nullymcnull

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by nullymcnull 3y ago
> Why do the country's accountants need guns or bullets? If you've actually inspected a reasonable subset of the multiple sources you found on this, you'd understand that these are purchases for their Criminal Investigat
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by nullymcnull 5y ago
No surprise at the MS non-response here. Anyone forced to use Teams every day can see that it's being maintained by a skeleton crew (at best) on the dev side. Every single day I miss basic features (like global message linkability) tha
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by nullymcnull 5y ago
> Not that I want to give them any ideas, but surely the best solution would be to just lock the account down to the region the billing account is from? I'm pretty sure (based on dealing with DRM/geoIP restriction requirements
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by nullymcnull 5y ago
I've been in largely the same situation as OP - early-stage startup, rushed work on an MVP requiring far too many bells and whistles, CEO doing a crucial demo before potential investors who would likely make or break the company. The c
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by nullymcnull 6y ago
> This [2] post also documents Cliqz being covertly auto-installed with .NET Framework. No, it documents the same thing as the other link - that unrelated chip.de downloads (including .NET Framework, though I have no idea why anyone in t
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by nullymcnull 7y ago
Read it again: > would only be able to travel 2–4 miles on that amount of electricity… in an hour . Most people could walk faster.
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by nullymcnull 7y ago
The specific UK mechanism that is the subject of this subthread was introduced in July; it's not what your wikipedia link describes (social engineering to get a number ported).
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by nullymcnull 7y ago
The majority of people on Earth who use languages that aren't covered by ASCII may also appreciate it, I'm guessing.
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by nullymcnull 8y ago
> In 2008 Facebook itself was in infancy That's quite an overstatement, to put it very mildly. Facebook was allowing open non-.edu signups by 2006, and the buzz around it from it's school success was immense. By 2008 it certain
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by nullymcnull 8y ago
You're really reaching now. People were regularly using phone cameras long before smartphones. By the time smartphones were a few gens in it was ultra common, and a big benefit of them (that even non-technical people could understand
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by nullymcnull 8y ago
This article appears to be from June 2017.
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by nullymcnull 8y ago
That's a good hot take, and I don't really disagree about (some of) the tendencies of this article, but this is still a pretty shady / unethical company by most measures. > I was told it has 50 mil nic and my jaw hit the f
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by nullymcnull 8y ago
> I am saying that if you look at Wikipedia history you can find plenty of places where an anonymous user/occasional editor fixes a spelling mistake that was then reverted. You're essentially refuting yourself by making the sam
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by nullymcnull 8y ago
Neither the fact that Weev is a gigantic asshole, or your conjecture about what he might have been convicted of since, retroactively erases the injustice of the DOJ's absurd prosecution of him for the AT&T 'hack' - whic
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by nullymcnull 9y ago
I am curious as to where you are getting the idea that "unionization in Canada is still as strong as the strongest years in the US". That's pretty much the opposite of my personal experience and observations, and it's no
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by nullymcnull 9y ago
I'm going to assume that you are just reaching out for counterfacts without being particularly well-versed on the history here, because the Russian Duma was, from inception to the revolution, a very bad joke. It was only barely tolerat
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by nullymcnull 9y ago
The post kind of dances around exactly what 'information' was exfiltrated from the targeted user, but it's pretty clear from a close reading that it has to have included his Chrome passwords. unfortunately we could not be
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by nullymcnull 9y ago
> On Windows, once the file is open, it is that filename that is open; You can't rename or delete it It's simple for any application to open a file in Windows such that it will allow a rename or delete while open - set the FILE
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by nullymcnull 9y ago
Google found these vulnerabilities in the first place, and many serious ones before Spectre/Meltdown too. We don't know if state or other actors found them first, but we know that if Google was not in fact "doing things for
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by nullymcnull 9y ago
Google just can't seem to win with some people. Notifications like this have an obvious benefit, in that they make the degree of tracking that is happening very clear even to the non-technical end user (and if they aren't comforta
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by nullymcnull 9y ago
Your app is only slow now if you are blocking its content and/or most basic usability on the loading of external trackers - a lame yet increasingly common practice that needs to stop. According to the article, they're only delayin
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by nullymcnull 9y ago
This is not an "HN-ism". It is not proper to use quotation marks when paraphrasing. Doing so is explicitly attributing words to someone that they did not say. > not how writing or paraphrasing works anywhere else That's si
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by nullymcnull 9y ago
There are some very good points here, but letting the junior go ahead and use Perl (or any language / platform that the company doesn't generally use or support, and that there's no overwhelming benefit to taking on for one s
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by nullymcnull 9y ago
If you had read the article beyond a few paragraphs, you would have realized that McCain introduced no such section to the bill in question. You're definitely part of the problem to have read that and taken it away as fact. The article
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by nullymcnull 10y ago
Drives ideally stay in a server machines until they die in a data center, and maybe even typically.. but MS could hardly only take into consideration what was 'typical' when it comes to things like this. And he's writing ab
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by nullymcnull 10y ago
> The justification that hard drives need to work everywhere is a little weird. Most drives stay in their host machine until they die. The article was pretty clear that the context they had in mind for this requirement was servers in a d
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by nullymcnull 10y ago
Even on Chrome desktop, if you turn on Mobile emulation and switch it to appear to be any Android device w/ phone display size, it fails in the same way - yet switch it to 'iPhone 5' or 'iPhone 6' and the same compa
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by nullymcnull 11y ago
Yes, by setting the MN_NO_HEAP_EXECUTION flag in the Mach header..
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by nullymcnull 12y ago
.NET: https://github.com/dotnet ASP.NET + related stuff: https://github.com/aspnet
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Why I wish C# never got async/await(mrange.wordpress.com)
53 points by nullymcnull 12y ago|33 comments

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