saga: How Cloudflare Stood Up to a Patent Troll – and Won(blog.cloudflare.com)
4 points by GraemeL 7y ago|0 comments
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by GraemeL 7y ago
Nokinside linked a couple upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427367 The first one works for me.
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by GraemeL 7y ago
Please see the FAQ entry about posting job ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html A new who's hiring has in fact just been posted and will probably be on the front page shortly. You might want to post to it: h

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