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by pepr 5y ago
Equifax is a private company.
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by pepr 7y ago
I have tried switching to fastmail and it was incredibly painful. In a nutshell, Microsoft/Hotmail and possibly other providers started to throw my emails to people to spam. I've missed out on important things in the physical worl
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by pepr 7y ago
For me, it sure beats dying!
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by pepr 7y ago
You wouldn't download a car, you wouldn't block an ad! :)
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by pepr 8y ago
You are required to get a new prescription because your original prescription expired.
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by pepr 8y ago
How about simply visiting Australia without your corporate laptop? Or take the laptop but without the means to connect to the corporate network/accounts?
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by pepr 8y ago
Sure but QLDB isn't a blockchain. Blockchain is just one of many things that can be implemented on top of it. You could implement the same thing with an SQL database and signed history tables.
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by pepr 8y ago
That doesn't give you the ability to cryptographically verify integrity of the database. Think git repository with pgp signature on every commit.
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by pepr 9y ago
I regularly buy Darigold milk (a local PNW brand) at Safeway.
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by pepr 10y ago
Because the browser (or the user) has no way of knowing if the certificate changed for a good reason. Certificate pinning tries to tackle this at the CA level but it's not perfect (in a nutshell, browsers know that google.com can be si
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by pepr 10y ago
That's exactly why I like Spotify - it doesn't shove the social nonsense down my throat like everybody else. Don't take it the bad way but I don't care what you, or anybody else with very few exceptions, thinks about thi
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by pepr 10y ago
What should be used for I/O throughput tests instead?
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by pepr 11y ago
That's why AWS also started offering Key Management Service: https://aws.amazon.com/kms/ You don't get your own HSM but it's MUCH cheaper ($1/key/month) and more scalable and available than an
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by pepr 12y ago
This. I tried buying a pair of flight tickets from a German airline Condor with a US credit card. What a hassle, in the end I had to call the bank, get redirected and verified 4 times (because they don't pass the verification along whe
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by pepr 12y ago
I'm also happy to see EFF now accepts Bitcoin.
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by pepr 12y ago
It doesn't, this is a separate coding platform. If your coding platform is Rails, you don't integrate Django into it.
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by pepr 12y ago
I think it's simply self-preservation. If they don't get reelected, they lose their job. Few people want that. Would you lose your job over your views on issues like gun control? May you would, but a lot (maybe majority) of people
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by pepr 13y ago
Well, at the very least, it's a smaller piece of code :). (Don't get me wrong, I'm very strongly opposed to DRM and HTML5 DRM in particular.)
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by pepr 13y ago
I haven't been able to find any good repo (recent, maintained, reputable maintainer) unfortunately. I usually end up compiling them myself. I was actually surprised how easy it is, nevertheless a (possibly official) repo would be _very
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by pepr 13y ago
Well, at least she is pretending - US politicians aren't even prentending to be outraged :-D
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by pepr 13y ago
His argument is that we can't be sure whether we're talking to the real SSH running or some rogue SSH run by an unprivileged user. That's why SSH servers have their server host keys with fingerprints you're supposed to v
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by pepr 13y ago
The point here isn't that ANY government can't listen on. That's a noble goal but so not achievable in a short period of time for everyone. The goal here is that German citizen isn't spied on by the US government because
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by pepr 13y ago
Ah, I didn't notice that one :)
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by pepr 13y ago
Once I read the first line I immediatelly remembered that sign on Valley Mills and thought: "could this be a fellow sufferer from Waco?" :-D This reminds me how much I look forward to moving out of Waco this summer.
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by pepr 13y ago
"... two out of three of people like to listen to music while they work, study or read but it’s difficult to find and manage music that consistently works well for this purpose." Precisely! I like to listen to ambient music when w
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by pepr 13y ago
This also implies he has vested interest in convincing people more catastrophes are on the way to sell more insurance.
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by pepr 13y ago
> Is it because the Win8 HTML5/JS apps are more closed-system-esque than Firefox OS apps will be? Yes, basically. At least for me. It comes down to trust. I trust Mozilla that they want to do good for the community. I trust Microsoft fi
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by pepr 13y ago
Does anybody know if this supports custom domains or just the domain assigned by DDG? They seem to support only dukgo.com
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by pepr 13y ago
You can do that in principle (XMPP servers for the given domain are stored in SRV records, e.g. for my domain praus.net, it's _jabber._tcp.praus.net) but I can't find anywhere that the DDG XMPP server supports custom domains. So you can do
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by pepr 13y ago
Gnome 3 is far from dead compared to Zune HD (officially killed) or Google Wave (ditto). (Not sure about WebOS, I remember reading it was sold off.) The primary reason you don't see it around is that Ubuntu has such a large market share of

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