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May '18 66.93% 5.48%

Apr '18 66.17% 5.48%

Mar '18 66.93% 5.37%

Feb '18 67.49% 5.42%

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Re:DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering on Thursday February 07, 2019 @10:51AM (#19105918)
I'm more often in need of CLI that does that for me and have grown used to:

https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest

Re:Our Language Affects What We See on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:33AM (#19083762)
This is why I have come to the (anecdotal) conclusion that one can only integrate into a group / society / culture when one learns / masters the language.

There are many nuances that imply the importance of particular details in the hidden meaning of the wording. These get easily lost when one does not fully comprehend the language used.

Re:The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @09:41AM (#18921192)
You are so wrong. Your phone is constantly broadcasting ALL the SSIDs it was ever connected to (and you did not remove).

I show this live when I do general security presentations. Live on stage with nothing more then a Raspi and a Wifi USB dongle.

It freaks people out to see there home, holiday, local bar, family in law and other historic SSIDs scroll by.

> How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff?

It allows you to sell more ads to the marketing people since it sounds very compelling. So there is your model.

The fact that I am still shown ads for items of the complete opposite (football) team that I am clearly (online visible, on FB, in my gmails, from my google search history, from my chrome browsing habits) fan of; show the targeting is still... moderate to say the least.

Re:Ask HN: Is your work meaningful? on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:50AM (#18903340)
This.

All other "meaningfulness" is just pure bonus. And no: I am not unhappy, nor unfulfilled.

Re:Rise and Demise of RSS on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:42AM (#18902838)
No idea what made people "not like" you mentioning https://theoldreader.com since that is what I use and came by to say.

As to the article's headline: if your site does not offer a working RSS feed, you've lost me as a "subscriber". I have nor the time nor the patience to track a 100 sides manually.

Re:Steve Jobs through the perspectives of the women in his life on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:09AM (#18865215)
This is not an article but a bunch of glued together tweets (you might have known, I did not) nor does it fulfill the title.

Rather it poses the question: "[...] what would a history of Jobs, drawing only on sources written by women, look like?"

No more, no less.

Re:Why Elon Musk is tweeting about a stainless-steel starship on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:24AM (#18863704)
TL;DR

I could not find the answer directly in the article but in spotted it in the URL: elon-musk-is-really-really-excited-about-his-starship

Edit: typo

Re:Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit? on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @08:18AM (#18607914)
Not been in your position, but what truly spoke to me was the book by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, titled:

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

In short: The key lies in adhering to five key principles: Buy Experiences (research shows that material purchases are less satisfying than vacations or concerts); Make it a Treat (limiting access to our favorite things will make us keep appreciating them); Buy Time (focusing on time over money yields wiser purchases); Pay Now, Consume Later (delayed consumption leads to increased enjoyment); and Invest in Others (spending money on other people makes us happier than spending it on ourselves).

Re:Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:30AM (#18588580)
During their time as black market administrators, the Dutch police only banned one product on Hansa: the highly dangerous opioid Fentanyl.

https://www.wired.com/story/hansa-dutch-police-sting-operati...

My introduction was in BASIC (sinclair zx80), I started my profesional life as COBOL coder, in the meantime I reversed ASM to "unlock games".

I can asure you that in every step allong the way, the code (-base) I created horrified me 5 years later.

My point being: I appriciate the advice "throw it away and do it proper" but I can asure you, given enough time, the next person will not understand your solution.

Being it old languages, being it old paradigms, being it olt skool tricks of the trade: code stales. The best advice on this subject I read here (a couple of times) is to try to understand the requirements and take it from there. If that is not to your liking, you proberbly are in the wrong line of work and should try to do only greenfield stuff.

Re:Ask HN: Who was your most impressive hire? on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @08:31AM (#18542107)
A person who send their resume with no directly relevant experience (being fresh out of school) but listed an array of holiday jobs that got me intrigued.

During the interview, it took me 10 minutes to make the decision to give him a change. He took it and owned it. Worked hard, learned fast and had a great personality making my other coders (8) feel more at ease, motivated, honest and communicative.

Since then, I make sure HR does not hard filter all responses and try to give at least 1 or 2 outliers a change. Results are what you expect :)

One other great hire was a person that came back into the industry (coding) after a 10-year break (children). Over performed like nobody I have ever seen. She is now a C level at a very large international company, x times my senior.

Re:DNS Queries over HTTPS on Monday November 26, 2018 @04:48AM (#18532185)
This is the 12th time (see: past) that this subject has been linked.

The 3rd time this exact link (ietf.org) has been posted.

Except for emotions: do we realy expect a new and exciting discussion will take place?

Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down on Thursday November 22, 2018 @06:42AM (#18509395)
No idea why you are getting downvoted, since this perfectly acceptable explaination of a 0-day.
Re:1.1.1.1 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @06:52AM (#18299926)
1: It's easier to pronounce 2: Because it's easier to pronounce all foreigners use it 3: Because it's easier to pronounce and all foreigners use it, it is easier to use (If I introduce myself as being "from the Netherlands" I get blank looks. What I nowadays do is "I'm from Holland, Amsterdam, Ajax" and 90% of all people I know exactly where I am from). 4: Holland covers about 50% of the population, and about 70% of the economy 5: In Holland there is Amsterdam, Schiphol & Rotterdam basically the places that tourists go to or have heard about

PS The official name is "Kingdom of the Netherlands", I guess that solidifies my point about Holland being easier :)

Re:Privacy issue with TLS session resumption on Friday October 19, 2018 @05:10AM (#18255296)
Googled around a bit for How to disable (limit) TLS session resumption, but that did not get me further then that this is actually done in the TOR Browser (also mentioned in the article).

Not how to in Chrome or anyother common browser. Anyone with better Google Fu that has a pointer?

Re:Brave 0.55 released on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:55AM (#18255223)
Yes, on IOS.

Love it for casual browsing (I use the anonimity by default) and am happy to be greeted by the "Hey you are a first time visitor of our site, please accept the cookies" every single time I visit a site (yes, I close the browser after browsing).

I like the mostly adfree experience.

And when that proxy is worth it's salt, it shall detect attempts to tunnel plain ssh over said ports.

This is 2018, anyone who can bypass their corporate proxy with that example, should find employment elsewhere or atleast prepare to do so since your company's internals will surface on twitter any time now.

Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty on Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:12AM (#18246782)
Yeah, not a word about "people who receive such mail will be billed additional fees". It mentions that the sender in China will be charged more over time.

Quite a difference.

Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:43AM (#18246417)
> This is why sometime this year people who receive such mail will be billed additional fees increasing slowly over the next few years.

Interesting, got a source for that?

Re:IPv6 breaks the 25% barrier on Monday October 15, 2018 @09:14AM (#18219374)
Only the police is driving ipv6 hard in the carrier market (since tracing back connections via CGN is hard if not impossible).

There is little to no incentive to change a well working network, it makes (business) sense to introduce v6 in the upcoming G5 but not in the running setups.

Re:An ancient engineering feat that harnessed the wind on Thursday September 27, 2018 @07:59AM (#18083637)
Although Switzerland does have an ambassy there (In 1919, Switzerland opened a Consulate, its first diplomatic presence, in Iran.) the travel advice ((see 1))not translated to English, available in German, French and Itallian only) warns for violent clashes, risk of attacks, avoid mass events (including football matches) and demonstrations of any kind. Be generally vigilant and cautious. Follow the instructions of the local authorities.

Adapt clothing and behavior to local customs as well as religious and national sentiments. Women are subject to a strict code of conduct, failure to comply with which can lead to difficulties with the police, including arrest.

1: https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/iran/en/home/travel-advic...

For whatever it is worth: Cloudflare, I totally love your geekyness.

@cloudshell:~$ nslookup 1.1.1.1

Non-authoritative answer: 1.1.1.1.in-addr.arpa name = one.one.one.one.

And your DNS is fast, the differences from the points I have tried(1) them on myself are not as big as what you list. But they are always fastest.

1: https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest

Re:Google Is Handing the Future of the Internet to China on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:49AM (#17966619)
I presume that is on the premissis that every other state / regime will be able to leverage that deal between Google & China to black out whatever they think is not PC in their country.
Re:Ask HN: Washed up at 40 when you're crazy? on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:42AM (#17959165)
What about a modest job in a completely different line of work.

Meet a new kind of people, adjust to being outside & the physical work, get rid of all the office jerks, re-find your love for a local club and kick all medical drug dependencies.

Strange... Among all of my google accounts I have checked and NOTHING was automagically shared. My pictures must suck or I did NOT do:

Share a photo On your computer, open Google Maps. In the top left, click Menu Menu and then Your contributions. Choose Photos. Find the photo you’d like to share. In the top right, click More More and then Share.

Re:Learning BASIC Like It's 1983 on Monday September 03, 2018 @07:31AM (#17901943)
I cannot agree more. I started when a computer did not have an OS, let alone 1.000 applications.

You got dropped right into the interpreter. There was not already a GB of OS loaded that you had a hard time to learn. All the code that was there was what you wrote (copied) yourself.

The processor & interpreter was about as fast as you could think, so it was easy to follow and step though (mentally). Reversing to assembly was the logical next step and since the programs where small, it was easy to learn & memorize.

After years of coding yourself, you'd stumble on the first OS, which consisted of the most rudimentary libraries that one could basically read & remember.

Years later still, the first rudimentary networking picked up. Slow and not business critical so again easy to experiment with. By the time I connected the first commercial network to "the internet" downtime of email for less than 24 hours was not even noticed.

I do not envy the kids who nowadays stand 0 change to ever learn the complete stack of code running on any modern device. From what I see, they all are "stuck" on top of a GUI with only the slightest idea of what happens between their mouse and the actual hardware (and even that is often not hardware anymore).

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